Numbers 6:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

Speake vnto Aaron and to his sonnes, saying, Thus shal ye blesse the childre of Israel, and say vnto them,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דַּבֵּ֤ר אֶֽל־אַהֲרֹן֙ וְאֶל־בָּנָ֣יו לֵאמֹ֔ר כֹּ֥ה תְבָרֲכ֖וּ אֶת־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אָמ֖וֹר לָהֶֽם׃ ס

Transliteration

dabbēr ʾel-ʾAhărōn wə-ʾel-bānāyw lēʾmōr kōh təḇārăḵû ʾet-bənê Yiśrāʾēl ʾāmôr lāhem

Grammar Details

• *dabbēr*: Piel imperative, masculine singular - speak
• *ʾel*: preposition - to/unto
• *ʾAhărōn*: proper noun - Aaron
• *wə-ʾel*: conjunction + preposition - and to
• *bānāyw*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his sons
• *lēʾmōr*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - saying
• *kōh*: adverb - thus/in this way
• *təḇārăḵû*: Piel imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall bless
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ʾāmôr*: Qal infinitive absolute - saying
• *lāhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - to them

Word Meanings

• *təḇārăḵû*: you shall bless/you should bless
• *ʾāmôr*: saying/to say

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 23:13 : 13 The sonnes of Amram, Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated to sanctifie the most holy place, hee and his sonnes for euer to burne incense before the Lord, to minister to him, and to blesse in his Name for euer.
• Deut 21:5 : 5 Also the Priests the sonnes of Leui (whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister, & to blesse in the name of the Lorde) shal come forth, & by their word shal all strife & plague be tried.
• Deut 10:8 : 8 The same time ye Lord separated the tribe of Leui to beare the Arke of the couenant of the Lord, and to stand before ye Lord, to minister vnto him, and to blesse in his Name vnto this day.
• Deut 33:1 : 1 Nowe this is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death, and said,
• Josh 8:33 : 33 And all Israel (and their Elders, and officers and their iudges stoode on this side of the Arke, and on that side, before the Priestes of the Leuites, which bare the Arke of the couenant of the Lorde) as well the stranger, as he that is borne in the countrey: halfe of them were ouer against mount Gerizim, and halfe of them ouer against mount Ebal, as Moses the seruant of the Lorde had commaunded before, that they should blesse the people of Israel.
• Luke 24:50-51 : 50 Afterward he lead them out into Bethania, and lift vp his hands, and blessed them. 51 And it came to passe, that as he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caried vp into heauen.
• Rom 1:7 : 7 To all you that be at Rome beloued of God, called to be Saints: Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:3 : 3 Grace be with you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 13:14 : 14 (13:13) The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ, and the loue of God, and the communion of the holy Ghost be with you all, Amen. The seconde Epistle to the Corinthians, written from Philippi, a citie in Macedonia, and sent by Titus and Lucas.
• Heb 7:1 : 1 For this Melchi-sedec was King of Salem, the Priest of the most high God, who met Abraham, as he returned from the slaughter of the Kings, and blessed him:
• Heb 7:7 : 7 And without all contradiction the lesse is blessed of the greater.
• Heb 11:20-21 : 20 By faith Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau, concerning things to come. 21 By faith Iacob when he was a dying, blessed both the sonnes of Ioseph, and leaning on the ende of his staffe, worshipped God.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God ye Father vnto sanctification of ye Spirit, through obedience and sprinkeling of the blood of Iesus Christ: Grace and peace bee multiplied vnto you.
• 2 Pet 1:2-3 : 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you, through the acknowledging of God, and of Iesus our Lord, 3 According as his diuine power hath giuen vnto vs all things that perteine vnto life and godlinesse, through the acknowledging of him that hath called vs vnto glory and vertue.
• 2 John 1:3 : 3 Grace be with you, mercie and peace from God the Father, and from the Lorde Iesus Christ the Sonne of the Father, with trueth and loue.
• Gen 14:19-20 : 19 Therefore he blessed him, saying, Blessed art thou, Abram, of God most high possessour of heauen and earth, 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath deliuered thine enemies into thine hand. And Abram gaue him tythe of all.
• Gen 24:60 : 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and sayde vnto her, Thou art our sister, growe into thousande thousands, and thy seede possesse the gate of his enemies.
• Gen 27:27-29 : 27 And hee came neere and kissed him. Then he smelled the sauour of his garmentes, and blessed him, and sayde, Behold, the smell of my sonne is as the smell of a fielde, which the Lorde hath blessed. 28 God giue thee therefore of the dewe of heauen, and the fatnesse of the earth, and plentie of wheate and wine. 29 Let people bee thy seruantes, and nations bowe vnto thee: be Lorde ouer thy brethren, and let thy mothers children honour thee. Cursed be he that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
• Gen 28:3-4 : 3 And God all sufficient blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, and multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people, 4 And giue thee the blessing of Abraham, euen to thee & to thy seede with thee, that thou mayest inherite the lande (wherein thou art a stranger,) which God gaue vnto Abraham.
• Gen 47:7 : 7 Ioseph also brought Iaakob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; Iaakob saluted Pharaoh.
• Gen 47:10 : 10 And Iaakob tooke leaue of Pharaoh, & departed from the presence of Pharaoh.
• Gen 48:20 : 20 So he blessed them that day, and sayde, In thee Israel shall blesse, and say, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh; he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
• Lev 9:22-23 : 22 So Aaron lift vp his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came downe from offring of the sinne offring, and the burnt offring, and the peace offrings. 23 After, Moses and Aaron went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation, and came out, and blessed the people, and the glorie of the Lord appeared to all the people.