Zechariah 8:12

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־זֶ֣רַע הַשָּׁל֗וֹם הַגֶּ֜פֶן תִּתֵּ֤ן פִּרְיָהּ֙ וְהָאָ֙רֶץ֙ תִּתֵּ֣ן אֶת־יְבוּלָ֔הּ וְהַשָּׁמַ֖יִם יִתְּנ֣וּ טַלָּ֑ם וְהִנְחַלְתִּ֗י אֶת־שְׁאֵרִ֛ית הָעָ֥ם הַזֶּ֖ה אֶת־כָּל־אֵֽלֶּה׃

Transliteration

For-zeraʿ haššālôm haggepen tittēn piryāh and-hāʾāreṣ tittēn yəḇûlāh and-haššāmayim yittənû ṭallām and-hinḥaltî šəʾērît hāʿām hazzeh all-these.

Grammar Details

• *zeraʿ*: masculine singular construct - seed of
• *haššālôm*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the peace
• *haggepen*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the vine
• *tittēn*: qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - she will give
• *piryāh*: masculine singular noun with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her fruit
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun with waw conjunction - and the land/earth
• *yəḇûlāh*: masculine singular noun with 3rd feminine singular suffix - her produce
• *haššāmayim*: definite article + masculine plural noun with waw conjunction - and the heavens
• *yittənû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they will give
• *ṭallām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their dew
• *hinḥaltî*: hiphil perfect, 1st singular with waw conjunction - and I will cause to inherit
• *šəʾērît*: feminine singular construct - remnant of
• *hāʿām*: definite article + masculine singular noun - the people
• *hazzeh*: definite article + demonstrative adjective - this

Word Meanings

• *zeraʿ*: seed/sowing/offspring
• *haššālôm*: the peace/prosperity/well-being
• *yəḇûlāh*: her produce/yield/fruit
• *hinḥaltî*: I will cause to inherit/possess/give as inheritance

Referenced Verses

• Gen 27:28 : 28 Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:
• Lev 26:4-5 : 4 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. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.
• Deut 33:13 : 13 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the w, and for the ep that coucheth beneath,
• 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.
• 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.
• Isa 61:7 : 7 For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
• 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.
• Deut 28:4-9 : 4 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. 5 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out. 7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways. 8 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 9 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, and walk in his ways. 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. 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee. 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.
• Ps 67:6-7 : 6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, shall bless us. 7 God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
• Hos 14:5 : 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
• Joel 2:22 : 22 Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and the vine do yield their strength.
• Amos 9:13-15 : 13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
• Hag 1:10 : 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
• Hag 2:19 : 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.
• Matt 6:33 : 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
• Gen 26:12 : 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
• 1 Cor 3:21 : 21 Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
• Jas 3:18 : 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
• Zech 8:6 : 6 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts.
• Obad 1:17-20 : 17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jac shall possess their possessions. 18 And the house of Jac shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the LORD hath spoken it. 19 And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20 And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.
• Mic 4:6-7 : 6 In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted; 7 And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
• Ps 72:3 : 3 The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by righteousness.
• Prov 3:9-9 : 9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy esses shall burst out with new wine.
• Prov 19:12 : 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
• Deut 32:2 : 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the w, as the small rain upon the tenr herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
• Ezek 36:12 : 12 Yea, I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of men.
• Hos 2:21-23 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; 22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. 23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Tu art my people; and they shall say, Tu art my God.
• Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down w.
• 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.