Deuteronomy 19:20

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 19:20 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then the remnant will hear and fear and will not continue to do anymore as this evil thing among you.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the rest shall heare this, and feare, and shall henceforth commit no more any such wickednes among you.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    That others hearing may fear, and may not dare to do such things.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and those who are left do hear and fear, and add not to do any more according to this evil thing in thy midst;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and those who are left hear and fear, and do not add to do according to this evil thing in your midst anymore.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then those who remain will hear and fear, and will from then on commit no longer any such evil among you.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then the remnant will hear and fear and will not continue to do anymore as this evil thing among you.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in thy midst.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you. Then everyone else will hear about it and be afraid, and won't ever do anything so evil.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.

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וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים
shâʼar
H7604
“and · the · remaining”
Conjunction + Particle, Definite Article + Verb, Niphal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Particle + Verb
Stem
Niphal
Form
Participle Active
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 2307 , 2308

to remain, be left over, be left behind - (Qal) to remain - (Niphal) - to be left over, be left alive, survive - remainder, remnant (participle) - to be left behind - (Hiphil) - to leave over, spare - to leave or keep over - to have left - to leave (as a gift)
  1. יִשְׁמְע֣וּ shâmaʻ H8085 “to hear” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  2. וְיִרָ֑אוּ yârêʼ H3372 “and · to fear” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  3. וְלֹֽא lôʼ H3808 “and · not” Conjunction + Particle, Negative
  4. יֹסִ֨פוּ yâçaph H3254 “to add” Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  5. לַעֲשׂ֜וֹת ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
  6. ע֗וֹד ʻôwd H5750 “still” Adverb
  7. כַּדָּבָ֥ר dâbâr H1697 “like/as the · word” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. הָרָ֛ע raʻ H7451 “the · evil” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  9. הַזֶּ֖ה zeh H2088 “the · this” Particle, Definite Article + Pronoun, Demonstrative, Masculine, Singular
  10. בְּקִרְבֶּֽךָ qereb H7130 “in/at · midst · your” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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11
words
11
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Grammatical profile

  • 5 verbs
  • 2 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 pronoun
  • 1 adverb
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים Niphal · Participle Active
  • יִשְׁמְע֣וּ Qal · Imperfect
  • וְיִרָ֑אוּ Qal · Imperfect
  • יֹסִ֨פוּ Hiphil · Imperfect
  • לַעֲשׂ֜וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 19:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 17:13 All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
  • Deuteronomy 21:21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
  • Deuteronomy 13:11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.
  • Deuteronomy 17:7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
  • Proverbs 21:11 When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom; When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
  • Romans 13:3–4 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same,
  • 1 Timothy 5:20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

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Hebrew Deuteronomy 19:20 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים יִשְׁמְע֣וּ וְיִרָ֑אוּ וְלֹֽא יֹסִ֨פוּ לַעֲשׂ֜וֹת ע֗וֹד כַּדָּבָ֥ר הָרָ֛ע הַזֶּ֖ה בְּקִרְבֶּֽךָ

Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 19:20 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ ἐπίλοιπος ἀκούω φοβέω καί οὐ προςτίθημι ἔτι ποιέω κατά ὁ ῥῆμα ὁ πονηρός οὗτος ἐν σύ

And the rest shall hear and fear, and do no more according to this evil thing in the midst of you.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּדְיִשְׁתַּאֲרוּן יִשְׁמְעוּן וְיִדְחֲלוּן וְלָא יוֹסְפוּן לְמֶעְבַּד עוֹד כְּפִתְגָמָא בִישָׁא הָדֵין בֵּינָךְ

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְרַשִׁיעַיָא דְמִשְׁתַּיְירִין יִשְׁמְעוּן וִידַחֲלוּן וְלָא יוֹסְפוּן לְמֶעֱבַד תּוּב כְּפִתְגָמָא בִּישָׁא הָדֵין בֵּינֵיכוֹן

    And the wicked who remain will hear and be afraid, and not add to repeat an evil thing like this among you.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Deuteronomy 19:20 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Deu 19:20 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

Ver. 20. Shall hear and fear.] Others’ woes should be our warnings, others’ sufferings our sermons, yea, standing sermons. {1Co 10:5-12} God’s house of correction is the school of instruction.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

20. those which remain, etc.] A curious parallel to Deu_13:11 (12).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Things. This is the design of penal laws, to render justice to the innocent, and to prevent the spreading of a contagious evil, by cutting off the hopes of impunity. (Grotius, Jur. ii. 10. 9.) --- "I would cause the criminal’s throat to be cut, says Seneca, (de Ira ii.) with the same countenance and mind as I kill serpents and venomous animals."

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Those which remain, i.e. the rest of the people. See Deu 13:11; 17:13.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

cf. Deu_13:12

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

Then those who remain

"When you punish the false witness, the rest of the people"

will hear and fear

The full meaning of this statement can be made explicit. AT: "will hear about the punishment and be afraid of getting punished" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

commit no longer any such evil

"never again do something evil like that"

Your eyes must not pity

Here "eyes" refer to the whole person. AT: "You must not pity him" or "You must not show him mercy" (See: Synecdoche)

life will pay for life ... foot for foot

Here the phrases are shortened because the meaning is understood. It means the people must punish a person in the same way that he harmed another person. (See: Ellipsis)

translationWords

fear

evil

life

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

ישמעו ויראו [AND THOSE WHO REMAIN] SHALL HEAR AND FEAR — From here we derive the law that a public announcement is required: “The men named so-and-so are to be executed because they have been convicted by the court as “plotting witnesses” (Sanhedrin 89a).

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâʼar (“to remain”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word shâʼar carries the sense “to remain.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Deuteronomy 17:13, which shares this passage’s theme, read alongside this verse?
  3. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  4. «וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים» is a Niphal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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