Deuteronomy 26:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעָנִ֨יתָ וְאָמַרְתָּ֜ לִפְנֵ֣י ׀ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֗יךָ אֲרַמִּי֙ אֹבֵ֣ד אָבִ֔י וַיֵּ֣רֶד מִצְרַ֔יְמָה וַיָּ֥גָר שָׁ֖ם בִּמְתֵ֣י מְעָ֑ט וֽ͏ַיְהִי־שָׁ֕ם לְג֥וֹי גָּד֖וֹל עָצ֥וּם וָרָֽב׃

Transliteration

And ʿānâ and ʾāmar before YHWH ʾĕlōhîm your ʾărammî ʾōbēd ʾāb my and yārad miṣrayim and gûr there with mĕtê few and hāyâ there to gôy gādôl ʿāṣûm and rab

Grammar Details

*ʿānâ*: verb, perfect, 2nd singular masculine with *wə-* prefix - and you will respond/answer
*ʾāmar*: verb, perfect, 2nd singular masculine with *wə-* prefix - and you will say
*YHWH*: proper name - LORD
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your God
*ʾărammî*: adjective, masculine singular - Aramean/Syrian
*ʾōbēd*: verb, participle (qal), masculine singular - perishing/wandering
*ʾāb*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my father
*yārad*: verb, imperfect, 3rd singular masculine with *wa-* prefix - and he went down
*miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt (with directional ending)
*gûr*: verb, imperfect, 3rd singular masculine with *wa-* prefix - and he sojourned/dwelt as alien
*mĕtê*: noun, masculine plural construct - men/people of
*hāyâ*: verb, imperfect, 3rd singular masculine with *wa-* prefix - and he became
*gôy*: noun, masculine singular - nation
*gādôl*: adjective, masculine singular - great/large
*ʿāṣûm*: adjective, masculine singular - mighty/numerous
*rab*: adjective, masculine singular - many/abundant

Word Meanings

*ʿānâ*: answer/respond/testify/speak up
*ʾāmar*: say/speak/tell/command
*ʾărammî*: Aramean/Syrian
*ʾōbēd*: perishing/wandering/fugitive/nomadic
*ʾāb*: father/ancestor/forefather
*yārad*: go down/descend/decline
*miṣrayim*: Egypt/Egyptians
*gûr*: sojourn/dwell as alien/stay temporarily
*mĕtê*: men/persons/few individuals
*hāyâ*: become/happen/come to pass
*gôy*: nation/people/gentiles
*gādôl*: great/large/important
*ʿāṣûm*: mighty/numerous/strong
*rab*: many/great/abundant/numerous

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Referenced Verses

Gen 43:1-2 : 1 And the famine was sore in the land. 2 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt, their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.
Gen 46:27 : 27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
Deut 10:22 : 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude.
Hos 12:12 : 12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Acts 7:15 : 15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
Gen 43:12 : 12 And take double money in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an oversight:
Gen 45:7 : 7 And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Gen 45:11 : 11 And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
Gen 46:1-7 : 1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. 2 And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. 3 And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: 4 I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 5 And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 6 And they took their cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him: 7 His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt.
Gen 24:4 : 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Gen 25:20 : 20 And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
Gen 27:41 : 41 And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
Gen 28:5 : 5 And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
Gen 31:20 : 20 And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
Gen 31:24 : 24 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Gen 31:40 : 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Ps 105:23-24 : 23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham. 24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
Isa 51:1-2 : 1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged. 2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
Gen 47:27 : 27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.
Exod 1:5 : 5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Exod 1:12 : 12 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Deut 7:7 : 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

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