Numbers 6:27

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׂמ֥וּ אֶת־שְׁמִ֖י עַל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַאֲנִ֖י אֲבָרֲכֵֽם׃ פ

Transliteration

wə-śāmû ʾet-šəmî ʿal-bənê Yiśrāʾēl wa-ʾănî ʾăḇārăḵēm

Grammar Details

• *wə-śāmû*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they shall put
• *ʾet*-*šəmî*: direct object marker + noun, masculine singular + 1st common singular suffix - my name
• *ʿal*-*bənê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - upon sons/children of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *wa-ʾănî*: conjunction + independent personal pronoun, 1st common singular - and I
• *ʾăḇārăḵēm*: Piel imperfect, 1st common singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - I will bless them

Word Meanings

• *wə-śāmû*: and they shall put/and they shall place/and they shall establish
• *šəmî*: my name/my reputation/my character
• *ʾăḇārăḵēm*: I will bless them/I will favor them

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 7:14 : 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
• Deut 28:10 : 10 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
• Dan 9:18-19 : 18 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. 19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
• Ps 5:12 : 12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
• Ps 115:12-13 : 12 The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. 13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
• Num 23:20 : 20 Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and I cannot reverse it.
• 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.
• 2 Sam 7:23 : 23 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
• Gen 12:2-3 : 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: 3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
• Gen 32:26 : 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
• Gen 32:29 : 29 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
• Exod 3:13-15 : 13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them? 14 And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
• Exod 6:3 : 3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
• Exod 34:5-7 : 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
• Isa 43:7 : 7 Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
• Jer 14:9 : 9 Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O LORD, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.
• Ps 67:7 : 7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
• Matt 28:19 : 19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
• Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: