Deuteronomy 20:15
Strong's Lexicon
This is how
כֵּ֤ן (kên)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3651: adv 1) so, therefore, thus 1a) thus, so 1b) just so 1c) therefore 1d) so...as (paired with adv) 1e) then 1f) forasmuch as (in phrase) 1g) (with prep) 1g1) therefore, this being so (specific) 1g2) hitherto 1g3) therefore, on this ground (general) 1g4) afterwards 1g5) in such case adj 2) right, just, honest, true, veritable 2a) right, just, honest 2b) correct 2c) true, veritable 2d) true!, right!, correct! (in assent)

you are to treat
תַּעֲשֶׂה֙ (ta·‘ă·śeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: 1) to do, fashion, accomplish, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to do, work, make, produce 1a1a) to do 1a1b) to work 1a1c) to deal (with) 1a1d) to act, act with effect, effect 1a2) to make 1a2a) to make 1a2b) to produce 1a2c) to prepare 1a2d) to make (an offering) 1a2e) to attend to, put in order 1a2f) to observe, celebrate 1a2g) to acquire (property) 1a2h) to appoint, ordain, institute 1a2i) to bring about 1a2j) to use 1a2k) to spend, pass 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be done 1b2) to be made 1b3) to be produced 1b4) to be offered 1b5) to be observed 1b6) to be used 1c) (Pual) to be made 2) (Piel) to press, squeeze

all
לְכָל־ (lə·ḵāl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: 1) all, the whole 1a) all, the whole of 1b) any, each, every, anything 1c) totality, everything

the cities
הֶ֣עָרִ֔ים (he·‘ā·rîm)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5892: 1) excitement, anguish 1a) of terror 2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded) 2a) city, town

that are far away
הָרְחֹקֹ֥ת (hā·rə·ḥō·qōṯ)
Article | Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7350: adj 1) remote, far, distant, distant lands, distant ones 1a) of distance, time n m 2) distance 2a) from a distance (with prep)

from you
מִמְּךָ֖ (mim·mə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4480: prep 1) from, out of, on account of, off, on the side of, since, above, than, so that not, more than 1a) from (expressing separation), off, on the side of 1b) out of 1b1) (with verbs of proceeding, removing, expelling) 1b2) (of material from which something is made) 1b3) (of source or origin) 1c) out of, some of, from (partitively) 1d) from, since, after (of time) 1e) than, more than (in comparison) 1f) from...even to, both...and, either...or 1g) than, more than, too much for (in comparisons) 1h) from, on account of, through, because (with infinitive) conj 2) that

מְאֹ֑ד (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3966: adv 1) exceedingly, much subst 2) might, force, abundance n m 3) muchness, force, abundance, exceedingly 3a) force, might 3b) exceedingly, greatly, very (idioms showing magnitude or degree) 3b1) exceedingly 3b2) up to abundance, to a great degree, exceedingly 3b3) with muchness, muchness

אֲשֶׁ֛ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: 1) (relative part.) 1a) which, who 1b) that which 2) (conj) 2a) that (in obj clause) 2b) when 2c) since 2d) as 2e) conditional if

and do not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time)

belong to the
הָאֵ֖לֶּה (hā·’êl·leh)
Article | Pronoun - common plural
Strong's Hebrew 428: 1) these 1a) used before antecedent 1b) used following antecedent

הֵֽנָּה׃ (hên·nāh)
Pronoun - third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2007: 1) they, these, the same, who

nations nearby.
הַגּֽוֹיִם־ (hag·gō·w·yim-)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1471: n m 1) nation, people 1a) nation, people 1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people 1a2) of descendants of Abraham 1a3) of Israel 1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.) n pr m 1c) Goyim? = 'nations'

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

Young's Literal Translation
So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.

New American Standard Bible
"Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

King James Bible
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities [which are] very far off from thee, which [are] not of the cities of these nations.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

New Living Translation
"But these instructions apply only to distant towns, not to the towns of the nations in the land you will enter.

English Standard Version
Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not cities of the nations here.

New American Standard Bible
"Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations nearby.

King James Bible
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.

International Standard Version
Do this to all the cities that are distant from you—that is, to those cities that are not in neighboring nations."

NET Bible
This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

American Standard Version
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

English Revised Version
Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

Young's Literal Translation
So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
















Cross References
Deuteronomy 20:14
But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.

Deuteronomy 20:16
But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

Deuteronomy 1:1
These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.

Deuteronomy 20:13
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

Deuteronomy 20:12
And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

Deuteronomy 20:17
But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:

Deuteronomy 20:18
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.
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