Numbers 24:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Like valleys they spread out, like gardens by the riverside, like trees of aloes which the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּנְחָלִ֣ים נִטָּ֔יוּ כְּגַנֹּ֖ת עֲלֵ֣י נָהָ֑ר כַּאֲהָלִים֙ נָטַ֣ע יְהוָ֔ה כַּאֲרָזִ֖ים עֲלֵי־מָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

Like nəḥālîm niṭṭāyû, like gannōṯ beside nāhār, like ʾăhālîm nāṭaʿ YHWH, like ʾărāzîm beside-māyim.

Grammar Details

• *nəḥālîm*: noun mp - 'valleys/streams'
• *niṭṭāyû*: niphal perfect 3cp - 'they are stretched out'
• *gannōṯ*: noun fp - 'gardens'
• *nāhār*: noun ms - 'river'
• *ʾăhālîm*: noun mp - 'aloes/aloe trees'
• *nāṭaʿ*: qal perfect 3ms - 'he planted'
• *YHWH*: divine name - 'the LORD'
• *ʾărāzîm*: noun mp - 'cedars'
• *māyim*: noun mp - 'waters'

Word Meanings

• *nəḥālîm*: valleys/streams/wadis/palm trees
• *niṭṭāyû*: stretched out/spread out/extended
• *ʾăhālîm*: aloes/aloe trees/lign aloes
• *nāṭaʿ*: planted/established

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Like valleys they stretch out, like gardens along a river, like aloes planted by the LORD, like cedars beside the waters.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  As valleys{H5158} are they spread forth,{H5186} As gardens{H1593} by the river-side,{H5104} As lign-aloes{H174} which Jehovah{H3068} hath planted,{H5193} As cedar-trees{H730} beside the waters.{H4325}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  As the valleys{H5158} are they spread forth{H5186}{(H8738)}, as gardens{H1593} by the river's side{H5104}, as the trees of lign aloes{H174} which the LORD{H3068} hath planted{H5193}{(H8804)}, and as cedar trees{H730} beside the waters{H4325}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  euen as the brode valeyes and as gardens by the ryuerssyde as the tentes which the Lorde hath pitched and as ciperstrees apon the water.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Euen as the brode valleys, as the gardens by the waters syde, as ye tentes which the LORDE hath plated, & as the Ceder trees vpon ye water.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  As the valleis, are they stretched forth, as gardes by the riuers side, as the aloe trees, which the Lorde hath planted, as the cedars beside the waters.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Euen as the valleys are they layde abrode, & as gardens by the riuers side, as the tentes whiche the Lorde hath pitched, and as cypres trees beside the waters.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, [and] as cedar trees beside the waters.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Yahweh has planted, As cedar trees beside the waters.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  As valleys they have been stretched out, As gardens by a river; As aloes Jehovah hath planted, As cedars by waters;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.

• World English Bible (2000)

  As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  They are like valleys stretched forth, like gardens by the river’s side, like aloes that the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 1:3 : 3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.
• Ps 104:16 : 16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which He has planted;
• Song 4:12-15 : 12 A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. 13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, 14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices: 15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
• Song 6:11 : 11 I went down to the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine had flourished, and the pomegranates had budded.
• Isa 41:19 : 19 I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
• Isa 58:11 : 11 And the LORD shall guide you continually and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones: and you shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
• Jer 17:18 : 18 Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
• Jer 31:12 : 12 Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow anymore at all.
• Ezek 31:3-4 : 3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a sheltering canopy, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs. 4 The waters made it great, the deep set it up on high with its rivers running around its plants, and sent out its little rivers to all the trees of the field.
• Ezek 47:12 : 12 And on the river, on the bank thereof, on this side and that side, shall grow all kinds of trees for food, whose leaf shall not wither, neither shall the fruit thereof fail: it shall bring forth new fruit according to its months, because their waters issue from the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for food, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
• Joel 3:18 : 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.
• Ps 45:8 : 8 All your garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made you glad.
• Ps 92:12-14 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 13 Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and flourishing,
• Gen 2:8-9 : 8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. 9 And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it was divided, and became four heads.
• Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.