Hebrew Form Guide

וְקִבֶּצְךָ֙ (wə·qib·beṣ·ḵā) in Deuteronomy 30:3: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular

וְקִבֶּצְךָ֙ (wə·qib·beṣ·ḵā) in Deuteronomy 30:3

Source Word

וְקִבֶּצְךָ֙wə·qib·beṣ·ḵāConjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular

The Deuteronomy 30:3 BSB+ word-table row 8 anchors וְקִבֶּצְךָ֙ as H6908, Conj-w | V-Piel-ConjPerf-3ms | 2ms, for the rendering "and gather you."

How The Form Affects Interpretation

And gather you binds regathering to restoration and compassion, preventing the action from being reduced to movement or crowd formation. And gather you reflects the waw connection, the Lord's third-person action, and the attached covenant people as those regathered.

How To Communicate It

Read restore, have compassion, and gather as one promise sequence, then identify the Lord, the scattered people, and the nations from which they are brought.

What Not To Say

  • Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
  • Do not detach gather you from restoration, compassion, covenant return, and prior scattering, or use the form as automatic approval of any present assembly.
  • The conjunctive perfect receives future promise force from the larger sentence rather than functioning as an isolated past-tense form.
  • The form does not make gathering morally positive in every context or let a modern institution claim this promise simply because it assembles people.

What Does The Label Mean?

Profile

Hebrew-verb

Part of Speech

Verb

Form Label

Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular

Stem

Piel

Aspect

ConjPerf

Person

Third

Gender

Masculine

Number

Singular

State

Not applicable

Attached Prefixes

Waw conjunction

Suffix

Second person masculine singular

Aspect Note

The waw-linked Piel conjunctive perfect coordinates gathering with the Lord's restoring and compassionate actions; the third-person subject is the Lord and the second-person suffix marks the scattered people gathered from the nations.

Verse Role

The conjunctive perfect joins gather you to the promise's preceding verbs so regathering is one part of a larger compassionate reversal.

What The Form Does In This Verse

Attached To

The Lord's coordinated actions of restoring, showing compassion, and gathering from the nations

Governed By

The covenant-return promise that reverses the scattering described in the same sentence

Role In The Phrase

The conjunctive perfect joins gather you to the promise's preceding verbs so regathering is one part of a larger compassionate reversal.

What It Is Not Doing

The form does not make gathering morally positive in every context or let a modern institution claim this promise simply because it assembles people.

How Much The Form Matters Here

Interpretive Weight

High: The form coordinates regathering with restoration and compassion as the Lord reverses covenant scattering among the nations.

Syntax Profile

The waw-linked Piel conjunctive perfect coordinates gathering with the Lord's restoring and compassionate actions; the third-person subject is the Lord and the second-person suffix marks the scattered people gathered from the nations.. The conjunctive perfect joins gather you to the promise's preceding verbs so regathering is one part of a larger compassionate reversal.. Attached to the Lord's coordinated actions of restoring, showing compassion, and gathering from the nations. Governed by the covenant-return promise that reverses the scattering described in the same sentence. The form does not make gathering morally positive in every context or let a modern institution claim this promise simply because it assembles people.

Reader Question

How does and gather you relate to the other promises in Deuteronomy 30:3? It joins restoration and compassion as one coordinated act by which the Lord reverses the people's scattering among the nations.

Translation Effect

Direct: And gather you reflects the waw connection, the Lord's third-person action, and the attached covenant people as those regathered.

Where Caution Is Needed

The conjunctive perfect receives future promise force from the larger sentence rather than functioning as an isolated past-tense form. The gathering is compassionate restoration here because the clause says so; the lexeme does not make every gathering restorative.

Fallacies To Avoid

Conj-w | V-Piel-ConjPerf-3ms | 2ms at Deuteronomy 30:3 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not detach gather you from restoration, compassion, covenant return, and prior scattering, or use the form as automatic approval of any present assembly. the English rendering "and gather you" detached from its Hebrew form: Keep "and gather you" connected to וְקִבֶּצְךָ֙, row 8, and the full Deuteronomy 30:3 clause.

How The Interpretation Is Derived

Textual Witness

The Deuteronomy 30:3 BSB+ word-table row 8 anchors וְקִבֶּצְךָ֙ as H6908, Conj-w | V-Piel-ConjPerf-3ms | 2ms, for the rendering "and gather you."

Lexical Identity

For h6908-deuteronomy-30-3-conj-w-v-piel-conjperf-3ms-2ms, קָבַץ is the lemma behind "and gather you" at row 8; this exact token keeps H6908 tied to Deuteronomy 30:3.

Grammar In Context

The waw-linked Piel conjunctive perfect coordinates gathering with the Lord's restoring and compassionate actions; the third-person subject is the Lord and the second-person suffix marks the scattered people gathered from the nations.

Passage Meaning

Deuteronomy 30:3 promises that the Lord will answer covenant return with restored fortunes, compassion, and regathering from the nations where he had scattered the people.

Canonical Fit

This gathering is restorative because the Lord's compassion, the prior scattering, and the covenant-return setting define it; H6908 can carry other purposes elsewhere.

Communication Use

Read restore, have compassion, and gather as one promise sequence, then identify the Lord, the scattered people, and the nations from which they are brought.

Do Not Derive

Do not detach gather you from restoration, compassion, covenant return, and prior scattering, or use the form as automatic approval of any present assembly.