Jeremiah 29:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קְח֣וּ נָשִׁ֗ים וְהוֹלִידוּ֮ בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנוֹת֒ וּקְח֨וּ לִבְנֵיכֶ֜ם נָשִׁ֗ים וְאֶת־בְּנֽוֹתֵיכֶם֙ תְּנ֣וּ לַֽאֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְתֵלַ֖דְנָה בָּנִ֣ים וּבָנ֑וֹת וּרְבוּ־שָׁ֖ם וְאַל־תִּמְעָֽטוּ

Transliteration

qəḥû nāšîm wə-hôlîdû bānîm û-bānôt û-qəḥû for-bnêḵem nāšîm wə-ʾet-bənôtêḵem tənû to-ʾănāšîm wə-tēladnâ bānîm û-bānôt û-rəbû-there wə-ʾal-timʿāṭû

Grammar Details

• *qəḥû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - take
• *nāšîm*: feminine plural noun - women/wives
• *wə*: conjunction - and
• *hôlîdû*: hiphil imperative, masculine plural - beget/bear
• *bānîm*: masculine plural noun - sons
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *bānôt*: feminine plural noun - daughters
• *bnêḵem*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your sons
• *bənôtêḵem*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your daughters
• *tənû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - give
• *ʾănāšîm*: masculine plural noun - men
• *tēladnâ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural - they may bear
• *rəbû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - multiply/increase
• *ʾal*: negative particle
• *timʿāṭû*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you become few

Word Meanings

• *qəḥû*: take/get
• *nāšîm*: women/wives
• *hôlîdû*: beget/bear/produce
• *tənû*: give/set/place
• *tēladnâ*: they may bear/give birth to
• *rəbû*: multiply/increase/become many
• *timʿāṭû*: you become few/diminish

Referenced Verses

• Jer 16:2-4 : 2 Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place. 3 For thus saith the LORD concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land; 4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented; neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.
• 1 Cor 7:36-38 : 36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry. 37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well. 38 So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
• 1 Tim 5:14 : 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.
• Gen 1:27-28 : 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
• Gen 9:7 : 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
• Gen 21:21 : 21 And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
• Gen 24:3-4 : 3 And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
• Gen 24:51 : 51 Behold, Rebekah is before thee, take her, and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, as the LORD hath spoken.
• Gen 24:60 : 60 And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.
• Gen 28:1-4 : 1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people; 4 And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
• Gen 29:19 : 19 And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
• Gen 34:4 : 4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.
• Judg 1:12-14 : 12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?
• Judg 12:9 : 9 And he had thirty sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
• Judg 14:2 : 2 And he came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me to wife.