לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ (lə·riš·tāh) in Deuteronomy 30:16: Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ (lə·riš·tāh) in Deuteronomy 30:16
Source Word
Deuteronomy 30:16 row 15 aligns the selected Hebrew infinitive with H3423 and the purpose rendering to possess it inside the positive covenant alternative.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
To possess it makes the land the suffix-marked goal of entry and keeps that goal inside the verse's positive sequence of love, obedience, life, and blessing. To possess it communicates the purpose relation introduced by lamed and represents the feminine land through the English object pronoun.
How To Communicate It
Follow the verse from loving and obeying to living and entering, then show how the lamed phrase names the land-directed purpose without making possession unconditional.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not universalize Israel's land promise or separate possession from Deuteronomy 30's covenant choice.
- The feminine suffix refers to the grammatically feminine land.
- The form does not make possession unconditional or turn Israel's land into a transferable claim for any nation.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Qal
Inf
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Lamed preposition
Third person feminine singular
The lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive expresses the purpose of Israel's entry, and the attached feminine singular suffix points to the land as the place to be possessed.
The infinitive names possession of the land as the goal of Israel's entry under covenant blessing.
What The Form Does In This Verse
Israel's promised entry into the land within the life-giving alternative Moses sets before the people
The command to love the Lord, walk in his ways, and keep his commands so that Israel may live, increase, and receive blessing
The infinitive names possession of the land as the goal of Israel's entry under covenant blessing.
The form does not make possession unconditional or turn Israel's land into a transferable claim for any nation.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form gives Israel's entry a land-directed purpose inside the positive covenant alternative.
The lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive expresses the purpose of Israel's entry, and the attached feminine singular suffix points to the land as the place to be possessed.. The infinitive names possession of the land as the goal of Israel's entry under covenant blessing.. Attached to Israel's promised entry into the land within the life-giving alternative Moses sets before the people. Governed by the command to love the Lord, walk in his ways, and keep his commands so that Israel may live, increase, and receive blessing. The form does not make possession unconditional or turn Israel's land into a transferable claim for any nation.
What does to possess add to Israel's entry in Deuteronomy 30:16? It names possession of that land as the purpose of entry within the positive path of covenant love and obedience.
Direct: To possess it communicates the purpose relation introduced by lamed and represents the feminine land through the English object pronoun.
The feminine suffix refers to the grammatically feminine land. The covenant setting comes from the passage, not the infinitive alone.
Prep-l | V-Qal-Inf | 3fs at Deuteronomy 30:16 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not universalize Israel's land promise or separate possession from Deuteronomy 30's covenant choice. verse 16 treated as an unconditional land claim because the English says to possess it: Keep "to possess" connected to לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃, row 25, and the full Deuteronomy 30:16 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Deuteronomy 30:16 row 15 aligns the selected Hebrew infinitive with H3423 and the purpose rendering to possess it inside the positive covenant alternative.
The row 15 occurrence joins the H3423 lemma to Israel's entry goal in verse 16; this precise witness distinguishes the promised purpose from the later warning.
The lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive expresses the purpose of Israel's entry, and the attached feminine singular suffix points to the land as the place to be possessed.
Deuteronomy 30:16 joins love, obedience, life, increase, blessing, and entry into the land within the positive path before Israel.
This occurrence serves Israel's covenant choice on the plains of Moab; later land language should be related to this promise through explicit canonical context, not morphology alone.
Follow the verse from loving and obeying to living and entering, then show how the lamed phrase names the land-directed purpose without making possession unconditional.
Do not universalize Israel's land promise or separate possession from Deuteronomy 30's covenant choice.