King James Version
Deuteronomy 2:13 in the King James Version says “Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. brook: or, valley” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. brook: or, valley”
Deuteronomy 2:13 · KJV
Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them. succeeded: Heb. inherited stead: or, room
Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered. brook: or, valley
And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them. brook: or, valley
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
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“Now rise up”
H6965to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
“And we went over”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the brook”
H5158a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
“And we went over”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“the brook”
H5158a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
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