לָ֣תֶת (lā·ṯeṯ) in Deuteronomy 6:10: Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
לָ֣תֶת (lā·ṯeṯ) in Deuteronomy 6:10
Source Word
Deuteronomy 6:10 row 14 aligns H5414 with that He would give inside the ancestral-oath description of the land.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
That He would give places Israel's future home inside the Lord's sworn action before the passage catalogs benefits the people did not create. The BSB expands the lamed infinitive as that He would give for natural English; the Lord is supplied as agent by the oath clause, and the following Hebrew expression identifies the recipients.
How To Communicate It
Trace the infinitive back to the Lord's oath, forward to the separately expressed recipients, and onward to the unbuilt cities and the command not to forget.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not turn the promised giving into a general prosperity guarantee or assign morphology information that belongs to neighboring words.
- The infinitive does not encode finite tense by itself; the oath and anticipated entrance supply its promise setting.
- The form does not make every possession a divine entitlement, identify the recipients through a suffix, or detach the land gift from the warning not to forget the Lord.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Qal
Inf
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Not applicable
Lamed preposition
None
The lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive construct completes the oath statement by naming what the Lord swore to do with the land: give it to the covenant people. The form has no attached suffix; the recipient is expressed separately in the Hebrew clause.
The infinitive supplies the promised action behind Israel's entrance into the land and frames the coming abundance as the Lord's gift.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The land the Lord swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give to the addressed people
The when-clause anticipating Israel's entrance into cities, houses, wells, vineyards, and olive groves they did not produce
The infinitive supplies the promised action behind Israel's entrance into the land and frames the coming abundance as the Lord's gift.
The form does not make every possession a divine entitlement, identify the recipients through a suffix, or detach the land gift from the warning not to forget the Lord.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form makes the Lord's sworn giving the basis of Israel's inherited abundance and the reason forgetfulness would be so serious.
The lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive construct completes the oath statement by naming what the Lord swore to do with the land: give it to the covenant people. The form has no attached suffix; the recipient is expressed separately in the Hebrew clause.. The infinitive supplies the promised action behind Israel's entrance into the land and frames the coming abundance as the Lord's gift.. Attached to the land the Lord swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give to the addressed people. Governed by the when-clause anticipating Israel's entrance into cities, houses, wells, vineyards, and olive groves they did not produce. The form does not make every possession a divine entitlement, identify the recipients through a suffix, or detach the land gift from the warning not to forget the Lord.
What does that He would give contribute to Deuteronomy 6:10? It names the Lord's sworn gift of the land and prepares the warning that inherited abundance must not produce forgetfulness.
Direct: The BSB expands the lamed infinitive as that He would give for natural English; the Lord is supplied as agent by the oath clause, and the following Hebrew expression identifies the recipients.
The infinitive does not encode finite tense by itself; the oath and anticipated entrance supply its promise setting. The English you is not an attached suffix on this token, so participant claims should follow the full clause.
The lamed infinitive treated as if it carried an attached recipient suffix or proved entitlement by itself: Do not turn the promised giving into a general prosperity guarantee or assign morphology information that belongs to neighboring words. that He would give used as an unrestricted promise of property or prosperity to any reader: Keep "that He would give" connected to לָ֣תֶת, row 14, and the full Deuteronomy 6:10 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Deuteronomy 6:10 row 14 aligns H5414 with that He would give inside the ancestral-oath description of the land.
This row 14 H5414 witness names the promised giving of the land, distinct from the signs placed on Egypt in verse 22 and the purpose of giving the land in verse 23.
The lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive construct completes the oath statement by naming what the Lord swore to do with the land: give it to the covenant people. The form has no attached suffix; the recipient is expressed separately in the Hebrew clause.
Deuteronomy 6:10-12 looks ahead to inherited abundance and warns Israel that receiving what others built must not lead them to forget the Lord who brought them from slavery.
The giving fulfills the ancestral oath within Deuteronomy's covenant address; modern claims about land or prosperity require their own textual warrant.
Trace the infinitive back to the Lord's oath, forward to the separately expressed recipients, and onward to the unbuilt cities and the command not to forget.
Do not turn the promised giving into a general prosperity guarantee or assign morphology information that belongs to neighboring words.