Genesis 27:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

May God give you the dew of the sky and the richness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיִֽתֶּן־לְךָ֙ הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים מִטַּל֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וּמִשְׁמַנֵּ֖י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְרֹ֥ב דָּגָ֖ן וְתִירֹֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

And-wəyitten-to-you the-hāʾĕlōhîm from-miṭṭal the-haššāmayim and-from-ûmišmannê the-hāʾāreṣ and-wərōb dāgān and-wətîrōš

Grammar Details

• *wəyitten*: waw conjunctive + Qal imperfect jussive, 3rd person masculine singular - and may he give
• *hāʾĕlōhîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the God
• *miṭṭal*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - from dew of
• *haššāmayim*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the heavens
• *ûmišmannê*: waw conjunctive + preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - and from fatness/richness of
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the earth
• *wərōb*: waw conjunctive + noun, masculine singular construct - and abundance of
• *dāgān*: noun, masculine singular - grain/corn
• *wətîrōš*: waw conjunctive + noun, masculine singular - and new wine

Word Meanings

• *wəyitten*: may he give/let him give
• *miṭṭal*: from dew/moisture
• *mišmannê*: from fatness/richness/fertility
• *rōb*: abundance/plenty/much
• *dāgān*: grain/corn/cereal
• *tîrōš*: new wine/fresh wine/must

Referenced Verses

• Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel lives in safety, the fountain of Jacob is quite secure, in a land of grain and new wine; indeed, its heavens rain down dew.
• Deut 33:13 : 13 Blessing on Joseph Of Joseph he said: May the LORD bless his land with the harvest produced by the sky, by the dew, and by the depths crouching beneath;
• Gen 27:39 : 39 So his father Isaac said to him,“See here, your home will be by the richness of the earth, and by the dew of the sky above.
• Deut 7:13 : 13 He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.
• Gen 45:18 : 18 Get your father and your households and come to me! Then I will give you the best land in Egypt and you will eat the best of the land.’
• 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 O mountains of Gilboa, may there be no dew or rain on you, nor fields of grain offerings! For it was there that the shield of warriors was defiled; the shield of Saul lies neglected without oil.
• Joel 2:19 : 19 The LORD responded to his people,“Look! I am about to restore your grain as well as fresh wine and olive oil. You will be fully satisfied. I will never again make you an object of mockery among the nations.
• Mic 5:7 : 7 Those survivors from Jacob will live in the midst of many nations. They will be like the dew the LORD sends, like the rain on the grass, that does not hope for men to come or wait around for humans to arrive.
• Zech 8:12 : 12 ‘for there will be a peaceful time of sowing, the vine will produce its fruit, and the ground its yield, and the skies will rain down dew. Then I will allow the remnant of my people to possess all these things.
• Zech 9:17 : 17 How precious and fair! Grain will make the young men flourish and new wine the young women.
• Rom 11:17 : 17 Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them and participated in the richness of the olive root,
• Heb 11:20 : 20 By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning the future.
• Josh 5:6 : 6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.
• 1 Kgs 5:11 : 11 and Solomon supplied Hiram annually with 20,000 cors of wheat as provision for his royal court, as well as 120,000 gallons of pure olive oil.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah Visits a Widow in Sidonian Territory Elijah the Tishbite, from Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab,“As certainly as the LORD God of Israel lives(whom I serve), there will be no dew or rain in the years ahead unless I give the command.”
• 2 Chr 2:10 : 10 Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 cors of ground wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 120,000 gallons of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.”
• Ps 36:8 : 8 They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies.
• Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth and give it rain; you make it rich and fertile. God’s streams are full of water; you provide grain for them, for you have prepared the earth in this way. 10 You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow. 11 You crown the year with your good blessings, and you leave abundance in your wake. 12 The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, and the hills are clothed with joy. 13 The meadows are clothed with sheep, and the valleys are covered with grain. They shout joyfully, yes, they sing.
• Ps 104:15 : 15 as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.
• Ps 133:3 : 3 It is like the dew of Hermon, which flows down upon the hills of Zion. Indeed, that is where the LORD has decreed a blessing will be available– eternal life.
• Isa 45:8 : 8 O sky, rain down from above! Let the clouds send down showers of deliverance! Let the earth absorb it so salvation may grow, and deliverance may sprout up along with it. I, the LORD, create it.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this.”
• Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon. 6 His young shoots will grow; his splendor will be like an olive tree, his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon. 7 People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.
• Gen 49:20 : 20 Asher’s food will be rich, and he will provide delicacies to royalty.
• Num 13:20 : 20 and whether the land is rich or poor, and whether or not there are forests in it. And be brave, and bring back some of the fruit of the land.” Now it was the time of year for the first ripe grapes.
• Num 18:12 : 12 “All the best of the olive oil and all the best of the wine and of the wheat, the first fruits of these things that they give to the LORD, I have given to you.
• Deut 8:7-9 : 7 For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey, 9 a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.
• Deut 11:11-12 : 11 Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains, 12 a land the LORD your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.
• Deut 32:2 : 2 My teaching will drop like the rain, my sayings will drip like the dew, as rain drops upon the grass, and showers upon new growth.