Genesis 31:40

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Moreouer by daye the hete consumed me and the colde by nyghte and my slepe departed fro myne eyes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָיִיתִי בַיּוֹם אֲכָלַנִי חֹרֶב וְקֶרַח בַּלָּיְלָה וַתִּדַּד שְׁנָתִי מֵעֵינָי

Transliteration

hāyîtî in the day ʾakālanî ḥōreb and qeraḥ in the night wa-tiddad šenātî from ʿênāy

Grammar Details

• *hāyîtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I was
• *ʾakālanî*: qal perfect 3rd masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - it consumed me
• *ḥōreb*: noun, masculine singular - heat/drought
• *qeraḥ*: noun, masculine singular - frost/ice
• *wa-tiddad*: waw consecutive with qal imperfect 3rd feminine singular - and it fled/was driven away
• *šenātî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my sleep
• *ʿênāy*: noun, feminine dual construct with 1st person singular suffix - my eyes

Word Meanings

• *ʾakālanî*: consumed me/devoured me/ate me up
• *ḥōreb*: heat/drought/parching heat
• *qeraḥ*: frost/ice/cold
• *wa-tiddad*: fled/was driven away/wandered

Referenced Verses

• Exod 2:19-22 : 19 And they answerede there was an Egiptia that delyuered vs fro the shepardes, and also drewe vs water and waterd the shepe. 20 And he sayde vnto his doughters: where is he? why haue ye lefte the man? Goo call him that he maye eate bread. 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man. And he gaue Moses Zipora his doughter 22 which bare a sonne, ad he called him Gerson: for he sayde. I haue bene a straunger in a straunge lande.
• Exod 3:1 : 1 Moses kepte the shepe of Iethro his father in law preast of Madian, and he droue the flocke to the backesyde of the deserte, ad came to the moutayne of God, Horeb.
• Luke 2:8 : 8 And ther were in the same region shepherdes abydinge in the felde and watching their flocke by nyght.
• John 21:15-17 : 15 When they had dyned Iesus sayde to Simon Peter: Simon Ioana lovest thou me more then these? He sayde vnto him: ye Lorde thou knowest that I love the. He sayde vnto him: fede my lambes. 16 He sayde to him agayne the seconde tyme: Simo Ioana lovest thou me? He sayde vnto him: ye LORde thou knowest that I love ye. He sayde vnto him: fede my shepe. 17 He sayde vnto him ye thyrde tyme: Simon Ioanna lovest thou me? And Peter sorowed because he sayde to him ye thyrde tyme lovest thou me and sayde vnto him: Lorde thou knowest all thinge thou knowest that I love the. Iesus sayde vnto him: fede my shepe.
• Heb 13:7 : 7 Remember them which have the oversight of you which have declared vnto you the worde of god. The ende of whose conversacion se that ye looke vpon and folowe their fayth.
• 1 Pet 5:2-4 : 2 se that ye fede Christes flocke which is amonge you takynge the oversyght of them not as though ye were compelled therto but willyngly: not for the desyre of filthy lucre but of a good mynde. 3 not as though ye were LORdes over the parisshes: but that ye be a insample to the flocke. 4 And when the chef shepheerde shall appere ye shall receave an incorruptible croune of glorye.