לָ֤תֶת (lā·ṯeṯ) in Deuteronomy 6:23: Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
לָ֤תֶת (lā·ṯeṯ) in Deuteronomy 6:23
Source Word
Deuteronomy 6:23 row 7 aligns H5414 with and give in the purpose sequence following the Lord's act of bringing Israel out.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
And give makes the promised inheritance one goal of the exodus, joining release from slavery to entrance into the Lord's sworn provision. The English and coordinates the infinitive with lead us in, while us comes from a separate Hebrew recipient expression rather than an attached suffix.
How To Communicate It
Keep brought us out, lead us in, and give us the land together, then show where the infinitive ends and the separate recipient expression begins.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not isolate the inheritance from the exodus testimony or claim that the morphology alone transfers Israel's land promise to another audience.
- The infinitive receives purpose force from the larger construction rather than carrying a finite future tense.
- The form does not reduce salvation to property, make departure and arrival interchangeable, or encode us as a suffix on this token.
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 joins lead us in as a coordinated purpose of the Lord's bringing Israel out. The form itself has no attached suffix; the first-person plural recipient appears in the neighboring Hebrew expression.
The infinitive prevents the rescue from ending at departure from Egypt by directing it toward reception of the oath-bound land.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The purpose sequence He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land
The intergenerational exodus testimony explaining the Lord's commands through deliverance and covenant gift
The infinitive prevents the rescue from ending at departure from Egypt by directing it toward reception of the oath-bound land.
The form does not reduce salvation to property, make departure and arrival interchangeable, or encode us as a suffix on this token.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form gives the exodus testimony a destination by linking deliverance from slavery with entrance and covenant inheritance.
The lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive construct joins lead us in as a coordinated purpose of the Lord's bringing Israel out. The form itself has no attached suffix; the first-person plural recipient appears in the neighboring Hebrew expression.. The infinitive prevents the rescue from ending at departure from Egypt by directing it toward reception of the oath-bound land.. Attached to the purpose sequence He brought us out from there to lead us in and give us the land. Governed by the intergenerational exodus testimony explaining the Lord's commands through deliverance and covenant gift. The form does not reduce salvation to property, make departure and arrival interchangeable, or encode us as a suffix on this token.
How does and give function in the testimony of Deuteronomy 6:23? It names the land gift as one purpose of the Lord's bringing Israel out and leading them in.
Direct: The English and coordinates the infinitive with lead us in, while us comes from a separate Hebrew recipient expression rather than an attached suffix.
The infinitive receives purpose force from the larger construction rather than carrying a finite future tense. The pronoun us belongs to the full Hebrew phrase but is not morphologically attached to this H5414 token.
The lamed infinitive credited with a suffix or made to collapse the three-part out-in-give purpose sequence: Do not isolate the inheritance from the exodus testimony or claim that the morphology alone transfers Israel's land promise to another audience. and give us the land detached from brought us out and lead us in to create a standalone possession promise: Keep "and give" connected to לָ֤תֶת, row 7, and the full Deuteronomy 6:23 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Deuteronomy 6:23 row 7 aligns H5414 with and give in the purpose sequence following the Lord's act of bringing Israel out.
This row 7 H5414 witness names the land gift as the destination of exodus, distinct from verse 22's signs on Egypt and verse 10's oath description.
The lamed-prefixed Qal infinitive construct joins lead us in as a coordinated purpose of the Lord's bringing Israel out. The form itself has no attached suffix; the first-person plural recipient appears in the neighboring Hebrew expression.
Deuteronomy 6:23 presents the exodus as movement with a covenant destination: the Lord brought Israel out in order to bring them in and give them the land sworn to their fathers.
The out-and-in movement belongs to Israel's exodus and ancestral promise; wider patterns of deliverance should be established from their own passages.
Keep brought us out, lead us in, and give us the land together, then show where the infinitive ends and the separate recipient expression begins.
Do not isolate the inheritance from the exodus testimony or claim that the morphology alone transfers Israel's land promise to another audience.