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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 
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Deuteronomy 20:19 - War

Deuteronomy 20:19 - When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an ax against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
Verse Strongs No. Hebrew
When H3588 כִּי
thou shalt besiege H6696 צוּר
a city H5892 עִיר
a long H7227 רַב
time H3117 יוֹם
in making war H3898 לָחַם
against H5921 עַל
it to take H8610 תָּפַשׂ
it thou shalt not H3808 לֹא
destroy H7843 שָׁחַת
the trees H6086 עֵץ
thereof by forcing H5080 נָדַח
an ax H1631 גַּרְזֶן
against H5921 עַל
them for H3588 כִּי
thou mayest eat H398 אָכַל
of H4480 מִן
them and thou shalt not H3808 לֹא
cut them down H3772 כָּרַת
for H3588 כִּי
the tree H6086 עֵץ
of H4480 מִן
the field H7704 שָׂדֶה
is man's life to employ H935 בּוֹא
them in the siege H4692 מָצוֹר

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.