Genesis 49:1

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

And Iacob called for his sonnes ad sayde: come together that I maye tell you what shall happe you in the last dayes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקְרָ֥א יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֶל־בָּנָ֑יו וַיֹּ֗אמֶר הֵאָֽסְפוּ֙ וְאַגִּ֣ידָה לָכֶ֔ם אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־יִקְרָ֥א אֶתְכֶ֖ם בְּאַחֲרִ֥ית הַיָּמִֽים

Transliteration

wə-yiqrāʾ yaʿăqōb to-bānāyw wə-yōʾmer be-ʾāsphû wə-ʾaggîdāh to-you ʾēt which-yiqrāʾ you in-ʾaḥărît the-yāmîm

Grammar Details

• *wə-yiqrāʾ*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he called
• *yaʿăqōb*: proper noun, masculine singular - Jacob
• *bānāyw*: noun masculine plural construct with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his sons
• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *ʾāsphû*: Niphal imperative masculine plural - be gathered
• *wə-ʾaggîdāh*: waw consecutive + Hiphil cohortative 1st singular - and I will tell
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *yiqrāʾ*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will happen/meet/call
• *ʾaḥărît*: noun feminine singular construct - end of/latter part of
• *yāmîm*: noun masculine plural with definite article - the days

Word Meanings

• *wə-yiqrāʾ*: and he called/summoned/invited
• *yiqrāʾ*: will happen to/befall/encounter/call
• *ʾaḥărît ha-yāmîm*: in the latter days/end of days/distant future

Referenced Verses

• Num 24:14 : 14 And now beholde I goo vnto my people: come let me shewe the what this people shall doo to thi folke in the later dayes.
• Deut 4:30 : 30 In thi tribulacion and when all these thinges are come apon the, euen in the later dayes, thou shalt turne vnto the Lorde thy God, and shalt herken vnto his voyce.
• Rev 4:1 : 1 After this I loked and beholde a dore was open in heven and the fyrste voyce which I harde was as it were of a trompet talkinge with me which said: come vp hydder and I will shewe the thynges which must be fulfyllyd hereafter
• Deut 31:12 : 12 Gather the people together: both men, wemen and childern and the straungers that are in thi cities, that they maye heare, lerne and feare the Lorde youre God, and be diligent to kepe all the wordes of this lawe,
• Deut 31:28-29 : 28 Gather vnto me al the elders of youre trybes and youre officers, that I maye speake these wordes in their eares and call heaue ad erth to recorde agenst them. 29 For I am sure that after my deeth, they will vtterly marre them selues and turne from the waye which I commaunded you, and tribulacion will come vppon you in the later dayes, when ye haue wrought welkednesse in the sight of the Lorde to prouoke him with the workes of youre handes.
• Deut 33:1-9 : 1 This is the blessinge where with Moses gods man blessed the childern of Israel before his deeth 2 sayenge: The Lord came fro Sinai and shewed his beames from Seir vnto them, and appered gloriously from mount Paran, and he came with thousandes of sayntes, and in his right hande a lawe of fyre for them 3 How loued he the people? All his sayntes are in his honde. They yoyned the selues vnto thy fote and receaued thi wordes. 4 Moses gaue us a lawe which is the enheritaunce of the cogregacion of Iacob. 5 And he was in Israel kinge when he gathered the heedes of the people and the tribes of Israel to gether. 6 Ruben shall lyue and shall not dye: but his people shalbe few in numbre. 7 This is the blessynge of Iuda. And he sayed: heare Lorde the voyce of Iuda and bringe him vnto his people: let his handes fyght for him: but he thou his helpe agenst his enemies. 8 And vnto Leui he sayed: thy perfectnesse ad thi light be after thy mercyfull ma who thou temptest at Masa ad with whom thou striuedst at the waters of strife. 9 He that saieth vnto his father ad mother. I sawe him not, ad vnto his brethern I knewe not, and to his sonne I wote not: for they haue obserued thi wordes and kepte thy testament. 10 They shall teach Iacob thi iudgementes ad Israel thi lawes. They shall put cens before thi nose and whole sacrifices apon thine altare. 11 Blesse Lorde their power and accepte the workes of their hondes: smyte the backes of them that ryse agest them and of them that hate them: that they ryse not agayne. 12 Vnto Ben Iamin he sayed: The Lordes derlynge shall dwell in saffetye by him and kepe him selfe in the hauen by hym contynually, and shall dwell betwene his shulders. 13 And vnto Ioseph he sayed: blessed of the Lorde is his londe with the goodly frutes off heauen, with dewe and with sprynges that lye beneth: 14 and with frutes of the encrease of the sonne and with rype frute off the monethes, 15 and with the toppes of mountaynes that were from the begynnynge and with the dayntes of hilles that last euer 16 and with goodly frute of the erth and off the fulnesse there of. And the good will of him that dwelleth in the bush shall come vppon the heed of Ioseph and vppon the toppe of the heed of him that was separated fro amonge his brethern 17 his bewtye is as a firstborne oxe and his hornes as the hornes of an vnycorne. And with them he shall push the nacions to gether, euen vnto the endes of the worlde. These are the many thousandes of Ephraim and the thousandes off Manasse. 18 And vnto Zabulon he sayed: Reioyse Zabulon in thi goenge out, and thou Isachar in thi tentes. 19 They shall call the people vnto the hill, and there they shall offer offerynges of righteousnes. For they shall sucke of the abundaunce of the see and of treasure hyd in the fonde. 20 And vnto Gad he sayed: blessed is the rowmmaker Gad. He dwelleth as a lion and caught the arme ad also the toppe of the heed 21 He sawe his begynnynge, that a parte of the teachers were hyd there ad come with the heedes of the people, and executed the righteousnes of the Lorde and his iudgementes with Israel. 22 And vnto Dan he sayed: Dan is a lions whelpe, he shall flowe from Basan. 23 And vnto Nepthali he sayed: Nephali he shall haue abundance of pleasure and shalbe fylled with the blessinge of the Lorde ad shall haue his possessions in the southwest. 24 And of Asser he sayed: Asser shalbe blessed with childern: he shalbe acceptable vnto his brethern and shall dyppe his fote in oyle: 25 Yern and brasse shall hange on thi showes and thine age shalbe as thi youth. 26 There is none like vnto the God of the off Israel: he that sitteth vppon heauen shalbe thine helpe, whose glorie is in the cloudes, 27 that is the dwellinge place of God from the begynynge and from vnder the armes of the worlde: he hath cast out thine enemies before the and sayed: destroye. 28 And Israel shall dwell in saffetye alone. And the eyes of Iacob shall loke appon a londe of corne and wyne, moreouer his heauen shall droppe with dewe. 29 Happye art thou Israel, who is like vnto the? A people that art saued by the Lorde thy shilde and helper and swerde of thi glorye. And thyne enemyes shall hyde them selues from the, and thou shalt walke vppon their hye hilles.
• Luke 2:26 : 26 And an answer was geven him of the holy goost that he shulde not se deethe before he had sene the LORdes Christ.
• Acts 2:17 : 17 It shalbe in the last dayes sayth God: of my sprete I will powre out vpon all flesshe. And youre sonnes and youre doughters shall prophesy and youre yoge men shall se visions and youre olde me shall dreme dremes.
• Rom 1:17-18 : 17 For by it ye rightewesnes which cometh of god is opened fro fayth to fayth. As it is written: The iust shall live by fayth. 18 For the wrath of God apereth from heven agaynst all vngodlynes and vnrightewesnes of me which withholde ye trueth in vnrightewesnes
• 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 The sprete speaketh evydently that in the latter tymes some shall departe from the fayth and shall geve hede vnto spretes of erroure and dyvelysshe doctrine of them
• 2 Tim 3:1 : 1 This understonde that in the last dayes shall come parelous tymes.
• Heb 1:2 : 2 but in these last dayes he hath spoken vnto vs by his sonne whom he hath made heyre of all thinges: by who also he made the worlde.
• Heb 10:24-25 : 24 and let vs consyder one another to provoke vnto love and to good workes: 25 and let vs not forsake the felishippe that we have amoge oure selves as the maner of some is: but let vs exhorte one another and that so moche the more because ye se that the daye draweth nye.
• Heb 13:1 : 1 Let brotherly love continue.