Leviticus 26:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֤י שָׁלוֹם֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ וּשְׁכַבְתֶּ֖ם וְאֵ֣ין מַחֲרִ֑יד וְהִשְׁבַּתִּ֞י חַיָּ֤ה רָעָה֙ מִן־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְחֶ֖רֶב לֹא־תַעֲבֹ֥ר בְּאַרְצְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-nātattî šālôm in-hāʾāreṣ and-šekabtem and-ʾên maḥărîd and-hišbattî ḥayyâ rāʿâ from-hāʾāreṣ and-ḥereb not-taʿăbōr in-ʾarṣekem

Grammar Details

• *nātattî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will give
• *šālôm*: noun, masculine singular - peace
• *hāʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land/earth
• *šekabtem*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - and you will lie down
• *ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
• *maḥărîd*: verb, hiphil participle, masculine singular - causing to tremble/frightening
• *hišbattî*: verb, hiphil perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will cause to cease
• *ḥayyâ*: noun, feminine singular - animal/beast
• *rāʿâ*: adjective, feminine singular - evil/harmful
• *ḥereb*: noun, feminine singular - sword
• *taʿăbōr*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it will pass
• *ʾarṣekem*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your land

Word Meanings

• *šālôm*: peace/well-being/completeness
• *maḥărîd*: one who frightens/disturber/terrorizer
• *ḥayyâ rāʿâ*: harmful animal/wild beast/dangerous animal
• *ḥereb*: sword/warfare/violence

Referenced Verses

• Zeph 3:13 : 13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
• Jer 30:10 : 10 Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
• Ezek 34:25 : 25 And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
• Ps 147:14 : 14 He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
• Ps 29:11 : 11 The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
• Isa 35:9 : 9 No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
• 1 Chr 22:9 : 9 Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.
• Job 11:19 : 19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
• Ezek 5:17 : 17 So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee; and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.
• Ezek 14:15 : 15 If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:
• Ezek 14:17 : 17 Or if I bring a sword upon that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off man and beast from it:
• Ps 4:8 : 8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
• Hag 2:9 : 9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Zech 9:10 : 10 And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.
• John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
• Acts 12:6 : 6 And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
• Rom 5:1 : 1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
• Phil 4:7-9 : 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
• Ezek 14:21 : 21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast?
• Hos 2:18 : 18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
• Mic 4:4 : 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
• Jer 31:26 : 26 Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.
• Ps 3:5 : 5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
• Job 5:23 : 23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
• Exod 23:29 : 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
• Lev 26:22 : 22 I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
• 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
• 2 Kgs 17:25-26 : 25 And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them. 26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.
• Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
• Ps 85:8 : 8 I will hear{H8799)} what God the LORD will speak{H8762)}: for he will speak{H8762)} peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again{H8799)} to folly.
• Ps 127:1-2 : 1 A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
• Prov 3:24 : 24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
• Prov 6:22 : 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
• Isa 9:7 : 7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.