KJV King James Version
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
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Deuteronomy 8:8
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;
WEB World English Bible
a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
ASV American Standard Version
a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 8
5 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
6 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any [thing] in it; a land whose stones [are] iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
10 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
אֶ֤רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetחִטָּה֙H2406 · chit.tahwheatוּשְׂעֹרָ֔הH8184 · se.o.rahbarleyוְגֶ֥פֶןH1612 · ge.phenvineוּתְאֵנָ֖הH8384 · te.e.nahfigוְרִמּ֑וֹןH7416 · rim.monpomegranateאֶֽרֶץ־H776 · e.retsland: country/planetזֵ֥יתH2132 · za.yit(Mount of) Olivesשֶׁ֖מֶןH8081 · she.menoilוּדְבָֽשׁ׃H1706 · de.vashhoney
Cross-references
John 6:13Therefore they gathered [them] together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.Psalm 147:14He maketh peace [in] thy borders, [and] filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.Deuteronomy 32:14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.Ezekiel 27:17Judah, and the land of Israel, they [were] thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.Hosea 2:22And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.Micah 4:4But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make [them] afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken [it].Habakkuk 3:17Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall] fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls:John 6:9There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?2 Chronicles 2:10-15And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.Isaiah 7:23And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall [even] be for briers and thorns.Hosea 2:8For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, [which] they prepared for Baal.2 Samuel 4:6And they came thither into the midst of the house, [as though] they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth [rib]: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.Jeremiah 5:17And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, [which] thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword.1 Kings 5:11And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat [for] food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.Psalm 81:16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
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