What Does Deuteronomy 31:28 Mean?

“Gather”

to convoke

near, with or among; often in general, to

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

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

“unto me all the elders”

old

“of your tribes”

a scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan

“and your officers”

properly, a scribe, i.e., (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate

“that I may speak”

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

“in their ears”

broadness. i.e., (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)

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

“these words”

a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause

these or those

“and call”

to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)

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

“heaven”

the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies r

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

“and earth”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)