What Does Deuteronomy 10:15 Mean?

properly, leanness, i.e., (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although

“in thy fathers”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“had a delight”

to cling, i.e., join, (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically; to deliver

“Only the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

“to love”

to have affection for (sexually or otherwise)

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“them and he chose”

properly, to try, i.e., (by implication) select

“their seed”

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

“after”

properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“them even you above all people”

a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock

“as it is this day”

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso

the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that