יְבָרֶכְךָ֧ (yə·ḇā·reḵ·ḵā) in Jeremiah 31:23: Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
יְבָרֶכְךָ֧ (yə·ḇā·reḵ·ḵā) in Jeremiah 31:23
Source Word
Jeremiah 31:23 row 19 anchors H1288 to the restored acclamation may the Lord bless you, not to a narrator's general statement about every dwelling.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
May the Lord bless you turns restoration into public speech: people will once again address the holy place as a recipient of the Lord's favor. May bless represents the wish or invocation carried by the quoted context, and you preserves the masculine singular place-address marked by the suffix.
How To Communicate It
Read the when I restore frame first, then identify the Lord as invoked giver and the restored place as the suffix-marked addressee.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not use the form to confer automatic holiness on a modern place or detach the acclamation from Jeremiah's promise of restoration.
- The jussive sense comes from the quoted blessing context, not from the imperfect label in isolation.
- The morphology does not declare every city righteous or holy, and it does not make architectural space a source of blessing apart from the Lord.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Piel
Imperf
Third
Masculine
Singular
Not applicable
Second person masculine singular
The third-person Piel imperfect places the Lord as the one invoked to bless, while the attached second-person suffix marks the singular place addressed as righteous dwelling and holy mountain. The quoted acclamation gives the form its may-bless force.
The form voices a renewed blessing over the restored place and lets the singular suffix gather the dwelling and mountain titles into one direct address.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The restored community's quoted acclamation over Judah's righteous dwelling place and holy mountain
The Lord's promise that this blessing formula will again be spoken when he restores Judah from captivity
The form voices a renewed blessing over the restored place and lets the singular suffix gather the dwelling and mountain titles into one direct address.
The morphology does not declare every city righteous or holy, and it does not make architectural space a source of blessing apart from the Lord.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form makes renewed blessing speech one audible sign of life returning to Judah after captivity.
The third-person Piel imperfect places the Lord as the one invoked to bless, while the attached second-person suffix marks the singular place addressed as righteous dwelling and holy mountain. The quoted acclamation gives the form its may-bless force.. The form voices a renewed blessing over the restored place and lets the singular suffix gather the dwelling and mountain titles into one direct address.. Attached to the restored community's quoted acclamation over Judah's righteous dwelling place and holy mountain. Governed by the Lord's promise that this blessing formula will again be spoken when he restores Judah from captivity. The morphology does not declare every city righteous or holy, and it does not make architectural space a source of blessing apart from the Lord.
Why will people again say May the Lord bless you in Jeremiah 31:23? Their renewed acclamation signals the Lord's restoration of Judah's communities and holy place after captivity.
Direct: May bless represents the wish or invocation carried by the quoted context, and you preserves the masculine singular place-address marked by the suffix.
The jussive sense comes from the quoted blessing context, not from the imperfect label in isolation. The singular you addresses the place under two parallel descriptions.
V-Piel-Imperf-3ms | 2ms at Jeremiah 31:23 treated as the whole interpretation: Do not use the form to confer automatic holiness on a modern place or detach the acclamation from Jeremiah's promise of restoration. righteous dwelling place or holy mountain treated as inherently blessed because the English preserves a blessing formula: Keep "bless you" connected to יְבָרֶכְךָ֧, row 19, and the full Jeremiah 31:23 clause.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
Jeremiah 31:23 row 19 anchors H1288 to the restored acclamation may the Lord bless you, not to a narrator's general statement about every dwelling.
This row 19 H1288 occurrence is a quoted restoration-era invocation over Judah's sacred center, distinct from the direct divine promises elsewhere in the campaign.
The third-person Piel imperfect places the Lord as the one invoked to bless, while the attached second-person suffix marks the singular place addressed as righteous dwelling and holy mountain. The quoted acclamation gives the form its may-bless force.
Jeremiah 31:23 presents the return of this blessing speech as evidence that Judah's life and worship are being restored after captivity.
The line belongs to Jeremiah's restoration promises for Judah and Jerusalem; its hope arises from the Lord's restoring action rather than from a reusable formula for any place.
Read the when I restore frame first, then identify the Lord as invoked giver and the restored place as the suffix-marked addressee.
Do not use the form to confer automatic holiness on a modern place or detach the acclamation from Jeremiah's promise of restoration.