Jeremiah 27:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I have made the earth, and man and beast on the face of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I will give it to anyone at my pleasure.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָנֹכִ֞י עָשִׂ֣יתִי אֶת־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֶת־הָאָדָ֤ם וְאֶת־הַבְּהֵמָה֙ אֲשֶׁר֙ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ בְּכֹחִי֙ הַגָּד֔וֹל וּבִזְרוֹעִ֖י הַנְּטוּיָ֑ה וּנְתַתִּ֕יהָ לַאֲשֶׁ֖ר יָשַׁ֥ר בְּעֵינָֽי

Transliteration

ʾānōkî ʿāśîtî ʾet-the-ʾāreṣ ʾet-the-ʾādām and-ʾet-the-bəhēmāh ʾăšer upon-pənê the-ʾāreṣ with-kōḥî the-gādôl and-with-zərôʿî the-nəṭûyāh and-nətattîhā to-ʾăšer yāšar in-ʿênāy

Grammar Details

• *ʾānōkî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *ʿāśîtî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - I made/created
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the earth/land
• *ʾādām*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the humankind/man
• *bəhēmāh*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the beasts/cattle
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
• *pənê*: construct state, masculine plural - face of/surface of
• *kōḥî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my power
• *gādôl*: adjective, masculine singular with definite article - the great
• *zərôʿî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my arm
• *nəṭûyāh*: qal passive participle, feminine singular with definite article - the outstretched
• *nətattîhā*: qal perfect, 1st person singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - I have given it
• *yāšar*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - is right/pleasing
• *ʿênāy*: noun, feminine dual with 1st person singular suffix - my eyes

Word Meanings

• *ʿāśîtî*: made/created/fashioned
• *ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground
• *ʾādām*: humankind/mankind/people
• *bəhēmāh*: beasts/cattle/animals
• *pənê*: face of/surface of/before
• *kōḥî*: my power/my strength/my might
• *nəṭûyāh*: outstretched/extended
• *yāšar*: right/pleasing/proper
• *ʿênāy*: my eyes/my sight/in my view

Referenced Verses

• Ps 115:15-16 : 15 May you have the blessing of the Lord, who made heaven and earth. 16 The heavens are the Lord's; but the earth he has given to the children of men.
• Ps 146:5-6 : 5 Happy is the man who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God: 6 Who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things in them; who keeps faith for ever:
• Isa 42:5 : 5 God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:
• Isa 45:12 : 12 I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.
• Jer 32:17 : 17 Ah Lord God! see, you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm, and there is nothing you are not able to do:
• Jer 51:15 : 15 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out:
• Dan 4:17 : 17 This order is fixed by the watchers, and the decision is by the word of the holy ones: so that the living may be certain that the Most High is ruler over the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure, lifting up over it the lowest of men.
• Isa 40:21-26 : 21 Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base? 22 It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place. 23 He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value. 24 They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass. 25 Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One. 26 Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.
• Jer 10:11-12 : 11 This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens. 12 He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.
• Col 1:16 : 16 For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;
• Heb 1:10-11 : 10 You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands: 11 They will come to their end; but you are for ever; they will become old as a robe;
• Rev 4:11 : 11 It is right, our Lord and our God, for you to have glory and honour and power: because by you were all things made, and by your desire they came into being.
• Heb 1:2 : 2 But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;
• John 1:1-3 : 1 From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God. 2 This Word was from the first in relation with God. 3 All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.
• Acts 14:15 : 15 Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:
• Acts 17:24 : 24 The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;
• Isa 48:13 : 13 Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.
• Isa 51:13 : 13 And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?
• Isa 44:24 : 24 The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?
• Ps 148:2-5 : 2 Give praise to him, all you his angels: give praise to him, all his armies. 3 Give praise to him, you sun and moon: give praise to him, all you stars of light. 4 Give praise to him, you highest heavens, and you waters which are over the heavens. 5 Let them give praise to the name of the Lord: for he gave the order, and they were made.
• Ps 135:10-12 : 10 He overcame great nations, and put strong kings to death; 11 Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan; 12 And gave their land for a heritage, even for a heritage to Israel his people.
• Ps 136:5-9 : 5 To him who by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 6 To him by whom the earth was stretched out over the waters: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 7 To him who made great lights: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 8 The sun to have rule by day: for his mercy is unchanging for ever. 9 The moon and the stars to have rule by night: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
• Gen 1:29-30 : 29 And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food: 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.
• Gen 9:2-3 : 2 And the fear of you will be strong in every beast of the earth and every bird of the air; everything which goes on the land, and all the fishes of the sea, are given into your hands. 3 Every living and moving thing will be food for you; I give them all to you as before I gave you all green things.
• Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
• Exod 20:11 : 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.
• Deut 2:7 : 7 For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.
• Deut 2:9 : 9 And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them, for I will not give you any of his land: because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for their heritage.
• Deut 2:19 : 19 And when you come near the land of the children of Ammon, give them no cause of trouble and do not make war on them, for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for your heritage: because I have given it to the children of Lot.
• Deut 2:21 : 21 They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;
• Deut 4:17 : 17 Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,
• Deut 4:25 : 25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:
• Deut 4:32 : 32 Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.
• Deut 4:35 : 35 All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.
• Deut 5:16 : 16 Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
• Deut 9:29 : 29 But still they are your people and your heritage, whom you took out by your great power and by your stretched-out arm.
• Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
• Josh 1:2-3 : 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.
• 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.
• Job 26:5-9 : 5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them. 6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil. 7 By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing. 8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them. 9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it. 10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark. 11 The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words. 12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded. 13 By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through. 14 See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
• Job 38:4-9 : 4 Where were you when I put the earth on its base? Say, if you have knowledge. 5 By whom were its measures fixed? Say, if you have wisdom; or by whom was the line stretched out over it? 6 On what were its pillars based, or who put down its angle-stone, 7 When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy? 8 Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; 9 When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it, 10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; 11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped? 12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; 13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it? 14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe; 15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken. 16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep? 17 Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you? 18 Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all. 19 Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark; 20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house? 21 No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great. 22 Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops, 23 Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting? 24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth? 25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder; 26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people; 27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass? 28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist? 29 Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven? 30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered. 31 Are the bands of the Pleiades fixed by you, or are the cords of Orion made loose? 32 Do you make Mazzaroth come out in its right time, or are the Bear and its children guided by you? 33 Have you knowledge of the laws of the heavens? did you give them rule over the earth? 34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters? 35 Do you send out the thunder-flames, so that they may go, and say to you, Here we are? 36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north? 37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth, 38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
• Ps 102:25 : 25 In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.