יְקַבֶּצְךָ֙ (yə·qab·beṣ·ḵā) in Deuteronomy 30:4: Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
יְקַבֶּצְךָ֙ (yə·qab·beṣ·ḵā) in Deuteronomy 30:4
Source Word
The Deuteronomy 30:4 BSB+ word-table row 9 anchors יְקַבֶּצְךָ֙ as H6908, V-Piel-Imperf-3ms | 2ms, for the rendering "will gather you."
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Will gather you keeps divine agency and the addressed covenant people together, so distance magnifies the Lord's restoring reach rather than the people's ability to recover themselves. Will gather you directly reflects the imperfect promise and the attached second-person object in this clause.
How To Communicate It
Trace the subject He, the suffix you, and the phrase from there so the promise remains a divine act of regathering within Deuteronomy's covenant-return setting.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not make the Piel stem prove restoration by itself or detach this regathering promise from Deuteronomy 30's covenant setting.
- The third-person subject is supplied by the surrounding promise about the Lord, not by the verb ending alone.
- The form does not turn every modern relocation into this covenant promise or make every Piel occurrence a scene of restoration.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Piel
Imperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
Second person masculine singular
The Piel imperfect presents the Lord's promised regathering as the action of the third-person subject, while the attached second-person suffix identifies the covenant people who are gathered. The form works inside a promise that reaches even to the farthest horizon.
The third-person Piel imperfect names the Lord's coming action, and the second-person suffix keeps the addressed people as its direct beneficiaries.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The Lord's promised regathering of the addressed covenant people from the farthest horizon
The concession that even extreme banishment does not place the scattered people beyond the Lord's return
The third-person Piel imperfect names the Lord's coming action, and the second-person suffix keeps the addressed people as its direct beneficiaries.
The form does not turn every modern relocation into this covenant promise or make every Piel occurrence a scene of restoration.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form names the Lord as gatherer, marks the covenant people as those gathered, and extends the promise to the farthest horizon.
The Piel imperfect presents the Lord's promised regathering as the action of the third-person subject, while the attached second-person suffix identifies the covenant people who are gathered. The form works inside a promise that reaches even to the farthest horizon.. The third-person Piel imperfect names the Lord's coming action, and the second-person suffix keeps the addressed people as its direct beneficiaries.. Attached to the Lord's promised regathering of the addressed covenant people from the farthest horizon. Governed by the concession that even extreme banishment does not place the scattered people beyond the Lord's return. The form does not turn every modern relocation into this covenant promise or make every Piel occurrence a scene of restoration.
Who gathers whom, and how far does the promise reach in Deuteronomy 30:4? The Lord gathers the addressed covenant people even from the farthest horizon and returns them from there.
Direct: Will gather you directly reflects the imperfect promise and the attached second-person object in this clause.
The third-person subject is supplied by the surrounding promise about the Lord, not by the verb ending alone. The singular you addresses Israel corporately in the discourse and should not be detached as an automatic promise to every modern individual.
V-Piel-Imperf-3ms | 2ms at Deuteronomy 30:4 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not make the Piel stem prove restoration by itself or detach this regathering promise from Deuteronomy 30's covenant setting. the English rendering "will gather you" detached from its Hebrew form: Keep "will gather you" connected to יְקַבֶּצְךָ֙, row 9, and the full Deuteronomy 30:4 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The Deuteronomy 30:4 BSB+ word-table row 9 anchors יְקַבֶּצְךָ֙ as H6908, V-Piel-Imperf-3ms | 2ms, for the rendering "will gather you."
For h6908-deuteronomy-30-4-v-piel-imperf-3ms-2ms, קָבַץ is the lemma behind "will gather you" at row 9; this exact token keeps H6908 tied to Deuteronomy 30:4.
The Piel imperfect presents the Lord's promised regathering as the action of the third-person subject, while the attached second-person suffix identifies the covenant people who are gathered. The form works inside a promise that reaches even to the farthest horizon.
Deuteronomy 30:4 extends the promise of return to the most distant exile: the Lord remains able to gather the people and bring them back from there.
The gathering belongs to Deuteronomy 30's call to return to the Lord after covenant dispersion; other biblical gatherings may serve care, assembly, conflict, or judgment.
Trace the subject He, the suffix you, and the phrase from there so the promise remains a divine act of regathering within Deuteronomy's covenant-return setting.
Do not make the Piel stem prove restoration by itself or detach this regathering promise from Deuteronomy 30's covenant setting.