Genesis 35:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּאמֶר֩ ל֨וֹ אֱלֹהִ֜ים אֲנִ֨י אֵ֤ל שַׁדַּי֙ פְּרֵ֣ה וּרְבֵ֔ה גּ֛וֹי וּקְהַ֥ל גּוֹיִ֖ם יִהְיֶ֣ה מִמֶּ֑ךָּ וּמְלָכִ֖ים מֵחֲלָצֶ֥יךָ יֵצֵֽאוּ׃

Transliteration

And wayyōʾmer to him lô ʾĕlōhîm, I [am] ʾănî ʾēl šadday, pȇrēh and ûrȇbēh; gôy and ûqȇhal gôyim yihyeh from you mimmekā, and ûmȇlākîm from your mēḥălāṣeykā shall yēṣēʾû.

Grammar Details

• *wayyōʾmer*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *lô*: preposition + 3rd masculine singular suffix - to him
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun, subject - God
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *ʾēl*: masculine singular noun - God/El
• *šadday*: proper noun/divine epithet - Shaddai/Almighty
• *pȇrēh*: qal imperative masculine singular - be fruitful
• *ûrȇbēh*: waw consecutive + qal imperative masculine singular - and multiply
• *gôy*: masculine singular noun - nation
• *ûqȇhal*: waw consecutive + masculine singular construct noun - and assembly/congregation of
• *gôyim*: masculine plural noun - nations
• *yihyeh*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - will be
• *mimmekā*: preposition + 2nd masculine singular suffix - from you
• *ûmȇlākîm*: waw consecutive + masculine plural noun - and kings
• *mēḥălāṣeykā*: preposition + feminine plural noun + 2nd masculine singular suffix - from your loins
• *yēṣēʾû*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural - they shall come out

Word Meanings

• *ʾēl šadday*: God Almighty/El Shaddai/God of the Mountain
• *pȇrēh*: be fruitful/bear fruit/be fertile
• *ûrȇbēh*: and multiply/and increase/and become numerous
• *gôy*: nation/people group
• *qȇhal gôyim*: company of nations/assembly of peoples/congregation of nations
• *mēḥălāṣeykā*: from your loins/from your body/from your descendants
• *yēṣēʾû*: they shall come out/they shall proceed/they shall descend

Referenced Verses

• Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty. Walk before me, and be blameless.
• Gen 17:5-7 : 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. 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
• Gen 17:16 : 16 I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
• Exod 6:3 : 3 and I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was not known to them.
• Gen 22:17 : 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.
• 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 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 32:12 : 12 You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
• Gen 43:14 : 14 May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."
• 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 48:3-4 : 3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 and said to me, 'Behold, I will make you fruitful, and multiply you, and I will make of you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your seed after you for an everlasting possession.'
• 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 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son."
• 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?
• Gen 9:1 : 1 God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
• Gen 12:2 : 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
• 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 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."
• Num 1:1-9 : 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, every male, one by one; 3 from twenty years old and upward, all who are able to go out to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their divisions. 4 With you there shall be a man of every tribe; everyone head of his fathers' house. 5 These are the names of the men who shall stand with you: Of Reuben: Elizur the son of Shedeur. 6 Of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. 7 Of Judah: Nahshon the son of Amminadab. 8 Of Issachar: Nethanel the son of Zuar. 9 Of Zebulun: Eliab the son of Helon. 10 Of the children of Joseph: Of Ephraim: Elishama the son of Ammihud. Of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur. 11 Of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni. 12 Of Dan: Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai. 13 Of Asher: Pagiel the son of Ochran. 14 Of Gad: Eliasaph the son of Deuel. 15 Of Naphtali: Ahira the son of Enan." 16 These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel. 17 Moses and Aaron took these men who are mentioned by name. 18 They assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they declared their ancestry by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, one by one. 19 As Yahweh commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai. 20 The children of Reuben, Israel's firstborn, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 21 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty-six thousand five hundred. 22 Of the children of Simeon, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, those who were numbered of it, according to the number of the names, one by one, every male from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 23 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty-nine thousand three hundred. 24 Of the children of Gad, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war; 25 those who were numbered of them, of the tribe of Gad, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty. 26 Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all who were able to go out to war;
• 1 Sam 1:1-9 : 1 Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim Zophim, of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite: 2 and he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children. 3 This man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of Hosts in Shiloh. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Yahweh, were there. 4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrificed, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions: 5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Yahweh had shut up her womb. 6 Her rival provoked her sore, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb. 7 [as] he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of Yahweh, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat. 8 Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons? 9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the door-post of the temple of Yahweh. 10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept sore. 11 She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head. 12 It happened, as she continued praying before Yahweh, that Eli marked her mouth. 13 Now Hannah, she spoke in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken. 14 Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you. 15 Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh. 16 Don't count your handmaid for a wicked woman; for out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation have I spoken hitherto. 17 Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him. 18 She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more. 19 They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her. 20 It happened, when the time was come about, that Hannah conceived, and bore a son; and she named him Samuel, [saying], Because I have asked him of Yahweh. 21 The man Elkanah, and all his house, went up to offer to Yahweh the yearly sacrifice, and his vow. 22 But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned; and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and there abide forever. 23 Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him. 24 When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of Yahweh in Shiloh: and the child was young. 25 They killed the bull, and brought the child to Eli. 26 She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh. 27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him: 28 therefore also I have granted him to Yahweh; as long as he lives he is granted to Yahweh. He worshiped Yahweh there.
• 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty."