Genesis 27:28

American Standard Version (1901)

And God give thee of the dew of heaven, And of the fatness of the earth, And plenty of grain and new wine:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיִֽתֶּן־לְךָ֙ הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים מִטַּל֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וּמִשְׁמַנֵּ֖י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְרֹ֥ב דָּגָ֖ן וְתִירֹֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

And-wəyitten-to-you the-hāʾĕlōhîm from-miṭṭal the-haššāmayim and-from-ûmišmannê the-hāʾāreṣ and-wərōb dāgān and-wətîrōš

Grammar Details

• *wəyitten*: waw conjunctive + Qal imperfect jussive, 3rd person masculine singular - and may he give
• *hāʾĕlōhîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the God
• *miṭṭal*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - from dew of
• *haššāmayim*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the heavens
• *ûmišmannê*: waw conjunctive + preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - and from fatness/richness of
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the earth
• *wərōb*: waw conjunctive + noun, masculine singular construct - and abundance of
• *dāgān*: noun, masculine singular - grain/corn
• *wətîrōš*: waw conjunctive + noun, masculine singular - and new wine

Word Meanings

• *wəyitten*: may he give/let him give
• *miṭṭal*: from dew/moisture
• *mišmannê*: from fatness/richness/fertility
• *rōb*: abundance/plenty/much
• *dāgān*: grain/corn/cereal
• *tîrōš*: new wine/fresh wine/must

Referenced Verses

• Deut 33:28 : 28 And Israel dwelleth in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; Yea, his heavens drop down dew.
• Deut 33:13 : 13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of Jehovah be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath,
• Gen 27:39 : 39 And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, of the fatness of the earth shall be thy dwelling, And of the dew of heaven from above;
• Deut 7:13 : 13 and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
• Gen 45:18 : 18 and take your father and your households, and come unto me: and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.
• 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain upon you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
• Joel 2:19 : 19 And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations;
• Mic 5:7 : 7 And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that tarry not for man, nor wait for the sons of men.
• Zech 8:12 : 12 For [there shall be] the seed of peace; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
• Zech 9:17 : 17 For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.
• Rom 11:17 : 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;
• Heb 11:20 : 20 By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.
• Josh 5:6 : 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
• 1 Kgs 5:11 : 11 And Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
• 2 Chr 2:10 : 10 And, behold, I will give to thy servants, the hewers that cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
• Ps 36:8 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; And thou wilt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
• Ps 65:9-9 : 9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it, Thou greatly enrichest it; The river of God is full of water: Thou providest them grain, when thou hast so prepared the earth. [ 10 Thou waterest its furrows abundantly; Thou settlest the ridges thereof: Thou makest it soft with showers; Thou blessest the springing thereof. 11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; And thy paths drop fatness. 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness; And the hills are girded with joy. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered over with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.
• Ps 104:15 : 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, [And] oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's heart.
• Ps 133:3 : 3 Like the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the mountains of Zion: For there Jehovah commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore.
• Isa 45:8 : 8 Distil, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, Jehovah, have created it.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.
• Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon. 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
• Gen 49:20 : 20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties.
• Num 13:20 : 20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
• Num 18:12 : 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first-fruits of them which they give unto Jehovah, to thee have I given them.
• Deut 8:7-9 : 7 For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates; a land of olive-trees and honey; 9 a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig copper.
• Deut 11:11-12 : 11 but the land, whither ye go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinketh water of the rain of heaven, 12 a land which Jehovah thy God careth for: the eyes of Jehovah thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
• Deut 32:2 : 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.