Deuteronomy 3:3

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to him remaining.

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ע֥וֹג

ʻÔwg

H5747

“Og”

Noun, Proper

Appears 22× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Numbers 21:33

Full BDB Definition

Origin: probably from H5746

TWOT: None

Og = "long-necked" - the Amorite king of Bashan and one of the last representatives of the giants of Rephaim

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

18: words
16: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is ע֥וֹג Og H5747 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

ע֥וֹג Og H5747 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
9 nouns
2 prepositions
1 conjunction
3 particles

Verb forms

וַיִּתֵּן֩ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
וַנַּכֵּ֕הוּ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
הִשְׁאִֽיר Hiphil · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 29 words from the Hebrew and 31 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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 18 Hebrew tokens and 31 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

Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 3:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Numbers 21:35 So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.
Deuteronomy 2:33–34 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.
Joshua 13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moses strike, and drove them out.
Joshua 13:30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities:

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.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Deuteronomy 3:3 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּתֵּן֩ יְהוָ֨ה אֱלֹהֵ֜ינוּ בְּיָדֵ֗נוּ גַּ֛ם אֶת ע֥וֹג מֶֽלֶךְ הַבָּשָׁ֖ן וְאֶת כָּל עַמּ֑וֹ וַנַּכֵּ֕הוּ עַד בִּלְתִּ֥י הִשְׁאִֽיר ל֖וֹ שָׂרִֽיד

So Yahweh our God delivered into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we struck him until none was left to him remaining.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 3:3 Septuagint · lemma form

καί παραδίδωμι αὐτός κύριος ὁ θεός ἐγώ εἰς ὁ χείρ ἐγώ καί ὁ ωγ βασιλεύς ὁ βασαν καί πᾶς ὁ λαός αὐτός καί πατάσσω αὐτός ἕως ὁ μή καταλείπω αὐτός σπέρμα

And the Lord our God delivered him into our hands, even Og the king of Basan, and all his people; and we struck him until we left none of his seed.

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)

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּמְסַר יְיָ אֱלָהָנָא בִּידָנָא אַף יָת עוֹג מַלְכָּא דְמַתְנָן וְיָת כֹּל עַמֵהּ וּמְחִנוֹהִי עַד דְלָא אִשְׁתָּאַר לֵהּ מְשֵׁזֵב

(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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

וּמְסַר יְיָ אֱלָהָנָא בִּידָנָא אוּף יַת עוֹג מַלְכָּא דְמַתְנָן וְיַת כָּל עַמֵּיהּ וּמְחִינוֹהִי עַד דְּלָא אִשְׁתַּיַּיר לֵיהּ מְשֵׁזִיב

And the Lord our God gave up into our hands Og the king of Mathnan, and all his people; and we smote him till no remnant remained to him.

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 3:3 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.

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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

Argob was the capital of a district in Bashan of the same name, which, together with other fifty-nine cities in the same province, were conspicuous for their lofty and fortified walls. It was a war of extermination. Houses and cities were razed to the ground; all classes of people were put to the sword; and nothing was saved but the cattle, of which an immense amount fell as spoil into the hands of the conquerors. Thus, the two Amorite kings and the entire population of their dominions were extirpated. The whole country east of the Jordan--first upland downs from the torrent of the Arnon on the south to that of the Jabbok on the north; next the high mountain tract of Gilead and Bashan from the deep ravine of Jabbok--became the possession of the Israelites.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

3. none … remaining] Deu_2:34.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also the king of Bashan, and all his people,.... As well as Sihon king of Heshbon:

and we smote him, till none was left to him remaining; or left alive, all were slain with the sword; See Gill on Num 21:35.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

all his people were put under our control

This can be stated in active form. AT: "Yahweh put all of Og's people under our control" (See: Active or Passive)

not one of his people remained

This is a litotes that is used to emphasize that the Israelites did not let anyone live. AT: "all of his people were dead" (See: Litotes)

There was not one of the sixty cities that we did not take

This is a double negative that emphasizes that they took all of the 60 cities. AT: "We took every one of the sixty cities" (See: Double Negatives)

sixty cities

"60 cities" (See: Numbers)

the region of Argob

This is the name of a region within Bashan. (See: How to Translate Names)

translationWords

Yahweh

God

king

Bashan

die

kingdom

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

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 18 words (16 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻÔwg (“Og”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word ʻÔwg carries the sense “Og.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Numbers 21:33, which shares the word «Og», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
«וַיִּתֵּן֩» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Jamieson, Fausset & Brown and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 18 Hebrew ↔ 31 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 14 words in this verse.
16 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 18 words in this verse.