Deuteronomy 6:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 6:22 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 Yahweh shown signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and Yahweh shown signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Yahweh gave signs and wonders, great and terrible, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    and Yahweh shown signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Before our eyes the LORD inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    and Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes;
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    and the LORD shewed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And the Lord shewed signes and wonders great and euill vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his housholde, before our eyes,
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And he wrought signs and wonders great and very grievous in Egypt against Pharao, and all his house, in our sight,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and Jehovah giveth signs and wonders, great and sad, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and YHWH gives signs and wonders, great and severe, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    and he displayed signs and wonders, great and severe, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And Yahweh gave signs and wonders, great and terrible, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and Jehovah shewed signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    and the LORD showed great and awesome signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and distressing, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Before our very eyes the Lord brought down incredible and terrifying signs and miracles on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his people.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes.

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וּ֠מֹפְתִים
môwphêth
H4159
“and · signs”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3302 in the sense of conspicuousness

TWOT: 152a

wonder, sign, miracle, portent - wonder (as a special display of God's power) - sign, token (of future event)
  1. וַיִּתֵּ֣ן nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  2. יְהוָ֡ה Yᵉhôvâh H3068 “LORD” Noun, Proper
  3. אוֹתֹ֣ת ʼôwth H226 “signs” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Absolute
  4. גְּדֹלִ֨ים gâdôwl H1419 “great” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  5. וְרָעִ֧ים raʻ H7451 “and · evil” Conjunction + Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  6. בְּמִצְרַ֛יִם Mitsrayim H4714 “in/at · Egypt” Preposition + Noun, Proper
  7. בְּפַרְעֹ֥ה Parʻôh H6547 “in/at · Pharaoh” Preposition + Noun, Proper
  8. וּבְכָל kôl H3605 “and · in/at · all of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. בֵּית֖וֹ bayith H1004 “house · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  10. לְעֵינֵֽינוּ ʻayin H5869 “to/for · eyes · our” Preposition + Noun, Common, Both, Dual, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, 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 →

11
words
11
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּ֠מֹפְתִים sign H4159 occurs in 35 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 8 nouns
  • 2 adjectives

Verb forms

  • וַיִּתֵּ֣ן Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 21 words from the Hebrew and 20 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 20 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 6:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  • Psalms 58:10–11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
  • Deuteronomy 7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
  • Psalms 91:8 You will only look with your eyes, And see the recompense of the wicked.
  • Exodus 7:1–12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Behold, I have made you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
  • Exodus 14:1–31 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
  • Deuteronomy 1:30 Yahweh your God who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
  • 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 4:3 Your eyes have seen what Yahweh did because of Baal Peor; for all the men who followed Baal Peor, Yahweh your God has destroyed them from the midst of you.
  • Psalms 135:9 Who sent signs and wonders into the midst of you, Egypt, On Pharaoh, and on all his servants;

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Deuteronomy 6:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּתֵּ֣ן יְהוָ֡ה אוֹתֹ֣ת וּ֠מֹפְתִים גְּדֹלִ֨ים וְרָעִ֧ים בְּמִצְרַ֛יִם בְּפַרְעֹ֥ה וּבְכָל בֵּית֖וֹ לְעֵינֵֽינוּ

and Yahweh shown signs and wonders, great and sore, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Deuteronomy 6:22 Septuagint · lemma form

καί δίδωμι κύριος σημεῖον καί τέρας μέγας καί πονηρός ἐν αἴγυπτος ἐν φαραώ καί ἐν ὁ οἶκος αὐτός ἐνώπιον ἐγώ

And the Lord wrought signs and great and grievous wonders in Egypt, on Pharao and on his house before us.

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)
    וִיהַב יְיָ אָתִין וּמוֹפְתִין רַבְרְבִין וּבִישִׁין בְּמִצְרַיִם בְּפַרְעֹה וּבְכָל אֱנַשׁ בֵּיתֵהּ לְעֵינָנָא

    (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)
    וְגָרֵי מֵימְרָא דַיְיָ אָתִין וְתִימְהִין רַבְרְבִין וּמַכְתָּשִׁין בִּישִׁין בְּמִצְרַיִם וּבְפַרְעה וּבְכָל אֵינַשׁ בַּיְיתֵיהּ וַהֲוֵינָא חַמְיָין בְּעֵינָנָא

    and the Word of the Lord brought us out of Mizraim with a mighty hand; and the Word of the Lord wrought signs, great wonders, and sore plagues on Mizraim and on Pharoh and all the men of his house, which our eyes beheld;

    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 6:22 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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Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

6:22 The signs and wonders were the ten plagues God sent to impress Israel and Egypt with his power when he brought about the Exodus (Exod 7–12; see also Exod 3:20; 4:5; Josh 4:23-24).

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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

22. signs and wonders … before our eyes] See on Deu_4:34.

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

And the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and sore,.... Meaning the ten plagues, which were signs of the power of God, marvellous works, great, above the power of nature, and very sore or "evil" (y); very distressing to the Egyptians; for they came and lay heavy

upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes; upon the king, his courtiers, and the whole land, and which were done publicly in the sight of the people of Israel, as well as the Egyptians; and there were some then living, though at that time when wrought under twenty years, who saw with their own eyes what were done to them, and could never forget them. Here also the Targum of Jonathan has it,"and the Word of the Lord sent signs, &c''

(y) "et pessima", V. L. Junius & Tremellius; "et noxia", Tigurine version; "et mala", Pagninus, Montanus, Piscator.

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

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

22. Signs and wonders — The plagues sent upon the Egyptians before they would consent to the liberation of the Israelites from their bondage.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

Signs and wonders (cf. Deu_4:34)

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

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 môwphêth (“sign”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word môwphêth carries the sense “sign.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Exodus 4:21, which shares the word «sign», 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. «וַיִּתֵּ֣ן» is a Qal Sequential Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Tyndale Open Study Notes and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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