Genesis 49:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Iuda, thou art he whom thy brethren shall prayse: Thy hande shalbe in the necke of thine enemies, thy fathers children shall stowpe before thee.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְהוּדָ֗ה אַתָּה֙ יוֹד֣וּךָ אַחֶ֔יךָ יָדְךָ֖ בְּעֹ֣רֶף אֹיְבֶ֑יךָ יִשְׁתַּחֲוּ֥וּ לְךָ֖ בְּנֵ֥י אָבִֽיךָ

Transliteration

yəhûdāh ʾattāh yôdûkā ʾaḥeykā yādəkā in-ʿōrep ʾōybeykā yištaḥăwû to-you bənê ʾābîkā

Grammar Details

• *yəhûdāh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Judah
• *ʾattāh*: personal pronoun 2nd masculine singular - you
• *yôdûkā*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine plural with 2nd masculine singular suffix - they will praise you
• *ʾaḥeykā*: noun masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your brothers
• *yādəkā*: noun feminine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your hand
• *ʿōrep*: noun masculine singular construct - neck of
• *ʾōybeykā*: Qal participle masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your enemies
• *yištaḥăwû*: Hishtaphel imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they will bow down
• *bənê*: noun masculine plural construct - sons of
• *ʾābîkā*: noun masculine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your father

Word Meanings

• *yôdûkā*: they will praise/thank/acknowledge you
• *ʿōrep*: neck/back of neck
• *yištaḥăwû*: they will bow down/prostrate themselves/worship

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 5:2 : 2 For Iuda preuayled aboue his brethren, & of his tribe came the chiefe, and the birthright was geuen to Ioseph.)
• Heb 7:14 : 14 For it is euident that our Lord sprong out of Iuda, of which tribe spake Moyses nothyng concernyng priesthood:
• Gen 27:29 : 29 People be thy seruauntes, and nations bowe to thee: be lorde ouer thy brethren, and thy mothers children stowpe with reuerence vnto thee: cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
• Gen 29:35 : 35 And she conceaued yet agayne, and bare hym a sonne, saying: Nowe wyll I prayse the Lorde. Therefore she called his name Iuda, & left bearyng.
• Deut 33:7 : 7 This same also happen to Iuda: And he sayde: Heare Lorde the voyce of Iuda, & bryng him vnto his people: his handes shalbe good enough for hym, yf thou helpe hym agaynst his enemies.
• Josh 10:24 : 24 And when they brought out those kinges vnto Iosuah: Iosuah called for all the men of Israel, and saide vnto the chiefe of the men of warre which went with him: Come neare, & put your feete vpo the neckes of these kinges. And they came neare, and put their feete vpon the neckes of them.
• Judg 1:1-2 : 1 After the death of Iosuah, it came to passe, that the childre of Israel asked the Lord, saying: who shall go vp for vs against the Chanaanites, to fight fyrste against them? 2 And the Lorde sayde, Iuda shall go vp: beholde, I haue deliuered the land into his handes.
• Judg 20:18 : 18 And the children of Israel arose, and wet vp to the house of God, and asked of God, saying: Whiche of vs shall go vp first to the battel against the children of Beniamin? And the Lorde sayd: Iuda shall begin.
• 2 Sam 5:3 : 3 And so all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king Dauid made a couenaunt with them in Hebron before the Lorde: and they annointed Dauid king ouer Israel.
• 2 Sam 22:41 : 41 And thou hast geuen me the neckes of myne enemies: that I might destroye them that hate me.
• 2 Sam 24:9 : 9 And Ioab deliuered the number and summe of the people vnto the king, and there were in Israel eyght hundred thousand men of might that drewe swordes: and the men of Iuda were fiue hundred thousand men.
• 1 Kgs 4:1-9 : 1 And so king Solomon was king ouer all Israel. 2 And these were his lordes: Azariahu the sonne of Sadoc the priest. 3 Elihozeph and Ahiah the sonnes of Sisa, scribes: Iehosaphat the sonne of Ahilud, the recorder. 4 Banaiah the sonne of Iehoiada was ouer the hoast: Sadoc and Abiathar were the priestes. 5 And Azariahu the sonne of Nathan was ouer the officers: And Zabud the sonne of Nathan was a priest, ye kinges companion. 6 And Ahisar was steward of ye houshold: And Adoniram the sonne of Abda was ouer the tributes. 7 And Solomon had twelue officers ouer all Israel, which prouided vittayles for the king and his houshold: eche man his moneth in a yere, made prouision for necessarie thinges. 8 And these are their names: the sonne of Hur in mount Ephraim, 9 The sonne of Dekar in Makaz and in Saalbin, and Bethsames, Elon, and Bethhanan. 10 The sonne of Hesed in Aruboth, to whom parteyned Socho and all the land of Hepher. 11 The sonne of Abinadab in all the region of Dor, whiche had Tapheth the daughter of Solomon to wyfe. 12 Baana the sonne of Ahilud was ouer Thaanach and Megiddo, and ouer all Bethsan, whiche is by Zarthana beneath Iezrael, fro Bethsan to ye plaine of Mehola, euen vnto the place that is ouer against Iecmeam. 13 The sonne of Gaber had Ramoth Gilead, and his were the townes of Iair the sonne of Manasse which are in Gilead: and vnder him was the region of Argob whiche is in Basan threescore great cities with walles and barres of brasse. 14 Ahinadab the sonne of Hiddo had Mahenaim. 15 Ahimaaz was in Nephthalim, and he toke Basmath the daughter of Solomon to wyfe. 16 Baana the sonne of Husai was in Aser and in Aloth. 17 Iehosaphat the sonne of Paruah was in Isachar. 18 Semei the sonne of Ela was in Beniamin. 19 Gaber the sonne of Uri was in the countrey of Gilead, the land of Sehon king of the Amorites, and of Og king of Basan, & was officer alone in the lande. 20 And Iuda and Israel were many euen as the sande of the sea in numbre, eating, drincking, and making mery. 21 And Solomon raigned ouer all kingdomes from the riuer vnto the lande of the Philistines, euen vnto the border of Egypt: and they brought presentes, and serued Solomon al the dayes of his life. 22 And Solomons bread for one day was thirtie quarters of manchet flowre, & threescore quarters of meale: 23 Ten stalled oxen, and twentie out of the pastures, and a hundred sheepe, beside hartes, buckes, and wilde goates, and capons. 24 For he ruled in all the region on the other syde Euphrates, from Thiphsah to Azza, ouer al the kinges on the other syde the riuer: And he had peace with all his seruauntes on euery syde. 25 And Iuda and Israel dwelt without feare, euery man vnder his vine and vnder his figgetree, from Danto Beerseba all the dayes of Solomon. 26 And Solomon had fourtie thousand stalles of horses for charettes, & twelue thousande horsemen. 27 And the officers prouided vittayle for king Solomon and for all that came out of any place to king Solomons table, euery man his moneth, so that they lacked nothing. 28 Barly also and strawe for the horses and mules brought they vnto the place where the officers were, euery man in his office. 29 And God gaue Solomon wysdome and vnderstanding exceeding much, and a large heart, euen as the sand that is on the sea shore. 30 And Solomons wysdome excelled the wysedome of all the children of the east countrey, and al the wisdome of Egypt. 31 For he was wiser then al men, yea then Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda the sonnes of Mahol: And his name was spoken of throughout all nations on euery syde. 32 And Solomon spake three thousande prouerbes: And his songes were a thousande and fiue. 33 And he spake of trees, euen from the Cedar tree that groweth in Libanon, vnto the Isope that springeth out of the wall: He spake also of beastes, of foules, of wormes, and of fishes. 34 And there came of all nations to heare the wysdome of Solomon, and from all kinges of the earth, which had heard of his wysdome.
• Gen 37:7-9 : 7 Beholde, we were byndyng sheaues in the fielde: and lo, my sheafe arose and stoode vpright, & beholde, your sheaues stoode rounde about, and made obeysaunce to my sheafe. 8 To whom his brethren sayde: Shalt thou be a kyng in deede on vs? or shalt thou in deede haue dominion ouer vs? And they hated hym yet the more, because of his dreames and of his wordes. 9 And he dreamed yet another dreame, and tolde it his brethren, saying: behold I haue had one dreame more, and beholde, the sunne, and the moone, & 11 starres made obeysaunce to me. 10 And when he had tolde it to his father and his brethren, his father rebuked hym, and sayde vnto him: What is this dreame that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren in deede come to bowe to thee?
• Gen 42:6 : 6 And Ioseph was gouernour in the lande, and solde to all the people of the lande. And Iosephes brethren came and bowed them selues with theyr faces downe to the grounde before him.
• Gen 44:18-34 : 18 Then Iuda went vnto him, and said: Oh my lorde, let thy seruaunt I pray thee speake a worde in my lordes eares, and be not inflamed with wrath agaynst thy seruaunt, for thou art euen as Pharao. 19 My lorde asked his seruauntes, saying: haue ye a father, or a brother? 20 And we aunswered my lorde: we haue a father that is olde, and a young lad, which he begat in his age: and the brother of the sayd lad is dead, and he is all that is left of his mother, and his father loueth him. 21 And thou saidest vnto thy seruauntes: bryng him vnto me, that I may set my eyes vpon him. 22 And we aunswered my Lorde, that the lad could not go from his father, for if he shoulde leaue his father, he were but dead. 23 Then saydest thou vnto thy seruauntes: except your youngest brother come with you, loke that ye see my face no more. 24 And when we came vnto thy seruaunt our father, we shewed hym the wordes of my Lorde. 25 And our father sayde vnto vs: go agayne, and bye vs a litle foode. 26 And we aunswered, we can not go downe: neuerthelesse, if our youngest brother be with vs, then wyll we go downe, for we may not see the mans face, except our youngest brother be with vs. 27 And thy seruaunt our father sayd vnto vs: ye knowe that my wyfe bare me two sonnes. 28 And the one went out from me, and I sayd, of a suretie he is torne in peeces, and I sawe him not since. 29 And if ye take this also away from me, and destruction come vnto him, ye shall bryng my gray head with sorowe vnto the graue. 30 Nowe therefore when I come to thy seruaunt my father, and the lad be not with vs (seing that his life hangeth by the laddes life.) 31 Then shall it come to passe, that assoone as he seeth that the lad is not come, he wyll dye: so shall we thy seruauntes bryng the gray head of thy seruaunt our father with sorowe vnto the graue. 32 For I thy seruaunt became suretie for the lad before my father, and saide: If I bryng hym not vnto thee agayne, I shal beare the blame vnto my father all my lyfe long. 33 Nowe therefore I pray thee, let me thy seruaunt byde here for the lad, and be my lordes bondman, and let the lad go vp with his brethren. 34 For howe can I go vp to my father, if the ladde be not with me? vnlesse I woulde see the wretchednesse that shall come on my father.
• Gen 46:12 : 12 The children of Iuda: Er, & Onan, Selah, & Phares, and Zarah: but Er and Onan dyed in the lande of Chanaan. The children of Phares also were Hesron and Hamul.
• Num 1:27 : 27 The number of them that were of the tribe of Iuda, was threscore and fourteene thousande, and sixe hundred.
• Num 10:14 : 14 In the first place went the standerde of the hoast of the children of Iuda accordyng to their armies: whose captayne was Nahasson the sonne of Aminadab.
• Num 26:22 : 22 These are the kinredes of Iuda after their numbers, threscore and sixteene thousande and fiue hundred.
• Heb 10:13 : 13 From hencefoorth tarying tyl his foes be made his footstoole.
• Rev 5:5 : 5 And one of the elders sayde vnto me, wepe not: behold a Lion of the tribe of Iuda, the roote of Dauid, hath obteyned to open the booke, and to loose the seuen seales therof.
• Rev 11:15 : 15 And the seuenth angell blewe, & there were made greate voyces in heauen, saying: the kyngdomes of this worlde are our Lordes, and his Christes, and he shall raigne for euermore.
• 1 Chr 12:1-9 : 1 These are they that came to Dauid to Ziklag while he yet kept himselfe close because of Saul the sonne of Cis: and they were very strong helpers in battaile. 2 They were weaponed with bowes, and could hurle stones with the right hand and with the left, and shoote arrowes out of a bowe, & were of Sauls brethren, euen of Beniamin. 3 The chiefest were Ahiezer, and Ioas the sonnes of Simaa a Gibeonite, and Ieziel and Pelet the sonnes of Asmaueth, Beracah and Iehu of Anathoth. 4 And Ismaia a Gibeonite, a mightie man among thirtie, and more then the thirtie: Ieremiah, Iehaziel, Iehonan, and Iosabad of Gedor. 5 Eleusai, Ierimoth, Bealia, Semaria, and Seaphatia, the Haraphites. 6 Elcana, Iesia, Azarael, Ioezer, Iosebeam, Coranites. 7 Ioela and Zebadiah the sonnes of Ieroam of Gedor. 8 And of the Gadites there seperated themselues some vnto Dauid into the houlde of the wildernesse, men of might and men apt for the warre, & that coulde handle shielde and speare, whose faces were lyke the faces of lions, and they were as swyft as the Roes in the mountaynes. 9 Ezer the first, Obdia the seconde, and Eliab the third, 10 Masmana the fourth, Ieremia the fifth, 11 Atthai the sixt, Eliel the seuenth, 12 Iohanan the eight, Elsabad the ninth, 13 Ieremia the tenth, and Machbanai the eleuenth, 14 These were of the sonnes of Gad, and were captaines ouer the men of warre: one of the least coulde resist an hundred, and the greatest a thousand. 15 These are they that went ouer Iordane in the first moneth when he had filled ouer all his banckes, and they put to flight all them of the valley both toward the east and west. 16 And there came of the children of Beniamin & Iuda to the houlde vnto Dauid. 17 And Dauid went out to meete them, and aunswered, and sayd vnto them: If ye be come peaceably vnto me, to helpe me, myne heart shalbe knit vnto you: but and if you come to betraye me to myne aduersaries, seeing there is no wickednes in myne handes, the God of our fathers loke thereon and rebuke it. 18 And the spirite came vpon Amasai, which was the chiefe among thirtie, & saide: Thyne are we Dauid, and on thy side thou sonne of Isai: Peace, peace be vnto thee, & peace be to thy helpers, for thy God is thyne helpe. Then Dauid receaued them, & made them heades of companies of the men of warre. 19 And there fell some of Manasse to Dauid, when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battaile, but they helped them not: For the lordes of the Philistines toke aduisement, and sent him away againe, saying: he will fall to his maister Saul to the ieoperdie of our heades. 20 As he went to Ziklag, there fel to him of Manasse Adna, Iozadad, Iediel, Michael, Iozabad, Elihu, and Zilthai, heades of the thousandes that were of Manasse. 21 And they holpe Dauid against the rouers: For they were all mightie men of warre, and captaynes in the hoast. 22 For at that tyme there came one or other to Dauid day by day to helpe him, vntil it was a great hoast, like the hoast of God. 23 And this is the number of the chiefe captaynes that were prepared to battaile, and came to Dauid to Hebron, to turne the kingdome of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lorde. 24 The children of Iuda that bare shield and speare, were sixe thousand & eight hundred, redie prepared to the warre. 25 Of the children of Simeon, men of might to warre 7 M. & one hundred. 26 Of the children of Leui, foure thousand and sixe hundred. 27 And Iehoiada was the chiefe of them of Aaron, and with him three thousand and seuen hundred. 28 And Zadoc a young man, strong and valiaunt, and of his fathers housholde, twentie and two captaines. 29 And of the children of Beniamin the brothren of Saul, three thousand: And a great part of them did vnto that tyme folowe the house of Saul. 30 And of the children of Ephraim, twentie thousand and eight hundred, mightie men of warre, and famous men in the houshoulde of their fathers. 31 And of the halfe tribe of Manasse, eyghteene thousand, which were appointed by name to come and make Dauid king. 32 And of the children of Isachar, which were men that had vnderstanding of the tymes, to knowe what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred: & all their brethren were at their wyll. 33 And of Zabulon which went out to battaile, expert in warre and in all instrumentes of warre, fiftie thousand, which coulde set the battaile in arraye, they were not of double heart. 34 And of Nephthali a thousand captaines, and with them with shielde and speare thirtie and seuen thousand. 35 And of Dan expert in battayle, twentie & eyght thousand and sixe hundred. 36 And of Aser that went out to the warre and kept the forefront of the battaile fourtie thousand. 37 And of the othersyde of Iordane, of the Rubenites, and Gadites, and of the halfe tribe of Manasse, with all manner of instrumentes of warre, and hundred and twentie thousand. 38 All these were men of warre, keping the forefront of the battel and with perfecte heart came to Hebron to make Dauid king ouer all Israel: And all the rest of Israel was of one accorde to make Dauid king. 39 And there they were with Dauid three dayes eating & drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them. 40 Moreouer, they that were nye them, euen vnto Isachar, Zabulon, & Nephthali, brought bread on asses, cammels, mules, & oxen, & meate, flowre, figges, reasinges, wine, & oyle, oxen, and sheepe aboundantly: For there was ioy in Israel.
• 2 Chr 11:12-17 : 12 And in all cities he put shieldes and speares, & made them exceeding strong, hauing Iuda and Beniamin on his syde. 13 And the priestes and the Leuites that were in all Israel, resorted to him out of all their coastes. 14 For the Leuites left their suburbes, and their possession, and came to Iuda and Hierusalem: For Ieroboam and his sonnes had cast them out from ministring vnto the Lorde. 15 And he ordayned him priestes for the high places, for the deuils, and for the calues which he had made. 16 And after the Leuites, there went out all the tribes of Israel, such as submitted their heartes to seeke the Lord God of Israel, and came to Hierusalem to offer vnto the Lorde God of their fathers. 17 And so they strengthed the kingdome of Iuda, & made Rehoboam the sonne of Solomon mightie three yeres long: for three yeres they walked in the way of Dauid and Solomon.
• 2 Chr 14:8 : 8 And Asa had an armie of men that bare shieldes and speares out of Iuda three hundred thousand, & out of Beniamin that bare shieldes & drewe bowes two hundred and fourescore thousand: all these were valiaunt men.
• 2 Chr 15:9 : 9 And he gathered al Iuda and Beniamin, and the straungers with them, out of Ephraim, Manasse, & Simeon: For there fell many to him out of Israel, when they sawe that the Lord his God was with him.
• 2 Chr 17:2 : 2 And he put souldiers in all the strong cities of Iuda, and set rulers in the lande of Iuda, and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had wonne.
• 2 Chr 17:14-16 : 14 And these are the offices of them in the house of their fathers: the captaines ouer thousandes in Iuda, Adna the captayne, and with him of fighting men three hundred thousand. 15 And next to his hand was Iehohanan a captayne, and with him two hundred and fourescore thousand. 16 And next him was Amazia the sonne of Zichri, which of his owne good wyll offered him selfe vnto the Lorde, and with him two hundred thousand mightie men of warre.
• 2 Chr 30:11 : 11 Neuerthelesse, yet diuers of Aser, Manasse, and of Zabulon, submitted them selues, and came to Hierusalem.
• Ps 18:40-43 : 40 Thou hast geuen me myne enemies neckes: and I haue destroyed them that hated me. 41 They cryed, but there was none to saue them: they cryed vnto God, but he dyd not heare them. 42 I dyd beat them to powder, like vnto dust in a wynde: I haue brought them as lowe as durt in the streates. 43 Thou hast deliuered me from sedition of the people, and thou hast made me head of the heathen: a people whom I haue not knowen serueth me,
• Ps 76:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition in Neginoth, the psalme of Asaph, a song. In Iurie is God knowen: his name is great in Israel.
• Ps 78:68-71 : 68 But he chose the tribe of Iuda: euen the hill of Sion which he loued. 69 And there he buylded his temple on high: and layde the foundation of it like a grounde euer to continue. 70 He chose also Dauid his seruaunt: and toke hym away from the sheepefoldes. 71 As he was folowing the ewes great with young he toke hym: that he might feede Iacob his people, and Israel his inheritaunce.
• Isa 9:7 : 7 He shall make no ende to encrease the rule & peace, and shall sit vpon the seate of Dauid, and in his kingdome, to order the same, and to stablishe it with equitie and righteousnesse from hence foorth for euermore: This shall the zeale of the Lorde of hoastes bring to passe.
• Ezek 21:29 : 29 Whiles they see vnto thee vanitie, and deuine a lye vnto thee, to put thee with the neckes of the wicked that be slayne, whose day is come when their iniquitie shall haue an ende.
• Phil 2:10-11 : 10 That in the name of Iesus euery knee should bowe, of thynges in heauen, and thynges in earth, and thinges vnder the earth: 11 And that euery tongue should confesse that the Lorde, Iesus Christe is to the glorie of God the father.