Genesis 8:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עֹ֖ד כָּל־יְמֵ֣י הָאָ֑רֶץ זֶ֡רַע וְ֠קָצִיר וְקֹ֨ר וָחֹ֜ם וְקַ֧יִץ וָחֹ֛רֶף וְי֥וֹם וָלַ֖יְלָה לֹ֥א יִשְׁבֹּֽתוּ

Transliteration

Yet all-yəmê the-ʾereṣ, zeraʿ and-qāṣîr and-qōr and-ḥōm and-qayiṣ and-ḥōrep and-yôm and-laylâ not yišbōtû

Grammar Details

• *yəmê*: masculine plural construct - days of
• *ʾereṣ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the earth/land
• *zeraʿ*: masculine singular noun - seed/sowing
• *qāṣîr*: masculine singular noun - harvest/reaping
• *qōr*: masculine singular noun - cold
• *ḥōm*: masculine singular noun - heat
• *qayiṣ*: masculine singular noun - summer
• *ḥōrep*: masculine singular noun - winter
• *yôm*: masculine singular noun - day
• *laylâ*: masculine singular noun - night
• *yišbōtû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural with negative particle - they will not cease

Word Meanings

• *zeraʿ*: seed/sowing/seedtime
• *qāṣîr*: harvest/reaping/harvesttime
• *qōr*: cold/coldness
• *ḥōm*: heat/warmth
• *qayiṣ*: summer/summer fruit season
• *ḥōrep*: winter/autumn
• *yišbōtû*: cease/desist/rest

Referenced Verses

• Jer 5:24 : 24 Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in its season; that preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
• Jer 33:20-26 : 20 Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season; 21 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22 As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. 23 And the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which Jehovah did choose, he hath cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night [stand] not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
• Jas 5:7 : 7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until {G302} it receive the early and latter rain.
• Jer 31:35 : 35 Thus saith Jehovah, who giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirreth up the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:
• Ps 74:16-17 : 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.
• Song 2:11-12 : 11 For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and gone; 12 The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing [of birds] is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;
• Isa 54:8-9 : 8 In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting lovingkindness will I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah thy Redeemer. 9 For this is [as] the waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
• Gen 45:6 : 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
• Exod 34:21 : 21 Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.