What Does Deuteronomy 29:13 Mean?

properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that

“That he may establish”

to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)

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

“thee to 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

“for a people”

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

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“unto himself and that he may be unto thee a God”

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“as he hath said”

perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue

who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc

“unto thee and as he hath sworn”

to seven oneself, i.e., swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)

“unto thy fathers”

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

“to Abraham”

abraham, the later name of abram

“to Isaac”

jitschak (or isaac), son of abraham

“and to Jacob”

jaakob, the israelitish patriarch