What Does Deuteronomy 9:1 Mean?

“Hear”

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

“O Israel”

he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you

“Thou art to pass over”

to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in

“this 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

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

“Jordan”

jarden, the principal river of palestine

“to go in”

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

“to 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

“nations”

a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

“great”

great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent

“and mightier”

powerful (specifically, a paw); by implication, numerous

properly, a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses

“than thyself cities”

a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)

“great”

great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent

“and fenced up”

to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e., inaccessible by height or fortification)

“to 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