Genesis 13:15

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For all the land you see, I will give to you and your descendants forever.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֧י אֶת־כָּל־הָאָ֛רֶץ אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֥ה רֹאֶ֖ה לְךָ֣ אֶתְּנֶ֑נָּה וּֽלְזַרְעֲךָ֖ עַד־עוֹלָֽם׃

Transliteration

For all hāʾāreṣ which you rōʾê, to you ʾettĕnennâ and to your zarʿăḵā unto ʿôlām.

Grammar Details

• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the land
• *rōʾê*: qal participle, masculine singular - seeing
• *ʾettĕnennâ*: qal imperfect, 1st common singular + 3rd feminine singular suffix - I will give it
• *zarʿăḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your seed/descendants
• *ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - forever/eternity

Word Meanings

• *hāʾāreṣ*: the land/the earth/the territory
• *rōʾê*: seeing/looking at
• *ʾettĕnennâ*: I will give it/I shall give it
• *zarʿăḵā*: your seed/your offspring/your descendants
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternity/perpetuity

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your descendants forever.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  for all the lande which thou seiste wyll I gyue vnto the and to thy seed for ever.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  for all the londe that thou seist, wyll I geue vnto the and to thy sede for euer,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For all the land, which thou seest, will I giue vnto thee and to thy seede for euer,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For all the lande whiche thou seest, wyll I geue vnto thee, and to thy seede for euer.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed -- to the age.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

• World English Bible (2000)

  for all the land which you see, I will give to you, and to your offspring forever.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I will give all the land that you see to you and your descendants forever.

Referenced Verses

• Gen 12:7 : 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
• 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 'Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend?'
• Acts 7:5 : 5 But God gave him no inheritance here, not even enough ground to set his foot on. He promised that he would give it to him as a possession and to his descendants after him, even though at that time Abraham had no child.
• Deut 34:4 : 4 Then the Lord said to him, 'This is the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I will give it to your descendants. I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross over into it.'
• Gen 24:7 : 7 The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's household and my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' will send His angel before you so that you can find a wife for my son there.
• Gen 15:18 : 18 On that day, the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—
• Gen 28:13 : 13 And there was the Lord standing above it, and He said, 'I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, I will give to you and to your descendants.'
• Gen 35:12 : 12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and I will also give it to your descendants after you.
• Gen 48:4 : 4 He said to me, 'I am about to make you fruitful and multiply you. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land to your descendants after you as a permanent possession.'
• Exod 33:1 : 1 The LORD said to Moses, 'Go up from here, you and the people you brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’
• Num 34:2 : 2 Command the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance—the land of Canaan with its boundaries:
• Num 34:12-29 : 12 The boundary will then follow down the Jordan River and end at the Salt Sea. This will define the land with its borders on all sides. 13 Moses commanded the Israelites, saying: This is the land you are to inherit by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes. 14 For the tribe of the Reubenites by their ancestral clans, the tribe of the Gadites by their ancestral clans, and half the tribe of Manasseh have taken their inheritance. 15 These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, toward the sunrise. 16 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: 17 These are the names of the men who shall divide the land for you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun. 18 You shall also appoint one leader from each tribe to divide the land as an inheritance. 19 These are the names of the leaders: From the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh. 20 From the tribe of Simeon, Shemuel son of Ammihud. 21 From the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Chislon. 22 From the tribe of Dan, the leader Bukki son of Jogli. 23 From the sons of Joseph: from the tribe of Manasseh, the leader Hanniel son of Ephod. 24 From the tribe of Ephraim, the leader Kemuel son of Shiphtan. 25 From the tribe of Zebulun, the leader Elizaphan son of Parnach. 26 From the tribe of Issachar, the leader Paltiel son of Azzan. 27 From the tribe of Asher, the leader Ahihud son of Shelomi. 28 From the tribe of Naphtali, the leader Pedahel son of Ammihud. 29 These are the men whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.
• Deut 26:2-4 : 2 you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket. Then you shall go to the place that the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His name, 3 and you shall go to the priest who is in office at that time and say to him, 'I declare today to the LORD your God that I have come into the land that the LORD swore to our ancestors to give us.' 4 Then the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of the LORD your God.
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now living as a foreigner—all the land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
• Gen 18:18 : 18 Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all nations of the earth will be blessed.
• Neh 9:7-8 : 7 You are the LORD God, who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. 8 You found his heart faithful before You, and You made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Jebusites, and Girgashites to his descendants. And You have kept Your promise because You are righteous.
• Ps 37:22 : 22 For those blessed by the LORD will inherit the land, but those cursed by Him will be cut off.
• Ps 37:29 : 29 The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever.
• Ps 105:9-9 : 9 The covenant He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac. 10 He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant. 11 Saying, 'To you I will give the land of Canaan as the portion of your inheritance.' 12 When they were few in number, very few, and strangers in the land.
• Ps 112:1-2 : 1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD and greatly delights in His commandments. 2 His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
• Isa 63:18 : 18 For a little while your holy people possessed your sanctuary; our adversaries have trampled it underfoot.
• Matt 5:5 : 5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
• Gen 26:3-4 : 3 Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your descendants and will fulfill the oath I swore to Abraham your father. 4 I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and give them all these lands, and through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
• Gen 28:4 : 4 May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.