פֶּן תֹּאכַ֖ל וְשָׂבָ֑עְתָּ וּבָתִּ֥ים טוֹבִ֛ים תִּבְנֶ֖ה וְיָשָֽׁבְתָּ
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
World English Bible · Public Domain
Deuteronomy 8:12
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Deuteronomy 8:12 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.
English Translation
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
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King James Version Public Domain
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
lest you eat and are satisfied, and you build good houses and live,
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.
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World English Bible Public Domain
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived therein;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
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King James Version Public Domain
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
lest, when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Lest when thou hast eaten and filled thy selfe, and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Lest after thou hast eaten and art filled, hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
lest you eat and have been satisfied, and build good houses and have inhabited [them],
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
otherwise, when you eat and are full, and when you build good houses and live in them, your heart will be lifted up.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
lest you eat and are satisfied, and you build good houses and live,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built and inhabited fine houses,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Lest when thou hast eaten, and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt in them;
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
For when you eat and are full, when you build beautiful houses to live in,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
lest when thou hast eaten and art satisfied, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
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וְשָׂבָ֑עְתָּ
sâbaʻ
H7646
“and · to be satisfied”
Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 97× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 16:8
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Verb
- Stem
- Qal
- Form
- Sequential Perfect
- Person
- 2nd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
to be satisfied, be sated, be fulfilled, be surfeited
- (Qal)
- to be sated (with food)
- to be sated, be satisfied with, be fulfilled, be filled, have one's fill of (have desire satisfied)
- to have in excess, be surfeited, be surfeited with
- to be weary of (figuratively)
- (Piel) to satisfy
- (Hiphil)
- to satisfy
- to enrich
- to sate, glut (with the undesired)
- פֶּן pên H6435 “lest” Conjunction
- תֹּאכַ֖ל ʼâkal H398 “to eat” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְשָׂבָ֑עְתָּ sâbaʻ H7646 “and · to be satisfied” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וּבָתִּ֥ים bayith H1004 “and · houses” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- טוֹבִ֛ים ṭôwb H2896 “good” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- תִּבְנֶ֖ה bânâh H1129 “to build” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְיָשָֽׁבְתָּ yâshab H3427 “and · to dwell” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Grammatical profile
- 4 verbs
- 1 noun
- 1 adjective
- 1 conjunction
Verb forms
- תֹּאכַ֖ל Qal · Imperfect
- וְשָׂבָ֑עְתָּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
- תִּבְנֶ֖ה Qal · Imperfect
- וְיָשָֽׁבְתָּ Qal · Sequential Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 17 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 12 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
11Topical passages linked to Deuteronomy 8:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' Or lest I be poor, and steal, And so dishonor the name of my God.
- Deuteronomy 28:47 Because you didn't serve Yahweh your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
- Deuteronomy 32:15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: You have grown fat, you are grown thick, you are become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, Lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Hosea 13:5–6 I knew you in the wilderness, In the land of great drought.
- Deuteronomy 31:20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.
- Ecclesiastes 2:4 I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
- Jeremiah 22:14–15 who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
- Amos 5:11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, And take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of hewn stone, But you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, But you shall not drink their wine.
- Haggai 1:4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
- Luke 17:28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;
- Ezekiel 11:3 who say, [The time] is not near to build houses: this [city] is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
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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.
μή ἐσθίω καί ἐνπίμπλημι καί οἰκία καλός οἰκοδομέω καί καταοἰκέω ἐν αὐτός
lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and lived in 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)
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
דִילְמָא תֵיכוּל וְתִשְׂבַּע וּבָתִּין שַׁפִּירִין תִּבְנֵי וְתֵיתֵב
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
דִּלְמָא תֵּיכְלוּן וְתִשְבְּעִין וּבָתִּין שַׁפִּירִין תִּיבְנוּן וְתֵיתְבוּן
lest, when you shall have eaten and are satisfied, and you have builded pleasant houses to dwell in,
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.
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 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is sâbaʻ (“to be satisfied”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “to be satisfied” (sâbaʻ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Proverbs 30:9 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «תֹּאכַ֖ל» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 12 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 15 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Deuteronomy 8:12 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
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.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — 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.