Genesis 15:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

After these things hath the word of Jehovah been unto Abram in a vision, saying, `Fear not, Abram, I `am' a shield to thee, thy reward `is' exceeding great.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַחַ֣ר ׀ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה הָיָ֤ה דְבַר־יְהוָה֙ אֶל־אַבְרָ֔ם בּֽ͏ַמַּחֲזֶ֖ה לֵאמֹ֑ר אַל־תִּירָ֣א אַבְרָ֗ם אָנֹכִי֙ מָגֵ֣ן לָ֔ךְ שְׂכָרְךָ֖ הַרְבֵּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃

Transliteration

After the dəḇārîm the-these hāyāh dəḇar-YHWH to-ʾAḇrām in-the-maḥăzeh lēʾmōr not-tîrāʾ ʾAḇrām ʾānōḵî māgēn to-you śəḵārḵā harbēh very.

Grammar Details

• *dəḇārîm*: masculine plural noun - words/things
• *hāyāh*: Qal perfect 3rd singular - was/became/came
• *dəḇar*: construct form of masculine singular noun - word/matter of
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾAḇrām*: proper name
• *maḥăzeh*: masculine singular noun with prefix preposition - in vision
• *lēʾmōr*: Qal infinitive construct with prefix - to say
• *tîrāʾ*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular with negation - do not fear
• *ʾānōḵî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *māgēn*: masculine singular noun - shield
• *śəḵārḵā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your reward
• *harbēh*: Hiphil infinitive absolute - increase/multiply

Word Meanings

• *dəḇārîm*: words/things/matters/events
• *hāyāh*: was/became/happened/came to pass
• *dəḇar*: word/speech/command/matter
• *maḥăzeh*: vision/appearance/supernatural revelation
• *māgēn*: shield/defense/protection
• *harbēh*: greatly/exceedingly/very much

Referenced Verses

• Gen 26:24 : 24 and Jehovah appeareth unto him during that night, and saith, `I `am' the God of Abraham thy father, fear not, for I `am' with thee, and have blessed thee, and have multiplied thy seed, because of Abraham My servant;'
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Be not afraid, for with thee I `am', Look not around, for I `am' thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.
• Ps 119:114 : 114 My hiding place and my shield `art' Thou, For Thy word I have hoped.
• Ps 84:11 : 11 For a sun and a shield `is' Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
• Lam 3:24 : 24 My portion `is' Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.
• Isa 41:14 : 14 Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
• Ps 18:2 : 2 Jehovah `is' my rock, and my bulwark, And my deliverer, My God `is' my rock, I trust in Him: My shield, and a horn of my salvation, My high tower.
• Ps 27:1 : 1 By David. Jehovah `is' my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah `is' the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?
• Gen 15:14-16 : 14 and the nation also whom they serve I judge, and after this they go out with great substance; 15 and thou -- thou comest in unto thy fathers in peace; thou art buried in a good old age; 16 and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'
• Ps 3:3 : 3 And Thou, O Jehovah, `art' a shield for me, My honour, and lifter up of my head.
• Ps 5:12 : 12 For Thou blessest the righteous, O Jehovah, As a buckler with favour dost compass him!
• Deut 33:26-29 : 26 There is none like the God of Jeshurun, Riding the heavens in thy help, And in His excellency the skies. 27 A habitation `is' the eternal God, And beneath `are' arms age-during. And He casteth out from thy presence the enemy, and saith, `Destroy!' 28 And Israel doth tabernacle `in' confidence alone; The eye of Jacob `is' unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew. 29 O thy happiness, O Israel! who is like thee? A people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And He who `is' the sword of thine excellency: And thine enemies are subdued for thee, And thou on their high places dost tread.'
• Ruth 2:12 : 12 Jehovah doth recompense thy work, and thy reward is complete from Jehovah, God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to take refuge.'
• Heb 13:5-6 : 5 Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,' 6 so that we do boldly say, `The Lord `is' to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'
• Luke 1:13 : 13 and the messenger said unto him, `Fear not, Zacharias, for thy supplication was heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name John,
• Luke 1:30 : 30 And the messenger said to her, `Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour with God;
• Deut 31:6 : 6 be strong and courageous, fear not, nor be terrified because of them, for Jehovah thy God `is' He who is going with thee; He doth not fail thee nor forsake thee.'
• Gen 46:2-3 : 2 and God speaketh to Israel in visions of the night, and saith, `Jacob, Jacob;' and he saith, `Here `am' I.' 3 And He saith, `I `am' God, God of thy father, be not afraid of going down to Egypt, for for a great nation I set thee there;
• Gen 21:17 : 17 And God heareth the voice of the youth; and the messenger of God calleth unto Hagar from the heavens, and saith to her, `What to thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath hearkened unto the voice of the youth where he `is';
• Ps 58:11 : 11 And man saith: `Surely fruit `is' for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'
• Ps 142:5 : 5 I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, `Thou `art' my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.'
• Prov 11:18 : 18 The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.
• Prov 30:5 : 5 Every saying of God `is' tried, A shield He `is' to those trusting in Him.
• Isa 35:4 : 4 Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'
• Isa 43:1 : 1 And now, thus said Jehovah, Thy Creator, O Jacob, and thy Fashioner, O Israel, Be not afraid, for I have redeemed thee, I have called on thy name -- thou `art' Mine.
• Isa 43:5 : 5 Be not afraid, for I `am' with thee, From the east I bring in thy seed, And from the west I gather thee.
• Isa 44:2 : 2 Thus said Jehovah, thy Maker, and thy Former, From the womb He doth help thee; Fear not, my servant Jacob, And Jeshurun, whom I have fixed on.
• Isa 44:8 : 8 Fear not, nor be afraid, Have I not from that time caused thee to hear, and declared? And ye `are' My witnesses, Is there a God besides Me? yea, there is none, A Rock I have not known.
• Isa 51:12 : 12 I -- I `am' He -- your comforter, Who `art' thou -- and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man -- grass he is made!
• Ezek 1:1 : 1 And it cometh to pass, in the thirtieth year, in the fourth `month', in the fifth of the month, and I `am' in the midst of the Removed by the river Chebar, the heavens have been opened, and I see visions of God.
• Ezek 3:4 : 4 And He saith unto me, `Son of man, go, enter in unto the house of Israel, and thou hast spoken with My words unto them.
• Ezek 11:24 : 24 And a spirit hath lifted me up, and bringeth me in to Chaldea, unto the Removed, in a vision, by the Spirit of God, and go up from off me doth the vision that I have seen;
• Dan 10:1-9 : 1 In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia, a thing is revealed to Daniel, whose name is called Belteshazzar, and the thing `is' true, and the warfare `is' great: and he hath understood the thing, and hath understanding about the appearance. 2 `In those days, I, Daniel, have been mourning three weeks of days; 3 desirable bread I have not eaten, and flesh and wine hath not come in unto my mouth, and I have not anointed myself at all, till the completion of three weeks of days. 4 `And in the twenty and fourth day of the first month, I have been by the side of the great river, that `is' Hiddekel: 5 and I lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, a certain one clothed in linen, and his loins girt with pure gold of Uphaz, 6 and his body as a beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet as the aspect of bright brass, and the voice of his words as the voice of a multitude. 7 `And I have seen -- I, Daniel, by myself -- the appearance: and the men who have been with me have not seen the appearance, but a great trembling hath fallen on them, and they flee to be hidden; 8 and I have been left by myself, and I see this great appearance, and there hath been no power left in me, and my honour hath been turned in me to corruption, yea, I have not retained power. 9 `And I hear the voice of his words, and when I hear the voice of his words, then I have been in a trance on my face, and my face `is' to the earth; 10 and lo, a hand hath come against me, and shaketh me on my knees and the palms of my hands. 11 `And he saith unto me: Daniel, man greatly desired, attend to the words that I am speaking unto thee, and stand on thy station, for now I have been sent unto thee. `And when he speaketh with me this word, I have stood trembling. 12 And he saith unto me: Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that thou didst give thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words have been heard, and I have come because of thy words. 13 `And the head of the kingdom of Persia is standing over-against me twenty and one days, and lo, Michael, first of the chief heads, hath come in to help me, and I have remained there near the kings of Persia; 14 and I have come to cause thee to understand that which doth happen to thy people in the latter end of the days, for yet the vision `is' after days. 15 `And when he speaketh with me about these things, I have set my face toward the earth, and have been silent; 16 and lo, as the manner of the sons of men, he is striking against my lips, and I open my mouth, and I speak, and say unto him who is standing over-against me: My lord, by the appearance turned have been my pangs against me, and I have retained no power.
• Matt 8:26 : 26 And he saith to them, `Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm;
• Matt 10:28-31 : 28 `And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna. 29 `Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father; 30 and of you -- even the hairs of the head are all numbered; 31 be not therefore afraid, than many sparrows ye are better.
• Matt 28:5 : 5 And the messenger answering said to the women, `Fear not ye, for I have known that Jesus, who hath been crucified, ye seek;
• Ps 84:9 : 9 Our shield, see, O God, And behold the face of Thine anointed,
• Ps 16:5-6 : 5 Jehovah `is' the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou -- Thou dost uphold my lot. 6 Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance `is' for me.
• Exod 14:13 : 13 And Moses saith unto the people, `Fear not, station yourselves, and see the salvation of Jehovah, which He doth for you to-day; for, as ye have seen the Egyptians to-day, ye add no more to see them -- to the age;
• Num 12:6 : 6 And He saith, `Hear, I pray you, My words: If your prophet is of Jehovah -- in an appearance unto him I make Myself known; in a dream I speak with him;
• 1 Sam 9:9 : 9 Formerly in Israel, thus said the man in his going to seek God, `Come and we go unto the seer,' for the `prophet' of to-day is called formerly `the seer.'
• 1 Chr 28:20 : 20 And David saith to Solomon his son, `Be strong, and courageous, and do; do not fear nor be affrighted, for Jehovah God, my God, `is' with thee; He doth not fail thee, nor forsake thee, unto the completion of all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah.
• Luke 12:32 : 32 `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;
• Acts 10:10-17 : 10 and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance, 11 and he doth behold the heaven opened, and descending unto him a certain vessel, as a great sheet, bound at the four corners, and let down upon the earth, 12 in which were all the four-footed beasts of the earth, and the wild beasts, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the heaven, 13 and there came a voice unto him: `Having risen, Peter, slay and eat.' 14 And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;' 15 and `there is' a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;' 16 and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven. 17 And as Peter was perplexed in himself what the vision that he saw might be, then, lo, the men who have been sent from Cornelius, having made inquiry for the house of Simon, stood at the gate,
• Acts 10:22 : 22 And they said, `Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.'
• 1 Cor 3:22 : 22 whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things about to be -- all are yours,
• Heb 1:1 : 1 In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,
• Rev 1:17 : 17 And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last,
• Rev 21:3-4 : 3 and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God `is' with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them -- their God, 4 and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and the death shall not be any more, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor shall there be any more pain, because the first things did go away.'
• Ps 91:4 : 4 With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler `is' His truth.