Deuteronomy 31:4

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 31:4 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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Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed them.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And the LORD will do to them as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, when He destroyed them along with their land.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And Jehovah will do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the Lord shall doe vnto them, as he did to Sihon and to Og Kings of the Amorites: and vnto their lande whome he destroyed.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And the Lord shall do to them as he did to Sehon and Og the kings of the Amorrhites, and to their land, and shall destroy them.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and Jehovah hath done to them as he hath done to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorite, and to their land, whom He destroyed.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And YHWH has done to them as he has done to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorite, and to their land, whom He destroyed.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed them.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And Jehovah will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    The LORD will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when he destroyed them.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the LORD shall do to them as he did to Sihon, and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to the land of them, whom he destroyed.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    The Lord will do to them what he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and their land when he destroyed them.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the LORD will do unto them as He did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom He destroyed.

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וּלְע֛וֹג
ʻÔwg
H5747
“and · to/for · Og”
Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Proper
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Preposition + Noun
Type
Proper
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
  1. וְעָשָׂ֤ה ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. יְהוָה֙ Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  3. כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר ʼăsher H834 “like/as · which” Preposition + Particle, Relative
  4. עָשָׂ֗ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. לְסִיח֥וֹן Çîychôwn H5511 “to/for · Sihon” Preposition + Noun, Proper
  6. מַלְכֵ֥י melek H4428 “kings of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  7. הָאֱמֹרִ֖י ʼĔmôrîy H567 “the · Amorite” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וּלְאַרְצָ֑ם ʼerets H776 “and · to/for · land · their” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  9. אֲשֶׁ֥ר ʼăsher H834 “which” Particle, Relative
  10. הִשְׁמִ֖יד shâmad H8045 “to destroy” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  11. אֹתָֽם ʼêth H853 “- · them” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

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 →

13
words
10
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

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

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 6 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 3 particles

Verb forms

  • וְעָשָׂ֤ה Qal · Sequential Perfect
  • עָשָׂ֗ה Qal · Perfect
  • הִשְׁמִ֖יד Hiphil · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • וְעָשָׂ֤ה to do H6213 ×2
  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 34 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.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 31:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 23:28–31 I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.
  • Numbers 21:24–35 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
  • Deuteronomy 2:33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.
  • Deuteronomy 3:3–11 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.
  • Deuteronomy 3:21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
  • Deuteronomy 7:16 You shall consume all the peoples who Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
  • Deuteronomy 7:2 and when Yahweh your God shall deliver them up before you, and you shall strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them: you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Deuteronomy 31:4 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעָשָׂ֤ה יְהוָה֙ לָהֶ֔ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֗ה לְסִיח֥וֹן וּלְע֛וֹג מַלְכֵ֥י הָאֱמֹרִ֖י וּלְאַרְצָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִשְׁמִ֖יד אֹתָֽם

Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 31:4 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω κύριος αὐτός καθά ποιέω σηων καί ωγ ὁ δύο βασιλεύς ὁ ἀμορραῖος ὅς εἰμί πέραν ὁ ἰορδάνης καί ὁ γῆ αὐτός καθότι ἐκὀλεθρεύω αὐτός

And the Lord your God shall do to them as he did to Seon and Og the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, and to their land, as he destroyed them.

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)
    וְיַעְבֵּד יְיָ לְהוֹן כְּמָא דִי עֲבַד לְסִיחוֹן וּלְעוֹג מַלְכֵי אֱמוֹרָאָה וּלְאַרְעֲהוֹן דִי שֵׁצִי יָתְהוֹן

    (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)
    וְיַעֲבֵיד יְיָ פּוּרְעָנוּת דִינָא מִנְהוֹן הֵיכְמָא דְעָבַד לְסִיחוֹן וּלְעוֹג מַלְכֵי אֱמוֹרָאֵי וּלְעַמְמֵי אַרְעֲהוֹן דְשֵׁיצֵי יַתְהוֹן

    And the Lord will execute judgment on them, as He did on Sihon and Og kings of the Amoraee, and the people of their land, whom He destroyed.

    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 31:4 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 31:4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.

Ver. 4. And the Lord shall do unto them.] Every former mercy is a pledge of a future.

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.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

31:4 Sihon and Og: See study note on 2:24; Num 21:21-35.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

4. Sihon … Og] Deu_2:32 ff., Deu_3:1 ff., Deu_29:7; Amorites, Deu_3:8.

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

And the Lord shall give them up before your face,.... To ruin and destruction; the Targum of Jonathan is,"the Word of the Lord shall deliver them up:"

that ye may do unto them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you; that is, utterly destroy them, make no covenant with them, enter into no alliances nor contract any marriages with them; but demolish their altars, cut down their groves, and break their images in pieces; of which last Aben Ezra interprets the words; but they are not to be restrained to that single instance; see Deu 7:1.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Which he gave to you to possess.

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

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Moses continues speaking to the Israelites.

he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites

Here "Sihon" and "Og" refer to two Kings of the Amorites and their armies. See how you translated these names in Deuteronomy 1:4. AT: "he did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their armies" (See: Synecdoche)

Be strong and of good courage

"Be strong and courageous"

fear not, and do not be afraid of them

"do not fear them at all"

Yahweh your God ... with you ... fail you nor forsake you

Moses speaks to the Israelites as if they were one man, so the words "you" and "your" here are singular. (See: Forms of You)

he will not fail you nor forsake you

This can be treated as litotes and translated positively. AT: "he will always fulfill his promise to you and will always be with you" (See: Litotes)

translationWords

Yahweh

king

Amorite

command

fear

God

forsake

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

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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (10 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

  1. How does “Og” (ʻÔwg) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Numbers 21:33, which shares the word «Og», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “to do” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  5. «וְעָשָׂ֤ה» is a Qal Sequential Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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