Leviticus 26:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I will give you your rains in their time so that the land will give its yield and the trees of the field will produce their fruit.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֥י גִשְׁמֵיכֶ֖ם בְּעִתָּ֑ם וְנָתְנָ֤ה הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ יְבוּלָ֔הּ וְעֵ֥ץ הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה יִתֵּ֥ן פִּרְיֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And-nātattî gišmêkem in-ʿittām and-nātenâ hāʾāreṣ yebûlāh and-ʿēṣ haśśādeh yittēn piryô

Grammar Details

• *nātattî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will give
• *gišmêkem*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your rains
• *ʿittām*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their time/season
• *nātenâ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular with waw consecutive - and it will give
• *hāʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land/earth
• *yebûlāh*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - its produce
• *ʿēṣ*: noun, masculine singular construct - tree of
• *haśśādeh*: noun, masculine singular with definite article - the field
• *yittēn*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will give
• *piryô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its fruit

Word Meanings

• *gišmêkem*: your rains/your showers
• *ʿittām*: their time/their appointed season
• *yebûlāh*: its produce/its yield/its increase
• *haśśādeh*: the field/the open country

Referenced Verses

• Ps 67:6 : 6 The earth yields its crops. May God, our God, bless us!
• Ps 68:9 : 9 O God, you cause abundant showers to fall on your chosen people. When they are tired, you sustain them,
• Ps 85:12 : 12 Yes, the LORD will bestow his good blessings, and our land will yield its crops.
• Ezek 34:26-27 : 26 I will turn them and the regions around my hill into a blessing. I will make showers come down in their season; they will be showers that bring blessing. 27 The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
• Ezek 36:30 : 30 I will multiply the fruit of the trees and the produce of the fields, so that you will never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.
• Joel 2:23-24 : 23 Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the LORD your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains– both the early and the late rains as formerly. 24 The threshing floors are full of grain; the vats overflow with fresh wine and olive oil.
• Lev 25:21 : 21 I will command my blessing for you in the sixth year so that it may yield the produce for three years,
• Deut 11:14 : 14 then he promises,“I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.
• Deut 28:12 : 12 The LORD will open for you his good treasure house, the heavens, to give you rain for the land in its season and to bless all you do; you will lend to many nations but you will not borrow from any.
• Job 5:10 : 10 he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;
• Job 38:25-28 : 25 Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains, and a path for the rumble of thunder, 26 to cause it to rain on an uninhabited land, a wilderness where there are no human beings, 27 to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation? 28 Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
• 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.
• Hag 2:18-19 : 18 ‘Think carefully about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the LORD was resumed, think about it. 19 The seed is still in the storehouse, isn’t it? And the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive tree have not produced. Nevertheless, from today on I will bless you.’”
• 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.
• Isa 30:23 : 23 He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.
• 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.”
• Matt 5:45 : 45 so that you may be like your Father in heaven, since he causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
• Acts 14:17 : 17 yet he did not leave himself without a witness by doing good, by giving you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying you with food and your hearts with joy.”
• Jas 5:7 : 7 Patience in Suffering So be patient, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s return. Think of how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the ground and is patient for it until it receives the early and late rains.
• Jas 5:17-18 : 17 Elijah was a human being like us, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain and there was no rain on the land for three years and six months! 18 Then he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land sprouted with a harvest.
• Rev 11:6 : 6 These two have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. They have power to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.
• Job 37:11-13 : 11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds. 12 The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world. 13 Whether it is for punishment, or for his land, or for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.
• 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.”
• Amos 4:7-8 : 7 “I withheld rain from you three months before the harvest. I gave rain to one city, but not to another. One field would get rain, but the field that received no rain dried up. 8 People from two or three cities staggered into one city to get water, but remained thirsty. Still you did not come back to me.” The LORD is speaking!
• Ps 104:13 : 13 He waters the mountains from the upper rooms of his palace; the earth is full of the fruit you cause to grow.
• Isa 5:6 : 6 I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.