Genesis 12:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאֶֽעֶשְׂךָ֙ לְג֣וֹי גָּד֔וֹל וַאֲבָ֣רֶכְךָ֔ וַאֲגַדְּלָ֖ה שְׁמֶ֑ךָ וֶהְיֵ֖ה בְּרָכָֽה׃

Transliteration

And-weʾeʿeśkā to-gôy gādôl and-waʾăbārekekā and-waʾăgaddelāh šemekā and-wehyēh berākāh.

Grammar Details

• *weʾeʿeśkā*: conjunction + imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and I will make you
• *gôy*: noun masculine singular - nation/people
• *gādôl*: adjective masculine singular - great/large
• *waʾăbārekekā*: conjunction + imperfect 1st person singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and I will bless you
• *waʾăgaddelāh*: conjunction + imperfect 1st person singular cohortative - and I will make great
• *šemekā*: noun masculine + 2nd person masculine singular possessive suffix - your name
• *wehyēh*: conjunction + imperative 2nd person masculine singular - and be
• *berākāh*: noun feminine singular - blessing

Word Meanings

• *gôy*: nation/people/gentiles
• *berākāh*: blessing/benediction/prosperity

Referenced Verses

• Gen 18:18 : 18 seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
• Gal 3:14 : 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
• Gen 17:4-6 : 4 "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. 5 Neither will your name any more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made you. 6 I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
• Gen 46:3 : 3 He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of you a great nation.
• Gen 28:3-4 : 3 May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, 4 and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your seed with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham."
• Gen 24:35 : 35 Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and donkeys.
• Deut 26:5 : 5 You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
• 2 Sam 7:9 : 9 and I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
• Gal 3:7 : 7 Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.
• Gen 26:4 : 4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
• Gen 15:5 : 5 Yahweh brought him outside, and said, "Look now toward the sky, and count the stars, if you are able to count them." He said to Abram, "So shall your seed be."
• Gen 22:17-18 : 17 that in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies. 18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
• Gen 35:11 : 11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.
• Exod 32:10 : 10 Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."
• Num 14:12 : 12 I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
• Num 24:9-9 : 9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, As a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be everyone who blesses you, Cursed be everyone who curses you. 10 Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and, behold, you have altogether blessed them these three times.
• Exod 1:7 : 7 The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
• Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
• Gen 13:16 : 16 I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed may also be numbered.
• Gen 14:14-16 : 14 When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan. 15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. 16 He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
• Gen 27:29 : 29 Let peoples serve you, Nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, Let your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, Blessed be everyone who blesses you."
• Gen 19:29 : 29 It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
• 1 Kgs 1:47 : 47 Moreover the king's servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, Your God make the name of Solomon better than your name, and make his throne greater than your throne: and the king bowed himself on the bed.
• 1 Kgs 3:8-9 : 8 Your servant is in the midst of your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can't be numbered nor counted for multitude. 9 Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this your great people?
• Mic 7:20 : 20 You will give truth to Jacob, and mercy to Abraham, As you have sworn to our fathers from the days of old.
• Rom 4:11 : 11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.