AndוַElohimאֱלֹהִיםsaid,יֹּאמֶר“Look,הִנֵּהI have givenנָתַתִּיyouלָכֶםeveryאֶת כָּלplantעֵשֶׂבyieldingזֹרֵעַseedזֶרַעthat isאֲשֶׁרon the faceעַל פְּנֵיof allכָלthe earth,הָאָרֶץand everyוְאֶת כָּלtreeהָעֵץthat hasאֲשֶׁר בּוֹfruitפְרִי עֵץyieldingזֹרֵעַseed;זָרַעit will beיִהְיֶהfoodלְאָכְלָהfor you.לָכֶם
Genesis 1:29
Study it in the app“And Elohim said, “Look, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit yielding seed; it will be food for you.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 1:29, word by word
- Elohimאֱלֹהִיםelohim
Elohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- I have givenנָתַתִּיnatati
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “natati” appears- plantעֵשֶׂבesev
plants, vegetation
Small plants, herbs and crops that serve as food for people and animals.
Where else “esev” appears- yieldingזֹרֵעַzorea
yield seed
Of a plant: to bear seed so that others grow.
Where else “zorea” appears- seedזֶרַעzera
seed
What is sown to sprout: grains and seeds of plants.
Where else “zera” appears- on the faceפְּנֵיpene
surface
The surface: "the face of the earth".
Where else “pene” appears- the earthאָרֶץarets
earth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appears- treeעֵץets
tree
A tall plant with trunk and branches, giving fruit, shade or timber.
Where else “ets” appears- fruitפְרִיferi
fruit
What a tree or the land produces, which is eaten.
Where else “feri” appears- it will beיִהְיֶהyihye
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yihye” appears- foodאָכְלָהachla
food
What nourishes: the bread from heaven and the sustenance God gives to every creature.
Where else “achla” appears
The context
28And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every animal that creeps on the earth.”
29 · This verse (above)
30And to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that creeps on the earth, that has life, I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
To study Genesis 1 in a group
1. What it says
What did Elohim say about everything he had made at the end of the sixth day (v. 31)?
2. What it means
What does the text say about human beings when it says they were created in the image of Elohim (v. 27)?
3. How I live it
How can you treat the people around you today, remembering that every one of them was created in the image of Elohim?