Genesis 24:40

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אֵלָ֑י יְהוָ֞ה אֲשֶׁר־הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּי לְפָנָ֗יו יִשְׁלַ֨ח מַלְאָכ֤וֹ אִתָּךְ֙ וְהִצְלִ֣יחַ דַּרְכֶּ֔ךָ וְלָקַחְתָּ֤ אִשָּׁה֙ לִבְנִ֔י מִמִּשְׁפַּחְתִּ֖י וּמִבֵּ֥ית אָבִֽי׃

Transliteration

And-wayyōʾmer to-me: Yhwh that-hiṯhallāḵtî ləp̄ānāyw [before-him] yišlaḥ his-malʾāḵô [messenger] ʾittāḵ and-wəhiṣlîaḥ your-darkəḵā [way]; and-wəlāqaḥtā ʾiššāh for-my-liḇnî [son] from-my-mimmišpaḥtî [family] and-from-mibêṯ my-ʾāḇî [father].

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - 'and he said'
• *Yhwh*: divine name
• *hiṯhallāḵtî*: Hithpael perfect, 1st person singular - 'I walked/lived'
• *ləp̄ānāyw*: preposition + noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'before him'
• *yišlaḥ*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'he will send'
• *malʾāḵô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'his messenger/angel'
• *ʾittāḵ*: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'with you'
• *wəhiṣlîaḥ*: conjunction + Hiphil perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'and he will prosper'
• *darkəḵā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your way'
• *wəlāqaḥtā*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - 'and you shall take'
• *ʾiššāh*: noun, feminine singular - 'woman/wife'
• *liḇnî*: preposition lamed + noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'for my son'
• *mimmišpaḥtî*: preposition min + noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'from my family'
• *mibêṯ*: preposition min + noun, masculine singular construct - 'from house of'
• *ʾāḇî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - 'my father'

Word Meanings

• *hiṯhallāḵtî*: I walked before, I lived before, I conducted myself before
• *ləp̄ānāyw*: before him, in his presence
• *yišlaḥ*: he will send, he shall send
• *malʾāḵô*: his messenger, his angel
• *wəhiṣlîaḥ*: and he will prosper, and he will make successful
• *darkəḵā*: your way, your journey, your path
• *wəlāqaḥtā*: and you shall take, and you will take
• *mimmišpaḥtî*: from my family, from my clan, from my relatives

Referenced Verses

• 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.
• Gen 24:7 : 7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
• Gen 5:22 : 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
• Gen 5:24 : 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
• Exod 23:20 : 20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
• Ps 16:8 : 8 I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
• Ps 91:11 : 11 For he shall give his angels charge{H8762)} over thee, to keep{H8800)} thee in all thy ways.
• Dan 3:28 : 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
• Heb 1:14 : 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
• Rev 22:8 : 8 And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
• Rev 22:16 : 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
• Exod 33:2 : 2 And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
• 1 Kgs 2:3 : 3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
• 1 Kgs 8:23 : 23 And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
• 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
• Ps 1:3 : 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
• Gen 6:9 : 9 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
• Gen 48:15 : 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,