Deuteronomy 7:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בָּר֥וּךְ תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה מִכָּל־הָעַמִּ֑ים לֹא־יִהְיֶ֥ה בְךָ֛ עָקָ֥ר וֽ͏ַעֲקָרָ֖ה וּבִבְהֶמְתֶּֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Bārûk you shall tihyeh above all the ʿammîm; there shall not yihyeh in you ʿāqār or waʿăqārâ, or in your bəhemtekā.

Grammar Details

*Bārûk*: Qal passive participle masculine singular - blessed
*tihyeh*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will be
*ʿammîm*: noun masculine plural - peoples/nations
*yihyeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - there will be
*ʿāqār*: adjective masculine singular - barren/sterile
*waʿăqārâ*: conjunction + adjective feminine singular - or barren woman
*bəhemtekā*: noun feminine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your cattle/livestock

Word Meanings

*Bārûk*: blessed/favored/prosperous
*tihyeh*: be/become/exist
*ʿammîm*: peoples/nations/folk
*yihyeh*: be/exist/occur
*ʿāqār*: barren/sterile/childless
*waʿăqārâ*: barren woman/sterile woman/childless woman
*bəhemtekā*: your cattle/your livestock/your animals

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 127:3 : 3 Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; [And] the fruit of the womb is [his] reward.
Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
Exod 23:26-33 : 26 There shall none cast her young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil. 27 I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee. 28 And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee. 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land. 31 And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee. 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
Lev 26:9 : 9 And I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and will establish my covenant with you.
Deut 28:4 : 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy beasts, the increase of thy cattle, and the young of thy flock.
Deut 28:11 : 11 And Jehovah will make thee plenteous for good, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which Jehovah sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deut 33:29 : 29 Happy art thou, O Israel: Who is like unto thee, a people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves unto thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Ps 115:15 : 15 Blessed are ye of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.

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