Genesis 12:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֵּרָ֤א יְהוָה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם וַיֹּ֕אמֶר לְזַ֨רְעֲךָ֔ אֶתֵּ֖ן אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את וַיִּ֤בֶן שָׁם֙ מִזְבֵּ֔חַ לַיהוָ֖ה הַנִּרְאֶ֥ה אֵלָֽיו׃

Transliteration

And-wayyērāʾ YHWH to-ʾAbrām and-wayyōʾmer to-zeraʿakā ʾettēn ʾet-the-ʾāreṣ the-zōʾt and-wayyiben there mizbbēaḥ to-YHWH the-hannirʾeh to-him.

Grammar Details

• *wayyērāʾ*: conjunction + imperfect 3rd person masculine singular niphal - and he appeared
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *ʾAbrām*: proper noun - Abram
• *wayyōʾmer*: conjunction + imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he said
• *zeraʿakā*: noun masculine + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your seed/offspring
• *ʾettēn*: imperfect 1st person singular - I will give
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun feminine singular - land
• *zōʾt*: demonstrative feminine singular - this
• *wayyiben*: conjunction + imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - and he built
• *mizbbēaḥ*: noun masculine singular - altar
• *hannirʾeh*: article + participle masculine singular niphal - the one appearing
• *ʾēlāyw*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to him

Word Meanings

• *zeraʿakā*: your seed/your offspring/your descendants
• *hannirʾeh*: who appeared/who had appeared/who was appearing

Referenced Verses

• Gen 17:8 : 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
• Gen 18:1 : 1 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
• Gen 13:15 : 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
• Gen 17:1 : 1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
• Ps 105:9-9 : 9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: 11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance: 12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
• Gal 3:16 : 16 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
• Gen 13:4 : 4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
• Gen 32:30 : 30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
• Gen 26:25 : 25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
• Exod 33:1 : 1 And the LORD said unto Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it:
• Num 32:11 : 11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
• Gen 13:18 : 18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the LORD.
• Gen 12:8 : 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.
• Gen 8:20 : 20 And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
• Gen 15:18 : 18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
• Gen 22:9 : 9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
• Gen 26:3 : 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
• Deut 1:8 : 8 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
• Deut 6:10 : 10 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
• Deut 30:20 : 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
• Gen 28:13 : 13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
• Gen 17:3 : 3 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
• Gen 33:20 : 20 And he erected there an altar, and called it Elelohe-Israel.
• 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.
• Rom 9:8 : 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
• Gal 4:28 : 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
• Heb 11:13 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.