Genesis 17:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּפֹּ֧ל אַבְרָהָ֛ם עַל־פָּנָ֖יו וַיִּצְחָ֑ק וַיֹּ֣אמֶר בְּלִבּ֗וֹ הַלְּבֶ֤ן מֵאָֽה־שָׁנָה֙ יִוָּלֵ֔ד וְאִ֨ם־שָׂרָ֔ה הֲבַת־תִּשְׁעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה תֵּלֵֽד׃

Transliteration

wa-yippōl ʾAḇrāhām ʿal-pānāyw wa-yiṣḥāq wa-yōʾmer bə-libbô ha-ləḇen mēʾāh-šānāh yiwwālēḏ wə-ʾim-Śārāh hă-ḇat-tišʿîm šānāh tēlēḏ

Grammar Details

• *wa-yippōl*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he fell
• *ʾAḇrāhām*: proper noun masculine singular - Abraham
• *ʿal*: preposition - upon/on
• *pānāyw*: noun masculine plural + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his face
• *wa-yiṣḥāq*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he laughed
• *wa-yōʾmer*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and said
• *bə-libbô*: preposition + noun masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in his heart
• *ha-ləḇen*: interrogative particle + preposition + noun masculine singular - to the son of
• *mēʾāh*: cardinal number - hundred
• *šānāh*: noun feminine singular - year
• *yiwwālēḏ*: niphal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will be born
• *wə-ʾim*: conjunction + conjunction - and if
• *Śārāh*: proper noun feminine singular - Sarah
• *hă-ḇat*: interrogative particle + noun feminine singular construct - daughter of
• *tišʿîm*: cardinal number - ninety
• *tēlēḏ*: qal imperfect 3rd feminine singular - will bear/give birth

Word Meanings

• *wa-yiṣḥāq*: and he laughed/rejoiced/played/mocked
• *bə-libbô*: in his heart/in himself/in his mind
• *tēlēḏ*: bear/give birth/bring forth

Referenced Verses

• Gen 21:6 : 6 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh; every one that heareth will laugh with me.
• Gen 17:3 : 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
• Gen 18:12 : 12 And Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
• John 8:56 : 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.
• Rom 4:19-20 : 19 And without being weakened in faith he considered {G3756} his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb; 20 yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God,
• Rev 5:8 : 8 And when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having each one a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
• Rev 11:16 : 16 And the four and twenty elders, who sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and worshipped God,
• Lev 9:24 : 24 And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and consumed upon the altar the burnt-offering and the fat: and when all the people saw it, they shouted, and fell on their faces.
• Num 14:5 : 5 Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.
• Num 16:22 : 22 And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
• Num 16:45 : 45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
• Deut 9:18 : 18 And I fell down before Jehovah, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I did neither eat bread nor drink water; because of all your sin which ye sinned, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.
• Deut 9:25 : 25 So I fell down before Jehovah the forty days and forty nights that I fell down, because Jehovah had said he would destroy you.
• Josh 5:14 : 14 And he said, Nay; but [as] prince of the host of Jehovah am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
• Josh 7:6 : 6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.
• Judg 13:20 : 20 For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of Jehovah ascended in the flame of the altar: and Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground.
• 1 Chr 21:16 : 16 And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Jehovah standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
• Job 1:20 : 20 Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;
• Ezek 1:28 : 28 As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Jehovah. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
• Dan 8:17 : 17 So he came near where I stood; and when he came, I was affrighted, and fell upon my face: but he said unto me, Understand, O son of man; for the vision belongeth to the time of the end.
• Matt 2:11 : 11 And they came into the house and saw the young child with Mary his mother; and they fell down and worshipped him; and opening their treasures they offered unto him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.