Malachi 1:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעֵינֵיכֶ֖ם תִּרְאֶ֑ינָה וְאַתֶּ֤ם תֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ יִגְדַּ֣ל יְהוָ֔ה מֵעַ֖ל לִגְב֥וּל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

wəʿênêḵem tirʾeynāh wəʾattem tōʾmərû yiḡdal YHWH mēʿal liḡḇûl Yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

• *wəʿênêḵem*: conjunction + noun, feminine dual construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your eyes
• *tirʾeynāh*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural - they will see
• *wəʾattem*: conjunction + pronoun, 2nd person masculine plural - and you
• *tōʾmərû*: verb, Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you will say
• *yiḡdal*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular jussive - may he be magnified/let him be great
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *mēʿal*: preposition + preposition - from upon/beyond
• *liḡḇûl*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - to the border/territory of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *tirʾeynāh*: they will see/they shall see/they will witness
• *yiḡdal*: may he be magnified/be great/is magnified
• *mēʿal*: beyond/above/from upon
• *liḡḇûl*: to the border/territory/region

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:3 : 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you.
• Deut 11:7 : 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
• Josh 24:7 : 7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
• 1 Sam 12:16 : 16 Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes.
• 2 Chr 29:8 : 8 Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
• Ps 35:26-27 : 26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion{H8799)} together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed{H8799)} with shame and dishonour that magnify{H8688)} themselves against me. 27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad{H8799)}, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say{H8799)} continually, Let the LORD be magnified{H8799)}, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
• Ps 58:10-11 : 10 The righteous shall rejoice{H8799)} when he seeth{H8804)} the vengeance: he shall wash{H8799)} his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11 So that a man shall say{H8799)}, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth{H8802)} in the earth.
• Ps 83:17-18 : 17 Let them be confounded{H8799)} and troubled{H8735)} for ever; yea, let them be put to shame{H8799)}, and perish{H8799)}: 18 That men may know{H8799)} that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
• Ezek 38:16 : 16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
• Ezek 38:23 : 23 Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.
• Ezek 39:21-22 : 21 And I will set my glory among the heathen, and all the heathen shall see my judgment that I have executed, and my hand that I have laid upon them. 22 So the house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God from that day and forward.
• Mic 5:4 : 4 And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
• Luke 10:23-24 : 23 And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: 24 For I tell you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.