The Meaning of Deuteronomy 8:8 Explained

Deuteronomy 8:8

KJV: A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

YLT: a land of wheat, and barley, and vine, and fig, and pomegranate; a land of oil olive and honey;

Darby: a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

ASV: a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

A land  of wheat,  and barley,  and vines,  and fig trees,  and pomegranates;  a land  of oil  olive,  and honey; 

What does Deuteronomy 8:8 Mean?

Context Summary

Deuteronomy 8:1-20 - Beware Of Forgetting God
"Thou shalt remember," Philippians 2:7-11; "thou shalt consider," Deuteronomy 8:5; "thou shalt bless," Deuteronomy 8:10.
The lessons of hunger, Deuteronomy 8:1-9 : "Suffered to hunger." "Blessed are they that hunger." "Man doth not live by bread only;" he hungers for knowledge, opportunity, society, love. How many wan faces around us bear witness to the gnawing within. But the Father suffered His Son to fast; and so he deals with us, to prove us. It is only through the discipline of the soul, in learning to go without, that it can be trusted with spiritual opulence and power. See Deuteronomy 8:7-9.
The perils of prosperity, Deuteronomy 8:10-20 : It is harder to walk with God in the sunshine of success than in the nipping frosts of failure. When Paul said, "I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound," he put the hardest last. The one secret is to give all the glory to God, and to look always to the Cross, where we were crucified to the pride of the flesh, Deuteronomy 8:2; Philippians 4:12. "I lay in dust life's glory dead!" [source]

Chapter Summary: Deuteronomy 8

1  An exhortation to obedience in regard to God's mercy and goodness to Israel

What do the individual words in Deuteronomy 8:8 mean?

a land of wheat and barley and of vines and fig trees and pomegranates a land of olive oil and honey
אֶ֤רֶץ חִטָּה֙ וּשְׂעֹרָ֔ה וְגֶ֥פֶן וּתְאֵנָ֖ה וְרִמּ֑וֹן אֶֽרֶץ־ זֵ֥ית שֶׁ֖מֶן וּדְבָֽשׁ

אֶ֤רֶץ  a  land 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: אֶרֶץ  
Sense: land, earth.
חִטָּה֙  of  wheat 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: חִטָּה  
Sense: wheat.
וּשְׂעֹרָ֔ה  and  barley 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular
Root: שְׂעֹרָה  
Sense: barley.
וְגֶ֥פֶן  and  of  vines 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, common singular
Root: גֶּפֶן  
Sense: vine, vine tree.
וּתְאֵנָ֖ה  and  fig  trees 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular
Root: תְּאֵנָה  
Sense: fig, fig tree.
וְרִמּ֑וֹן  and  pomegranates 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular
Root: רִמֹּון  
Sense: pomegranate.
אֶֽרֶץ־  a  land 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: אֶרֶץ  
Sense: land, earth.
זֵ֥ית  of  olive 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: זַיִת  
Sense: olive, olive tree.
שֶׁ֖מֶן  oil 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: שֶׁמֶן  
Sense: fat, oil.
וּדְבָֽשׁ  and  honey 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine singular
Root: דְּבַשׁ  
Sense: honey.