King James Version
Deuteronomy 19:2 in the King James Version says “Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.”
Deuteronomy 19:2 · KJV
When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; succeedest: Heb. inheritest, or, possessest
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly , whom he hated not in time past; in: Heb. from yesterday the third day
KJV Study — Public Domain
“cities”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“Thou shalt separate”
H914to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“thy God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“thee to possess”
H3423to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish
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