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Deuteronomy 33

Deut. 33:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, The Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
h from Sinai
Ciynay (Hebrew #5514)
Sinai, mountain of Arabia
KJV usage: Sinai.
Pronounce: see-nah'-ee
Origin: of uncertain derivation
, and rose up
zarach (Hebrew #2224)
properly, to irradiate (or shoot forth beams), i.e. to rise (as the sun); specifically, to appear (as a symptom of leprosy)
KJV usage: arise, rise (up), as soon as it is up.
Pronounce: zaw-rakh'
Origin: a primitive root
from Seir
Se`iyr (Hebrew #8165)
rough; Seir, a mountain of Idumaea and its aboriginal occupants, also one in Palestine
KJV usage: Seir.
Pronounce: say-eer'
Origin: formed like 8163
unto them; he shined forth
yapha` (Hebrew #3313)
to shine
KJV usage: be light, shew self, (cause to) shine (forth).
Pronounce: yaw-fah'
Origin: a primitive root
from mount
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
Paran
Pa'ran (Hebrew #6290)
ornamental; Paran, a desert of Arabia
KJV usage: Paran.
Pronounce: paw-rawn'
Origin: from 6286
, and he came
'athah (Hebrew #857)
a primitive root (collateral to 225 contraction); to arrive
KJV usage: (be-, things to) come (upon), bring.
Pronounce: aw-thaw'
Origin: or matha {aw-thaw'}
l with ten thousands
rbabah (Hebrew #7233)
abundance (in number), i.e. (specifically) a myriad (whether definite or indefinite)
KJV usage: many, million, X multiply, ten thousand.
Pronounce: reb-aw-baw'
Origin: from 7231
of saints
qodesh (Hebrew #6944)
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
KJV usage: consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, (X most) holy (X day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.
Pronounce: ko'-desh
Origin: from 6942
: from his right hand
yamiyn (Hebrew #3225)
the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south
KJV usage: + left-handed, right (hand, side), south.
Pronounce: yaw-meen'
Origin: from 3231
went a γfiery
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
'eshdath (Hebrew #799)
a fire-law
KJV usage: fiery law.
Pronounce: esh-dawth'
Origin: from 784 and 1881
law
dath (Hebrew #1881)
of uncertain (perhaps foreign) derivation: a royal edict or statute
KJV usage: commandment, commission, decree, law, manner.
Pronounce: dawth
for them.
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Ex. 19:18,20• 18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
 20And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. (Ex. 19:18,20)
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Judg. 5:4‑5• 4Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
 5The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel. (Judg. 5:4‑5)
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Hab. 3:3• 3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. (Hab. 3:3)
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Psa. 68:17• 17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. (Psa. 68:17)
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Gal. 3:19• 19Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. (Gal. 3:19)
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or, fire of.

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Law,
Mount Seir,
Mountain Mount,
Paran,
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Sina; Sinai,
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Cross References

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came from Sinai.
Ex. 19:18‑20• 18And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
 19And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
 20And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. (Ex. 19:18‑20)
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Judg. 5:4‑5• 4Lord, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds also dropped water.
 5The mountains melted from before the Lord, even that Sinai from before the Lord God of Israel. (Judg. 5:4‑5)
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Hab. 3:3• 3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. (Hab. 3:3)
ten thousands.
Psa. 68:7,17• 7O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
 17The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place. (Psa. 68:7,17)
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Dan. 7:9• 9I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. (Dan. 7:9)
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Acts 7:53• 53Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it. (Acts 7:53)
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Gal. 3:19• 19Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator. (Gal. 3:19)
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2 Thess. 1:7• 7And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, (2 Thess. 1:7)
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Heb. 2:2• 2For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; (Heb. 2:2)
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Jude 14• 14And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, (Jude 14)
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Rev. 5:11• 11And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; (Rev. 5:11)
a fiery law.
Heb. a fire of law.
Deut. 5:22• 22These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. (Deut. 5:22)
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2 Cor. 3:7,9• 7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
 9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. (2 Cor. 3:7,9)
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Gal. 3:10• 10For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (Gal. 3:10)
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Heb. 12:20• 20(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: (Heb. 12:20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he said, Jehovah came from Sinai, And rose up from Seir unto them; He shone forth from mount Paran, And he came from the myriads of the sanctuaryf; From his right hand went forth a law of fire for themg.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "holy myriads."
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Others, "fire to guide them."