Deuteronomy 28:38

Paleo Hebrew Niqqud

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

זרע זֶרַע

a seed

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

זרע

zeraʻ

Definition

seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity

Root

from H2232 (זרע);

Exhaustive

from זרע; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity; [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H2233

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

זֶרַע

noun masculine • Root זרע • Strongs / High • Page 447

1. corn, plants, seed-corn, fruit, produce. 2. grain. 3. seed, semen. 4. children, posterity. 5. stock, family, race.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

זֶרַע

m. verbal • Root זרע • Page 209

1. seed of plants (Gen. 1:11,12,29). 2. corn, grain in general (Job 39:12). 12. hence seed-time, winter (Gen. 8:22).

Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: σπέρμα σπέρματοσ σπέρματι σπέρματί σπέρματόσ

LXX Usage Statistics

H2233:

σπέρμα 106× (47.6%)

σπέρματοσ 29× (12.3%)

σπέρματι 19× (7.6%)

σπέρματί 16× (5.7%)

σπέρματόσ 14× (5.8%)

'' 6× (2.6%)

σπόρον 5× (2.0%)

γένοσ 4× (1.7%)

γένουσ 4× (1.5%)

--- 3× (1.5%)

רב רַב

multiplying one/abundantly

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

רב

rab

Definition

abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)

Root

by contracted from H7231 (רבב);

Exhaustive

by contracted from רבב; abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality); (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), (ship-)master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H7227

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רַב

adjective / adv. / substantive • Root רבב • Strongs / High • Page 1313

Adjective meaning many, numerous; great, extended, wide, long (of time), violent, strong, or grievous. Also used as an adverb meaning much, in great number, enough, strongly, or richly. Used substantively meaning a great one, a mighty one, or oldest.

רַב

adjective / noun masculine • Strongs / High • Page 1314

great, large, numerous, much, abundant; also meaning chief, head, commander, captain, president, chamberlain, master; principal persons, judges, nobility; fullness, multitude, mass, quantity, totality. Used as adj. and sometimes adverbially.

רַב

aram. adj. m. (aramaic) • Root רבב • Strongs / High • Page 1314

Aramaic adjective (masc. and fem. רַבָּא) meaning great, in the widest sense, of kingdom, gold, stone, God; large.

רַב

noun masculine • Root רבב • Strongs / High • Page 1314

multitude, mass, plenty, great quantity, fullness, totality (singular collective noun). Plur. constr. רַבֵּי.

רַב

adjective • Root רבה • Strongs / High • Page 1315

Many, numerous; great, large. (Aramaic equivalent: רַבָּא).

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

רַב

verb • Root רבב • Page 604

1. Much, many, numerous (Num. 32:1). Also as adv. much, exceedingly, enough (Ps. 123:3, Gen. 33:9). 2. Great, mighty (Ps. 31:20, Is. 63:1). 3. Older, major natu (Gen. 25:23). 4. As a subst. a chief, captain, leader (2 K. 25:8, Dan. 1:3).

רַב

chald. • Root רבב • Page 604

1. Great (Dan. 2:10, 31). 2. Subst. a chief, head, captain (Dan. 5:11, 2:48). Plur. רַבְרְבִין (Dan. 3:33).

Adjective adjective both singular absolute

LXX: πολλὰ πολλῶν πολλοὶ πολὺ πολλοῖσ

LXX Usage Statistics

H7227a:

πολλὰ 37× (7.8%)

πολλῶν 30× (6.3%)

πολλοὶ 28× (5.7%)

πολὺ 18× (3.6%)

πολλοῖσ 17× (3.4%)

'' 17× (3.1%)

πλείουσ 15× (3.1%)

ἀρχιμάγειροσ 15× (2.7%)

πολὺσ 15× (3.1%)

--- 14× (3.0%)

תוציא תּוֹצִיא

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

יצא

yâtsâʼ

Definition

to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.

Root

a primitive root;

Exhaustive

a primitive root; to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.; [idiom] after, appear, [idiom] assuredly, bear out, [idiom] begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), [phrase] be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, [idiom] scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, [idiom] still, [idiom] surely, take forth (out), at any time, [idiom] to (and fro), utter.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H3318

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

יָצָא

verb • Root יצא • Strongs / High • Page 631

intransitive verb, 1. expressing self-activity, to go out, to go forth.

יָצָא

verb • Root יצא • Strongs / High • Page 632

To go out, go forth, come out, proceed. It has a wide range of applications including to walk, to go to war, to travel, to be freed, to be born, to sprout, to arise, to appear, to escape, to be published or issued.

יָצָא

verb • Root יצא • Strongs / High • Page 929

A root that interchanges with נָצָה, showing y/n interchange.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

יָצָא

verb • Page 292

To go out, to go forth. Gen. 44:4, Amos 4:3. Special meanings: (1) to arise (sun/stars) Gen. 19:23; (2) to spring up (plants) Job 5:6; (3) to be begotten or descended from Gen. 17:6; (4) to expire, be finished (time) Ex. 23:16; (5) to become free Ex. 21:2; (6) to be laid out or expended (money) 2 K. 12:13; (7) to escape Ecc. 7:18.

Verb Hiphil imperfect second person masculine singular

LXX: ἐξῆλθεν ἐξελεύσεται ἐξῆλθον ἐξήγαγεν ''

LXX Usage Statistics

H3318:

ἐξῆλθεν 178× (15.7%)

ἐξελεύσεται 78× (7.2%)

ἐξῆλθον 39× (3.4%)

ἐξήγαγεν 39× (3.5%)

'' 25× (2.1%)

ἐξελθεῖν 23× (1.9%)

αὐτοὺσ 23× (1.6%)

ἐξελεύσονται 22× (2.0%)

ἐκπορευόμενοσ 21× (1.7%)

ἐξήγαγον 19× (1.7%)

השדה הָשָּׂדֶה

the Field

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ה

Definition

the

Root

Demonstrative primitive

Exhaustive

definite article, the, used for all numbers and genders; originally a pronoun demonstrative, this. interrogative particle in direct and indirect questions; in disjunctive questions: whether--or.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

שדה

sâdeh

Definition

a field (as flat)

Root

or שדי; from an unused root meaning to spread out;

Exhaustive

or שדי; from an unused root meaning to spread out; a field (as flat); country, field, ground, land, soil, [idiom] wild.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H7704

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שָׂדֶה

noun masculine • Root שדד • Strongs / High • Page 1384

(from שָׂדַד II.; only pl. שָׂדִים) m. a wide-stretching plain, a tract of land, prop. an extension; hence the pl. שָׂדִים (open fields, plains).

שָׂדֶה

noun masculine • Strongs / High • Page 1386

1. A field, opposed to a city, village, or camp; the open field, belonging to the land; of animals, wild, untamed. 2. Metaphorically, the field surrounding a city, district, or territory belonging to a city; open country, in opposition to the metropolis.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

שְׁדָה

chald. ithpa. • Page 657

to exert one's self, construed with לְ. Dan. 6: 15.

שָׂדֶה

noun masculine • Root שדה • Page 634

1. a field, cultivated ground. Gen. 23:17. 2. a field generally, e.g. beasts of the field. Is. 43:20. 3. a country, territory. Gen. 14:7. 4. plain, e.g. שְׂדֵה-אֲרָם plain of Syria. Hos. 12:13.

שִׁדָּה

noun feminine • Root שד • Page 656

Literally a lady, princess; whence a wife or concubine. Found in Ecc. 2: 8.

Particle definite article, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: ἀγροῦ ἀγρῷ ἀγρὸν πεδίῳ πεδίου

LXX Usage Statistics

H7704b:

ἀγροῦ 79× (23.4%)

ἀγρῷ 44× (11.4%)

ἀγρὸν 32× (9.5%)

πεδίῳ 29× (7.1%)

πεδίου 23× (6.6%)

πεδίον 15× (4.0%)

ἀγρόν 13× (3.7%)

pεἰσ 11× (3.7%)

ἀγροὶ 9× (2.7%)

ἀγροὺσ 8× (2.4%)

ומעט וּמְעַט

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ו

wə

Definition

and

Root

From H8505; a prefix

Exhaustive

The conjunctive ו is not merely a fixed coordinator with a stable semantic value (“and/but/or/then”). Its core function is linkage, not meaning. It binds units into a single discourse field—phrases, clauses, or whole scenes—while leaving the logical relation to be inferred from aspect, word order, genre, and context.

So the variability in translation (“and / but / or / even / then”) is not polyvalence in the particle; it is underspecification by design. The language expects the reader/hearer to perceive the relation rather than have it encoded.

Crucially, conjunctive ו does not imply temporal sequence. It implies continuity of attention. Think of it as:
- “this belongs with what precedes,”
- “remain within the same frame,”
“do not reset the discourse.”
This is why Hebrew can chain dozens of clauses with ו without subordination or explicit logic markers. The text advances by accumulation, not by branching syntactic trees. Meaning arises from the interaction:
- Aspect (qatal / yiqtol / participle),
- Position (fronted elements, resumptive nouns),
- Genre (law, narrative, oracle),
- Context (who speaks, to whom).
The ו simply keeps the circuit closed so these cues can operate together. Remove tense assumptions, and the system becomes coherent.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

מעט

mᵉʻaṭ

Definition

a little or few (often adverbial or compar.)

Root

or מעט; from H4591 (מעט);

Exhaustive

or מעט; from מעט; a little or few (often adverbial or compar.); almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, [idiom] very.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H4592

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מְעַט

noun masculine • Root מעט • Strongs / High • Page 883

1. (as a noun) something split off, a little chip; metaphorically, a little, smallness, fewness. 2. (as an adverb) a little, not much, in extent, space, and time. United with prepositions it can mean almost, soon, shortly, or quickly.

מְעַט

noun masculine • Root מעט • Strongs / High • Page 832

Littleness, smallness, fewness; often used as a superlative meaning a very little, or a very short time.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

מְעַט

adjective / adv. • Page 392

A little, a few, paucity. Used as an adjective (Num. 26:54; Ps. 109:8) and more frequently as an adverb meaning 'a little' (Gen. 18:4; 24:17). Also refers to a short time (Ruth 2:7; Ps. 37:10) or space (2 Sam. 16:1). Includes phrases like 'little by little' (Ex. 23:30).

Conjunction, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: μικρὸν ὀλίγον ὀλίγα ὀλίγοι ὡσ

LXX Usage Statistics

H4592:

μικρὸν 23× (20.8%)

ὀλίγον 14× (13.2%)

ὀλίγα 7× (6.6%)

ὀλίγοι 7× (6.6%)

ὡσ 5× (4.8%)

μικρὰ 5× (4.7%)

βραχὺ 5× (4.4%)

--- 4× (3.8%)

μικρόν 3× (2.7%)

βραχύ 2× (1.9%)

תאסף תֶּאֱסֹף

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

אסף

ʼâçaph

Definition

to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.)

Root

a primitive root;

Exhaustive

a primitive root; to gather for any purpose; hence, to receive, take away, i.e. remove (destroy, leave behind, put up, restore, etc.); assemble, bring, consume, destroy, felch, gather (in, together, up again), [idiom] generally, get (him), lose, put all together, receive, recover (another from leprosy), (be) rereward, [idiom] surely, take (away, into, up), [idiom] utterly, withdraw.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H622

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

אָסַף

verb • Strongs_Numbers • Page 167

to snatch together, to scrape together, to take or draw together; to gather, collect (grain, fruit, men, etc.).

אָסַף

verb • Root אסף • Strongs_Numbers • Page 168

To gather in the sense of drawing together, to draw in, withdraw; to take away, to destroy; to be gathered to one's fathers (to die); to hold together, to close.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

אָסַף

verb • Page 63

1. to gather, collect, assemble (Ex. 23:10, Num. 21:16, 2 K. 22:4, Gen. 42:17, etc.); 2. to take to one's self, to receive (Deut. 22:2, Jos. 20:4, 2 Sam. 12:28, etc.); 3. to withdraw, draw back, take back (Gen. 49:33, 1 Sam. 14:20, Ps. 104:29, etc.); 4. to take out of the way, to kill, destroy (1 Sam. 15:6, Ezek. 34:29); 5. to bring up the rear (Is. 58:8); 6. Niph. pass. and reflex. (Gen. 25:8, Num. 20:26, etc.); Pi. to gather, receive (Judg. 19:18), to bring up the rear (Num. 10:25, etc.); Pu. pass. (Is. 24:22); Hithpa. reflex. (Deut. 33:5).

Verb Qal imperfect second person masculine singular

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H0622:

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כי כִּי

for

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

כי

kîy

Definition

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

Root

a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent;

Exhaustive

a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed; and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H3588

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כִּי

masculine noun • Root כוה • Strongs / High • Page 690

A prick, mark, stigma; a brand.

כִּי

relative conjunction • Root כי • Strongs / High • Page 690

A pronominal root used as a relative conjunction. 1. usually a relative particle, that, quod, to denote the relation of the preceding to the following clause, such as in indirect and direct speech.

כִּי

particle / conjunction • Strongs / High • Page 691

A versatile particle with several primary meanings. 1. As a conjunction, it can introduce an exclamation, a question, or an emphatic confirmation, and is sometimes translated as 'that'. 2. As a relative particle of time, it means 'when', 'if', 'since', 'as', 'as often as'. 3. As a causal particle, it means 'because' or 'for'. 4. As a particle of consequence, it can mean 'so' or 'then'.

כִּי

conjunction • Strongs / High • Page 692

A relative conjunction with a wide range of meanings depending on context. Causal: 'for', 'because'. Adversative: 'but', 'nay but', 'nay for', 'no', 'but yes', 'but indeed', 'but yet'. Comparative: 'but now'. Concessive: 'although'. Consequential: 'for which reason'.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

כִּי

m. subst. • Root כוה • Page 314

I. a mark burnt in, a brand, stigma. Is. 3: 24.

כִּי

primitive particle • Page 314

II. Probably a relative pronoun, i. q. אֲשֶׁר (Gen. 4:25). Used as a conj.: 1. that (Gen. 1:4). 2. for, because (Gen. 3:14). 3. if (Ex. 3:21). 4. when (Hos. 11:1). 5. yet, although (Ps. 116:10). 6. but (Gen. 45:8). 7. yea rather (Ps. 44:23). 8. often used at the beginning of a proposition (Zech. 3:8). 9. at the beginning of the apodosis (Gen. 22:17).

Particle

LXX: ὅτι γὰρ ἐὰν διότι ---

LXX Usage Statistics

H3588a:

ὅτι 2030× (53.1%)

γὰρ 394× (10.3%)

ἐὰν 276× (7.0%)

διότι 259× (6.8%)

--- 158× (4.1%)

ἀλλ' 114× (2.9%)

'' 76× (1.7%)

ὅταν 55× (1.4%)

καὶ 49× (1.3%)

γάρ 44× (1.2%)

יחסלנו יַחְסְלֶנּוּ

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

חסל

châçal

Definition

to eat off

Root

a primitive root;

Exhaustive

a primitive root; to eat off; consume.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H2628

ו

Definition

him, personal pronoun - verb/prep. 3rd person masculine singular

Root

Exhaustive

Personal object pronoun - suffix for propositions and verbs without an object: 3rd person masculine singular

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H9033

Fürst

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חָסַל

verb • Root חסל • Strongs / High • Page 509

To eat off, to tear off (used of locusts), or to strip off the skin (spoken of their sloughing).

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

חָסַל

verb • Page 240

to eat off, consume; spoken of the locust. Deut. 28:38.

Verb Qal imperfect third person masculine singular, Suffix pronominal third person masculine singular

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H2628:

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הארבה הָאַרְבֶּה׃

the Locust Swarm

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ה

Definition

the

Root

Demonstrative primitive

Exhaustive

definite article, the, used for all numbers and genders; originally a pronoun demonstrative, this. interrogative particle in direct and indirect questions; in disjunctive questions: whether--or.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

ארבה

ʼarbeh

Definition

a locust (from its rapid increase)

Root

from H7235 (רבה);

Exhaustive

from רבה; a locust (from its rapid increase); grasshopper, locust.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H697

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

אֲרֻבָּה

noun feminine • Root ארב • Lemma_Lookup • Page 183

Properly the latticed, enclosed, hence generally window (e.g. of heaven), flood-gate; dove-cote; chimney or hole for smoke.

אַרְבֶּה

noun masculine • Lemma_Lookup • Page 183

A locust, especially that species which appears in swarms (gryllus gregarius).

אָרְבָּה

noun feminine • Root ארב • Lemma_Lookup • Page 183

Properly noose, hence figuratively plot; also signifies wrist or joint.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

אֲרֻבָּה

f. verbal • Root ארב • Page 69

strictly a grate, lattice. Hence: 1. window. Ecc. 12:3. 2. windows or sluices of heaven. Gen. 7:11. 3. dove-hole. Is. 60:8. 4. chimney. Hos. 13:3.

אַרְבֶּה

m. verbal • Root רבה • Page 69

the locust. Ex. 10. 4 ff. Lev. 11: 22. Joel 1: 4. Ps. 78: 46. Denotes a particular species, perhaps the common migratory locust, (gryllus gregarius, Linn.)

אָרְבָּה

noun • Root ארב • Page 69

Is. 25: 11. Interpreted as the craft of his hands, or the tying, closing, or clinching of the hand i.e. the fist, as an emblem of violence.

Particle definite article, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H0697:

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RBT Translation:

No verse found

RBT Paraphrase:
No verse found

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
Thou shalt bring out much seed to thy field, and shalt gather little, for the locust shall devour it.

LITV Translation:
You shall carry much seed out to the field, and you shall gather in little; for the locusts will devour it.

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
Thou shalt carry forth much seed into the field, and thou shalt bring in little, because the locust shall devour it.