11 translations · Hebrew
Deuteronomy 4:29
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 4:29 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- KJV King James Version
- But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, when thou searchest after him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- And you have sought your God YHWH from there, and have found [Him] when you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- However, if while you're there you decide to come to the Lord your God, you will find him if you come to him whole-heartedly, with complete commitment.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- 'And — ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And from thence ye shall seek Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt find him, if thou shalt seek him with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him , if thou shalt seek him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- But from there you shall seek the LORD your God, and you will find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- And when thou shalt seek there the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him: yet so, if thou seek him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּ֥ם | ū·ḇiq·qaš·tem | you will seek | H1245 בָּקַשׁ to seek |
| מִשָּׁ֛ם | miš·šām | But if from there | H8033 שָׁם there |
| אֶת־ | ’eṯ- | — | H853 אֵת [Obj.] |
| יְהוָ֥ה | Yah·weh | the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ | ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā | your God | H430 אֱלֹהִים God |
| וּמָצָ֑אתָ | ū·mā·ṣā·ṯā | you will find | H4672 מָצָא to find |
| כִּ֣י | kî | Him | H3588 כִּי for |
| תִדְרְשֶׁ֔נּוּ | ṯiḏ·rə·šen·nū | if you seek Him | H1875 דָּרַשׁ to seek |
| בְּכָל־ | bə·ḵāl | with all | H3605 כֹּל all |
| לְבָבְךָ֖ | lə·ḇā·ḇə·ḵā | your heart | H3824 לֵבָב heart |
| וּבְכָל־ | ū·ḇə·ḵāl | and with all | H3605 כֹּל all |
| נַפְשֶֽׁךָ׃ | nap̄·še·ḵā | your soul | H5315 נֶ֫פֶשׁ soul |
Related verses
- Psalm 119:2
Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.
- Jeremiah 29:12–14
You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You shall seek me, and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”
- 2 Chronicles 15:4
But when in their distress they turned to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and sought him, he was found by them.
- Isaiah 55:6–7
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
- Psalm 119:10
With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
- Deuteronomy 30:10
if you will obey Yahweh your God’s voice, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.
- Jeremiah 3:12–14
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever. Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ says Yahweh.” “Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
- 1 Kings 8:47–48
yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’ if they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies, who carried them captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;
- Deuteronomy 30:1–3
It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you, and return to Yahweh your God, and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul; that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
- Psalm 119:145
I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
27 Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh will lead you away.
28 There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
29 But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
30 When you are in oppression, and all these things have come on you, in the latter days you shall return to Yahweh your God, and listen to his voice.
31 For Yahweh your God is a merciful God. He will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
Read all of Deuteronomy 4 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
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Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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