Genesis 1:22
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
בָרַךְ
bârak
to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as...
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
פָּרָה
pârâh
to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)
מָלֵא
mâlêʼ
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
יָם
yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artif...
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
עוֹף
ʻôwph
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָם yâm
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the sou...
Study H3220 →עוֹף ʻôwph
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
Study H5775 →מָלֵא mâlêʼ
to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
Study H4390 →בָרַךְ bârak
to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason)
Study H1288 →Cross References
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the e...
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over ever...
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD hath blessed thee since my coming: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.
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