King James Version
Deuteronomy 32:3 in the King James Version says “Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.”
Deuteronomy 32:3 · KJV
Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation. They have: Heb. He hath corrupted to himself their: or, that they are not his children, that is their blot
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“the name”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
“of the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“Because I will publish”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“ascribe”
H3051to give (whether literal or figurative); generally, to put; imperatively (reflexive) come
“unto our 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
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