Bit at a Time Bible Hebrew -- Genesis 3:15-16

Genesis 3:15-16

 

טו וְאֵיבָה אָשִׁית בֵּינְךָ וּבֵין הָאִשָּׁה וּבֵין זַרְעֲךָ וּבֵין זַרְעָהּ הוּא יְשׁוּפְךָ רֹאשׁ וְאַתָּה תְּשׁוּפֶנּוּ עָקֵב:  

טז אֶל־הָאִשָּׁה אָמַר הַרְבָּה אַרְבֶּה עִצְּבוֹנֵךְ וְהֵרֹנֵךְ בְּעֶצֶב תֵּלְדִי בָנִים וְאֶל־אִישֵׁךְ תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ וְהוּא יִמְשָׁל־בָּךְ:

 

Translation:    I shall set enmity between you and the woman, between your descendants and her descendants, he shall wound your head and you shall wound his heel.

To the woman He said, I shall definitely increase your pain and your birthing, you shall birth children in pain and desire your husband and he shall control you.

 

Vocabulary in this lesson:

אֵיבָה	enmity
יְשׁוּפְךָ	He shall wound you
תְּשׁוּפֶנּוּ	You shall wound him
עָקֵב	heel
עֶצֶב	Pain
עִצְּבוֹנֵךְ	Your pain
תֵּלְדִי	[give] birth
בָנִים	Children, sons
תְּשׁוּקָתֵךְ	Your desire

 

We have two verbs in this lesson that have something in common.  The root has a vav in the middle.  “Wound” is shin vav pe and “your desire” is shin vav qof.   I’ll give you the conjugation of a related verb that you will see much more often, qof vav mem which means “arise.”

 

Present

Singular	Plural	Gender
קָם	קָמִים	Masculine
קָמָה	קָמוֹת	Feminine

 

Past

Singular	Plural	Person/gender
קַמְתִּי	קַמְנוּ	First
קַמְתָּ	קַמְתֶּם	Second/masculine
קַמְתְּ	קַמְתֶּן	Second/feminine
קָם	קָמוּ	Third/masculine
קָמָה	קָמְוּ	Third/feminine

 

Future/aorist

Singular	Plural	Person/gender
אָקוּם	נָקוּם	First
תָּקוּם	תָּקוּמוּ	Second/masculine
תָּקוּמִי	תָּקוֹמְנָה	Second/feminine
יָקוּם	יָקוּמוּ	Third/masculine
תָּקוּמִי	תָּקוֹמְנָה	Third/feminine

 

Culture capsule.  Notice that the verse numbers are not yod heh or yod vav.  Those are components of the Name of Gd.  So Hebrew numbering uses different letters that add up to the same thing.  You do the math.

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