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Deuteronomy 8

Deut. 8:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And thou shalt remember
zakar (Hebrew #2142)
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male
KJV usage: X burn (incense), X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.
Pronounce: zaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
all the way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
which 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
thy God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
led
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
thee these forty
'arba`iym (Hebrew #705)
forty
KJV usage: -forty.
Pronounce: ar-baw-eem'
Origin: multiple of 702
w years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
in the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
x, to humble
`anah (Hebrew #6031)
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
KJV usage: abase self, afflict(-ion, self), answer (by mistake for 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI}), chasten self, deal hardly with, defile, exercise, force, gentleness, humble (self), hurt, ravish, sing (by mistake for 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI}), speak (by mistake for 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI}), submit self, weaken, X in any wise.
Pronounce: aw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (possibly rather ident. with 6030{/SI}}}6030{/SI}}/SI}}6030}6030{/SI}{/SI} through the idea of looking down or browbeating)
theey, and to prove
nacah (Hebrew #5254)
to test; by implication, to attempt
KJV usage: adventure, assay, prove, tempt, try.
Pronounce: naw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
z thee, to know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
a what was in thine heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
, whether thou wouldest keep
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
his commandments
mitsvah (Hebrew #4687)
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
KJV usage: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
Pronounce: mits-vaw'
Origin: from 6680
, or no.
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Deut. 2:7• 7For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. (Deut. 2:7)
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Deut. 29:5• 5{i}And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot;{/i} (Deut. 29:5)
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Amos 2:10• 10{i}And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.{/i} (Amos 2:10)
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Psa. 136:16• 16To him that led his people in the wilderness;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever. (Psa. 136:16)
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Job 33:17• 17To withdraw man [from] doing;{HR}And pride from man he concealeth. (Job 33:17)
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Ex. 16:4• 4{i}Then said Jehovah to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the daily need on its day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.{/i} (Ex. 16:4)
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2 Chron. 32:31• 31{i}However in the matter of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.{/i} (2 Chron. 32:31)

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remember.
Deut. 7:18• 18{i}fear them not; remember well what Jehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all the Egyptians;{/i} (Deut. 7:18)
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Psa. 77:11• 11The deeds of Jah I will remember;{HR}For I will remember thy wonders of old. (Psa. 77:11)
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Psa. 106:7• 7Our fathers in Egypt understood not thy wonders;{HR}They remembered not the multitude of thy mercies,{HR}But rebelled at the sea, at the Red Sea. (Psa. 106:7)
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Eph. 2:11‑12• 11Wherefore remember that once ye, the nations in [the] flesh, that are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh made by hand,
 12that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: (Eph. 2:11‑12)
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2 Peter 1:12‑13• 12Wherefore I shall be ready always to put you in mind of those things, though knowing [these] and established in the present truth.
 13And I deem [it] right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting [you] in mind, (2 Peter 1:12‑13)
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2 Peter 3:1‑2• 1This already a second epistle, beloved, I write to you, in both which I stir up your pure mind by putting in remembrance,
 2that ye be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of the Lord and Saviour [by] your apostles; (2 Peter 3:1‑2)
led thee.
Deut. 1:3,33• 3{i}And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that Jehovah had given him in command to them;{/i}
 33who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day. (Deut. 1:3,33)
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Deut. 2:7• 7For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. (Deut. 2:7)
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Deut. 29:5• 5{i}And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot;{/i} (Deut. 29:5)
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Psa. 136:16• 16To him that led his people in the wilderness;{HR}For his mercy [is] forever. (Psa. 136:16)
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Amos 2:10• 10{i}And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.{/i} (Amos 2:10)
to humble.
2 Chron. 32:25‑26• 25But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up; {i}and there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem{/i}.
 26{i}And Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.{/i} (2 Chron. 32:25‑26)
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2 Chron. 33:12,19• 12{i}And when he was in affliction, he besought Jehovah his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,{/i}
 19{i}And his prayer, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places in which he built high places, and set up Asherahs and graven images, before he was humbled, behold, they are written among the words of Hozai.{/i} (2 Chron. 33:12,19)
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Job 33:17• 17To withdraw man [from] doing;{HR}And pride from man he concealeth. (Job 33:17)
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Job 42:5‑6• 5By the hearing of the ear I heard thee;{HR}But now mine eye seeth thee:
 6Therefore do I loathe [myself],{HR}And repent in dust and ashes. (Job 42:5‑6)
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Isa. 2:17• 17And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be brought low: and Jehovah alone shall be exalted in that day. (Isa. 2:17)
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Luke 18:14• 14I say unto you, this [man] went down to his house justified rather than that [other]; for everyone who exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. (Luke 18:14)
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James 4:6,10• 6But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly.
 10Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he will exalt you. (James 4:6,10)
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1 Peter 5:5‑6• 5Likewise, ye younger, be subject to elders; and all of you bind on humility to one another; because God setteth himself against haughty ones, and giveth grace to lowly.
 6Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time, (1 Peter 5:5‑6)
prove thee.
Deut. 8:16• 16{i}who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;{/i} (Deut. 8:16)
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Deut. 13:3• 3{i}—thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.{/i} (Deut. 13:3)
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Gen. 22:1• 1And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Behold here I am. (Gen. 22:1)
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Ex. 15:25• 25{i}And{/i} he cried unto Jehovah; and Jehovah showed him a tree which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them. (Ex. 15:25)
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Ex. 16:4• 4{i}Then said Jehovah to Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather the daily need on its day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or not.{/i} (Ex. 16:4)
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2 Chron. 32:31• 31{i}However in the matter of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.{/i} (2 Chron. 32:31)
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Psa. 81:7• 7In the distress thou didst call, and I delivered thee;{HR}I answered thee in the secret place of thunder;{HR}I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. (Psa. 81:7)
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Prov. 17:3• 3The crucible [is] for silver and the furnace for gold;{HR}But Jehovah trieth the hearts. (Prov. 17:3)
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Mal. 3:2‑3• 2But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers’ soap:
 3and he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer them unto Jehovah an offering in righteousness. (Mal. 3:2‑3)
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James 1:3• 3knowing that the proving of your faith worketh out endurance; (James 1:3)
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1 Peter 1:7• 7that the proof of your faith, much more precious than gold that perisheth though proved by fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at [the] revelation of Jesus Christ: (1 Peter 1:7)
to know.
Jer. 17:9‑10• 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
 10I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. (Jer. 17:9‑10)
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John 2:25• 25and because he needed not that any should testify of man, for himself knew what was in man. (John 2:25)
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Rev. 2:23• 23And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth reins and hearts; and I will give you each according to your works. (Rev. 2:23)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.

W. Kelly Translation

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And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.