Deuteronomy 28:5
in Deuteronomy 28Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
KJV
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 28
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThe prosperity of a city is dependent upon the supply of goods for sale in the market. We say that a country is prosperous which produces much fruit. So also there is a certain prosperity of the soul when it has been filled with works of every kind. It is necessary first for it to be laboriously cultivated and then to be enriched by the plentiful streams of heavenly waters, so as to bear fruit thirtyfold, sixtyfold and a hundredfold and to obtain the blessing which says, "Blessed shall be your barns and blessed your stores."
This site's exposition
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country
on Deuteronomy 28:3-6
Six blessings fall in pairs, city and country, coming in and going out, with the fruit of body, land and livestock set between them. Each pair names two ends to take in all between, so the blessing covers all of life.
This site's exposition
Your basket and kneading bowl
The Hebrew for kneading bowl is mishereth, which Adam Clarke explains as the trough for dough or whatever is left over and stored. John Gill reports that the Targums took the basket as the basket of firstfruits at 26:2. The blessed basket and bowl hold the bread of every day.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Blessed shall be thy basket,.... Which the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem restrain to the basket of firstfruits, and the cake of the first of their dough; but it intends any and every vessel in which they put their provisions for present use, and that that should never be empty of them, and that they should always have a sufficiency: and thy store; what remained, and was laid up in their barns, cellars, and storehouses, for future use, or in proper places for seed.
), their cows and sheep particularly, which would be blessed for the owners' sakes, and made blessings to them. In order to this, it is promised that God would give them rain in due season, which is called his good treasure (
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Thy basket - Thy olive gathering and vintage, as the basket was employed to collect those fruits. Store - משארת mishereth, kneading-trough, or remainder; all that is laid up for future use, as well as what is prepared for present consumption. Some think that by basket all their property abroad may be meant, and by store all that they have at home, i. e., all that is in the fields, and all that is in the houses.
The words behind it
3 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בָּר֥וּךְ | barukh | [will be] blessed | H1288 → | 330 times |
| טַנְאֲךָ֖ | tanakha | basket your | H2935 → | 4 times |
| וּמִשְׁאַרְתֶּֽךָ׃ | umishartekha | and kneading trough your | H4863 → |
בָּר֥וּךְ[will be] blessed
barukhH1288 →330 times
טַנְאֲךָ֖basket your
tanakhaH2935 →4 times
וּמִשְׁאַרְתֶּֽךָ׃and kneading trough your
umishartekhaH4863 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Deuteronomy
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Basil of Caesarea, EXEGETIC HOMILIES 14.5; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.