Genesis 27:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיִֽתֶּן־לְךָ֙ הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים מִטַּל֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם וּמִשְׁמַנֵּ֖י הָאָ֑רֶץ וְרֹ֥ב דָּגָ֖ן וְתִירֹֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

And-wəyitten-to-you the-hāʾĕlōhîm from-miṭṭal the-haššāmayim and-from-ûmišmannê the-hāʾāreṣ and-wərōb dāgān and-wətîrōš

Grammar Details

• *wəyitten*: waw conjunctive + Qal imperfect jussive, 3rd person masculine singular - and may he give
• *hāʾĕlōhîm*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the God
• *miṭṭal*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - from dew of
• *haššāmayim*: definite article + noun, masculine plural - the heavens
• *ûmišmannê*: waw conjunctive + preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - and from fatness/richness of
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the earth
• *wərōb*: waw conjunctive + noun, masculine singular construct - and abundance of
• *dāgān*: noun, masculine singular - grain/corn
• *wətîrōš*: waw conjunctive + noun, masculine singular - and new wine

Word Meanings

• *wəyitten*: may he give/let him give
• *miṭṭal*: from dew/moisture
• *mišmannê*: from fatness/richness/fertility
• *rōb*: abundance/plenty/much
• *dāgān*: grain/corn/cereal
• *tîrōš*: new wine/fresh wine/must

Referenced Verses

• Deut 33:28 : 28 Israel dwells in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of grain and new wine; Yes, his heavens drop down dew.
• Deut 33:13 : 13 Of Joseph he said, Blessed of Yahweh be his land, For the precious things of the heavens, for the dew, For the deep that couches beneath,
• Gen 27:39 : 39 Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
• Deut 7:13 : 13 and he will love you, and bless you, and multiply you; he will also bless the fruit of your body and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your cattle and the young of your flock, in the land which he swore to your fathers to give you.
• Gen 45:18 : 18 Take your father and your households, and come to me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and you will eat the fat of the land.'
• 2 Sam 1:21 : 21 You mountains of Gilboa, Let there be no dew nor rain on you, neither fields of offerings: For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away, The shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
• Joel 2:19 : 19 Yahweh answered his people, "Behold, I will send you grain, new wine, and oil, And you will be satisfied with them; And I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.
• Mic 5:7 : 7 The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew from Yahweh, Like showers on the grass, That don't wait for man, Nor wait for the sons of men.
• Zech 8:12 : 12 "For the seed of peace and the vine will yield its fruit, and the ground will give its increase, and the heavens will give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit all these things.
• Zech 9:17 : 17 For how great is his goodness, And how great is his beauty! Grain will make the young men flourish, And new wine the virgins.
• Rom 11:17 : 17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partaker with them of the root and of the richness of the olive tree;
• Heb 11:20 : 20 By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.
• Josh 5:6 : 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
• 1 Kgs 5:11 : 11 Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
• 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
• 2 Chr 2:10 : 10 Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
• Ps 36:8 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
• Ps 65:9-9 : 9 You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it. 10 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. 11 You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance. 12 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness. 13 The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.
• Ps 104:15 : 15 Wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengthens man's heart.
• Ps 133:3 : 3 Like the dew of Hermon, That comes down on the hills of Zion: For there Yahweh gives the blessing, Even life forevermore.
• Isa 45:8 : 8 Distil, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, that it may bring forth salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up together; I, Yahweh, have created it.
• Jer 14:22 : 22 Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.
• Hos 14:5-7 : 5 I will be like the dew to Israel. He will blossom like the lily, And send down his roots like Lebanon. 6 His branches will spread, And his beauty will be like the olive tree, And his fragrance like Lebanon. 7 Men will dwell in his shade. They will revive like the grain, And blossom like the vine. Their fragrance will be like the wine of Lebanon.
• Gen 49:20 : 20 Out of Asher his bread will be fat, He will yield royal dainties.
• Num 13:20 : 20 and what the land is, whether it is fat or lean, whether there is wood therein, or not. Be of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the first-ripe grapes.
• Num 18:12 : 12 All the best of the oil, and all the best of the vintage, and of the grain, the first fruits of them which they give to Yahweh, to you have I given them.
• Deut 8:7-9 : 7 For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey; 9 a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
• Deut 11:11-12 : 11 but the land, where you go over to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys, [and] drinks water of the rain of the sky, 12 a land which Yahweh your God cares for: the eyes of Yahweh your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year.
• Deut 32:2 : 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall condense as the dew, As the small rain on the tender grass, As the showers on the herb.