The Meaning of Deuteronomy 1:13 Explained

Deuteronomy 1:13

KJV: Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

YLT: Give for yourselves men, wise and intelligent, and known to your tribes, and I set them for your heads;

Darby: Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.

ASV: Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Take  you wise  men,  and understanding,  and known  among your tribes,  and I will make  them rulers  over you. 

What does Deuteronomy 1:13 Mean?

Context Summary

Deuteronomy 1:1-18 - Moses Recalls The Start From Horeb
To this new generation Moses spake the holy law of God, since they had not heard it at Sinai. In view of the great Lawgiver's approaching decease, it was necessary to re-edit it. The name of this book means the second giving of the Law.
The Red Sea in Deuteronomy 1:1, a.v., must be replaced by Suph, r.v. Evidently it was somewhere in the neighborhood of Pisgah. It is meet for us on a birthday, or some such anniversary, to review the way that the Lord our God has conducted us. He is the God of our fathers, and of the Covenant. Before us is set the land of our inheritance. God calls us to go in and possess it. He hath "blessed us with all spiritual blessings"¦ in Christ," but we must appropriate and possess by faith. And the faith that claims depends on the obedience that conforms to the divine Law, Ephesians 1:3; 2 Peter 1:3. [source]

Chapter Summary: Deuteronomy 1

1  Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year
6  briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb
14  of giving them officers
19  of sending the spies to search the land
34  of his anger for their incredulity
41  and disobedience

What do the individual words in Deuteronomy 1:13 mean?

Choose to you men wise and understanding and knowledgeable from among your tribes and I will make them heads over you
הָב֣וּ לָ֠כֶם אֲנָשִׁ֨ים חֲכָמִ֧ים וּנְבֹנִ֛ים וִידֻעִ֖ים לְשִׁבְטֵיכֶ֑ם וַאֲשִׂימֵ֖ם בְּרָאשֵׁיכֶֽם

הָב֣וּ  Choose 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine plural
Root: הַב 
Sense: to give, provide, ascribe, come.
לָ֠כֶם  to  you 
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
אֲנָשִׁ֨ים  men 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: אֱנׄושׁ 
Sense: man, mortal man, person, mankind.
חֲכָמִ֧ים  wise 
Parse: Adjective, masculine plural
Root: חָכָם  
Sense: wise, wise (man).
וּנְבֹנִ֛ים  and  understanding 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Nifal, Participle, masculine plural
Root: בִּין  
Sense: to discern, understand, consider.
וִידֻעִ֖ים  and  knowledgeable 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, QalPassParticiple, masculine plural
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.
לְשִׁבְטֵיכֶ֑ם  from  among  your  tribes 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: שֵׁבֶט  
Sense: rod, staff, branch, offshoot, club, sceptre, tribe.
וַאֲשִׂימֵ֖ם  and  I  will  make  them 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative if contextual, first person common singular, third person masculine plural
Root: שׂוּמָה 
Sense: to put, place, set, appoint, make.
בְּרָאשֵׁיכֶֽם  heads  over  you 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural construct, second person masculine plural
Root: רֹאשׁ 
Sense: head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning.

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