Genesis 12:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאֶֽעֶשְׂךָ֙ לְג֣וֹי גָּד֔וֹל וַאֲבָ֣רֶכְךָ֔ וַאֲגַדְּלָ֖ה שְׁמֶ֑ךָ וֶהְיֵ֖ה בְּרָכָֽה׃

Transliteration

And-weʾeʿeśkā to-gôy gādôl and-waʾăbārekekā and-waʾăgaddelāh šemekā and-wehyēh berākāh.

Grammar Details

• *weʾeʿeśkā*: conjunction + imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and I will make you
• *gôy*: noun masculine singular - nation/people
• *gādôl*: adjective masculine singular - great/large
• *waʾăbārekekā*: conjunction + imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and I will bless you
• *waʾăgaddelāh*: conjunction + imperfect 1st person singular cohortative - and I will make great
• *šemekā*: noun masculine + 2nd person masculine singular possessive suffix - your name
• *wehyēh*: conjunction + imperative 2nd person masculine singular - and be
• *berākāh*: noun feminine singular - blessing

Word Meanings

• *gôy*: nation/people/gentiles
• *berākāh*: blessing/benediction/prosperity

Referenced Verses

• Gen 18:18 : 18 Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?
• Gal 3:14 : 14 So that on the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; in order that we through faith might have the Spirit which God had undertaken to give.
• Gen 17:4-6 : 4 As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end. 5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations. 6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.
• Gen 46:3 : 3 And he said, I am God, the God of your father: go down to Egypt without fear, for I will make a great nation of you there:
• Gen 28:3-4 : 3 And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples. 4 And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.
• Gen 24:35 : 35 The Lord has given my master every blessing, and he has become great: he has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold, and men-servants and women-servants and camels and asses.
• Deut 26:5 : 5 And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:
• 2 Sam 7:9 : 9 And I have been with you wherever you went, cutting off before you all those who were against you; and I will make your name great, like the name of the greatest ones of the earth.
• Gal 3:7 : 7 Be certain, then, that those who are of faith, the same are sons of Abraham.
• Gen 26:4 : 4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;
• Gen 15:5 : 5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.
• Gen 22:17-18 : 17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them; 18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
• Gen 35:11 : 11 And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;
• Exod 32:10 : 10 Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.
• Num 14:12 : 12 I will send disease on them for their destruction, and take away their heritage, and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
• Num 24:9-9 : 9 He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed. 10 Then Balak was full of wrath against Balaam, and angrily waving his hands he said to Balaam, I sent for you so that those who are against me might be cursed, but now, see, three times you have given them a blessing.
• Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.
• Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
• Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.
• Gen 14:14-16 : 14 And Abram, hearing that his brother's son had been made a prisoner, took a band of his trained men, three hundred and eighteen of them, sons of his house, and went after them as far as Dan. 15 And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of Damascus. 16 And he got back all the goods, and Lot, his brother's son, with his goods and the women and the people.
• Gen 27:29 : 29 Let peoples be your servants, and nations go down before you: be lord over your brothers, and let your mother's sons go down before you: a curse be on everyone by whom you are cursed, and a blessing on those who give you a blessing.
• Gen 19:29 : 29 So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.
• 1 Kgs 1:47 : 47 And the king's servants came to our lord King David, blessing him and saying, May God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and the seat of his authority greater than your seat; and the king was bent low in worship on his bed.
• 1 Kgs 3:8-9 : 8 And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given. 9 Give your servant, then, a wise heart for judging your people, able to see what is good and what evil; for who is able to be the judge of this great people?
• Mic 7:20 : 20 You will make clear your good faith to Jacob and your mercy to Abraham, as you gave your oath to our fathers from times long past.
• Rom 4:11 : 11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;