Genesis 37:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood around, and bowed to my sheaf.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְ֠הִנֵּה אֲנַ֜חְנוּ מְאַלְּמִ֤ים אֲלֻמִּים֙ בְּת֣וֹךְ הַשָּׂדֶ֔ה וְהִנֵּ֛ה קָ֥מָה אֲלֻמָּתִ֖י וְגַם־נִצָּ֑בָה וְהִנֵּ֤ה תְסֻבֶּ֙ינָה֙ אֲלֻמֹּ֣תֵיכֶ֔ם וַתִּֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֖יןָ לַאֲלֻמָּתִֽי׃

Transliteration

And wə-hinnê we məʾalləmîm ʾălummîm in the midst of the ha-śāḏê, and wə-hinnê qāmâ my ʾălummāṯî and also-niṣṣāḇâ; and wə-hinnê ṯəsubbênâ your ʾălummōṯêḵem and wə-tištaḥăwênā to my la-ʾălummāṯî

Grammar Details

• *wə-hinnê*: conjunction with demonstrative particle - 'and behold/look'
• *məʾalləmîm*: piel participle, masculine plural - 'binding/gathering sheaves'
• *ʾălummîm*: noun, masculine plural - 'sheaves/bundles'
• *ha-śāḏê*: definite article with noun, masculine singular - 'the field'
• *qāmâ*: verb, perfect 3rd feminine singular - 'arose/stood up'
• *ʾălummāṯî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st common singular suffix - 'my sheaf'
• *niṣṣāḇâ*: niphal perfect 3rd feminine singular - 'stood upright/established'
• *ṯəsubbênâ*: imperfect 3rd feminine plural - 'they went around/surrounded'
• *ʾălummōṯêḵem*: noun, feminine plural with 2nd masculine plural suffix - 'your sheaves'
• *wə-tištaḥăwênā*: waw-consecutive with imperfect 3rd feminine plural - 'and they bowed down'

Word Meanings

• *məʾalləmîm* *ʾălummîm*: binding sheaves/gathering bundles
• *niṣṣāḇâ*: stood upright/remained standing/was established

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  "We were binding sheaves in the field when suddenly my sheaf stood up and remained upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine."

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Beholde we were makynge sheues in the felde: and loo my shefe arose and stode vpright and youres stode rounde aboute and made obeysaunce to my shefe.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Me thought we were byndinge sheeues vpo ye felde, & my shefe arose, and stode vp, and youre sheeues rounde aboute made obeysaunce vnto my shefe.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Beholde nowe, wee were binding sheues in the middes of the field: and loe, my shefe arose and also stoode vpright, and behold, your sheues compassed rounde about, and did reuerence to my shefe.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Beholde, we were byndyng sheaues in the fielde: and lo, my sheafe arose and stoode vpright, & beholde, your sheaues stoode rounde about, and made obeysaunce to my sheafe.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For, behold, we [were] binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  that, lo, we are binding bundles in the midst of the field, and lo, my bundle hath arisen, and hath also stood up, and lo, your bundles are round about, and bow themselves to my bundle.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

• World English Bible (2000)

  for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the middle of the field. Suddenly my sheaf rose up and stood upright and your sheaves surrounded my sheaf and bowed down to it!”

Referenced Verses

• Gen 42:6 : 6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was who sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brothers came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the ground.
• Gen 42:9 : 9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said to them, You are spies; to see the nakedness of the land you have come.
• Gen 43:26 : 26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the gift that was in their hand into the house, and bowed themselves to him to the ground.
• Gen 44:14 : 14 And Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; for he was still there: and they fell before him on the ground.
• Gen 44:19 : 19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Do you have a father or a brother?
• Phil 2:10 : 10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth;
• Col 1:18 : 18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.