לָשׂ֤וּשׂ (lā·śūś) in Deuteronomy 30:9: Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
לָשׂ֤וּשׂ (lā·śūś) in Deuteronomy 30:9
Source Word
Deuteronomy 30:9 token 17 is לָשׂ֤וּשׂ, H7797, parsed Prep-l | V-Qal-Inf and aligned with delight.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The infinitive makes restored prosperity an occasion of the Lord's renewed delight, not a lever by which people force blessing.
How To Communicate It
Teach the finite verb and infinitive together, then distinguish this corporate land promise from simplistic guarantees about an individual's finances, health, or family.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- The Lord is the one who will again delight; the infinitive is not an imperative addressed to the people.
- The promise belongs to Deuteronomy's covenant-restoration horizon and is not a universal formula for material success.
- Never use fruitfulness language to shame people facing poverty, infertility, illness, disability, bereavement, or prolonged hardship.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Qal
Infinitive construct
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Not marked
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Prep-l
The l-prefixed infinitive completes the statement that the Lord will return to delight in the restored people's good. It names the renewed divine disposition within the covenant-return sequence rather than issuing a command for the people to manufacture delight.
The infinitive links restored fruitfulness with the Lord's renewed delight after the preceding call to return and obey.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The infinitive follows the Lord will again and precedes the phrase in your prosperity.
The restoration promise that follows return to the Lord and renewed obedience in Deuteronomy 30.
It states the Lord's renewed delight in doing good to the restored covenant people.
It does not command emotional performance, guarantee identical material outcomes to every person, or make fertility and wealth measures of faithfulness.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The infinitive defines the Lord's renewed action in a prominent restoration and prosperity promise.
L-prefixed Qal infinitive. supplies delight as the content of the Lord's renewed action. Attached to the Lord will again. Governed by the covenant-return promise. The form identifies divine delight without universalizing the promise's material particulars.
Is delight a command for Israel or an action of the Lord? It completes the statement that the Lord will again delight in the restored people's good.
Direct: The infinitive joins will again to produce the natural English sequence will again delight.
The l-prefix marks the infinitive's relation to the preceding verb, not an imperative. Prosperity here is embedded in a corporate restoration promise. Fruitfulness language cannot rank the faith or worth of people whose lives include material loss or childlessness.
Delight commands positive emotion: The Lord is the subject; the infinitive states what he will again do. obedience guarantees wealth: Read the promise within Deuteronomy's covenant return and reject a mechanical individual formula. hardship proves divine displeasure: Do not use this land-restoration text to diagnose or shame faithful sufferers.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Deuteronomy 30:9 token 17 is לָשׂ֤וּשׂ, H7797, parsed Prep-l | V-Qal-Inf and aligned with delight.
שׂוּשׂ describes rejoicing or delight; this occurrence places that action with the Lord in a restoration promise.
The l-infinitive completes יָשׁוּב, will again, while the Lord remains the subject and the following phrase identifies the restored people's good as the sphere of delight.
After exile and return, the covenant people are promised renewed divine favor, fruitful work, and life in the land as they return to the Lord.
Scripture also gives faithful sufferers, the poor, the childless, and the persecuted full dignity; this land-restoration promise cannot be reduced to a universal material-success equation.
Center the Lord's gracious delight and covenant restoration while naming the pastoral harm caused by treating visible abundance as a spiritual scorecard.
Do not promise wealth or fertility to every obedient person, blame hardship on weak faith, or detach the verse from Deuteronomy's covenant and restoration setting.