Genesis 49:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתֵּ֤שֶׁב בְּאֵיתָן֙ קַשְׁתּ֔וֹ וַיָּפֹ֖זּוּ זְרֹעֵ֣י יָדָ֑יו מִידֵי֙ אֲבִ֣יר יַעֲקֹ֔ב מִשָּׁ֥ם רֹעֶ֖ה אֶ֥בֶן יִשְׂרָאֵֽל

Transliteration

wa-ttēšeb in-ʾêtān qaštô wa-yyāpōzzû zərōʿê yādāyw from-hands-of ʾăbîr yaʿăqōb from-there rōʿeh ʾeben yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *wa-ttēšeb*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd feminine singular - and it remained
• *ʾêtān*: adjective masculine singular - steadfast/mighty
• *qaštô*: noun feminine singular construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his bow
• *wa-yyāpōzzû*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - and they were made agile
• *zərōʿê*: noun feminine plural construct - arms of
• *yādāyw*: noun feminine dual construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his hands
• *ʾăbîr*: adjective masculine singular construct - mighty one of
• *yaʿăqōb*: proper noun, masculine singular - Jacob
• *rōʿeh*: Qal participle masculine singular construct - shepherd of
• *ʾeben*: noun feminine singular construct - stone of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun, masculine singular - Israel

Word Meanings

• *wa-ttēšeb*: and it remained/abode/dwelt
• *ʾêtān*: steadfast/mighty/strong/permanent
• *wa-yyāpōzzû*: and they were made agile/flexible/strong/golden
• *zərōʿê yādāyw*: arms of his hands/forearms/strength of his hands
• *ʾăbîr yaʿăqōb*: Mighty One of Jacob/Strong One of Jacob/Champion of Jacob
• *rōʿeh ʾeben yiśrāʾēl*: Shepherd of the Stone of Israel/from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel

Referenced Verses

• Isa 28:16 : 16 For this cause says the Lord God, See, I am placing in Zion as a base, a stone, a tested stone, an angle-stone which is certain and of great value: and he who has faith will not give way.
• Ps 132:2 : 2 How he made an oath to the Lord, and gave his word to the great God of Jacob, saying,
• Ps 132:5 : 5 Till I have got a place for the Lord, a resting-place for the great God of Jacob.
• Job 29:20 : 20 My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand.
• Ps 80:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.
• Ps 18:30 : 30 As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.
• Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
• Eph 2:20 : 20 Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
• Isa 1:24 : 24 For this reason the Lord, the Lord of armies, the Strong One of Israel, has said, I will put an end to my haters, and send punishment on those who are against me;
• Ps 118:22 : 22 The stone which the builders put on one side has become the chief stone of the building.
• Col 1:11 : 11 Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;
• 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord was by my side and gave me strength; so that through me the news might be given out in full measure, and all the Gentiles might give ear: and I was taken out of the mouth of the lion.
• 1 Pet 2:4-8 : 4 To whom you come, as to a living stone, not honoured by men, but of great and special value to God; 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ. 6 Because it is said in the Writings, See, I am placing a keystone in Zion, of great and special value; and the man who has faith in him will not be put to shame. 7 And the value is for you who have faith; but it is said for those without faith, The very stone which the builders put on one side, was made the chief stone of the building; 8 And, A stone of falling, a rock of trouble; the word is the cause of their fall, because they go against it, and this was the purpose of God.
• Ps 89:1 : 1 <Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.> My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.
• Ps 18:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said,> I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.
• Isa 29:24 : 24 Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
• Isa 60:16 : 16 And you will take the milk of the nations, flowing from the breast of kings; and you will see that I, the Lord, am your saviour, and he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.
• Zech 3:9 : 9 For see, the stone which I have put before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: see, the design cut on it will be my work, says the Lord of armies, and I will take away the sin of that land in one day.
• Zech 10:12 : 12 And their strength will be in the Lord; and their pride will be in his name, says the Lord.
• Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?
• Mark 12:10 : 10 Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:
• Luke 20:17 : 17 But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?
• Acts 4:11 : 11 He is the stone which you builders had no use for, but which has been made the chief stone of the building.
• Rom 14:4 : 4 Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.
• Deut 34:9 : 9 And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had put his hands on him: and the children of Israel gave ear to him, and did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.
• Josh 1:1-9 : 1 Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, the word of the Lord came to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper, saying, 2 Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel. 3 Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses. 4 From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, and all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea, in the west, will be your country. 5 While you are living, all will give way before you: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not take away my help from you or give you up. 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. 7 Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings. 8 Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well. 9 Have I not given you your orders? Take heart and be strong; have no fear and do not be troubled; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,
• Josh 24:1-9 : 1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God. 2 And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac. 4 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. 5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out. 6 I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea, with their war-carriages and their horsemen. 7 And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land. 8 And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you. 9 Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you: 10 But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him. 11 Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands. 12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow. 13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting. 14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord. 15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord. 16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods; 17 For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went: 18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins. 20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good. 21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord. 22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses. 23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel. 24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice. 25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem. 26 And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord. 27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God. 28 Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage. 29 Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old. 30 And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash. 31 And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel. 32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph. 33 Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
• Neh 6:9 : 9 For they were hoping to put fear in us, saying, Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.
• Ps 18:32-35 : 32 God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way. 33 He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places. 34 He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms. 35 You have given me the breastplate of your salvation: your right hand has been my support, and your mercy has made me great.
• Ps 23:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.
• Ps 27:14 : 14 Let your hope be in the Lord: take heart and be strong; yes, let your hope be in the Lord.
• Ps 28:8 : 8 The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.
• Ps 37:14-15 : 14 The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways. 15 But their swords will be turned into their hearts, and their bows will be broken.
• Ps 44:7 : 7 But it is you who have been our saviour from those who were against us, and have put to shame those who had hate for us.
• Gen 35:10-11 : 10 Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel. 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;
• Gen 45:5 : 5 Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.
• Gen 45:7 : 7 God sent me before you to keep you and yours living on earth so that you might become a great nation.
• Gen 45:11 : 11 And there I will take care of you, so that you and your family may not be in need, for there are still five bad years to come.
• Gen 47:12 : 12 And Joseph took care of his father and his brothers and all his father's people, giving them food for the needs of their families.
• Gen 50:21 : 21 So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.
• Exod 3:6 : 6 And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.
• Num 27:16-18 : 16 Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people, 17 To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper. 18 And the Lord said to Moses, Take Joshua, the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and put your hand on him;