The Meaning of Deuteronomy 8:9 Explained

Deuteronomy 8:9

KJV: A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

YLT: a land in which without scarcity thou dost eat bread, thou dost not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of its mountains thou dost dig brass;

Darby: a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, where thou shalt lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose mountains thou wilt dig copper.

ASV: a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

A land  wherein  thou shalt eat  bread  without  scarceness,  thou shalt not lack  any [thing] in it; a land  whose stones  [are] iron,  and out of whose hills  thou mayest dig  brass. 

What does Deuteronomy 8:9 Mean?

Context Summary

Deuteronomy 8:1-20 - Beware Of Forgetting God
"Thou shalt remember," Deuteronomy 8:2; "thou shalt consider," Deuteronomy 8:5; "thou shalt bless," Deuteronomy 8:10.
The lessons of hunger, Deuteronomy 8:1-9 : "Suffered to hunger." "Blessed are they that hunger." "Man doth not live by bread only;" he hungers for knowledge, opportunity, society, love. How many wan faces around us bear witness to the gnawing within. But the Father suffered His Son to fast; and so he deals with us, to prove us. It is only through the discipline of the soul, in learning to go without, that it can be trusted with spiritual opulence and power. See Deuteronomy 8:7-9.
The perils of prosperity, Deuteronomy 8:10-20 : It is harder to walk with God in the sunshine of success than in the nipping frosts of failure. When Paul said, "I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound," he put the hardest last. The one secret is to give all the glory to God, and to look always to the Cross, where we were crucified to the pride of the flesh, Philippians 2:7-11; Philippians 4:12. "I lay in dust life's glory dead!" [source]

Chapter Summary: Deuteronomy 8

1  An exhortation to obedience in regard to God's mercy and goodness to Israel

What do the individual words in Deuteronomy 8:9 mean?

a land in which without scarcity you will eat in bread nothing you will lack any in which a land whose stones [are] iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper
אֶ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֨ר לֹ֤א בְמִסְכֵּנֻת֙ תֹּֽאכַל־ בָּ֣הּ לֶ֔חֶם לֹֽא־ תֶחְסַ֥ר כֹּ֖ל בָּ֑הּ אֶ֚רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אֲבָנֶ֣יהָ בַרְזֶ֔ל וּמֵהֲרָרֶ֖יהָ תַּחְצֹ֥ב נְחֹֽשֶׁת

אֶ֗רֶץ  a  land 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: אֶרֶץ  
Sense: land, earth.
אֲשֶׁ֨ר  in  which 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
לֹ֤א  without 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
בְמִסְכֵּנֻת֙  scarcity 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, feminine singular
Root: מִסְכֵּנֻת  
Sense: poverty, scarcity.
תֹּֽאכַל־  you  will  eat 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.
לֶ֔חֶם  bread 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: לֶחֶם  
Sense: bread, food, grain.
לֹֽא־  nothing 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
תֶחְסַ֥ר  you  will  lack 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: חָסֵר  
Sense: to lack, be without, decrease, be lacking, have a need.
כֹּ֖ל  any 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: כֹּל  
Sense: all, the whole.
בָּ֑הּ  in  which 
Parse: Preposition, third person feminine singular
אֶ֚רֶץ  a  land 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: אֶרֶץ  
Sense: land, earth.
אֲשֶׁ֣ר  whose 
Parse: Pronoun, relative
Root: אֲשֶׁר 
Sense: (relative part.).
אֲבָנֶ֣יהָ  stones 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, third person feminine singular
Root: אֶבֶן  
Sense: stone (large or small).
בַרְזֶ֔ל  [are]  iron 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: בַּרְזֶל  
Sense: iron.
וּמֵהֲרָרֶ֖יהָ  and  out  of  whose  hills 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m, Noun, masculine plural construct, third person feminine singular
Root: הַר  
Sense: mountain, hill, hill country, mount.
תַּחְצֹ֥ב  you  can  dig 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: חָצֵב 
Sense: to dig, cleave, divide, hew, make, cut out, dig out, cut down, quarry, hewer, mason.
נְחֹֽשֶׁת  copper 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: נְחֹשֶׁת 
Sense: copper, bronze.

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