Numbers 6:27

Webster's Bible (1833)

"So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׂמ֥וּ אֶת־שְׁמִ֖י עַל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַאֲנִ֖י אֲבָרֲכֵֽם׃ פ

Transliteration

wə-śāmû ʾet-šəmî ʿal-bənê Yiśrāʾēl wa-ʾănî ʾăḇārăḵēm

Grammar Details

• *wə-śāmû*: conjunction + Qal perfect, 3rd common plural - and they shall put
• *ʾet*-*šəmî*: direct object marker + noun, masculine singular + 1st common singular suffix - my name
• *ʿal*-*bənê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - upon sons/children of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *wa-ʾănî*: conjunction + independent personal pronoun, 1st common singular - and I
• *ʾăḇārăḵēm*: Piel imperfect, 1st common singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - I will bless them

Word Meanings

• *wə-śāmû*: and they shall put/and they shall place/and they shall establish
• *šəmî*: my name/my reputation/my character
• *ʾăḇārăḵēm*: I will bless them/I will favor them

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 7:14 : 14 if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
• Deut 28:10 : 10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh; and they shall be afraid of you.
• Dan 9:18-19 : 18 My God, turn your ear, and hear; open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name: for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies' sake. 19 Lord, hear; Lord, forgive; Lord, listen and do; don't defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.
• Ps 5:12 : 12 For you will bless the righteous. Yahweh, you will surround him with favor as with a shield.
• Ps 115:12-13 : 12 Yahweh remembers us. He will bless us. He will bless the house of Israel. He will bless the house of Aaron. 13 He will bless those who fear Yahweh, Both small and great.
• Num 23:20 : 20 Behold, I have received [commandment] to bless: He has blessed, and I can't reverse it.
• 1 Chr 4:10 : 10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow! God granted him that which he requested.
• 2 Sam 7:23 : 23 What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make him a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeem to you out of Egypt, [from] the nations and their gods?
• Gen 12:2-3 : 2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."
• Gen 32:26 : 26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
• Gen 32:29 : 29 Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
• Exod 3:13-15 : 13 Moses said to God, "Behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'The God of your fathers has sent me to you;' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' What should I tell them?" 14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM," and he said, "You shall tell the children of Israel this: "I AM has sent me to you." 15 God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
• 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.
• Exod 34:5-7 : 5 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh. 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
• Isa 43:7 : 7 everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.
• Jer 14:9 : 9 Why should you be like a scared man, as a mighty man who can't save? yet you, Yahweh, are in the midst of us, and we are called by your name; don't leave us.
• Ps 67:7 : 7 God will bless us. All the ends of the earth shall fear him.
• Matt 28:19 : 19 Therefore go, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;