Genesis 15:13

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And he sayde vnto Abram: knowe this of a suertie that thi seed shalbe a straunger in a lande that perteyneth not vnto the. And they shall make bondmen of them and entreate them evell iiij. hundred yeares.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לְאַבְרָ֗ם יָדֹ֨עַ תֵּדַ֜ע כִּי־גֵ֣ר ׀ יִהְיֶ֣ה זַרְעֲךָ֗ בְּאֶ֙רֶץ֙ לֹ֣א לָהֶ֔ם וַעֲבָד֖וּם וְעִנּ֣וּ אֹתָ֑ם אַרְבַּ֥ע מֵא֖וֹת שָׁנָֽה׃

Transliteration

And-yōʾmer to-ʾAḇrām yāḏōaʿ tēḏaʿ that-gēr yihyeh zarʿăḵā in-ʾereṣ not to-them and-ʿăḇāḏûm and-ʿinnû them four mēʾôṯ šānāh.

Grammar Details

• *yōʾmer*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he said
• *ʾAḇrām*: proper name
• *yāḏōaʿ*: Qal infinitive absolute - to know
• *tēḏaʿ*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will know
• *gēr*: masculine singular noun - sojourner/alien
• *yihyeh*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will be
• *zarʿăḵā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your seed/offspring
• *ʾereṣ*: feminine singular noun - land
• *ʿăḇāḏûm*: Qal perfect 3rd common plural with waw consecutive and 3rd masculine plural suffix - and they will serve them
• *ʿinnû*: Piel perfect 3rd common plural with waw consecutive - and they will afflict/oppress
• *mēʾôṯ*: feminine plural construct noun - hundreds of
• *šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year

Word Meanings

• *yāḏōaʿ* *tēḏaʿ*: surely know/certainly know (emphatic construction)
• *gēr*: sojourner/alien/foreigner/stranger
• *zarʿăḵā*: your seed/your offspring/your descendants
• *ʾereṣ*: land/earth/territory/country
• *ʿăḇāḏûm*: serve them/be slaves to them/work for them
• *ʿinnû*: afflict/oppress/humble/mistreat

Referenced Verses

• Acts 7:6-7 : 6 God verely spake on this wyse that his seade shulde be a dweller in a straunge londe and that they shulde kepe them in bondage and entreate them evyll.iiii.C. yeares. 7 But the nacion to whom they shalbe in bondage will I iudge sayde God. And after that shall they come forthe and serve me in this place.
• Gal 3:17 : 17 This I saye that the lawe which beganne afterwarde beyonde.iiii.C and.xxx. yeares doth not disanull the testament that was confermed afore of God vnto Christ ward to make the promes of none effect.
• Acts 7:17 : 17 When ye tyme of ye promes drue nye (which God had sworme to Abraham) the people grewe and multiplied in Egipte
• Exod 1:11 : 11 And he sette taskemasters ouer them, to kepe them vnder with burthens. And they byl vnto Pharao treasurecities: Phiton and Raamses.
• Exod 5:1-9 : 1 Then Moses ad Aaro wet and told Pharao, thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel. Let my people goo, that they may kepe holye daye vnto me in the wildernesse. 2 And Pharao answered: what felowe is the Lord, that I shulde heare his voyce for to let Israel goo? 3 I knowe not the Lorde, nether will let Israel goo. And they sayde: the God of the Ebrues hath mett with vs: let vs goo (we praye the) iij. dayes iourney in to the deserte, that we maye sacrifice vnto the Lorde oure God: lest he smyte vs ether with pestilence or with swerde. 4 Then sayde the kinge of Egipte vnto them: wherfore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people fro their worke, gett you vnto youre laboure. 5 And Pharao sayde further more: beholde, there is moch people in the londe, and ye make them playe and let their worke stonde. 6 And Pharao commaunded the same daye vnto the taskemasters ouer the people and vnto the officers saynge: 7 se that ye geue the people no moare strawe to make brycke with all as ye dyd in tyme passed: let them goo and gather them strawe them selues, 8 and the nombre of bricke which they were wont to make in tyme passed, laye vnto their charges also, and minysh nothinge therof. For they be ydill ad therfore crye saynge: let vs goo and do sacrifice vnto oure God. 9 They must haue more worke layed vpon them, that they maye laboure theryn, and than will they not turne them selues to false wordes. 10 Than went the taskemasters of the people and the officers out and tolde the people saynge: thus sayeth Pharao: I will geue you no moare strawe, 11 but goo youre selues ad gather you strawe where ye can fynde it, yet shall none of youre laboure be minyshed. 12 Than the people scatered abrode thorowe out all the lande of Egipte for to gather them stubyll to be in stead of strawe. 13 And the taskemasters hastied the forward sayng: fulfill youre werke daye by daye, eue as when strawe was geuen you. 14 And the officers of the childern of Israel which Pharaos taskmasters had sett ouer them, were beaten. And it was sayde vnto them: wherfore haue ye not fulfilled youre taske in makinge brycke, both yesterdaye and to daye, as well as in tymes past. 15 Than went the officers of the childern of Israel ad complayned vnto Pharao saynge: wherfore dealest thou thus with thy servauntes? 16 there is no strawe geuen vnto thy servauntes, and yet they saye vnto vs: make brycke. And loo, thy servauntes ar beaten, and thy people is foule intreated. 17 And he answered: ydill are ye ydill and therfore ye saye: let vs goo ad do sacrifice vnto the Lorde. 18 Goo therfore and worke, for there shall no strawe be geuen you, and yet see that ye delyuer the hole tale of brycke. 19 when the officers of the childern of Israel sawe them silfe in shrode case (in that he sayde ye shall minysh nothinge of youre dalye makige of brycke) 20 than they mett Moses and Aaro stondinge in there waye as they came out fro Pharao, 21 and sayde vnto them: The Lorde loke vnto you and iudge, for ye haue made the sauoure of vs stincke in the sighte of Pharao and of his servauntes, and haue put a swerde in to their handes to slee vs. 22 Moses returned vnto the Lorde and sayde: Lorde wherfore dealest thou cruelly with this people: and wherfore hast thou sent me? 23 For sence I came to Pharao to speke in thy name, he hath fared foull with this folke, ad yet thou hast not delyuered thy people at all.
• Exod 12:40-41 : 40 And the tyme of the dwellinge of the childern of Israel which they dwelled in Egipte, was.iiij. hundred and.xxx. yere. 41 And whe the iiij. hundred and.xxx. yeres mere expyred, eue the selfe same daye departed all the hostes of the Lorde out of the lande of Egipte.
• Exod 22:21 : 21 vexe not a straunger nether oppresse him for ye were straungers in the londe of Egipte.
• Exod 23:9 : 9 Thou shalt not oppresse a straunger, for I knowe the herte of straunger, because ye were straungers in Egipte.
• Lev 19:34 : 34 But let the straunger that dwelleth with you, be as one of youre selues, and loue him as thi selfe, for ye were straungers in the lande of Egipte. I am the Lorde youre God.
• Deut 10:19 : 19 Loue therfore the straunger, for ye were straungers youre selues in the londe of Egipte.
• Gen 17:8 : 8 And I will geue vnto the ad to thy seed after the the lande where in thou arte a straunger: Euen all the lande of Canaan for an everlastynge possession and wil be their God.
• Exod 1:1-2 : 1 ¶ These are the names of the children of Israel, which came to Egipte with Iacob euery man with his housholde: 2 Rube, Simeon, Leui, Iuda,
• Heb 11:8-9 : 8 By fayth Abraha whe he was called obeyed to goo out into a place which he shuld afterwarde receave to inheritaunce and he wet out not knowynge whether he shuld goo. 9 By fayth he removed into the londe yt was promysed him as into a straunge countre and dwelt in tabernacles: and so dyd Isaac and Iacob heyres with him of the same promes. 10 For he loked for a citie havinge a foundacio whose bylder and maker is God. 11 Thorow fayth Sara also receaved stregth to be with chylde and was delivered of a chylde when she was past age because she iudged him faythfull which had promysed. 12 And therfore spronge therof one (and of one which was as good as deed) so many in multitude as the starres of ye skye and as the sond of the see shore which is innumerable. 13 And they all dyed in fayth and receaved not the promyses: but sawe them a farre of and beleved them and saluted them: and confessed that they were straungers and pilgrems on the erthe.