Leviticus 26:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

📖 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 yield her increase; [and] God, [even] our own God, shall bless us.
• Ps 68:9 : 9 Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
• Ps 85:12 : 12 Yea, the LORD shall give [that which is] good; and our land shall yield her increase.
• Ezek 34:26-27 : 26 And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. 27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I [am] the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
• Ezek 36:30 : 30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.
• Joel 2:23-24 : 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month]. 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.
• Lev 25:21 : 21 Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.
• Deut 11:14 : 14 That I will give [you] the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
• Deut 28:12 : 12 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
• Job 5:10 : 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
• Job 38:25-28 : 25 ¶ Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder; 26 To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is; on] the wilderness, wherein [there is] no man; 27 To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth? 28 Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
• Ps 65:9-9 : 9 Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, [which] is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it. 10 Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof. 11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness. 12 They drop [upon] the pastures of the wilderness: and the little hills rejoice on every side. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
• Hag 2:18-19 : 18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider [it]. 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you].
• Zech 8:12 : 12 For the seed [shall be] prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these [things].
• Isa 30:23 : 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed, that thou shalt sow the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there [any] among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? [art] not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these [things].
• Matt 5:45 : 45 ‹That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.›
• Acts 14:17 : 17 Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
• Jas 5:7 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
• Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
• Rev 11:6 : 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
• Job 37:11-13 : 11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud: 12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth. 13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 ¶ And Elijah the Tishbite, [who was] of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, [As] the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
• Amos 4:7-8 : 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when [there were] yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8 So two [or] three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
• Ps 104:13 : 13 He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
• Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.