Jeremiah 33:22

Authorized King James Version (1611)

As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹֽא־יִסָּפֵר֙ צְבָ֣א הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וְלֹ֥א יִמַּ֖ד ח֣וֹל הַיָּ֑ם כֵּ֣ן אַרְבֶּ֗ה אֶת־זֶ֙רַע֙ דָּוִ֣ד עַבְדִּ֔י וְאֶת־הַלְוִיִּ֖ם מְשָׁרְתֵ֥י אֹתִֽי׃

Transliteration

Which not yissāp̄ēr ṣəḇāʾ haššāmayim and not yimmad ḥôl hayyām so ʾarbeh zeraʿ dāwiḏ ʿaḇdî and haləwiyyîm məšārəṯê me

Grammar Details

• *yissāp̄ēr*: niphal imperfect 3ms - it can be counted
• *ṣəḇāʾ*: noun ms construct - host of
• *haššāmayim*: definite article + noun mp - the heavens
• *yimmad*: niphal imperfect 3ms - it can be measured
• *ḥôl*: noun ms construct - sand of
• *hayyām*: definite article + noun ms - the sea
• *ʾarbeh*: hiphil imperfect 1s - I will multiply
• *zeraʿ*: noun ms construct - seed of
• *ʿaḇdî*: noun ms + 1s suffix - my servant
• *məšārəṯê*: piel participle mp construct - ministers of

Word Meanings

• *yissāp̄ēr*: be counted/numbered/recounted
• *ṣəḇāʾ*: host/army/service
• *yimmad*: be measured/estimated/surveyed
• *ʾarbeh*: multiply/increase/make many
• *zeraʿ*: seed/offspring/descendants

Referenced Verses

• Gen 15:5 : 5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
• Gen 22:17 : 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
• Isa 66:21 : 21 And I will also take of them for priests [and] for Levites, saith the LORD.
• Jer 31:37 : 37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.
• Ezek 37:24-27 : 24 And David my servant [shall be] king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, [even] they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David [shall be] their prince for ever. 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Heb 11:12 : 12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
• Rev 7:9-9 : 9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; 10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
• Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.
• Ezek 44:15 : 15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:
• Hos 1:10 : 10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God.
• Zech 12:8 : 8 In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David [shall be] as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.
• Gen 28:14 : 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
• Ps 22:30 : 30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
• Ps 89:3-4 : 3 I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, 4 Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
• Ps 89:29 : 29 His seed also will I make [to endure] for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
• Isa 53:10-12 : 10 ¶ Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.