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And he saidוַיֹּאמֶרto him,אֵלָיו“Iאֲנִיam YHWHיְהוָהwhoאֲשֶׁרbrought you outהוֹצֵאתִיךָfrom Urמֵאוּרof the Chaldeansכַּשְׂדִּיםto giveלָתֶתyouלְךָthisהַזֹּאתlandאֶת הָאָרֶץto possess it.”לְרִשְׁתָּהּ
Genesis 15:7
Study it in the app“And he said to him, “I am YHWH who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess it.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Genesis 15:7, word by word
- And he saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- am YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- brought you outהוֹצֵאתִיhotseti
bring out
To lead someone out: "I led you out of Egypt".
Where else “hotseti” appears- from Urאוּרur
Ur
See it on the mapWhere else “ur” appears- of the Chaldeansכַּשְׂדִּיםkasdim
Chaldean
The Chaldeans, or the Babylonians.
Where else “kasdim” appears- to giveתֶתtet
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tet” appears- landאָרֶץarets
land
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “arets” appears- to possess itרִשְׁתָּrishta
possess
To occupy a land and make it one's own.
Where else “rishta” appears
Places in this verse
Ur ?
Today: possibly Tell el-Muqayyar, southern Iraq
A city in Mesopotamia, probably in what is now southern Iraq; its location is debated.
Abram and his family left Ur of the Chaldeans for Canaan (Gen 11:31). God had brought him out from there (Gen 15:7).
The context
6And he believed in YHWH, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
7 · This verse (above)
8But he said, “Adonai YHWH, how will I know that I will possess it?”
To study Genesis 15 in a group
1. What it says
What did YHWH promise Abram about his descendants, and how did Abram respond (vv. 5-6)?
2. What it means
What relation does the text show between Abram’s faith and its being counted to him as righteousness (v. 6)?
3. How I live it
Which promise of Elohim is hard for you to believe today, and how can you talk with him about it?