Leviticus 26:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֥י גִשְׁמֵיכֶ֖ם בְּעִתָּ֑ם וְנָתְנָ֤ה הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ יְבוּלָ֔הּ וְעֵ֥ץ הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה יִתֵּ֥ן פִּרְיֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And-nātattî gišmêkem in-ʿittām and-nātenâ hāʾāreṣ yebûlāh and-ʿēṣ haśśādeh yittēn piryô

Grammar Details

• *nātattî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will give
• *gišmêkem*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your rains
• *ʿittām*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their time/season
• *nātenâ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular with waw consecutive - and it will give
• *hāʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land/earth
• *yebûlāh*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - its produce
• *ʿēṣ*: noun, masculine singular construct - tree of
• *haśśādeh*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the field
• *yittēn*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will give
• *piryô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its fruit

Word Meanings

• *gišmêkem*: your rains/your showers
• *ʿittām*: their time/their appointed season
• *yebûlāh*: its produce/its yield/its increase
• *haśśādeh*: the field/the open country

Referenced Verses

• Ps 67:6 : 6 The earth hath yielded its increase: God, even our own God, will bless us.
• Ps 68:9 : 9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, Thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
• Ps 85:12 : 12 Yea, Jehovah will give that which is good; And our land shall yield its increase.
• Ezek 34:26-27 : 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. 27 And the tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those that made bondmen of them.
• Ezek 36:30 : 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
• Joel 2:23-24 : 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil.
• Lev 25:21 : 21 then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for the three years.
• Deut 11:14 : 14 that I will give the rain of your land in its season, the former rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy grain, and thy new wine, and thine oil.
• Deut 28:12 : 12 Jehovah will open unto thee his good treasure the heavens, to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
• Job 5:10 : 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
• Job 38:25-28 : 25 Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, Or the way for the lightning of the thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; 27 To satisfy the waste and desolate [ground], And to cause the tender grass to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
• 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.
• Hag 2:18-19 : 18 Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider it. 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive - tree have not brought forth; from this day will I bless [you].
• Zech 8:12 : 12 For [there shall be] the seed of peace; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
• 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;
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye may be sons of your Father who is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.
• Acts 14:17 : 17 And {G2544} yet He left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.
• Jas 5:7 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until {G302} it receive the early and latter rain.
• Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
• 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.
• Job 37:11-13 : 11 Yea, he ladeth the thick cloud with moisture; He spreadeth abroad the cloud of his lightning: 12 And it is turned round about by his guidance, That they may do whatsoever he commandeth them Upon the face of the habitable world, 13 Whether it be for correction, or for his land, Or for lovingkindness, that he cause it to come.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the sojourners of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel, liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
• Amos 4:7-8 : 7 And I also have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
• Ps 104:13 : 13 He watereth the mountains from his chambers: The earth is filled with the fruit of thy works.
• 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.