Leviticus 26:6

World English Bible (2000)

"'I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid; and I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְנָתַתִּ֤י שָׁלוֹם֙ בָּאָ֔רֶץ וּשְׁכַבְתֶּ֖ם וְאֵ֣ין מַחֲרִ֑יד וְהִשְׁבַּתִּ֞י חַיָּ֤ה רָעָה֙ מִן־הָאָ֔רֶץ וְחֶ֖רֶב לֹא־תַעֲבֹ֥ר בְּאַרְצְכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And-nātattî šālôm in-hāʾāreṣ and-šekabtem and-ʾên maḥărîd and-hišbattî ḥayyâ rāʿâ from-hāʾāreṣ and-ḥereb not-taʿăbōr in-ʾarṣekem

Grammar Details

• *nātattî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will give
• *šālôm*: noun, masculine singular - peace
• *hāʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular with definite article - the land/earth
• *šekabtem*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine plural with waw consecutive - and you will lie down
• *ʾên*: particle of negation - there is not
• *maḥărîd*: verb, hiphil participle, masculine singular - causing to tremble/frightening
• *hišbattî*: verb, hiphil perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will cause to cease
• *ḥayyâ*: noun, feminine singular - animal/beast
• *rāʿâ*: adjective, feminine singular - evil/harmful
• *ḥereb*: noun, feminine singular - sword
• *taʿăbōr*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it will pass
• *ʾarṣekem*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your land

Word Meanings

• *šālôm*: peace/well-being/completeness
• *maḥărîd*: one who frightens/disturber/terrorizer
• *ḥayyâ rāʿâ*: harmful animal/wild beast/dangerous animal
• *ḥereb*: sword/warfare/violence

Referenced Verses

• Zeph 3:13 : 13 The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid."
• Jer 30:10 : 10 Therefore don't you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
• Ezek 34:25 : 25 I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
• Ps 147:14 : 14 He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
• Ps 29:11 : 11 Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace. A Psalm. A Song for the Dedication of the Temple. By David.
• Isa 35:9 : 9 No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.
• 1 Chr 22:9 : 9 Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies all around; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days.
• Job 11:19 : 19 Also you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. Yes, many shall court your favor.
• Ezek 5:17 : 17 and I will send on you famine and evil animals, and they shall bereave you; and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
• Ezek 14:15 : 15 If I cause evil animals to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the animals;
• Ezek 14:17 : 17 Or if I bring a sword on that land, and say, Sword, go through the land; so that I cut off from it man and animal;
• Ps 4:8 : 8 In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety. For the Chief Musician, with the flutes. A Psalm by David.
• Hag 2:9 : 9 'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' says Yahweh of Armies; 'and in this place will I give peace,' says Yahweh of Armies."
• Zech 9:10 : 10 I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow will be cut off; and he will speak peace to the nations: and his dominion will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
• John 14:27 : 27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
• Acts 12:6 : 6 The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison.
• Rom 5:1 : 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Phil 4:7-9 : 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things. 9 The things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me: do these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
• Ezek 14:21 : 21 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: How much more when I send my four severe judgments on Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil animals, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and animal!
• Hos 2:18 : 18 In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.
• Mic 4:4 : 4 But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Armies has spoken.
• Jer 31:26 : 26 On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
• Ps 3:5 : 5 I laid myself down and slept. I awakened; for Yahweh sustains me.
• Job 5:23 : 23 For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
• Exod 23:29 : 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
• Lev 26:22 : 22 I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
• 2 Kgs 2:24 : 24 He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. Two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.
• 2 Kgs 17:25-26 : 25 So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them. 26 Therefore they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, "The nations which you have carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, don't know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them, because they don't know the law of the god of the land."
• Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
• Ps 85:8 : 8 I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
• Ps 127:1-2 : 1 Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain. 2 It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
• Prov 3:24 : 24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
• Prov 6:22 : 22 When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.
• Isa 9:7 : 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.