Deuteronomy 33:25

Paleo Hebrew Niqqud

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

ברזל בַּרְזֶל

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ברזל

barzel

Definition

iron (as cutting); by extension, an iron implement

Root

perhaps from the root of H1269 (ברזות);

Exhaustive

perhaps from the root of ברזות; iron (as cutting); by extension, an iron implement; (ax) head, iron.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1270

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

בַּרְזֶל

noun masculine • Root בזל • Consonantal / Medium • Page 277

iron; as a metal; metaphorically hard, pressing; tools made of iron (axe, sword, fetter)

Matched via consonantal key only

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

בַּרְזֶל

m. prim. • Page 115

1. iron (Num. 35: 16). 2. an iron tool (2 K. 6: 5, Ecc. 10: 10). 3. iron fetters (Ps. 105: 18, 107: 10).

Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: σίδηρον σιδήρου σίδηροσ σιδηρᾶ σιδηροῦν

LXX Usage Statistics

H1270:

σίδηρον 12× (12.4%)

σιδήρου 11× (11.3%)

σίδηροσ 11× (11.3%)

σιδηρᾶ 7× (7.6%)

σιδηροῦν 7× (7.6%)

σιδήρῳ 5× (4.0%)

'' 4× (3.5%)

--- 4× (4.3%)

σιδηροῖσ 4× (4.0%)

σιδήριον 4× (3.5%)

ונחשת וּנְחֹשֶׁת

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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

נחשת

nᵉchôsheth

Definition

copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)

Root

for H5154 (נחושה);

Exhaustive

for נחושה; copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver); brasen, brass, chain, copper, fetter (of brass), filthiness, steel.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H5178

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

נְחֹ֫שֶׁת

feminine noun • Root נחש • Consonantal / Medium • Page 963

1. Brass, copper; a metal used for vessels, buildings, and arms; also a fetter. 2. The firm basis, ground, or support. 3. Figuratively, the female pudenda.

Matched via consonantal key only

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

נְחֹשֶׁת

noun masculine • Page 438

1. brass. Gen. 4: 22. Ex. 26: 11, 37. 2. money, æs. Ezek. 16: 36. 3. a brazen fetter. Lam. 3: 7. Judg. 16: 21. 2 Sam. 3: 34.

Conjunction, Noun common feminine singular absolute

LXX: χαλκοῦν χαλκοῦ χαλκᾶ χαλκὸν ''

LXX Usage Statistics

H5178a:

χαλκοῦν 18× (13.2%)

χαλκοῦ 17× (12.4%)

χαλκᾶ 13× (9.9%)

χαλκὸν 10× (6.8%)

'' 9× (6.1%)

χαλκοῦσ 8× (6.2%)

χαλκῷ 8× (5.6%)

χαλκῆν 7× (5.4%)

χαλκόν 7× (5.5%)

χαλκαῖ 6× (4.8%)

מנעליך מִנְעָלֶיךָ

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

מנעל

minʻâl

Definition

a bolt

Root

from H5274 (נעל);

Exhaustive

xlit manʻâl corrected to minʻâl; from נעל; a bolt; shoe.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H4515

ך

Definition

your, personal posessive - noun suffix: 2nd person masculine singular

Root

Exhaustive

Personal posessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 2nd person masculine singular

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H9021

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

מִנְעָל

noun masculine • Root נעל • Strongs / High • Page 874

The shoe, shoes, a figure of safe going.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

מִנְעָל

m. verbal • Root נעל • Page 386

Same as above (a bar/lock). Ref: Deut. 33:25.

Noun common masculine plural construct, Suffix pronominal second person masculine singular

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H4515:

No stats available

וכימיך וּכְיָמֶיךָ

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

כ

kə

Definition

like, as

Root

A primitive particle; a prefix Derived terms כאשר‎ (ka'ashér) כמו‎ (k'mó) כמות‎ (k'mót) כש־‎ (k'she-)

Exhaustive

(kaph) — as / like / according to

Core value: correspondence, patterning, resonance
כ never asserts identity. It asserts alignment.
- likeness,
- proportionality,
- conformity to a form.
Aonically, כ signals phase-alignment, not comparison.
not “like X in appearance” but “operating according to the same pattern as X.”
This is why prophetic and poetic language leans heavily on כ: it encodes structural analogy across layers, not metaphor.

Source: The Aonic Nature of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions

יום

yôwm

Definition

a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)

Root

from an unused root meaning to be hot;

Exhaustive

from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb); age, [phrase] always, [phrase] chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), [phrase] elder, [idiom] end, [phrase] evening, [phrase] (for) ever(-lasting, -more), [idiom] full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, [phrase] old, [phrase] outlived, [phrase] perpetually, presently, [phrase] remaineth, [idiom] required, season, [idiom] since, space, then, (process of) time, [phrase] as at other times, [phrase] in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), [idiom] whole ([phrase] age), (full) year(-ly), [phrase] younger.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H3117

ך

Definition

your, personal posessive - noun suffix: 2nd person masculine singular

Root

Exhaustive

Personal posessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 2nd person masculine singular

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H9021

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

יוֹם

noun masculine • Root ימם • Strongs / High • Page 595

brightness, splendour, shining, light. hence 1. the day (the period of light), opposed to night; can also mean mid-day. 2. the civil day, including night.

יוֹם

noun masculine • Root יום • Strongs / High • Page 596

Day; also used metaphorically for a specific time or event, such as birth-day, day of punishment, day of death, the present time, or the end of life.

יוֹם

noun masculine (aramaic) • Root יום • Strongs / High • Page 596

Aramaic (Chaldee) word for 'day', with the same variety of senses as the Hebrew.

יוֹם

noun / masculine • Root ימם • Strongs / High • Page 612

1. clearness, light. 2. day (including the night). The plural form יָמִים can also mean a short time, an indefinite time, or a long time.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

יוֹם

m. prim. dec. i. • Page 277

1. day. Phrases: הַיּוֹם (this day; to-day, 1 Sam. 12:17); בְּיוֹם (on the day when, Gen 2:17); כְּיוֹם (now, Gen. 25:31); יוֹם יוֹם (daily, Neh. 8:18); מִיּוֹם (from the day on, Ex. 10:6). Special uses: a day of misfortune (Obad. 12), a day of prosperity or festival (Hos. 7:5), and the day of Jehovah/judgment (Joel 1:15). 2. time generally (Gen. 39: 11).

יוֹם

noun masculine • Page 278

Day. (1) Specially days of one's life (Gen. 6:3, Gen. 43:9, Sam. 25:28). (2) Time generally (Gen. 47:8, Ex. 2:11, Judg. 18:1). (3) Some or several days (Neh. 1:4, Dan. 8:27, Gen. 40:4). (4) A year (Lev. 25:29, Judg. 17:10, 1 Sam. 2:19).

יוֹם

m. chald. • Page 278

Day, as in Heb. Plural יוֹמִין, emphatic יוֹמַיָּא. (Ezra 4:15, 19).

Conjunction, Preposition, Noun common masculine plural construct, Suffix pronominal second person masculine singular

LXX: ἡμέρᾳ ἡμέρασ σήμερον ἡμέραν ἡμερῶν

LXX Usage Statistics

H3117:

ἡμέρᾳ 574× (20.2%)

ἡμέρασ 571× (23.8%)

σήμερον 204× (9.1%)

ἡμέραν 171× (6.9%)

ἡμερῶν 153× (6.4%)

ἡμέρα 135× (5.4%)

ἡμέραισ 133× (4.6%)

ἡμέραι 116× (4.7%)

--- 51× (2.4%)

'' 46× (1.8%)

דבאך דָּבְאֶךָ׃

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

דבא

dôbeʼ

Definition

quiet

Root

from an unused root (compare H1680 (דבב)) (probably meaning to be sluggish, i.e. restful);

Exhaustive

from an unused root (compare דבב) (probably meaning to be sluggish, i.e. restful); quiet; strength.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1679

ך

Definition

your, personal posessive - noun suffix: 2nd person masculine singular

Root

Exhaustive

Personal posessive pronoun - suffix for nouns, adjectives and passive participles: 2nd person masculine singular

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H9021

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

דֹּבֶא

noun proper • Root דבא • Strongs / High • Page 347

See מַרְבֵּא n. p.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

דֹּבֶא

m. dec. vi. p. • Root דבא • Page 151

found only Deut. 33:25 as thy days, i.e. the days of thy life, so thine old age, or thine end, death. Vulg. senectus tua. The primary idea is either rest or wasting away, (as if from דָּבָא i.q. דָּאַב, דּוּב to languish.)

Noun common both singular construct, Suffix pronominal second person masculine singular

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H1679:

No stats available

RBT Translation:

No verse found

RBT Paraphrase:
No verse found

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
Thy bolt, iron and brass; and as thy days, thy rest.

LITV Translation:
May your shoe latches be iron and bronze, and your days as your strength.

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
His sandal shall be iron and brass; As thy days, so shall be thy strength.