Deuteronomy 8:8

Paleo Hebrew Niqqud

RBT Hebrew Interlinear:

ארץ אֶרֶץ

earthly one

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ארץ

ʼerets

Definition

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

Root

from an unused root probably meaning to be firm;

Exhaustive

from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H776

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

אֶרֶץ

verb • Strongs_Numbers • Page 193

(Not used) To be hard, firm, dense. (Root of the following noun)

אֶרֶץ

noun feminine • Strongs_Numbers • Page 193

Earth, as firm land i.e. a dense firm mass, in opposition to water. Includes meanings: a) the earth in opposition to heaven; b) earth as an element/material; c) the ground; d) piece of land/field; e) land of habitation or fatherland.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

אֶרֶץ

noun masculine • Page 73

Earth, land. (masc. rarely, Gen. 13: 6; Is. 9: 18).

אֶרֶץ

noun feminine • Page 74

1. earth; also inhabitants of the earth, Gen. 6:11. 11:1. 2. land; e.g. אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם the land of Egypt. Sometimes Palestine, Joel 1:2. 3. jurisdiction of a city. Josh. 8:1. Plur. אֲרָצוֹת lands.

Noun common both singular construct

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H0776:

No stats available

חטה חִטָּה

wheat

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

חטה

chiṭṭâh

Definition

wheat, whether the grain or the plant

Root

of uncertain derivation;

Exhaustive

of uncertain derivation; wheat, whether the grain or the plant; wheat(-en).

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H2406

Fürst

Fürst Lexicon

חִטָּה

noun / feminine • Root חנט • Strongs / High • Page 476

Wheat.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

חִטָּה

noun feminine • Page 224

wheat. Ex. 9: 32. Plur. Gen. 30: 14. and Ezek. 4: 9. The singular denotes the plant, the plural the grain.

Noun common feminine singular absolute

LXX: πυροῦ πυρῶν πυροὺσ σῖτον σίτου

LXX Usage Statistics

H2406:

πυροῦ 9× (27.5%)

πυρῶν 7× (20.8%)

πυροὺσ 5× (15.1%)

σῖτον 3× (7.9%)

σίτου 2× (5.7%)

ושערה וּשְׂעֹרָה

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

שערה

sᵉʻôrâh

Definition

barley (as villose)

Root

or שעורה (feminine meaning the plant); and (masculine meaning the grain); also שער; or שעור; from H8175 (שער) in the sense of roughness;

Exhaustive

or שעורה (feminine meaning the plant); and (masculine meaning the grain); also שער; or שעור; from שער in the sense of roughness; barley (as villose); barley.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H8184

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שְׂעֹרָה

noun feminine • Root שער • Strongs / High • Page 1467

Prop. what is rough, bristly or projecting upwards; hence barley (used in the singular for the stalk, and plural for the grain).

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

שַׁעֲרַיִם

noun proper • Page 694

(two gates) name of a city in the tribe of Judah. Josh. 15: 36; 1 Sam. 17: 52; 1 Chr. 4: 31.

שְׂעֹרָה

noun feminine • Root שער • Page 642

barley, named for the roughness of its ears. Job 31:40, Joel 1:11. Plur. שְׂעֹרִים grain of barley: 'חֹמֶר שְׂעֹרִים' a homer of barley, Lev. 27:16; 'קְצִיר שְׂעֹרִים' barley harvest, Ruth 1:22.

Conjunction, Noun common feminine singular absolute

LXX: κριθῶν κριθῆσ κριθὰσ κρίθινον κριθὴν

LXX Usage Statistics

H8184:

κριθῶν 17× (51.4%)

κριθῆσ 4× (12.3%)

κριθὰσ 3× (7.7%)

κρίθινον 2× (6.4%)

κριθὴν 2× (5.0%)

κριθὴ 2× (5.0%)

וגפן וְגֶפֶן

an a vine

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

גפן

gephen

Definition

a vine (as twining), especially the grape

Root

from an unused root meaning to bend;

Exhaustive

from an unused root meaning to bend; a vine (as twining), especially the grape; vine, tree.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1612

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גֶּפֶן

noun • Root גפן • Strongs / High • Page 336

comm. a vine, grape-vine.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

גֶּפֶן

com. gen. • Page 145

1. Vine, grape-vine (Num. 6: 4, Hos. 10: 1). Extended to similar plants like 'wild cucumber' (2 K. 4: 39). 2. The fruit of the vine (2 K. 18: 31, Is. 36: 16).

Conjunction, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: ἄμπελοσ ἄμπελον ἀμπέλου ὡσ ἄμπελοι

LXX Usage Statistics

H1612:

ἄμπελοσ 18× (28.3%)

ἄμπελον 14× (22.0%)

ἀμπέλου 10× (15.8%)

ὡσ 5× (8.0%)

ἄμπελοι 4× (6.5%)

ἀμπέλοισ 2× (2.5%)

d? 2× (2.5%)

ἀμπέλῳ 2× (2.4%)

ותאנה וּתְאֵנָה

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

תאן

tᵉʼên

Definition

the fig (tree or fruit)

Root

or (in the singular, feminine) תאנה; perhaps of foreign derivation

Exhaustive

or (in the singular, feminine) תאנה; perhaps of foreign derivation; the fig (tree or fruit); fig (tree).

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H8384

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תְּאֻנִים

f. pl. • Root אנה • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1496

f. pl. labour, toil.

Matched via consonantal key only

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

תְּאֻנִים

masc. plur. • Root אנן • Page 705

Labour, toil, trouble. Ezek. 24:12.

Conjunction, Noun common feminine singular absolute

LXX: σῦκα σύκων συκαῖ συκῆ συκᾶσ

LXX Usage Statistics

H8384:

σῦκα 6× (12.2%)

σύκων 5× (12.3%)

συκαῖ 4× (9.0%)

συκῆ 4× (8.6%)

συκᾶσ 4× (7.5%)

συκῆσ 4× (9.8%)

ὡσ 3× (7.2%)

συκῆν 2× (4.7%)

συκῇ 2× (4.3%)

συκῶνασ 2× (3.9%)

ורמון וְרִמּוֹן

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

רמון

rimmôwn

Definition

a pomegranate, the tree (from its upright growth) or the fruit (also an artificial ornament)

Root

or רמן; from H7426 (רמם);

Exhaustive

or רמן; from רמם; a pomegranate, the tree (from its upright growth) or the fruit (also an artificial ornament); pomegranate.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H7416

Fürst

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אַרְמוֹן

noun masculine • Root ארם • Lemma_Lookup • Page 191

Palace, fortress, citadel, hall. Figuratively applied to the temple of God.

בֵּית רִמּוֹן

noun masculine • Lemma_Lookup • Page 238

temple of Rimmon

בַּעַל חֶרְמוֹן

proper noun • Lemma_Lookup • Page 263

Baal-Hermon; a name of Baal as a tutelary deity of Hermon; name of a city/place near Mount Hermon.

גַּת רִמּוֹן

noun proper • Lemma_Lookup • Page 344

A city in Dan.

הֲדַד־רִמּוֹן

noun proper • Root הדד, רמון • Lemma_Lookup • Page 389

Proper name of a Syrian deity, compounded from the names Hadad and Rimmon.

הַרְמוֹן

noun masculine • Lemma_Lookup • Page 414

A location mentioned in Amos 4:3, with debated interpretations such as Armenia, a tower, or Hermon.

חֶרְמוֹן

noun proper • Root חרם • Lemma_Lookup • Page 531

prominent, rugged mountain. Name of the highest peak of a mountain range in the north-east of Palestine, part of the Anti-Lebanon range, Mount Hermon.

טַבְרִמּוֹן

proper name • Root טב רמון • Lemma_Lookup • Page 552

Proper name of a Syrian, father of Benhadad. The name means 'Rimmon is good'.

עֵין רִמּוֹן

noun proper • Lemma_Lookup • Page 1082

Fountain dedicated to Rimmon.

עַרְמוֹן

noun masculine • Root ערם • Lemma_Lookup • Page 1136

the plane-tree, maple, so called from projecting upward.

רִמֹּון

noun masculine • Root רמם • Lemma_Lookup • Page 1341

1. Prop. bright-red, shining; hence a pomegranate tree or fruit. 2. Metaphorical pomegranate-shaped balls, ornaments on the high-priest's dress, or artificial pomegranates in architecture. 3. Name of a Syrian deity, aspect of Adonis.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

רִמּוֹן

m. dec. i. • Page 620

1. a pomegranate. Cant. 4: 3. As an artificial ornament, Ex. 28: 33, 34. 2. a pomegranate-tree. Joel 1: 12. 3. a proper name (1.) of a city in Simeon (Josh. 15: 32), (2.) of a rock near Gibeah (Judg. 20: 45), (3.) a city in Zebulun (Josh. 19: 13), (4.) a station of the Israelites (Num. 33: 19).

Conjunction, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: ῥόαι ῥόασ ῥοῶν --- ῥοίσκον

LXX Usage Statistics

H7416:

ῥόαι 8× (22.2%)

ῥόασ 5× (12.1%)

ῥοῶν 4× (11.8%)

--- 2× (6.1%)

ῥοίσκον 2× (5.2%)

ῥόα 2× (5.2%)

ῥοίσκοσ 2× (5.2%)

ἐξανθούσησ 2× (5.2%)

'' 2× (5.2%)

ארץ אֶרֶץ־

earthly one

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

ארץ

ʼerets

Definition

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

Root

from an unused root probably meaning to be firm;

Exhaustive

from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H776

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אֶרֶץ

verb • Strongs_Numbers • Page 193

(Not used) To be hard, firm, dense. (Root of the following noun)

אֶרֶץ

noun feminine • Strongs_Numbers • Page 193

Earth, as firm land i.e. a dense firm mass, in opposition to water. Includes meanings: a) the earth in opposition to heaven; b) earth as an element/material; c) the ground; d) piece of land/field; e) land of habitation or fatherland.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

אֶרֶץ

noun masculine • Page 73

Earth, land. (masc. rarely, Gen. 13: 6; Is. 9: 18).

אֶרֶץ

noun feminine • Page 74

1. earth; also inhabitants of the earth, Gen. 6:11. 11:1. 2. land; e.g. אֶרֶץ מִצְרַיִם the land of Egypt. Sometimes Palestine, Joel 1:2. 3. jurisdiction of a city. Josh. 8:1. Plur. אֲרָצוֹת lands.

Noun common both singular construct

LXX:

LXX Usage Statistics

H0776:

No stats available

זית זֵית

None

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

זית

zayith

Definition

an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry

Root

probably from an unused root (akin to H2099 (זו));

Exhaustive

probably from an unused root (akin to זו); an olive (as yielding illuminating oil), the tree, the branch or the berry; olive (tree, -yard), Olivet.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H2132

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זַיִת

masculine noun • Strongs / High • Page 431

an olive, as fruit; the olive-tree; an olive branch; olive-oil.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

זַיִת

noun masculine • Page 201

1. Olive tree, Judg. 9: 9. 2. The olive, Hag. 2: 19. 3. An olive branch, Zech. 4: 11.

Noun common both singular construct

LXX: ἐλαίασ ἐλαιῶνασ ἐλαιῶν ἐλαία ἐλαίαν

LXX Usage Statistics

H2132:

ἐλαίασ 10× (24.9%)

ἐλαιῶνασ 6× (12.9%)

ἐλαιῶν 5× (11.5%)

ἐλαία 4× (8.9%)

ἐλαίαν 3× (7.8%)

ἐλαῖαι 3× (7.8%)

ὡσ 2× (5.2%)

ἐλαίων 2× (4.4%)

שמן שֶׁמֶן

oil

STRONGS

Strong's Lexicon

שמן

shemen

Definition

grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness

Root

from H8080 (שמן);

Exhaustive

from שמן; grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness; anointing, [idiom] fat (things), [idiom] fruitful, oil(-ed), ointment, olive, [phrase] pine.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H8081

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שָׁמֵן

verb • Root שמנ • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1449

intransitive: to be thick, fat, corpulent; figuratively: to be rich, to shine with fatness, to pamper themselves.

Matched via consonantal key only

שָׁמֵן

adjective • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1449

juicy, nourishing, luxurious, excellent; fruitful, fat, well-fed; rich in spoil; powerful (of persons/warriors).

Matched via consonantal key only

שֶׁמֶן

noun masculine • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1450

1. Fatness, concr. fat meat, sumptuoust food, fruitfulness, strength. 2. Oil, juice, fat of pressed fruit (olive-oil), oil of anointing, ointment. 3. Wood of the wild olive-tree. 4. A medicinal thing.

Matched via consonantal key only

שׁמַן

noun • Consonantal / Medium • Page 1450

A ground-form base for derived numeral forms (eight, eighty, eighteen).

Matched via consonantal key only

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

שֶׁמֶן

m. noun • Root שמן • Page 686

Oil, ointment (Cant. 1:3). Found with suffixes.

שֶׁמֶן

verb / dec. vi. a. • Root שמן • Page 687

1. fat, fatness (Ps. 109:24, Is. 25:6). 2. oil (Gen. 28:18, Neh. 8:15). 3. spiced oil, ointment (Ps. 133:2, Prov. 21:17).

שָׁמַן or שָׁמֵן

verb • Root שמן • Page 686

To be or become fat (Deut. 32:15; Jer. 5:28). Hiph: to make fat; e.g. the heart, i.e. to render it obdurate or insensible (Is. 6:10). Hithp: to become fat (Neh. 9:25).

Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: ἔλαιον ἐλαίῳ ἐλαίου '' pἐξ

LXX Usage Statistics

H8081:

ἔλαιον 58× (29.3%)

ἐλαίῳ 54× (26.0%)

ἐλαίου 42× (20.5%)

'' 5× (2.4%)

pἐξ 3× (1.7%)

--- 3× (1.7%)

ἔλαιόν 3× (1.2%)

ἀρκευθίνων 2× (1.1%)

ὡσ 2× (1.1%)

μύρον 2× (1.1%)

ודבש וּדְבָשׁ׃

and honey

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

דבש

dᵉbash

Definition

honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup

Root

from an unused root meaning to be gummy;

Exhaustive

from an unused root meaning to be gummy; honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup; honey(-comb).

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance — H1706

Fürst

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דְּבַשׁ

noun • Root דבר • Strongs / High • Page 351

Honey. Probably derived from דָּבַר IV (to be sticky).

דְּבַשׁ

noun masculine • Root דבש • Strongs / High • Page 354

Properly, a sticky mass that hangs together; specifically honey, from house or forest-bees. Also used for a syrup or mead extracted from grapes boiled to thickness.

Gesenius

Gesenius Lexicon

דְּבַשׁ

m. prim. • Page 155

Honey. (Lev. 2:11, 1 Sam. 14:27). Appears with suffix as דִּבְשִׁי.

Conjunction, Noun common both singular absolute

LXX: μέλι μέλιτοσ

LXX Usage Statistics

H1706:

μέλι 36× (67.3%)

μέλιτοσ 10× (18.9%)

RBT Translation:

No verse found

RBT Paraphrase:
No verse found

Julia Smith Literal 1876 Translation:
A land of wheat and barley and the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate, a land of the olive tree, of oil and honey;

LITV Translation:
a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,

Brenton Septuagint Translation:
a land of wheat and barley, wherein are vines, figs, pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;