צִוָּֽךְ׃ (ṣiw·wāḵ) in Deuteronomy 6:17: Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
צִוָּֽךְ׃ (ṣiw·wāḵ) in Deuteronomy 6:17
Source Word
The BSB+ row for Deuteronomy 6:17 links the English rendering "He has given you" with צִוָּֽךְ׃, Strong's H6680, and the parsing label V-Piel-Perf-3ms | 2ms.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form keeps the command personal and covenantal: the listed obligations are what the Lord commanded the addressed person.
How To Communicate It
Use this form to show that the verse calls for careful keeping because the Lord has personally commanded his people.
What Not To Say
- Grammar should serve context, not override it.
- Do not treat Piel as if it automatically intensifies every occurrence.
- Do not treat the Hebrew perfect as a simple English past tense in every passage.
- Do not make the suffix carry a full doctrine of covenant identity apart from the sentence.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Piel
Perfect
Third
Masculine
Singular
Second person masculine singular
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
The perfect form presents the action from this clause's perspective; it should not be reduced to a simple English past tense in every context.
This form carries the BSB rendering "He has given you" within Deuteronomy 6:17. Deuteronomy 6 presses covenant instruction into ordinary life: loving the Lord, remembering redemption, teaching the next generation, and walking in obedience.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The phrase rendered "commanded you" in Deuteronomy 6:17
The form sits after the listed covenant obligations and identifies the addressee as the one who received the Lord's command.
It anchors obedience in what the Lord has commanded, not in a generic moral impulse.
The form does not by itself settle every use of H6680, every possible translation, or the whole doctrine of law and obedience.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The suffix identifies the addressed person as recipient of the Lord's command in a verse about careful obedience.
Command verb with second person object suffix. identifies the Lord's command as the source of the obligations being kept. Attached to the listed commandments, testimonies, and statutes. Governed by the obedience sentence in Deuteronomy 6:17. The stem and suffix help identify the command relationship, while the sentence supplies the covenant obligation.
Who has been commanded? The addressed person has been commanded by the Lord concerning the obligations named in the verse.
Direct: The suffix directly supports the English object in commanded you.
The Piel label should not be treated as automatic intensification. The verse, not the suffix alone, explains the covenant obligation.
Piel always intensifies: Piel is a stem label and should be explained from the lexeme and clause, not by a blanket intensification rule. suffix alone defines covenant identity: The suffix marks the object in this form, while the passage supplies the covenant setting.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The BSB+ row for Deuteronomy 6:17 links the English rendering "He has given you" with צִוָּֽךְ׃, Strong's H6680, and the parsing label V-Piel-Perf-3ms | 2ms.
H6680 is represented here by the lemma צָוָה. In this occurrence, the public guide is limited to the BSB rendering "He has given you" rather than every possible gloss of the entry.
The Piel perfect names the commanded action from the clause perspective, and the second masculine singular suffix identifies the addressee as the one commanded.
The form helps the reader see that obedience is tied to what the Lord has commanded the hearer, not to vague religious effort.
The form fits Deuteronomy's covenant pattern: redemption is remembered, the command is heard, and obedience is taught as life before the Lord.
Use this form to show that the verse calls for careful keeping because the Lord has personally commanded his people.
Do not derive the whole theology of command, law, or obedience from the Piel stem or suffix alone. The form serves the covenant instruction in the verse.