Deuteronomy 4:47

וַיִּֽירְשׁוּ אֶת־אַרְצוֹ וְאֶת־אֶרֶץ׀ עוֹג מֶֽלֶךְ־הַבָּשָׁן שְׁנֵי מַלְכֵי הָֽאֱמֹרִי אֲשֶׁר בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן מִזְרַח שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

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Hebrew

וַיִּֽירְשׁ֨וּ אֶת־אַרְצ֜וֹ וְאֶת־אֶ֣רֶץ׀ ע֣וֹג מֶֽלֶךְ־הַבָּשָׁ֗ן שְׁנֵי֙ מַלְכֵ֣י הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּעֵ֣בֶר הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ן מִזְרַ֖ח שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ ἐκληρονόμησαν τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν γῆν Γώγ βασιλέως τῆς βασᾶν, δύο βασιλέων τῶν Ἀμορραίων οἳ ἦσαν πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου κατ’ ἀνατολὰς ἡλίου·

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

possederunt terram ejus, et terram Og regis Basan, duorum regum Amorrhæorum, qui erant trans Jordanem ad solis ortum:

Spanish

Tomaron posesión de su tierra y de la tierra de Og, rey de Basán, los dos reyes de los amorreos, que estaban al otro lado del Jordán, hacia la salida del sol;

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y poseyeron su tierra, y la tierra de Og rey de Basán; dos reyes de los Amorrheos que estaban de esta parte del Jordán, al nacimiento del sol:

English

They took possession of the land belonging to Sihon and to Og king of Bashan — the two Amorite kings across the Jordan to the east —

✦ What the text says

Summary

This verse describes the Israelites taking possession of two territories east of the Jordan: the land belonging to a ruler referred to only by the pronominal suffix "his" (understood from the preceding verse as Sihon), and the land of Og, king of Bashan. Both rulers are identified as the two kings of the Amorites who resided on the side of the Jordan facing the sunrise.

Key words

yi.re.Shu ("they took possession of", H3423) — Qal narrative verb, third person masculine plural, continuing the sequence of prior narrated actions ("and then they took possession").
'ar.tzo ("his land", H0776 + H9023) — construct noun with pronominal suffix "his"; the referent ("his") is not named within this verse itself but depends on the preceding context.
Og ("Og", H5747) — proper name of a king, in construct relation with melekh ("king of", H4428) and ha-Bashan ("the Bashan", H1316).
she.Nei ("the two", H8147) — dual construct form, grammatically binding "two" to malkhei ("kings of", H4428), which is itself in construct with ha-Emori ("the Amorite", H0567).
'E.ver ("the other side of", H5676) — construct noun indicating relative position, followed by ha-Yarden ("the Jordan", H3383) and further specified by mizrach shamesh ("rising of the sun", H4217 + H8121).

What the text says

The verse is built as a chain of construct phrases stacked to identify the two kings and their territory. The verb yi.re.Shu opens the sentence with the narrative vav, marking this as a continuation of the preceding narrative. Two objects follow, joined by ve- ("and", H9002) and each marked by the direct object particle 'et (H0853): "his land" and "the land of Og king of Bashan." The phrase she.Nei malkhei ha-Emori ("the two kings of the Amorite") functions as an appositional clarification, restating that both previously mentioned rulers belong to the same category — Amorite kings.

The relative clause introduced by 'a.Sher ("who", H0834) locates these kings be-'Ever ha-Yarden ("on the side of the Jordan", H5676 + H3383), a phrase whose directional meaning depends on the speaker's vantage point, and this is further specified by mizrach shamesh ("toward the rising of the sun", i.e., eastward). The Hebrew construct chain ('ever ha-Yarden mizrach shamesh) piles up location terms without additional conjunctions, a compact structure that European-language translations must expand using prepositions.

Differences between versions

The Hebrew reads 'Og (H5747) for the king's name, while the LXX (Swete) renders it Γώγ ("Gog"), a divergence in the Greek transliteration of the proper name compared to the Masoretic Hebrew and the Vulgate's "Og."

The phrase be-'Ever ha-Yarden is rendered variously: BSB reads "across the Jordan," SBLIBRE reads "al otro lado del Jordán" ("on the other side of the Jordan"), while RV1909 reads "de esta parte del Jordán" ("on this side of the Jordan") — reflecting the directional ambiguity of 'Ever (H5676) when isolated from a fixed narrative vantage point.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.