Leviticus 26:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give 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 has given her increase; and God, even our God, will give us his blessing.
• Ps 68:9 : 9 You, O God, did freely send the rain, giving strength to the weariness of your heritage.
• Ps 85:12 : 12 The Lord will give what is good; and our land will give its increase.
• Ezek 34:26-27 : 26 And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing. 27 And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.
• Ezek 36:30 : 30 And I will make the tree give more fruit and the field fuller produce, and no longer will you be shamed among the nations for need of food.
• Joel 2:23-24 : 23 Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first. 24 And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.
• Lev 25:21 : 21 Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.
• Deut 11:14 : 14 Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.
• Deut 28:12 : 12 Opening his store-house in heaven, the Lord will send rain on your land at the right time, blessing all the work of your hands: other nations will make use of your wealth, and you will have no need of theirs.
• Job 5:10 : 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:
• Job 38:25-28 : 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?
• Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain. 10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth. 11 The year is crowned with the good you give; life-giving rain is dropping from your footsteps, 12 Falling on the grass of the waste land: and the little hills are glad on every side. 13 The grass-land is thick with flocks; the valleys are full of grain; they give glad cries and songs of joy.
• Hag 2:18-19 : 18 And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it. 19 Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.
• Zech 8:12 : 12 For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.
• Isa 30:23 : 23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.
• Acts 14:17 : 17 But he was not without witness, because he did good, and gave you rain from heaven and times of fruit, making your hearts full of food and joy.
• Jas 5:7 : 7 Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
• Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
• Rev 11:6 : 6 These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.
• Job 37:11-13 : 11 The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light; 12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men, 13 For a rod, or for a curse, or for mercy, causing it to come on the mark.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
• Amos 4:7-8 : 7 And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste. 8 So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
• Ps 104:13 : 13 He sends down rain from his store-houses on the hills: the earth is full of the fruit of his works.
• Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.