What Does Deuteronomy 6:18 Mean?

“And thou shalt do”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

“that which is right”

straight (literally or figuratively)

“and good”

good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good

“in the sight”

an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

“of the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

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

“that it may be well”

to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)

“with thee and that thou mayest go in”

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

“and possess”

to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish

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

“land”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

“and good”

good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good

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

“sware”

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

“of the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

“unto thy fathers”

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