תּוֹצֵ֨א (tō·w·ṣê) in Genesis 1:24: Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular
תּוֹצֵ֨א (tō·w·ṣê) in Genesis 1:24
Source Word
The BSB+ row for Genesis 1:24 links the English rendering "bring forth" with תּוֹצֵ֨א, Strong's H3318, and the parsing label V-Hifil-Imperf.Jus-3fs.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form matters because it carries the command in God's speech: the earth is to bring forth living creatures. The grammar supports the command, while Genesis 1 supplies the theology of God's ordering word.
How To Communicate It
Explain this as a jussive form inside divine speech. That helps readers hear "Let the earth bring forth" without treating the earth as independent of God's command.
What Not To Say
- Grammar should serve context, not override it.
- Do not make the imperfect jussive label prove more than the sentence supports.
- Do not use the stem label by itself to settle a theological claim.
- Do not treat this occurrence as a complete word study for the whole Hebrew lemma.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular
Hifil
Imperfect Jussive
Third person
Feminine
Singular
The imperfect form presents the action as unfolding, expected, or desired in context; Genesis 1:24 determines how that force is heard.
This form carries the BSB rendering "bring forth" within Genesis 1:24. Genesis 1 presents God ordering, filling, naming, blessing, and giving life to the created world by his word.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The divine speech command rendered "bring forth" in Genesis 1:24
The jussive form belongs to God's speech, "Let the earth bring forth..."
It presents the earth as the grammatical subject called to bring forth living creatures under God's creative command.
It does not make the earth an independent creator, and it does not make the jussive label alone define the whole doctrine of creation.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form carries a creation-command line in Genesis 1.
Jussive verb in divine speech. expresses the commanded action under God's creative word. Attached to the command for the earth to bring forth living creatures. Governed by God's speech in Genesis 1:24. The jussive force belongs to the divine speech context, not to an isolated morphology label.
Who commands the bringing forth in this verse? God commands, and the earth is the grammatical subject summoned to bring forth living creatures.
Direct: The jussive form directly supports the English command wording "bring forth."
The jussive form marks volitional or command force in context; Genesis 1:24 supplies the divine speaker. The feminine singular form aligns with the earth as grammatical subject and should not be turned into a gender claim about creatures.
Jussive form proves autonomous natural power: The jussive occurs inside God's command; Genesis 1 presents creation under divine speech. Hifil always means the same English causative wording: Hifil marks the stem, but the verse controls the rendering "bring forth."
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The BSB+ row for Genesis 1:24 links the English rendering "bring forth" with תּוֹצֵ֨א, Strong's H3318, and the parsing label V-Hifil-Imperf.Jus-3fs.
H3318 is represented here by the lemma יָצָא. In this occurrence, the public guide is limited to the BSB rendering "bring forth" rather than every possible gloss of the entry.
The Hifil imperfect jussive occurs in God's creative speech, where the earth is summoned to bring forth living creatures. The feminine singular form aligns with the earth as grammatical subject, while divine speech supplies the command context.
Genesis 1 presents God ordering, filling, naming, blessing, and giving life to the created world by his word.
The form fits Scripture's opening witness that creation is received from God and interpreted under his speech and order.
When teaching Genesis 1:24, show how the jussive force belongs to God's command and how the earth's bringing forth happens under his ordering word.
Do not derive a full word study, grammar doctrine, or doctrine of creation from V-Hifil-Imperf.Jus-3fs alone. The form identifies the occurrence-level jussive command in divine speech.