Passage Research
Deuteronomy 22 — Sermon Preparation
Miscellaneous laws cover returning a neighbor's lost animal, not mixing unlike things, protecting a mother bird, building parapets, and several regulations governing sexual purity in marriage. Below is a research summary for Deuteronomy 22, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Deuteronomy 22 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| נַעֲרָה | naʻărâh | H5291 | 14 | girl |
| מָצָא | mâtsâʼ | H4672 | 10 | come, appear |
| אִשָּׁה | ʼishshâh | H802 | 11 | woman |
| בְּתוּלִים | bᵉthûwlîym | H1331 | 5 | virginity, tokens |
| שָׁכַב | shâkab | H7901 | 7 | lie down |
| אָרַשׂ | ʼâras | H781 | 4 | engage for matrimony |
| עִיר | ʻîyr | H5892 | 7 | city, waking |
How preachers through history handled this text
13 public-domain excerpts on Deuteronomy 22, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint upon fleshly lusts which war against the soul.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Deuteronomy 22:13–30 (Public Domain)
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