Genesis 17:8

American Standard Version (1901)

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֣י לְ֠ךָ וּלְזַרְעֲךָ֨ אַחֲרֶ֜יךָ אֵ֣ת ׀ אֶ֣רֶץ מְגֻרֶ֗יךָ אֵ֚ת כָּל־אֶ֣רֶץ כְּנַ֔עַן לַאֲחֻזַּ֖ת עוֹלָ֑ם וְהָיִ֥יתִי לָהֶ֖ם לֵאלֹהִֽים׃

Transliteration

wə-nātattî ləḵā û-lə-zarʿăḵā ʾaḥăreḵā ʾēt ʾereṣ məgureḵā ʾēt kol-ʾereṣ Kənaʿan la-ʾăḥuzzat ʿôlām wə-hāyîtî lāhem lēʾlōhîm

Grammar Details

• *wə-nātattî*: conjunction + qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will give
• *ləḵā*: preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to you
• *û-lə-zarʿăḵā*: conjunction + preposition + noun masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and to your seed/offspring
• *ʾaḥăreḵā*: preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - after you
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *ʾereṣ*: noun feminine singular construct - land of
• *məgureḵā*: noun masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your sojournings
• *kol*: noun masculine singular construct - all of
• *Kənaʿan*: proper noun - Canaan
• *la-ʾăḥuzzat*: preposition + noun feminine singular construct - for a possession of
• *ʿôlām*: noun masculine singular - everlasting/perpetuity
• *wə-hāyîtî*: conjunction + qal perfect 1st person singular - and I will be
• *lāhem*: preposition + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to them
• *lēʾlōhîm*: preposition + noun masculine plural - for God

Word Meanings

• *məgureḵā*: sojournings/dwelling as alien/temporary residence
• *ʾăḥuzzat*: possession/property/holding
• *ʿôlām*: everlasting/perpetual/eternal/indefinite time

Referenced Verses

• Gen 12:7 : 7 And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.
• Gen 13:15 : 15 for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
• Lev 26:12 : 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
• Ps 105:11 : 11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;
• Ps 105:9 : 9 [ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,
• Deut 29:13 : 13 that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
• Gen 13:17 : 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for unto thee will I give it.
• Gen 28:4 : 4 and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.
• Exod 6:7 : 7 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God, who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
• Gen 48:4 : 4 and said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a company of peoples, and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
• Gen 15:7-9 : 7 And he said unto him, I am Jehovah that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, O Lord Jehovah, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me a heifer three years old, and a she-goat three years old, and a ram three years old, and a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other: but the birds divided he not. 11 And the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15 But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16 And in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full. 17 And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch that passed between these pieces. 18 In that day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: 19 the Kenite, and the Kenizzite, and the Kadmonite, 20 and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim, 21 and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Girgashite, and the Jebusite.
• Gen 23:4 : 4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
• Exod 40:15 : 15 and thou shalt anoint them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office: and their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.
• Num 25:13 : 13 and it shall be unto him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.
• Deut 4:37 : 37 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;
• Deut 14:2 : 2 For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.
• Deut 26:18 : 18 and Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
• 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Verily my house is not so with God; Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he maketh it not to grow.
• Ps 103:17 : 17 But the lovingkindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, And his righteousness unto children's children;
• Heb 9:15 : 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of a new covenant, that a death having taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, they that have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
• Lev 16:34 : 34 And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in the year. And he did as Jehovah commanded Moses.
• Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
• Exod 21:6 : 6 then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door-post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
• Exod 31:16-17 : 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.