Joel 1:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָלֶ֖יהָ לִבְנֵיכֶ֣ם סַפֵּ֑רוּ וּבְנֵיכֶם֙ לִבְנֵיהֶ֔ם וּבְנֵיהֶ֖ם לְד֥וֹר אַחֵֽר׃

Transliteration

ʿālêhā liḇnêḵem sappērû ûḇnêḵem liḇnêhem ûḇnêhem ləḏôr ʾaḥēr

Grammar Details

*ʿālêhā*: preposition + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - concerning it
*liḇnêḵem*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - to your sons
*sappērû*: Piel imperative, masculine plural - tell, recount, declare
*ûḇnêḵem*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - and your sons
*liḇnêhem*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to their sons
*ûḇnêhem*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - and their sons
*ləḏôr*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - to generation of
*ʾaḥēr*: adjective, masculine singular - another

Word Meanings

*ʿālêhā*: concerning it/about it/upon it
*sappērû*: tell/recount/declare/narrate
*ḏôr*: generation/age/period

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Deut 6:7 : 7 and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Ps 78:3-8 : 3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done. 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children; 6 That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children, 7 That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments, 8 And might not be as their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious generation, A generation that set not their heart aright, And whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Ps 145:4 : 4 One generation shall laud thy works to another, And shall declare thy mighty acts.
Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Exod 10:1-2 : 1 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh: for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them, 2 and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought upon Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know that I am Jehovah.
Exod 13:14 : 14 And it shall be, when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
Josh 4:6-7 : 6 that this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? 7 then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
Josh 4:21-22 : 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Ps 44:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
Ps 71:18 : 18 Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto [the next] generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

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