Study it in the app“Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the ground will be blessed in you and in your offspring.”
Your offspringזַרְעֲךָwill beוְהָיָהlike the dustכַּעֲפַרof the earth,הָאָרֶץand you will spread outוּפָרַצְתָּto the westיָמָּהand to the eastוָקֵדְמָהand to the northוְצָפֹנָהand to the south;וָנֶגְבָּהand allוְ כָּלthe familiesמִשְׁפְּחֹתof the groundהָאֲדָמָהwill be blessedנִבְרֲכוּin youבְךָand in your offspring.וּבְזַרְעֶךָ
offspring
The children, grandchildren and whole line that come from someone.
Where else “zara” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “haya” appearsdust
Dry, loose earth, fine as dust; God formed man from it.
Where else “afar” appearsearth
The whole world, everything under the sky.
Where else “arets” appearsspread
To grow greatly, multiply.
Where else “faratsta” appearswest
Literally "the sea": the side where the sun sets.
Where else “yama” appearseast
The side in front, where the sun rises; the east.
Where else “kedma” appearsnorth
North.
Where else “tsafona” appearssouth
One of the four sides of the land: the south.
Where else “negba” appearsfamily
A group of relatives within a tribe.
Where else “mishpchot” appearsland
A territory with its inhabitants, or the whole surface of the world.
Where else “adama” appearsbless
God gives good things: life, children, harvests.
Where else “nivrachu” appears13And look, YHWH stood above it and said, “I am YHWH, the Elohim of Abraham your father and the Elohim of Isaac. The land on which you are lying I will give it to you and to your offspring.
14 · This verse (above)
15Look, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land, for I will not abandon you until I have done what I have spoken to you.”
1. What it says
What did Jacob dream at Bethel, and what did YHWH say to him (vv. 12-15)?
2. What it means
What does it mean that Elohim tells Jacob, “I am with you and will keep you,” in his flight (v. 15)?
3. How I live it
In what difficult place in your life do you need to remember that Elohim is with you?
