Leviticus 26:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

I wyll sende you rayne in due season, and the lande shall yeelde her increase, and the trees of the fielde shall geue their fruite:

📖 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 Then shall the earth bryng foorth her increase: and the Lorde our Lord will geue vs his blessing.
• Ps 68:9 : 9 Thou O Lorde dydst cause rayne to fall at thy gratious pleasure: and when thine inheritaunce was weery, thou dydst hearten it.
• Ps 85:12 : 12 Yea, God shall geue all that is good: and our earth shall geue her encrease.
• Ezek 34:26-27 : 26 And I wyll set them as a blessing euen rounde about my hill, and I wyll cause raine to come downe in due season, and there shalbe raine of blessing. 27 And the tree of the fielde shal yeelde her fruite, and the earth shall geue her encrease: they shalbe safe in their lande, and shall knowe that I am the Lorde, when I haue broke the bondes of their yoke, and deliuered them out of the handes of those that serued them selues of them.
• Ezek 36:30 : 30 I wil multiplie the fruites of the trees and the encrease of the fielde: so that ye shal receaue no more reproche of hunger among the heathen.
• Joel 2:23-24 : 23 Be glad then ye children of Sion, and reioyce in the Lorde your God: for he hath geuen you moderate rayne, & he wyll sende downe for you the rayne, euen the first rayne & the latter rayne, in the first moneth. 24 And the barnes shalbe fylled with corne, and the presses shall ouerflowe with wine and oyle.
• Lev 25:21 : 21 I wyll sende my blessyng vpon you in the sixt yere, and it shall bryng foorth fruite for three yeres.
• Deut 11:14 : 14 I also wyll geue rayne vnto your lande in due season, the first rayne and the latter, that thou mayest gather in thy corne, thy wine, and thyne oyle.
• Deut 28:12 : 12 The Lorde shall open vnto thee his good treasure, euen the heauen to geue rayne vnto thy land in due season, & to blesse all thy labours of thy hande: And thou shalt lende vnto many nations, but shalt not borowe thy selfe.
• Job 5:10 : 10 He geueth rayne vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
• Job 38:25-28 : 25 Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder, 26 To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth? 27 To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth. 28 Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe?
• Ps 65:9-9 : 9 Thou visitest the earth, and thou makest it ouerflowne, thou enrichest it greatly: the riuer of God is full of water, thou preparest their corne, for so thou ordaynest it. 10 Thou waterest her forowes, thou breakest downe her hillockes: thou makest it soft with the drops of rayne, and blessest the increase of it. 11 Thou crownest the yere with thy goodnes: and thy cloudes drop fatnes. 12 They drop vpon the dwellinges of the wyldernesse: and hilles be compassed with ioy. 13 The downes be couered with sheepe: the valleys stande thicke with corne so that they showte for ioy and also sing.
• Hag 2:18-19 : 18 Consider nowe in your mindes from this day, and afore, from the foure and twentie day of the nynth moneth, vnto the day that the foundation of the lordes temple was layde, consider it in your mindes: 19 Is the seede yet in the barne? as yet the vines, and the figge tree, and the pomegranate, & the oliue tree hath not brought foorth: from this day will I blesse you.
• Zech 8:12 : 12 For the seede shal prosper, the vine shal geue her fruite, the grounde shall geue her encrease, and the heauens shal geue their deawe, and I shall cause the remnaunt of this people to haue all these in possession.
• Isa 30:23 : 23 Then shall God geue rayne vnto thy seede, that thou shalt sowe the grounde withall, and bread of the increase of the earth, whiche shalbe fat and very plenteous: in that day also shall thy cattell be fed in large pastures.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the gods of the gentiles that sende rayne, or geue the showres from heauen? Art not thou thy selfe our Lorde God? we wyll trust in thee, for thou doest all these thynges.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the chyldren of your father, which is in heauen. For he maketh his sonne to aryse on the euyll, and on the good, and sendeth rayne on the iust, and on the vniust.
• Acts 14:17 : 17 Neuerthelesse, he left not hym selfe without witnesse, in that he shewed his benefites from heauen, in geuyng vs rayne and fruitefull seasons, fillyng our heartes with foode and gladnesse.
• Jas 5:7 : 7 Be patient therfore brethren, vnto the commyng of the Lorde. Beholde, the husbandman wayteth for the precious fruite of the earth, and hath long patience thervpon, vntill he receaue the early and the later rayne.
• Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elias was a man vnder infirmities euen as we are, and he prayed in his prayer that it myght not rayne: and it rayned not on the earth by the space of three yeres and sixe monethes. 18 And he prayed againe, and the heauen gaue rayne, & the earth brought foorth her fruite.
• Rev 11:6 : 6 These haue power to shut heauen, that it rayne not in the dayes of their prophesiyng: and haue power ouer waters, to turne them to blood, and to smite the earth with all maner plagues, as often as they wyll.
• Job 37:11-13 : 11 He maketh the cloudes to labour in geuing moystnesse, and againe with his light he dryueth away the cloude. 12 He turneth the heauens about by his gouernement, that they may do whatsoeuer he commaundeth them vpon the whole worlde. 13 Whether it be for punishment, or for his lande, or to do good to them that seeke him.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elias ye Thesbite, which was of the inhabiters of Gilead, sayde vnto Ahab: As the Lorde God of Israel lyueth, before whom I stande, there shalbe neither deawe nor rayne these yeres, but according to my worde.
• Amos 4:7-8 : 7 And also I haue withholden the rayne from you when there were yet three monethes to the haruest, and I caused it to rayne vpon one citie, and haue not caused it to rayne vpon an other citie: one peece was raigned vpon, & the peece whervpon it rayned not, withered. 8 So two or three cities wandred vnto one citie to drinke water, but they were not satisfied: yet haue ye not returned vnto me, sayth the Lorde.
• Ps 104:13 : 13 He watereth the hilles from aboue: the earth is replenished with the fruite of thy workes.
• Isa 5:6 : 6 I wyll lay it waste, it shall neither be digged nor cut, but beare thornes and briers: I wyll also forbyd the cloudes that they shall not rayne vpon it.