Genesis 15:14

Geneva Bible (1560)

Notwithstanding the nation, whom they shall serue, will I iudge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְגַ֧ם אֶת־הַגּ֛וֹי אֲשֶׁ֥ר יַעֲבֹ֖דוּ דָּ֣ן אָנֹ֑כִי וְאַחֲרֵי־כֵ֥ן יֵצְא֖וּ בִּרְכֻ֥שׁ גָּדֽוֹל׃

Transliteration

And-also et-the-gôy ʾăšer yaʿăḇōḏû dān ʾānōḵî and-after-thus yēṣəʾû with-rəḵuš gāḏôl.

Grammar Details

• *gôy*: masculine singular noun - nation
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - whom/which/that
• *yaʿăḇōḏû*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they will serve
• *dān*: Qal participle masculine singular - judging
• *ʾānōḵî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *yēṣəʾû*: Qal imperfect 3rd common plural - they will go out
• *rəḵuš*: masculine singular noun with prefix preposition - with possessions
• *gāḏôl*: masculine singular adjective - great

Word Meanings

• *gôy*: nation/people/gentiles
• *yaʿăḇōḏû*: they will serve/they will be slaves to/they will work for
• *dān*: judging/executing judgment/bringing justice to
• *yēṣəʾû*: they will go out/they will come out/they will depart/they will exit
• *rəḵuš*: possessions/property/goods/wealth
• *gāḏôl*: great/large/abundant/numerous

Referenced Verses

• Gen 46:1-9 : 1 Then Israel tooke his iourney with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifice vnto the God of his father Izhak. 2 And God spake vnto Israel in a vision by night, saying, Iaakob, Iaakob. Who answered, I am here. 3 Then hee sayde, I am God, the God of thy father, feare not to goe downe into Egypt: for I will there make of thee a great nation. 4 I wil go downe with thee into Egypt, and I will also bring thee vp againe, and Ioseph shal put his hand vpon thine eyes. 5 Then Iaakob rose vp from Beer-sheba: and the sonnes of Israel caried Iaakob their father, & their children, & their wiues in the charets, which Pharaoh had sent to cary him. 6 And they tooke their cattell & their goods, which they had gotten in the lande of Canaan, and came into Egypt, both Iaakob and all his seede with him, 7 His sonnes and his sonnes sonnes with him, his daughters and his sonnes daughters, and al his seede brought he with him into Egypt. 8 And these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, euen Iaakob and his sonnes: Reuben, Iaakobs first borne. 9 And the sonnes of Reuben: Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi. 10 And the sonnes of Simeon: Iemuel, & Iamin, and Ohad, and Iachin, and Zohar; & Shaul the sonne of a Canaanitish woman. 11 Also the sonnes of Leui: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. 12 Also the sonnes of Iudah: Er, & Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zerah: (but Er and Onan died in ye land of Canaan) And the sonnes of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul. 13 Also the sonnes of Issachar: Tola, and Phuuah, and Iob, and Shimron. 14 Also the sonnes of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Iahleel. 15 These bee the sonnes of Leah, which shee bare vnto Iaakob in Padan Aram, with his daughter Dinah. All the soules of his sonnes & his daughters were thirtie and three. 16 Also the sonnes of Gad: Ziphion, & Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli. 17 Also the sonnes of Asher: Iimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; the sonnes of Beriah: Heber, and Malchiel. 18 These are the children of Zilpah, whome Laban gaue to Leah his daughter: and these shee bare vnto Iaakob, euen sixtene soules. 19 The sonnes of Rahel Iaakobs wife were Ioseph and Beniamin. 20 And vnto Ioseph in the lande of Egypt were borne Manasseh, and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Poti-pherah prince of On bare vnto him. 21 Also the sonnes of Beniamin: Belah, & Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard. 22 These are the sonnes of Rahel, which were borne vnto Iaakob, fourteene soules in all. 23 Also the sonnes of Dan: Hushim. 24 Also the sonnes of Naphtali: Iahzeel, & Guni, and Iezer, and Shillem. 25 These are the sonnes of Bilhah, which Laban gaue vnto Rahel his daughter, and shee bare these to Iaakob, in all, seuen soules. 26 Al the soules, that came with Iaakob into Egypt, which came out of his loynes (beside Iaakobs sonnes wiues) were in the whole, three score and sixe soules. 27 Also the sonnes of Ioseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two soules: so that al the soules of the house of Iaakob, which came into Egypt, are seuentie. 28 The he sent Iudah before him vnto Ioseph, to direct his way vnto Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen. 29 Then Ioseph made ready his charet and went vp to Goshen to meete Israel his father, and presented himselfe vnto him and fel on his necke, and wept vpon his necke a good while. 30 And Israel sayde vnto Ioseph, Now let me die, since I haue seene thy face, and that thou art yet aliue. 31 Then Ioseph said to his brethren, & to his fathers house, I wil go vp and shew Pharaoh, and tell him, My brethren & my fathers house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come vnto me, 32 And the men are shepheardes, & because they are shepheardes, they haue brought their sheepe and their cattell, and all that they haue. 33 And if Pharaoh call you, and aske you, What is your trade? 34 Then ye shal say, Thy seruants are men occupied about cattell, from our childehoode euen vnto this time, both we and our fathers: that yee may dwell in the lande of Goshen: for euery sheepe keeper is an abomination vnto the Egyptians.
• Exod 3:21-22 : 21 And I will make this people to be fauoured of the Egyptians: so that when ye go, ye shal not goe emptie. 22 For euery woman shall aske of her neighbour, and of her that soiourneth in her house, iewels of siluer and iewels of gold and raiment, and ye shall put them on your sonnes, and on your daughters, and shall spoyle the Egyptians.
• Exod 6:5-6 : 5 So I haue also hearde the groning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keepe in bondage, and haue remembred my couenant. 6 Wherefore say thou vnto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out fro the burdens of the Egyptians, & will deliuer you out of their bondage, and will redeeme you in a stretched out arme, and in great iudgements.
• Exod 7:1-9 : 1 Then the Lord saide to Moses, Behold, I haue made thee Pharaohs God, and Aaron thy brother shall be thy Prophet. 2 Thou shalt speake all that I commaunded thee: and Aaron thy brother shall speake vnto Pharaoh, that he suffer the children of Israel to go out of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaohs heart, and multiplie my miracles and my wonders in the lande of Egypt. 4 And Pharaoh shall not hearken vnto you, that I may lay mine hand vpon Egypt, and bring out myne armies, euen my people, the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by great iudgements. 5 Then the Egyptians shall knowe that I am the Lord, when I stretch foorth mine hand vpon Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. 6 So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them, euen so did they. 7 (Nowe Moses was foure score yeere olde, and Aaron foure score and three, when they spake vnto Pharaoh) 8 And the Lorde had spoken vnto Moses and Aaron, saying, 9 If Pharaoh speake vnto you, saying, Shewe a miracle for you, then thou shalt say vnto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shalbe turned into a serpent. 10 Then went Moses and Aaron vnto Pharaoh, and did euen as the Lord had commaunded: and Aaron cast forth his rod before Pharaoh and before his seruants, & it was turned into a serpent. 11 Then Pharaoh called also for the wise men and sorcerers: and those charmers also of Egypt did in like maner with their enchantmens, 12 For they cast downe euery man his rod, & they were turned into serpents: but Aarons rodde deuoured their rods. 13 So Pharaohs heart was hardened, and hee hearkened not to them, as the Lorde had saide. 14 The Lorde then saide vnto Moses, Pharaohs heart is obstinate, hee refuseth to let the people goe.
• Exod 12:32-38 : 32 Take also your sheepe and your cattell as yee haue sayde, & depart, and blesse me also. 33 And the Egyptians did force the people, because they would send them out of the land in haste: for they said, We die all. 34 Therfore the people tooke their dough before it was leauened, euen their dough bound in clothes vpon their shoulders. 35 And the children of Israel did according to the saying of Moses, & they asked of ye Egyptians iewels of siluer & iewels of gold, & raiment. 36 And the Lorde gaue the people fauour in the sight of the Egyptians: and they graunted their request: so they spoyled the Egyptians. 37 Then the children of Israel tooke their iourney from Rameses to Succoth about sixe hundreth thousand men of foote, beside children. 38 And a great multitude of sundrie sortes of people went out with them, and sheepe, and beeues, and cattel in great abundance.
• Deut 4:20 : 20 But the Lorde hath taken you and brought you out of the yron fornace: out of Egypt to be vnto him a people and inheritance, as appeareth this day.
• Deut 6:22 : 22 And the Lord shewed signes and wonders great and euill vpon Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his housholde, before our eyes,
• Deut 7:18-19 : 18 Thou shalt not feare them, but remember what the Lord thy God did vnto Pharaoh, and vnto all Egypt: 19 The great tentations which thine eyes sawe, and the signes and wonders, and the mighty hand and stretched out arme, whereby the Lorde thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do vnto all ye people, whose face thou fearest.
• Deut 11:2-4 : 2 And consider this day (for I speake not to your children, which haue neither knowen nor seene) the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatnesse, his mighty hande, and his stretched out arme, 3 And his signes, and his actes, which hee did in the middes of Egypt vnto Pharaoh the King of Egypt and vnto all his land: 4 And what he did vnto the hoste of the Egyptians, vnto their horses, and to their charets, when he caused the waters of the red Sea to ouerflowe them, as they pursued after you, and the Lord destroied them vnto this day:
• Josh 24:4-7 : 4 And I gaue vnto Izhak, Iaakob and Esau: and I gaue vnto Esau mount Seir, to possesse it: but Iaakob and his children went downe into Egypt. 5 I sent Moses also & Aaron, and I plagued Egypt: and when I had so done among them, I brought you out. 6 So I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ye came vnto the Sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with charets and horsemen vnto the red sea. 7 Then they cryed vnto the Lorde, and he put a darkenesse betweene you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea vpon them, and couered them: so your eyes haue seene what I haue done in Egypt also ye dwelt in the wildernesse a long season.
• Josh 24:17 : 17 For the Lorde our God, he brought vs and our fathers out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and he did those great miracles in our sight, and preserued vs in all the way that we went, and among all the people through whome we came.
• 1 Sam 12:8 : 8 After that Iaakob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried vnto the Lorde, then the Lorde sent Moses and Aaron which brought your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.
• Neh 9:9-9 : 9 Thou hast also considered the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the red Sea, 10 And shewed tokens & wonders vpon Pharaoh, and on all his seruants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudely against them: therefore thou madest thee a Name, as appeareth this day. 11 For thou didest breake vp the Sea before them, and they went through the middes of the Sea on dry lande: and those that pursued them, hast thou cast into the bottomes as a stone, in the mightie waters:
• Ps 51:4 : 4 Against thee, against thee onely haue I sinned, and done euill in thy sight, that thou mayest be iust when thou speakest, and pure when thou iudgest.
• Ps 78:43-51 : 43 Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan, 44 And turned their riuers into blood, & their floods, that they could not drinke. 45 Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them. 46 He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper. 47 He destroied their vines with haile, & their wilde figge trees with the hailestone. 48 He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes. 49 Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels. 50 He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence, 51 And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.
• Ps 105:27-37 : 27 They shewed among them the message of his signes, and wonders in the land of Ham. 28 He sent darkenesse, and made it darke: and they were not disobedient vnto his commission. 29 He turned their waters into blood, and slewe their fish. 30 Their land brought foorth frogs, euen in their Kings chambers. 31 He spake, and there came swarmes of flies and lice in all their quarters. 32 He gaue them haile for raine, and flames of fire in their land. 33 He smote their vines also and their figge trees, and brake downe the trees in their coastes. 34 He spake, and the grashoppers came, and caterpillers innumerable, 35 And did eate vp all the grasse in their land, and deuoured the fruite of their ground. 36 He smote also all the first borne in their land, euen the beginning of all their strength. 37 He brought them forth also with siluer and golde, and there was none feeble among their tribes.
• Ps 135:9 : 9 He hath sent tokens and wonders into the middes of thee, O Egypt, vpon Pharaoh, and vpon all his seruants.
• Ps 135:14 : 14 For the Lord will iudge his people, and be pacified towardes his seruants.