Isaiah 55:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, and giveth seed to the sower and bread to the eater;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי כַּאֲשֶׁר יֵרֵד הַגֶּשֶׁם וְהַשֶּׁלֶג מִן־הַשָּׁמַיִם וְשָׁמָּה לֹא יָשׁוּב כִּי אִם־הִרְוָה אֶת־הָאָרֶץ וְהוֹלִידָהּ וְהִצְמִיחָהּ וְנָתַן זֶרַע לַזֹּרֵעַ וְלֶחֶם לָאֹכֵל

Transliteration

Because as-ʾăšer yērēḏ the-gešem and-the-šeleḡ from-the-šāmayim and-there not yāšûḇ because if-hirwâ ʾeṯ-the-ʾāreṣ and-hôlîḏāh and-hiṣmîḥāh and-nāṯan zeraʿ to-the-zōrēaʿ and-leḥem to-the-ʾōḵēl

Grammar Details

*ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/that
*yērēḏ*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - comes down
*gešem*: noun, masculine singular - rain
*šeleḡ*: noun, masculine singular - snow
*šāmayim*: noun, masculine plural - heavens
*yāšûḇ*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - returns
*hirwâ*: verb, hifil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - waters/makes drink
*ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
*ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth/land
*hôlîḏāh*: verb, hifil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - causes it to bring forth
*hiṣmîḥāh*: verb, hifil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - causes it to sprout
*nāṯan*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - gives
*zeraʿ*: noun, masculine singular - seed
*zōrēaʿ*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - sower
*leḥem*: noun, masculine singular - bread/food
*ʾōḵēl*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - eater

Word Meanings

*yērēḏ*: comes down/descends
*hirwâ*: waters/saturates/drenches
*hôlîḏāh*: causes it to bring forth/makes it bear/produces from it
*hiṣmîḥāh*: causes it to sprout/makes it grow/brings forth vegetation from it
*nāṯan*: gives/provides/supplies
*zeraʿ*: seed/offspring
*zōrēaʿ*: sower/planter
*leḥem*: bread/food
*ʾōḵēl*: eater/one who eats

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 30:23 : 23 And he will give the rain for thy seed, wherewith thou shalt sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;
Hos 10:12 : 12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness; break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Jehovah, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
2 Cor 9:9-9 : 9 as it is written, He hath scattered abroad, he hath given to the poor; His righteousness abideth for ever. 10 And he that supplieth seed to the sower and {G5524} bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness: 11 ye being enriched in everything unto all liberality, which worketh through us thanksgiving to God.
Isa 61:11 : 11 For as the earth bringeth forth its bud, and as the garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring forth; so the Lord Jehovah will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.
Ezek 34:26 : 26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.
Rev 11:6 : 6 These have the power to shut the heaven, that it {G5205} rain not during the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they shall desire.
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.
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 72:6-7 : 6 He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth. 7 In his days shall the righteous flourish, And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.
Isa 5:6 : 6 and I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned nor hoed; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
1 Sam 23:4 : 4 Then David inquired of Jehovah yet again. And Jehovah answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thy hand.

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