לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ (lə·riš·tāh) in Deuteronomy 6:1: Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ (lə·riš·tāh) in Deuteronomy 6:1
Source Word
Deuteronomy 6:1 token 17 is לְרִשְׁתָּהּ, H3423, parsed Prep-l | V-Qal-Inf | 3fs and aligned with and possess.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The suffix makes the object definite through context: Israel is entering not to possess something abstract, but to possess the land named in the covenant address.
How To Communicate It
Teach the form within the verse's ordered movement from divine instruction to obedient life in a specifically promised land.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- The feminine suffix refers to the land named earlier in the clause.
- Keep possession inside Israel's covenant setting, including promise, obedience, and judgment.
- Do not use this occurrence to authorize contemporary seizure of land, power, or influence.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Qal
Infinitive construct
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Not marked
Not marked
Prep-l
Third person feminine singular
The lamed prefix presents possession as the purpose of Israel's entry, while the feminine singular suffix refers back to the land. The infinitive does not identify its subject through person marking; the nearby plural you supplies Israel as the acting community.
The form closes the verse's movement from receiving instruction, to entering the land, to taking possession of it.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The infinitive follows Israel's being about to enter the land and carries a suffix referring to that land.
Moses' introduction to the commandments the Lord directed him to teach for life in the land.
It states the land-specific purpose of entry and keeps possession beside commanded learning and practice.
It does not authorize modern territorial seizure, erase the judgment setting of dispossession, or make land possession an unrestricted entitlement.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The purpose infinitive and suffix join Israel's entry to possession of the specifically named land under covenant instruction.
Lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive with feminine object suffix. states the purpose of entry and retrieves the land as object. Attached to Israel's being about to enter the land. Governed by Moses' instruction preface. The suffix supplies the object; the infinitive's subject is recovered from the plural Israelite addressees.
What does the final her suffix point back to? It points to the feminine singular land and makes possession the purpose of Israel's entry.
Interpretive: English uses and possess, leaving the already named land to supply the suffix's object.
The form itself does not explain every moral or historical dimension of dispossession. The suffix is object marking, not feminine subject agreement. Possess is land-specific here and should not become a generic promise of acquisition.
Possess means believers may claim territory: Keep this occurrence inside Israel's named land promise and covenant history. the infinitive guarantees success apart from obedience: The verse introduces commands Israel must learn and do in the land. the suffix explains the conquest's entire ethics: It identifies the object grammatically; wider judgment and covenant questions require wider context.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Deuteronomy 6:1 token 17 is לְרִשְׁתָּהּ, H3423, parsed Prep-l | V-Qal-Inf | 3fs and aligned with and possess.
יָרַשׁ can describe taking possession, inheriting, or dispossessing. This occurrence is narrowed by the named land and Israel's impending entry.
The purpose prefix points forward from entry, while the attached feminine suffix reaches back to the land rather than introducing a new object.
Moses introduces instruction Israel must learn and obey as the people enter the land promised within the covenant story.
The land promise, Israel's obedience, and divine judgment belong to a particular covenant history; later readers must not convert that history into a general license for conquest.
Ask what the suffix retrieves, then show that possession is framed by the Lord's command and the people's obligation to learn and practice it.
Do not derive a modern territorial program or a prosperity entitlement from this purpose form.