Genesis 9:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶת־קַשְׁתִּ֕י נָתַ֖תִּי בֶּֽעָנָ֑ן וְהָֽיְתָה֙ לְא֣וֹת בְּרִ֔ית בֵּינִ֖י וּבֵ֥ין הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

ʾet-qaštî nātattî in-heʿānān and-hāyĕtāh for-ʾôt bĕrît between-me and-between hāʾāreṣ.

Grammar Details

*ʾet*: direct object marker
*qaštî*: noun, feminine, singular + 1st person singular possessive suffix - my bow
*nātattî*: perfect, 1st singular - I have given/placed
*beʿānān*: preposition + article + noun, masculine, singular - in the cloud
*hāyĕtāh*: perfect, 3rd singular feminine with waw-consecutive - and it will be
*ʾôt*: noun, feminine, singular, construct state - sign of
*bĕrît*: noun, feminine, singular - covenant
*bênî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - between me
*hāʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine, singular + definite article - the earth

Word Meanings

*qaštî*: my bow/my rainbow/my arch
*nātattî*: I have given/I have placed/I have set
*heʿānān*: the cloud/the clouds
*ʾôt*: sign/token/mark
*bĕrît*: covenant/agreement/treaty
*hāʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground/world

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

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.
Rev 10:1 : 1 And I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, arrayed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire;
Rev 4:3 : 3 and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.

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