Deuteronomy 4:49

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 4:49 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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and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and all the Arabah eastward across the Jordan, to the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of the Pisgah.

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
    and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and all the Arabah beyond Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And all the plaine by Iorden Eastwarde, euen vnto the Sea, of ye plaine, vnder the springs of Pisgah.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    All the plain beyond the Jordan at the east side, unto the see of the wilderness, and unto the foot of mount Phasga.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and all the plain beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the Sea of the Plain, below the Springs of Pisgah.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    and included all of the plain of the Jordan River valley, eastward beyond the Jordan, to the Sea of the Arabah, to the slopes of Mount Pisgah.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    and all the Arabah eastward across the Jordan, to the Sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of the Pisgah.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and all the plain on this side the Jordan, eastward, and as far as the sea of the plain, under the slopes of Pisgah.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And all the plain on the side of Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and included all the Arabah to the east of the Jordan down as far as the Dead Sea beside the slopes of Mount Pisgah.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the east, as far as the sea of the Arabah under the slopes of Pisgah.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

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אַשְׁדֹּ֥ת
ʼăshêdâh
H794
“foundations of”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Feminine
Number
Plural
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H793

TWOT: 174b

foundation, slope
  1. וְכָל kôl H3605 “and · all of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. הָ֨עֲרָבָ֜ה ʻărâbâh H6160 “the · wilderness” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  3. עֵ֤בֶר ʻêber H5676 “side of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  4. הַיַּרְדֵּן֙ Yardên H3383 “the · Jordan” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper
  5. מִזְרָ֔חָה mizrâch H4217 “east · toward” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
  6. וְעַ֖ד ʻad H5704 “and · until” Conjunction + Preposition
  7. יָ֣ם yâm H3220 “sea of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  8. הָעֲרָבָ֑ה ʻărâbâh H6160 “the · wilderness” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  9. תַּ֖חַת tachath H8478 “under” Preposition
  10. הַפִּסְגָּֽה Piçgâh H6449 “the · Pisgah” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Proper

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 →

11
words
10
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is אַשְׁדֹּ֥ת foundation H794 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

אַשְׁדֹּ֥ת foundation H794 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 9 nouns
  • 2 prepositions

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • הָ֨עֲרָבָ֜ה wilderness H6160 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →

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 13 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 4:49 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 3:17 the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border [of it], from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
  • Deuteronomy 34:1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh shown him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
  • Joshua 13:20 and Beth Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

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.

Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 11 words vs World English Bible 20. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

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

Hebrew Deuteronomy 4:49 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְכָל הָ֨עֲרָבָ֜ה עֵ֤בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן֙ מִזְרָ֔חָה וְעַ֖ד יָ֣ם הָעֲרָבָ֑ה תַּ֖חַת אַשְׁדֹּ֥ת הַפִּסְגָּֽה

and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 4:49 Septuagint · lemma form

πᾶς ὁ ἀραβά πέραν ὁ ἰορδάνης κατά ἀνατολή ἥλιος ὑπό ασηδωθ ὁ λαξευτός

All Araba beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth hewn in the rock.

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)
    וְכָל מֵישְׁרָא עִבְרָא דְיַרְדְנָא לְמָדִינְחָא וְעַד יַמָא דְמֵישְׁרָא תְּחוֹת מַשְׁפַּךְ מְרָמָתָא

    (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)
    וְכָל מֵישְׁרָא עִיבְרָא דְיוֹרְדְּנָא מַדִּינְחָא וְעַד יַמָא דְמֵישְׁרָא תְּחוֹת מַשְׁפַּךְ מְרָמָתָא

    and all the plain beyond Jordan, eastward, unto the sea that is in the plain under the spring of the heights.

    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 4:49 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 →

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

4:49 conquered the eastern bank of the Jordan River as far south as the Dead Sea (Hebrew took the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the sea of the Arabah): The Arabah (“wilderness” or “wasteland”) usually refers to the Great Rift Valley south of the Dead Sea; in Deuteronomy, it also pertains to the lower Jordan Valley (see 1:1; 3:17).

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

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

That is, the salt sea.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

The springs of Pisgah--more frequently, Ashdoth-pisgah (Deu 3:17; Jos 12:3; Jos 13:20), the roots or foot of the mountains east of the Jordan.

Next: Deuteronomy Chapter 5

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Wilderness, which Moses commonly calls the salt sea, (on account of the asphalte with which it abounds,) or the sea of Araba, as it lies at the extremity of the plains of Moab, which are sometimes called Araboth, "deserts," because they were more fit for pasturage than for ploughing. (Calmet)

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).

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

49. Springs of Pisgah — The same Hebrew expression is found here as in Deu_3:17, where our version treats it as a proper name. It should be rendered slopes of Pisgah.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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 11 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼăshêdâh (“foundation”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “foundation” (ʼăshêdâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. Deuteronomy 3:17 shares the word «foundation» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “wilderness” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
  5. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  6. Reading how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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