לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ (lə·riš·tāh) in Deuteronomy 30:18: Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ (lə·riš·tāh) in Deuteronomy 30:18
Source Word
The selected token at Deuteronomy 30:18 row 10 supplies another H3423 infinitive, now embedded in the declaration that Israel will not prolong its days there.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
To possess it names what crossing aims toward while the surrounding warning denies that entry alone secures a long future there. To possess it again reflects the lamed purpose phrase and feminine suffix, but the warning clause determines its contrastive effect in this verse.
How To Communicate It
Compare the same form in verses 16 and 18, then let each governing sentence distinguish promised blessing from the danger of entering without enduring covenant faithfulness.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not treat repeated morphology as a guaranteed outcome that overrides the verse's warning.
- The feminine suffix again points to the land.
- The repeated form does not cancel the warning or make possessing and remaining identical.
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 same lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive and feminine suffix again describe crossing to possess the land, but here the form sits inside the warning that disobedience cuts Israel's days there short.
The infinitive names the intended goal of crossing while the warning contrasts gaining the land with failing to remain long in it.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The crossing into the land whose intended possession is contrasted with the warning of shortened tenure
Moses' declaration that turning away and serving other gods will bring destruction rather than prolonged days in the land
The infinitive names the intended goal of crossing while the warning contrasts gaining the land with failing to remain long in it.
The repeated form does not cancel the warning or make possessing and remaining identical.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The repeated form turns possession into the very stake endangered by covenant disloyalty.
The same lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive and feminine suffix again describe crossing to possess the land, but here the form sits inside the warning that disobedience cuts Israel's days there short.. The infinitive names the intended goal of crossing while the warning contrasts gaining the land with failing to remain long in it.. Attached to the crossing into the land whose intended possession is contrasted with the warning of shortened tenure. Governed by Moses' declaration that turning away and serving other gods will bring destruction rather than prolonged days in the land. The repeated form does not cancel the warning or make possessing and remaining identical.
Why is to possess repeated in Deuteronomy 30:18? The repeated goal heightens the warning that entry does not guarantee prolonged days in the land.
Direct: To possess it again reflects the lamed purpose phrase and feminine suffix, but the warning clause determines its contrastive effect in this verse.
The feminine suffix again points to the land. The infinitive marks the goal of crossing, not the duration of possession.
Prep-l | V-Qal-Inf | 3fs at Deuteronomy 30:18 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not treat repeated morphology as a guaranteed outcome that overrides the verse's warning. verse 18 reduced to the phrase to possess it while its destruction warning is ignored: Keep "to possess" connected to לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃, row 19, and the full Deuteronomy 30:18 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The selected token at Deuteronomy 30:18 row 10 supplies another H3423 infinitive, now embedded in the declaration that Israel will not prolong its days there.
This row 10 witness repeats the H3423 possession language from the warning side of Moses' alternatives and must be read with its threatened outcome.
The same lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive and feminine suffix again describe crossing to possess the land, but here the form sits inside the warning that disobedience cuts Israel's days there short.
Deuteronomy 30:18 warns that Israel may cross to possess the land yet forfeit long life there through covenant disloyalty.
The repeated land phrase functions within Deuteronomy's covenant warning, so its force differs from the positive alternative two verses earlier even though the morphology matches.
Compare the same form in verses 16 and 18, then let each governing sentence distinguish promised blessing from the danger of entering without enduring covenant faithfulness.
Do not treat repeated morphology as a guaranteed outcome that overrides the verse's warning.