Ezekiel 36:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִרְבֵּיתִ֧י עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם אָדָ֥ם וּבְהֵמָ֖ה וְרָב֣וּ וּפָר֑וּ וְהוֹשַׁבְתִּ֨י אֶתְכֶ֜ם כְּקַדְמֽוֹתֵיכֶ֗ם וְהֵטִֽבֹתִי֙ מֵרִאשֹׁ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וִֽידַעְתֶּ֖ם כִּֽי־אֲנִ֥י יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

wəhirbêtî 'ălêkem 'ādām ûbəhēmâ wərābû ûfārû wəhôšabtî 'etkem kəqadmôtêkem wəhēṭibōtî mēri'šōtêkem wîda'tem kî-'ănî YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wəhirbêtî*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will multiply
• *'ălêkem*: preposition with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - upon you
• *'ādām*: noun, masculine singular - man/mankind/humans
• *ûbəhēmâ*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular - and cattle/animals
• *wərābû*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person plural - and they shall multiply
• *ûfārû*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd person plural - and they shall be fruitful
• *wəhôšabtî*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will cause to settle
• *'etkem*: direct object marker with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - you
• *kəqadmôtêkem*: preposition + noun, feminine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - as your former times
• *wəhēṭibōtî*: conjunction + hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - and I will do better
• *mēri'šōtêkem*: preposition + noun, feminine plural with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - than your beginnings
• *wîda'tem*: conjunction + qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural - and you shall know
• *kî-'ănî*: conjunction + 1st person singular pronoun - that I am
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD

Word Meanings

• *'ādām* *ûbəhēmâ*: humans and cattle/people and livestock
• *rābû* *ûfārû*: they will multiply and be fruitful - hendiadys for abundant increase
• *kəqadmôtêkem*: as in your former times/as in your past/as before
• *mēri'šōtêkem*: than your beginnings/than at first/than previously

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  I will increase the number of people and animals on you, and they will be fruitful and multiply. I will make you inhabited as you were in the past and will do even better for you than at the beginning. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I wil prouyde you with moch people and catell, which shal increase & bringe frute. I wil restore you also to youre olde estate, and shewe you more kindnes the euer ye had before: wherby ye shal knowe, yt I am the LORDE.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And I wil multiply vpon you man & beast, and they shal encrease, and bring fruite, and I will cause you to dwell after your olde estate, & I will bestowe benefites vpon you more then at the first, and ye shal know that I am the Lord.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And I wyll multiplie vpon you man and beast, which shal encrease and bring fruite: and I wyll cause you to dwell after your olde estate, & be better vnto you then at the beginning: and ye shall knowe that I am the Lorde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I [am] the LORD.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And I have multiplied on you man and beast, And they have multiplied and been fruitful, And I have caused you to dwell according to your former states, And I have done better than at your beginnings, And ye have known that I `am' Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better `unto you' than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [unto you] than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

• World English Bible (2000)

  and I will multiply on you man and animal; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better [to you] than at your beginnings: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I will increase the number of people and animals on you; they will increase and be fruitful. I will cause you to be inhabited as in ancient times, and will do more good for you than at the beginning of your history. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

Referenced Verses

• Mic 7:14 : 14 Feed your people with your rod, the flock of your heritage, who dwell solitarily in the woodland, in the midst of Carmel; let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
• Jer 33:12 : 12 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall be a habitation for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
• Ezek 16:55 : 55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former state, then you and your daughters shall return to your former state.
• Jer 30:18 : 18 Thus says the LORD; Behold, I will bring back the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling places; and the city shall be rebuilt on its own ruins, and the palace shall remain as it used to be.
• Jer 31:27 : 27 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.
• Jer 31:38-40 : 38 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananel to the corner gate. 39 And the measuring line shall again extend straight to the hill Gareb, and then shall turn toward Goath. 40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it shall not be uprooted, nor demolished anymore forever.
• Ezek 35:9 : 9 I will make you perpetual desolations, and your cities shall not return: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
• Ezek 36:35 : 35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fortified, and are inhabited.
• Ezek 37:6 : 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD.
• Ezek 37:13 : 13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
• Hos 2:20 : 20 I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness: and you shall know the LORD.
• Joel 3:18-21 : 18 And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drip with new wine, the hills shall flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah shall flow with water, and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim. 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. 20 But Judah shall abide forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. 21 For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed, for the LORD dwells in Zion.
• Amos 9:15 : 15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.
• Obad 1:19-21 : 19 Those of the South shall possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the plain the Philistines; they shall possess the fields of Ephraim and the fields of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead. 20 The captives of this host of the children of Israel shall possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath, and the captives of Jerusalem who are in Sepharad shall possess the cities of the South. 21 Then deliverers shall come up on Mount Zion to judge the mountain of Esau, and the kingdom shall be the LORD's.
• Hag 2:6-9 : 6 For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land; 7 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of hosts. 8 The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, says the LORD of hosts. 9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of hosts: and in this place I will give peace, says the LORD of hosts.
• Zech 8:11-15 : 11 But now I will not be to the remnant of this people as in the former days, says the LORD of hosts. 12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things. 13 And it shall come to pass, that as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong. 14 For thus says the LORD of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked Me to wrath, says the LORD of hosts, and I did not relent: 15 So again have I thought in these days to do good to Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear not.
• Heb 8:8-9 : 8 For finding fault with them, He says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, says the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more. 13 In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first old. Now that which decays and grows old is ready to vanish away.
• Heb 11:40 : 40 God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
• Job 42:12 : 12 Now the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning, for he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.
• Isa 30:26 : 26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people, and heals the wound of their bruise.
• Isa 52:4-6 : 4 For thus says the Lord GOD, My people went down previously into Egypt to live there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. 5 Now therefore, what have I here, says the LORD, that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them make them to wail, says the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. 6 Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he who speaks: behold, it is I.
• Isa 54:7-9 : 7 For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with great mercies will I gather you. 8 In a little wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on you, says the LORD your Redeemer. 9 For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you. 10 For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, says the LORD that has mercy on you.
• Jer 23:5-8 : 5 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. 6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely. And this is his name by which he shall be called: THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 7 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that they shall no longer say, 'The LORD lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt'; 8 But, 'The LORD lives, who brought up and led the descendants of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries where I had driven them.' And they shall dwell in their own land.