Genesis 7:3

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Also take seven pairs of the birds of the sky, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גַּ֣ם מֵע֧וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֛יִם שִׁבְעָ֥ה שִׁבְעָ֖ה זָכָ֣ר וּנְקֵבָ֑ה לְחַיּ֥וֹת זֶ֖רַע עַל־פְּנֵ֥י כָל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

Also from-ʿôp the-šāmayim seven seven zākār ûnəqēbâ to-ḥayyôt zeraʿ upon-face-of all-the-ʾāreṣ

Grammar Details

• *ʿôp*: collective noun - birds/flying creatures
• *šāmayim*: noun, masculine dual/plural - heavens/sky
• *zākār*: noun, masculine singular - male
• *ûnəqēbâ*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - and female
• *ḥayyôt*: piel infinitive construct - to keep alive/preserve
• *zeraʿ*: noun, masculine singular - seed/offspring
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *ʿôp*: bird/flying creature/winged creature
• *šāmayim*: heavens/sky
• *ḥayyôt*: to preserve/to keep alive
• *zeraʿ*: seed/offspring/descendants
• *ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Of birds also of the air, seven pairs, the male and the female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  lykewyse of the byrdes of the ayre vij. of every kynde male and female to save seed vppon all the erth.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Like wyse of the foules vnder the heauen, seuen and seuen, the male and his female, that there maye be sede left a lyue vpon the whole earth.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Of the foules also of the heauen by seuens, male and female, to keepe seede aliue vpon the whole earth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Of foules also of the ayre seuen and seuen, the male and the female, to kepe seede alyue vpon the face of all the whole earth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  of the birds also of the heavens, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Also of the birds of the sky, seven and seven, male and female, to keep seed alive on the surface of all the earth.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  and also seven pairs of every kind of bird in the sky, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of the entire earth.