The Meaning of Deuteronomy 3:5 Explained

Deuteronomy 3:5

KJV: All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

YLT: All these are cities fenced with high walls, two-leaved doors and bar, apart from cities of villages very many;

Darby: All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides unwalled towns very many.

ASV: All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

All these cities  [were] fenced  with high  walls,  gates,  and bars;  beside unwalled  towns  a great  many. 

What does Deuteronomy 3:5 Mean?

Context Summary

Deuteronomy 3:1-22 - The Inheritance Of Reuben, Gad And Manasseh
Sihon's defeat, described in the previous chapter, compelled his ally Og to take the field and oppose the further advance of Israel. "He came out" against them. Perhaps also Joshua 24:12 affords a clue. Swarms of hornets harassed him and his people, and drove them out of their stone houses and fortifications; they preferred meeting the chosen race in the open to the scourge of these formidable creatures. When God says, "Fear not," He fights on our side.
Recent discoveries confirm these references to the many stone cities of Bashan, mentioned in Deuteronomy 3:4. The country is covered with ruins. Porter says that 500 ruined places attest the might of the Amorites. The royal bedstead is thought to mean coffin or bier. Its length of 13 1/2 feet would infer a stature of 11 or 12 feet.
These victories opened fertile and beautiful pasture-lands, including Hermon and Gilead. "The Lord delivered"¦ and we took." [source]

Chapter Summary: Deuteronomy 3

1  The conquest of Og, king of Bashan
11  This size of his bed
12  The distribution of his lands to the two tribes and half
23  Moses prays to enter into the land
26  He is permitted to see it

What do the individual words in Deuteronomy 3:5 mean?

All these cities [were] fortified with walls high gates and bars besides towns rural many a great
כָּל־ אֵ֜לֶּה עָרִ֧ים בְּצֻר֛וֹת חוֹמָ֥ה גְבֹהָ֖ה דְּלָתַ֣יִם וּבְרִ֑יחַ לְבַ֛ד מֵעָרֵ֥י הַפְּרָזִ֖י הַרְבֵּ֥ה מְאֹֽד

אֵ֜לֶּה  these 
Parse: Pronoun, common plural
Root: אֵהֶל 
Sense: these.
עָרִ֧ים  cities 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
בְּצֻר֛וֹת  [were]  fortified  with 
Parse: Adjective, feminine plural
Root: בָּצַר 
Sense: to gather, restrain, fence, fortify, make inaccessible, enclose.
חוֹמָ֥ה  walls 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: חֹומָה  
Sense: wall.
גְבֹהָ֖ה  high 
Parse: Adjective, feminine singular
Root: גָּבֹהַּ  
Sense: high, exalted.
דְּלָתַ֣יִם  gates 
Parse: Noun, fd
Root: דַּל 
Sense: door, gate.
וּבְרִ֑יחַ  and  bars 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular
Root: בְּרִיחַ  
Sense: bar.
לְבַ֛ד  besides 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: בַּד 
Sense: alone, by itself, besides, a part, separation, being alone.
מֵעָרֵ֥י  towns 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: עִיר 
Sense: excitement, anguish.
הַפְּרָזִ֖י  rural 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: פְּרָזִי  
Sense: villager, rural dweller, hamlet-dweller.
הַרְבֵּ֥ה  many 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Infinitive absolute
Root: הַרְבָּה 
Sense: be or become great, be or become many, be or become much, be or become numerous.
מְאֹֽד  a  great 
Parse: Adverb
Root: מְאֹד  
Sense: exceedingly, much subst.

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