Genesis 24:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוָ֣ה ׀ אֱלֹהֵ֣י הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֨ר לְקָחַ֜נִי מִבֵּ֣ית אָבִי֮ וּמֵאֶ֣רֶץ מֽוֹלַדְתִּי֒ וַאֲשֶׁ֨ר דִּבֶּר־לִ֜י וַאֲשֶׁ֤ר נִֽשְׁבַּֽע־לִי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לְזַ֨רְעֲךָ֔ אֶתֵּ֖ן אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את ה֗וּא יִשְׁלַ֤ח מַלְאָכוֹ֙ לְפָנֶ֔יךָ וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ אִשָּׁ֛ה לִבְנִ֖י מִשָּֽׁם׃

Transliteration

yhwh ʾĕlōhê haššāmayim ʾăšer ləqāḥanî mibêṯ ʾāḇî ûmēʾereṣ môlaḏtî waʾăšer dibber-lî waʾăšer nišbaʿ-lî lēʾmōr ləzarʿăḵā ʾettēn ʾeṯ-hāʾāreṣ hazzōʾṯ hûʾ yišlaḥ malʾāḵô ləp̄āneḵā wəlāqaḥtā ʾiššāh liḇnî miššām

Grammar Details

• *yhwh*: proper noun - YHWH
• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *haššāmayim*: definite article + noun, masculine dual - the heavens
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - who
• *ləqāḥanî*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular with 1st singular suffix - took me
• *mibêṯ*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - from house of
• *ʾāḇî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st singular suffix - my father
• *ûmēʾereṣ*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular construct - and from land of
• *môlaḏtî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st singular suffix - my birth/kindred
• *waʾăšer*: conjunction + relative particle - and who
• *dibber-lî*: Piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular + preposition with 1st singular suffix - spoke to me
• *nišbaʿ-lî*: Niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular + preposition with 1st singular suffix - swore to me
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - saying
• *ləzarʿăḵā*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - to your seed
• *ʾettēn*: Qal imperfect, 1st singular - I will give
• *ʾeṯ-*: direct object marker
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the land
• *hazzōʾṯ*: definite article + demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
• *hûʾ*: personal pronoun, 3rd masculine singular - he
• *yišlaḥ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will send
• *malʾāḵô*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his angel/messenger
• *ləp̄āneḵā*: preposition + noun, plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - before you
• *wəlāqaḥtā*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you shall take
• *ʾiššāh*: noun, feminine singular - woman/wife
• *liḇnî*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct with 1st singular suffix - for my son
• *miššām*: preposition + adverb - from there

Word Meanings

• *ləzarʿăḵā*: to your seed/to your offspring/to your descendants
• *malʾāḵô*: his angel/his messenger
• *ləp̄āneḵā*: before you/ahead of you

Referenced Verses

• Gen 13:15 : 15 For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.
• Exod 33:2 : 2 And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:
• Ps 34:7 : 7 The angel of the Lord is ever watching over those who have fear of him, to keep them safe.
• Heb 1:14 : 14 Are they not all helping spirits, who are sent out as servants to those whose heritage will be salvation?
• Exod 32:13 : 13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.
• Gen 15:18 : 18 In that day the Lord made an agreement with Abram, and said, To your seed have I given this land from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
• Gen 17:8 : 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
• Gen 22:16-18 : 16 Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son, 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 26:3-4 : 3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham; 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 26:24 : 24 That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.
• Exod 13:5 : 5 And it will be that, when the Lord takes you into the land of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, the land which he made an oath to your fathers that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will do this act of worship in this month.
• Exod 23:20-23 : 20 See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you. 21 Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him. 22 But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you. 23 And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.
• Num 14:16 : 16 Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.
• Num 14:30 : 30 Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.
• Num 32:11 : 11 Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;
• Deut 1:8 : 8 See, all the land is before you: go in and take for yourselves the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their seed after them.
• Deut 34:4 : 4 And the Lord said to him, This is the land about which I made an oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: now I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not go in there.
• Josh 1:6 : 6 Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers.
• Judg 2:1 : 1 Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:
• Ezra 1:2 : 2 These are the words of Cyrus, king of Persia: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
• Ps 32:8 : 8 I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.
• Gen 12:1-7 : 1 Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide: 2 And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing: 3 To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth. 4 So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan. 6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land. 7 And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
• Heb 11:9 : 9 By faith he was a wanderer in the land of the agreement, as in a strange land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who had a part with him in the same heritage:
• Rev 11:13 : 13 And in that hour there was a great earth-shock and a tenth part of the town came to destruction; and in the earth-shock seven thousand persons came to their end: and the rest were in fear, and gave glory to the God of heaven.
• Ps 73:24 : 24 Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.
• Ps 103:20 : 20 Give praise to the Lord, you his angels, who are great in strength, doing his orders, and waiting for his voice.
• Prov 3:5-6 : 5 Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support. 6 In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.
• Isa 63:9 : 9 It was no sent one or angel, but he himself who was their saviour: in his love and in his pity he took up their cause, and he took them in his arms, caring for them all through the years.
• Dan 2:44 : 44 And in the days of those kings, the God of heaven will put up a kingdom which will never come to destruction, and its power will never be given into the hands of another people, and all these kingdoms will be broken and overcome by it, but it will keep its place for ever.
• Jonah 1:9 : 9 And he said to them, I am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the Lord, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.
• Acts 7:5 : 5 And God gave him no heritage in it, not even enough to put his foot on: but he gave him an undertaking that he would give it to him and to his children after him, though he had no child at that time.