the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
a likeness of any creeping thing on the ground, a likeness of any fish that in the water under the earth.
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the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth:
Or the likenesse of any thing that creepeth on the earth, or the likenesse of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth,
Or of creeping things, that move on the earth, or of fishes, that abide in the waters under the earth:
a form of any creeping thing on the ground -- a form of any fish which `is' in the waters under the earth;
a form of any creeping thing on the ground, a form of any fish which [is] in the waters below the earth.
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, or the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth.
a likeness of any creeping thing on the ground, a likeness of any fish that in the water under the earth.
the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground, the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth;
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
or of any animal that crawls on the ground or any fish in the deep sea.
Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth.
the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is דָּגָ֥ה fish H1710 — appearing just 15 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
דָּגָ֥ה fish H1710 occurs in 13 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 25 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 19 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.
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.
תַּבְנִ֕ית כָּל רֹמֵ֖שׂ בָּאֲדָמָ֑ה תַּבְנִ֛ית כָּל דָּגָ֥ה אֲשֶׁר בַּמַּ֖יִם מִתַּ֥חַת לָאָֽרֶץ
the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
World English Bible · Public Domain
ὁμοίωμα πᾶς ἑρπετόν ὅς ἕρπω ἐπί ὁ γῆ ὁμοίωμα πᾶς ἰχθύς ὅσος εἰμί ἐν ὁ ὕδωρ ὑποκάτω ὁ γῆ
the likeness of any reptile which creeps on the earth, the likeness of any fish of those which are in the waters under the earth;
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 →
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.
דְמוּת כָּל רִחֲשָׁא דִי בְאַרְעָא דְמוּת כָּל נוּנֵי דִי בְמַיָא מִלְרַע לְאַרְעָא
(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.
דְּמוּ דְּכָל רִיחֲשָׁא דִבְאַרְעָא דְמוּ כָּל נוּנֵי דִבְמַיָא מִלְרַע לְאַרְעָא
of any reptile on the ground, or of any fish in the waters under the earth.
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.
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Deuteronomy, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is dâgâh (“fish”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 4:18 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
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
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.