Jeremiah 29:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply ye there, and be not diminished.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קְח֣וּ נָשִׁ֗ים וְהוֹלִידוּ֮ בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנוֹת֒ וּקְח֨וּ לִבְנֵיכֶ֜ם נָשִׁ֗ים וְאֶת־בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ תְּנ֣וּ לַֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְתֵלַ֖דְנָה בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנ֑וֹת וּרְבוּ־שָׁ֖ם וְאַל־תִּמְעָֽטוּ

Transliteration

qəḥû nāšîm wə-hôlîdû bānîm û-bānôt û-qəḥû for-bnêḵem nāšîm wə-ʾet-bənôtêḵem tənû to-ʾănāšîm wə-tēladnâ bānîm û-bānôt û-rəbû-there wə-ʾal-timʿāṭû

Grammar Details

• *qəḥû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - take
• *nāšîm*: feminine plural noun - women/wives
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *hôlîdû*: hiphil imperative, masculine plural - beget/bear
• *bānîm*: masculine plural noun - sons
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *bānôt*: feminine plural noun - daughters
• *bnêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your sons
• *bənôtêḵem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your daughters
• *tənû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - give
• *ʾănāšîm*: masculine plural noun - men
• *tēladnâ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural - they may bear
• *rəbû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - multiply/increase
• *ʾal*: negative particle
• *timʿāṭû*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you become few

Word Meanings

• *qəḥû*: take/get
• *nāšîm*: women/wives
• *hôlîdû*: beget/bear/produce
• *tənû*: give/set/place
• *tēladnâ*: they may bear/give birth to
• *rəbû*: multiply/increase/become many
• *timʿāṭû*: you become few/diminish

Referenced Verses

• Jer 16:2-4 : 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters, in this place. 3 For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land: 4 They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.
• 1 Cor 7:36-38 : 36 But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin [daughter], if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry. 37 But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin [daughter], shall do well. 38 So then both he that giveth his own virgin [daughter] in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.
• 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 I desire therefore that the younger [widows] marry, bear children, rule the household, give no occasion to the adversary for reviling:
• Gen 1:27-28 : 27 And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
• Gen 9:7 : 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
• Gen 21:21 : 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
• Gen 24:3-4 : 3 and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
• Gen 24:51 : 51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as Jehovah hath spoken.
• Gen 24:60 : 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Our sister, be thou [the mother] of thousands of ten thousands, and let thy seed possess the gate of those that hate them.
• Gen 28:1-4 : 1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples; 4 and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.
• Gen 29:19 : 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
• Gen 34:4 : 4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
• Judg 1:12-14 : 12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 14 And it came to pass, when she came [unto him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
• Judg 12:9 : 9 And he had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
• Judg 14:2 : 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.