Genesis 9:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּ֥חֶל נֹ֖חַ אִ֣ישׁ הֽ͏ָאֲדָמָ֑ה וַיִּטַּ֖ע כָּֽרֶם׃

Transliteration

And-wayyāḥel nōaḥ ʾîš hāʾădāmāh and-wayyiṭṭaʿ kārem.

Grammar Details

• *wayyāḥel*: waw-consecutive + imperfect, 3rd singular masculine, hiphil - and he began
• *nōaḥ*: proper noun, masculine, singular - Noah
• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine, singular, construct state - man of
• *hāʾădāmāh*: noun, feminine, singular + definite article - the ground
• *wayyiṭṭaʿ*: waw-consecutive + imperfect, 3rd singular masculine - and he planted
• *kārem*: noun, masculine, singular - vineyard

Word Meanings

• *wayyāḥel*: and he began/and he started/and he was the first
• *ʾîš*: man/husband/person
• *hāʾădāmāh*: the ground/the soil/the land/the earth
• *wayyiṭṭaʿ*: and he planted/and he established/and he set

Referenced Verses

• Gen 3:18-19 : 18 Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Gen 3:23 : 23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
• Gen 4:2 : 2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
• Gen 5:29 : 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.
• Deut 20:6 : 6 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man eat of it.
• Deut 28:30 : 30 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
• Prov 10:11 : 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
• Prov 12:11 : 11 He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain persons is void of understanding.
• Prov 24:30 : 30 I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;
• Eccl 5:9 : 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
• Song 1:6 : 6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
• Isa 28:24-26 : 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? 26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
• 1 Cor 9:7 : 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?