Genesis 15:18

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And that same daye the LORde made a covenaunte with Abram saynge: vnto thy seed wyll I geue thys londe fro the ryver of Egypte even vnto the greate ryver euphrates:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֗וּא כָּרַ֧ת יְהוָ֛ה אֶת־אַבְרָ֖ם בְּרִ֣ית לֵאמֹ֑ר לְזַרְעֲךָ֗ נָתַ֙תִּי֙ אֶת־הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֔את מִנְּהַ֣ר מִצְרַ֔יִם עַד־הַנָּהָ֥ר הַגָּדֹ֖ל נְהַר־פְּרָֽת׃

Transliteration

In-the-yôm the-that kāraṯ YHWH with-ʾAḇrām bərîṯ lēʾmōr to-zarʿăḵā nāṯattî et-the-ʾāreṣ the-this from-nəhar Miṣrayim until-the-nāhār the-gāḏōl nəhar-Pərāṯ.

Grammar Details

• *yôm*: masculine singular noun with prefix preposition and definite article - in the day
• *kāraṯ*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - cut/made
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾAḇrām*: proper name with preposition
• *bərîṯ*: feminine singular noun - covenant
• *lēʾmōr*: Qal infinitive construct with prefix - to say
• *zarʿăḵā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your seed/offspring
• *nāṯattî*: Qal perfect 1st person singular - I have given
• *ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun - land
• *nəhar*: masculine singular construct noun - river of
• *Miṣrayim*: proper name - Egypt
• *nāhār*: masculine singular noun - river
• *gāḏōl*: masculine singular adjective - great
• *Pərāṯ*: proper name - Euphrates

Word Meanings

• *kāraṯ*: cut/made/established (idiom for covenant-making)
• *bərîṯ*: covenant/agreement/treaty/alliance
• *zarʿăḵā*: your seed/your offspring/your descendants/your posterity
• *nāṯattî*: I have given/I give/I will give (prophetic perfect)
• *ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/territory/country
• *nəhar*: river/stream/wadi
• *gāḏōl*: great/large/mighty

Referenced Verses

• Gen 12:7 : 7 Then the LORde apeared vnto Abram ad sayd: vnto thy seed wyll I geue thys lade. And he buylded an aultere there vnto the LORDE which apeared to hym.
• Deut 1:7-8 : 7 departe therfore and take youre iurney and goo vnto the hilles of the Amorites and vnto all places nye there vnto: both feldes, hilles and dales: and vnto the south and vnto the sees syde in the londe of Canaan, and vnto libanon: euen vnto the greate ryuer Euphrates. 8 Beholde, I haue set the londe before you: goo in therfore and possesse the londe which the Lord sware vnto youre fathers Abraham, Isaac and Iacob, to geue vnto them and their seed after them.
• Exod 23:27-31 : 27 I will sende my feare before the and will kyll all the people whether thou shalt goo. And I will make all thine enemies turne their backes vnto the, 28 ad I will send hornettes before the, and they shall dryue out the Heuites, the Cananites and the Hethites before the. 29 I will not cast them out in one yere, lest the lande growe to a wyldernesse: and the beestes of the felde multiplye apon the. 30 But a litle and a litle I will dryue them out before the, vntill thou be increased that thou mayst enherett the londe. 31 And I will make thi costes fro the red see vnto the see of the Philistenes and from the deserte vnto the ryuer. I will delyuer the inhabiters of the londe in to thine hande, and thou shalt dryue them out before the.
• Gen 13:15 : 15 for all the lande which thou seiste wyll I gyue vnto the and to thy seed for ever.
• Gen 24:7 : 7 The LORde God of heauen which toke me from my fathers house and from the lande where I was borne and which spake vnto me and sware vnto me saynge: vnto thy seed wyll I geue this lande he shall sende his angell before the yt thou mayst take a wife vnto my sonne from thence.
• Gen 26:4 : 4 and will multiplye thy seed as ye starres of heave and will geue vnto thy seed all these contreis. And thorow thy seed shall all the natios of the erth be blessed
• Deut 11:24 : 24 All the places where on the soles of youre fete shall treade, shalbe youres: euen from the wildernesse and from Libanon and from the ryuer Ephrates, euen vnto the vttermost see shall youre costes be.
• Deut 34:4 : 4 And the Lorde sayed vnto him. This is the londe which I sware vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob sayenge: I will geue it vnto thy seed. I haue shewed it the before thyne eyes: but thou shalt not goo ouer thither.
• Num 34:5 : 5 And shall fet a copasse from Azmon vnto the ryuer of Egipte and shall goo out at the see.
• Gal 3:15-17 : 15 Brethren I will speake after the maner of men. Though it be but a mans testament yet no ma despiseth it or addeth eny thinge therto when it is once alowed. 16 To Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He sayth not in the seedes as in many: but in thy sede as in one which is Christ. 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.
• Heb 13:20 : 20 The god of peace that brought agayne fro deth oure LORde Iesus the gret shepperde of the shepe thorowe the bloud of the everlastynge testamet
• Gen 28:4 : 4 and geue the the blessynge of Abraham: both to the and to thy seed with the that thou mayst possesse the lade (wherein thou art a strangere) which God gaue vnto Abraham.
• Gen 28:13-14 : 13 yee ad the LORde stode apon it and sayde. I am the LORde God of Abraham thi father and the God of Isaac: The londe which thou slepest apon will I geue the and thy seed. 14 And thy seed shalbe as the dust of the erth: And thou shalt spreade abrode: west east north and south. And thorow the and thy seed shall all the kynreddes of the erth be blessed.
• Gen 35:12 : 12 And the lande which I gaue Abraha and Isaac will I geue vnto the and vnto thi seed after the will I geue it also.
• Gen 50:24 : 24 And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethern: I die And God will suerlie vysett you and bringe you out of this lande vnto the lande which he sware vnto Abraham Isaac and Iacob.
• Exod 3:8 : 8 and am come downe to delyuer them out of the handes of the Egiptians, and to brynge the out of that londe vnto a good londe and a large, and vnto a londe that floweth with mylke and hony: euen vnto the place of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Pherezites, Heuites, and of the Iebusites.
• Exod 6:4 : 4 Moreouer I made an appoyntment with them to geue them the londe of Canaa: the londe of their pilgremage wherin they were straungers.
• Exod 23:23 : 23 when myne angell goth before the ad hath broughte the in vnto the Amorites, Hethites Pherezites, Canaanites, Heuites and Iebusites and I shall haue destroyed them:
• Gen 17:1-9 : 1 When Abram was nynetye yere olde and ix. the LORde apeared to hym sayenge: I am the almyghtie God: walke before me ad be vncorrupte. 2 And I wyll make my bonde betwene the and me and wyll multiplye the excedyngly. 3 And Abra fell on his face. And God talked moreover with hym saynge: 4 I am beholde my testamet is with the that thou shalt be a father of many natios. 5 Therfore shalt thou no more be called Abram but thy name shalbe Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made th 6 and I will multiplye the excedyngly and wyll make nations of the: yee and kynges shall sprynge out of the. 7 Moreover I will make my bonde betwene me and the and thy seed after the in their tymes to be an everlastynge testament So that I wyll be God vnto the and to thy seed after the. 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. 9 And God sayde vnto Abraha: Se thou kepe my testamente both thou and thy seed after the in their tymes: 10 This is my testamente which ye shall kepe betwene me and you and thy seed after the that ye circucyse all youre men childern ye shall circumcys 11 the foreskynne of youre flesh ad it shal be a token of the bond betwixte me and you. 12 And euery manchilde when it is viij. dayes olde shal be circucysed amonge you in youre generations and all servauntes also borne at home or boughte with money though they be straungers and not of thy seed. 13 The seruaunte borne in thy housse ad he also that is bought with money must needes be circumcysed that my testament may be in youre flesh for an everlastinge bonde. 14 Yf there be any vncircuncysed manchilde that hath not the forskynne of his flesh cutt of his soule shall perish from his people: because he hath broke my testamet 15 And God sayde vnto Abraham. Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called Sarai: but Sara shall hir name be. 16 For I will blesse her and geue the a sonne of her and will blesse her: so that people ye and kynges of people shall springe of her. 17 And Abraham fell vpon his face ad laughte and sayd in his harte: shall a childe be borne vnto hym that is an hundred yere olde ad shall Sara that is nynetie yere olde bere? 18 And Abraha sayde vnto God. O that Ismaell myghte lyve in thy syghte. 19 The sayde God: na Sara thy wife shall bere the a sonne ad thou shalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my bonde with him that it shall be an everlastynge bonde vnto his seed after him. 20 And as concernynge Ismaell also I haue herde thy request: loo I will blesse him and encrease him and multiplye him excedyingly. Twelve prynces shall be begete and I will make a great nation of him. 21 But my bonde will I make with Isaac which Sara shall bere vnto the: even this tyme twelue moneth. 22 And God left of talkynge with him and departed vp from Abraham. 23 And Abraham toke Ismaell his sonne and all the servauntes borne in his housse and all that was bought with money as many as were menchildren amonge the me of Abrahas housse and circumcysed the foreskynne of their flesh even the selfe same daye as God had sayde vnto him. 24 Abraham was nynetie yere olde and.ix. when he cutt of the foreskynne of his flesh. 25 And Ismaell his sonne was.xiij. yere olde when the foreskynne of hys flesh was circumcysed. 26 The selfe same daye was Abraha circucised and Ismael his sonne. 27 And all the men in his housse whether they were borne in his housse or bought wyth money (though they were straungers) were circumcysed with him.
• Gen 2:14 : 14 And the name of the thyrde river is Hidekell which runneth on the easte syde of the assyryans And the fourth river is Euphrates.
• Gen 9:8-9 : 8 Farthermore God spake vnto Noe and to hys sonnes wyth hym saynge: 9 see I make my bod wyth you and youre seed after you 10 and wyth all lyvynge thinge that is wyth you: both foule and catell and all maner beste of the erth that is wyth yow of all that commeth out of the arke what soeuer beste of the erth it be. 11 I make my bonde wyth yow that hence forth all flesh shall not be destroyed wyth yt waters of any floud ad yt hence forth there shall not be a floud to destroy the erth. 12 And God sayd. This is the token of my bode which I make betwene me and yow ad betwene all lyvynge thyng that is with yow for ever: 13 I wyll sette my bowe in the cloudes and it shall be a sygne of the appoyntment made betwene me and the erth: 14 So that when I brynge in cloudes vpo ye erth the bowe shall appere in ye cloudes. 15 And than wyll I thynke vppon my testament which I haue made betwene me and yow and all that lyveth what soeuer flesh it be. So that henceforth there shall be no more waters to make a floud to destroy all flesh. 16 The bowe shalbe in the cloudes and I wyll loke vpon it to remembre the euerlastynge testament betwene God and all that lyveth vppon the erth what soeuer flesh it be. 17 And God sayd vnto Noe: This is the sygne of the testament which I have made betwene me and all flesh yt is on the erth.
• Exod 34:11 : 11 kepe all that I commaunde the this daye, and beholde: I will cast out before the: the Amorites, Canaanites, Hethites, Pherezites, Heuites and Iebusites.
• Num 34:2-3 : 2 comaude the childern of Israel and saye vnto them: when ye come in to the londe of Canaan this is the londe that shall fall vnto youre enheritaunce the londe of Canaan with all hir costes. 3 And youre south quarter shalbe from the wildernesse of Zin alonge by the coste of Edom so that youre south quarter shalbe from the syde of the salte see eastwarde
• Deut 7:1 : 1 Whe the Lorde thy God hath brought the in to the lond whither thou goest to possesse it, and hath cast out manye nacions before the: the Hethites, the Girgosites, the Amorites, the Cananites, the Pheresites, the Heuites and the Iebusites: vij. nacions moo in numbre ad mightier than thou: