וִיבָ֣רְכֶ֔ךָּ (wî·ḇā·rə·ḵe·kā) in Genesis 49:25: Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
וִיבָ֣רְכֶ֔ךָּ (wî·ḇā·rə·ḵe·kā) in Genesis 49:25
Source Word
Genesis 49:25 row 6 aligns the selected H1288 form with who blesses you inside Jacob's blessing of Joseph.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Who blesses you holds the Almighty and Joseph in a clear giver-recipient relation before the verse names the spheres in which the blessing is pictured. Who blesses you uses a relative clause supplied by the surrounding syntax, while you represents the attached masculine singular suffix addressed to Joseph.
How To Communicate It
Identify the Almighty as subject and Joseph as the suffix-marked recipient, then read the four blessing phrases as the verse's own elaboration rather than definitions supplied by the stem.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not turn Jacob's blessing of Joseph into an automatic promise of prosperity or derive the blessing's content from Piel alone.
- The imperfect form works within Jacob's poetic blessing and should not be reduced to a simple English tense rule.
- The form does not make the listed blessings a prosperity formula or make Piel itself prove fertility, wealth, or tribal destiny.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Piel
ConjImperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
Waw conjunction
Second person masculine singular
The waw-linked Piel conjunctive imperfect continues Jacob's description of the divine helper, and the attached second-person suffix identifies Joseph as the one blessed. The surrounding relative clause supplies the force expressed by who.
The form keeps the Almighty as giver and Joseph as recipient while the following phrases unfold the blessing across heaven, deep, breast, and womb.
What The Form Does In This Verse
Jacob's description of the Almighty as the one who blesses Joseph
The paternal blessing that traces Joseph's help and blessing to the God of his father and the Almighty
The form keeps the Almighty as giver and Joseph as recipient while the following phrases unfold the blessing across heaven, deep, breast, and womb.
The form does not make the listed blessings a prosperity formula or make Piel itself prove fertility, wealth, or tribal destiny.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form joins divine agency, Joseph's reception, and the verse's cascading blessing language in one poetic line.
The waw-linked Piel conjunctive imperfect continues Jacob's description of the divine helper, and the attached second-person suffix identifies Joseph as the one blessed. The surrounding relative clause supplies the force expressed by who.. The form keeps the Almighty as giver and Joseph as recipient while the following phrases unfold the blessing across heaven, deep, breast, and womb.. Attached to Jacob's description of the Almighty as the one who blesses Joseph. Governed by the paternal blessing that traces Joseph's help and blessing to the God of his father and the Almighty. The form does not make the listed blessings a prosperity formula or make Piel itself prove fertility, wealth, or tribal destiny.
Who blesses Joseph in Genesis 49:25, and what follows from that claim? The Almighty blesses Joseph, and the rest of the verse pictures that blessing across heaven, deep, breast, and womb.
Direct: Who blesses you uses a relative clause supplied by the surrounding syntax, while you represents the attached masculine singular suffix addressed to Joseph.
The imperfect form works within Jacob's poetic blessing and should not be reduced to a simple English tense rule. The second-person suffix addresses Joseph in this oracle, not every later reader directly.
Conj-w | V-Piel-ConjImperf-3ms | 2ms at Genesis 49:25 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not turn Jacob's blessing of Joseph into an automatic promise of prosperity or derive the blessing's content from Piel alone. the list of blessings treated as a universal guarantee because the English says who blesses you: Keep "who blesses you" connected to וִיבָ֣רְכֶ֔ךָּ, row 6, and the full Genesis 49:25 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Genesis 49:25 row 6 aligns the selected H1288 form with who blesses you inside Jacob's blessing of Joseph.
The row 6 H1288 witness names divine blessing within Joseph's paternal oracle and is distinct from Abram's vocation-oriented blessing in Genesis 12:2.
The waw-linked Piel conjunctive imperfect continues Jacob's description of the divine helper, and the attached second-person suffix identifies Joseph as the one blessed. The surrounding relative clause supplies the force expressed by who.
Genesis 49:25 locates Joseph's help and blessing in the God of his father, then describes that gift through a fourfold abundance reaching creation and family life.
This occurrence belongs to Jacob's particular blessing of Joseph within the tribal sayings of Genesis 49; later blessing language must be related through its own covenant and literary setting.
Identify the Almighty as subject and Joseph as the suffix-marked recipient, then read the four blessing phrases as the verse's own elaboration rather than definitions supplied by the stem.
Do not turn Jacob's blessing of Joseph into an automatic promise of prosperity or derive the blessing's content from Piel alone.