Deuteronomy 28:5 — Word Study
WLCבָּר֥וּךְ טַנְאֲךָ֖ וּמִשְׁאַרְתֶּֽךָ׃
BSAYour basketṭeneʼ [and all your provisions, store, container, woven osiers] and kneading bowlmishʼereth [trough, dough rising place] will be blessedbârak [praised, honored by God, happy]
| Greek | English | Parsing |
|---|---|---|
| בָּר֥וּךְ | [will be] blessed | Verb, Qal, participle (passive) masculine singular |
| טַנְאֲךָ֖ | basket your | Noun common masculine singular construct, suffix |
| וּמִשְׁאַרְתֶּֽךָ׃ | and kneading trough your | Conjunction, noun common feminine singular construct, suffix |
Every word in the verse. Click a row to open it in the panel on the left.
| BSB | Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed. |
| KJV | Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. |
| ASV | Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough. |
| YLT | 'Blessed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough. |
| WEB | Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed. |
| BBE | A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin. |
The translations agree on the concept of blessing, specifically using בָּר֥וּךְ — see How Translations Differ.
The sentence is straightforward, with a single main clause expressing the promise of blessing.
8 commentators on this verse
Gill, Jamieson, Poole, Trapp & more — read them ›
clause
verbבָּרַךְ
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Deep Study — Deuteronomy 28:5
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Context — Blessings for Obediencegenerated
Deuteronomy 28:5 is part of a series of blessings promised to Israel for their obedience to God's commands. This section emphasizes how everyday items, such as the basket and kneading bowl, will experience God's favor, reflecting His provision for their needs. The surrounding verses elaborate on various aspects of life that will be blessed, including children, land, and livestock.
Cross References
The Key Word — בָּר֥וּךְ, ba.Rukhgenerated
The Hebrew word בָּרַךְ (*barak*) is a verb in the Qal stem, indicating a simple action. It is a perfect passive participle, meaning it describes a state resulting from an action — in this case, being blessed. The root conveys the idea of kneeling, which ties the act of blessing to an attitude of reverence and worship.
This word encompasses a range of meanings, including to bless or to praise. In this context, it signifies that God honors and favors the items mentioned, indicating His provision and care for the people.
How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated
The translations agree here, all conveying the idea of blessing on the basket and kneading bowl.
Sentence Structuregenerated
The finite verb בָּר֥וּךְ governs the entire verse, indicating the state of being blessed. The structure presents two noun phrases: טַנְאֲךָ֖ (basket) and וּמִשְׁאַרְתֶּֽךָ (kneading trough), both of which are the subjects receiving the action of the verb.
Hebrew word order places the verb first, followed by the subjects, which emphasizes the blessings bestowed upon these everyday items.
Septuagint Backgroundgenerated
The Septuagint translates בָּרַךְ with εὐλογημέναι (blessed), which carries a similar meaning. This choice aligns with the Hebrew context, maintaining the idea of divine favor.
The LXX does not introduce new concepts but reinforces the blessings promised in the Hebrew text, showing continuity in the understanding of God's provision.
In plain words — the whole versegenerated
Deuteronomy 28:5 states that God will bless your basket and kneading bowl, which means He will provide for your basic needs. This verse is part of a larger promise of blessings for obedience to God's commands, showing how He cares for the daily life of His people.
Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated
It signifies that God will provide abundance and favor in the basic provisions of life, ensuring that the necessities are met.
The basket and kneading bowl represent everyday tools essential for food preparation, symbolizing God's care for the daily needs of His people.
This verse is part of a series in Deuteronomy where God promises blessings for obedience, highlighting His desire to bless all aspects of life.
We learn that God is attentive to our needs and desires to bless us, providing for both our physical and spiritual well-being.
Reflection Questionsgenerated
- In what ways have I seen God's provision in my daily life?
- How can I cultivate an attitude of gratitude for the blessings I receive?
- What are some ways I can be a blessing to others, just as God blesses me?
- How does understanding God's blessings affect my perspective on daily challenges?
The early church on this verse — how the Fathers read it
Basil of Caesarea comments on the blessings associated with prosperity, using this verse to illustrate the connection between divine favor and abundance.
The prosperity of a city is dependent upon the supply of goods for sale in the market. We say that a country is prosperous which produces much fruit.Early Church Fathers on Deuteronomy 28 →
Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse
Each of these wrote on Deuteronomy 28:5 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.
John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleBlessed [shall be] thy basket,.... Which the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem restrain to the basket of firstfruits, and the cake of the first of their dough; but it intends any and every vessel in
Read John Gill on Deuteronomy 28 →Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's CommentaryBlessed shall be thy basket and thy store. Thy basket and thy store , [ uwmish'artekaa (H4863). This word (cf. Deuteronomy 28:17; Exodus 8:3) "store" is rendered "kneading trough," Exodus 12:34.
Read Robert Jamieson on Deuteronomy 28 →Matthew Poole1624–1679Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy Biblei.e. It shall always be well replenished, and the provision thou hast there shall be preserved for, and in due time brought forth to, thy use and service. See ,10.
Read Matthew Poole on Deuteronomy 28 →John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New TestamentsDeuteronomy 28:5 Blessed [shall be] thy basket and thy store.Ver. 5. Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.] Or, Thy dough trough. The Greek hath it, Thy barns and thy remainders. The meaning is, Thou shalt know no want. Cicero saith, One friend should wish to another three things only, to enjoy health, to possess honour, and not suffer necessity. He that observeth God’ s commands to do them, as Deuteronomy 28:1, shall have all these and more. Ad Attic.
Read John Trapp on Deuteronomy 28 →Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Thy basket—(Only here and in Deuteronomy 28:17, and Deuteronomy 26:2; Deuteronomy 26:4)—i.e., the portion which is brought out for the present occasion. Thy store, that which is left, and put away for future use. But this view rests upon the LXX. translation of the word for “store.” All the Targums, and all the Jewish commentators I have been able to consult, and the lexicons also, take a different view. The word is identical in form with that used for “kneading troughs” in Exodus 8:3; Exodus 12:34. And so the contrast is taken to be, either (1) between firstfruits in their natural condition (Deuteronomy 26:2) and the dough offered when already prepared for food, as in the wave-loaves…
Read Charles John Ellicott on Deuteronomy 28 →AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the BibleVerse 5. Thy basket] Thy olive gathering and vintage, as the basket was employed to collect those fruits. Store.] משארת mishereth, kneading-trough, or remainder; all that is laid up for future use, as well as what is prepared for present consumption. Some think that by basket all their property abroad may be meant, and by store all that they have at home, i. e., all that is in the fields, and all that is in the houses. The following note of Mr. Harmer is important: - "Commentators seem to be at a great loss how to explain the basket and the store mentioned Deuteronomy 28:5; Deuteronomy 28:17. Why Moses, who in the other verses mentions things in general, should in this case be so minute as…
Read AdamClarke on Deuteronomy 28 →CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges5. basket] See on Deuteronomy 26:2. kneading-bowl] See Dri. on Exodus 8:3. Cp. mill, Deuteronomy 24:6.
Read Cambridge on Deuteronomy 28 →Daniel Denison Whedon1808–1885Whedon's Commentary on the Bible3-6. Blessed shall thou be — The manifold blessings in all the relations of life are expressed by six beatitudes.
Read Daniel Denison Whedon on Deuteronomy 28 →The verse in English, compared — 17 translations, and where they part company
Every translation on this page is a decision someone had to make and commit to. Read down a column and you see one translator's judgement; read across a row and you see the range the Greek actually allows. The BSB is the wording the rest of this page is measured against, so it is listed first.
Modern formal
Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.
Your basket and kneading bowl will be blessed.
Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.
Tyndale line
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneadingtrough.
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Blessed shalbe thy basket and thy dough.
Strictly literal
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
'Blessed [is] thy basket and thy kneading-trough.
Blessed [is] your basket and your kneading-trough.
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-through.
Blessed will be your basket and your kneading trough.
From the Latin
Blessed shall be thy barns and blessed thy stores.
Simplified
You will be blessed with plenty of bread.
A blessing will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.
Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.
The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the MACULA Hebrew treebank
This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.
Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.
The four witnesses to this verse — Masoretic, Septuagint, Samaritan, Qumran
The Masoretic Text is supported by the Samaritan Pentateuch, which agrees word for word with the Hebrew. The Dead Sea Scrolls also align closely, confirming the preservation of this verse across different manuscripts.
בָּר֥וּךְ טַנְאֲךָ֖ וּמִשְׁאַרְתֶּֽךָ׃
3 of the 3 words are matched. This is the word-by-word correspondence, not the Septuagint's own sentence — its word order and its articles are its own.
ברוך טנאך ומשׁארתך
Agrees with the Masoretic Text here, word for word.
ברוך טנא׳ך ומשארת׳ך
3 words on the leather.
Four traditions, not one. “On the leather” means the letters physically survive on the scroll, as against letters an editor has supplied to fill a hole in it — a restoration is a scholar’s reading, not a reading of the manuscript. Words in [square brackets] are supplied; the notes count them apart from what survives.
The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with
This is a map of two things, both counted rather than judged. Company kept: which words stand within three words of each of these, anywhere in the Hebrew Bible — the thicker the line, the more often the pair meet compared with chance. Built from: the words a word is made out of, taken from its own Strong’s entry. It is not a map of meaning: nothing here claims two words mean the same thing. Click any circle to see the numbers behind it.
Lexicons — every word in Deuteronomy 28:5
One dossier per word, with every reference work grouped by kind — Hebrew lexicons, morphology, Bible dictionaries, topical chains and the English of the translators themselves. The verse sits at the head of each block with the word under study lit, so you never lose your place. The panel above gives the short answer; this is the long one, and it is the part of the page worth indexing.
Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. On the Hebrew: Brown-Driver-Briggs entire and its gloss set, Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, and Tyndale House's Translators Brief lexicon. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.
The Hebrew word בָּרַךְ (*barak*) is built from a primitive root meaning 'to kneel' and encompasses a range of meanings including 'to bless' and 'to curse.' It can refer to blessing God or men, as well as the act of kneeling in adoration. The entries note that it can also imply a curse in certain contexts, reflecting a nuanced use in greetings and farewells.
[בָּרַךְ] 329 vb. kneel, bless
Qal
kneel down
bless
Niph. bless oneself
Pi.
bless God, adore with bended knees
God blesses
men bless men
salute, greet, with an invocation of blessing
bless, with the antithetical meaning curse from the greeting in departing, saying adieu to, taking leave of; but rather a blessing overdone and so really a curse as in vulgar English as well as in the Shemitic cognates
Pu.
pass. to be blessed, adored
prospered by God
have prosperity invoked, by Balaam
in gratitude
Hiph. and he made his camel kneel
Hithp. bless oneself, congratulate oneself in his heart
base
H1288 בָּרַךְ kneel, bless .. kneel down
. bless
. bless oneself
. . bless God, adore with bended knees
. God blesses
. men bless men
. salute, greet, with an invocation of blessing
. bless, with the antithetical meaning curse from the greeting in departing, saying adieu to, taking leave of; but rather a blessing overdone and so really a curse as in vulgar English as well as in the Shemitic cognates
. . pass. to be blessed, adored
. prospered by God
. have prosperity invoked, by Balaam
. in gratitude
. and he made his camel kneel
. bless oneself, congratulate oneself in his heart
1288 barak baw-rak'
a primitive root; 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):--X
abundantly, X altogether, X at all, blaspheme, bless,
congratulate, curse, X greatly, X indeed, kneel (down),
praise, salute, X still, thank.
בָּרַךְ (ba.rakh) — to bless.
1) to bless, kneel
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to kneel
1a2) to bless
1b) (Niphal) to be blessed, bless oneself
1c) (Piel) to bless
1d) (Pual) to be blessed, be adored
1e) (Hiphil) to cause to kneel
1f) (Hithpael) to bless oneself
2) (TWOT) to praise, salute, curse
Aramaic equivalent: be.rakh (בְּרַךְ "to bless" H1289)
V-Qal-Inf-c — Verb · Qal · participle (passive) masculine singularHVqsmsa
bles'-ed (barukh): Where God is referred to, this word has the sense of "praise," as in 1Sa 25:32, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel." But where man is in mind it is used in the sense of "happy" or "favored," and most frequently so in the Psalms and the Gospels, as for example, "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked" (Ps 1:1); "Blessed art thou among women" (Lu 1:42); "Blessed are the poor in spirit" (Mt 5:3).
See BEATITUDES.
טֶ֫נֶא (tene') means 'basket' and is derived from an unused root that likely refers to weaving. It specifically denotes a basket made of interlaced materials. The term appears in contexts related to containers, though no specific verses are cited in the entries.
טֶ֫נֶא n.m. basket
base
H2935 טֶ֫נֶא basket
2935 tene' teh'-neh
from an unused root probably meaning to weave; a basket (of
interlaced osiers):--basket.
טֶ֫נֶא (te.ne) — basket.
basket
N-ms | Suff — Noun common masculine singular construct · suffixHNcmsc/Sp2ms
מִשְׁאֶ֫רֶת (mish'ereth) refers to a kneading trough or bowl, a household vessel used for dough before it is leavened. It is derived from the root meaning to swell, indicating its function in the bread-making process. The term appears in contexts related to food preparation, particularly in Exodus.
[מִשְׁאֶ֫רֶת] n.f. a household vessel, AV (Ex), RV kneading-trough; vessel in which was dough before it was leavened
base
H4863 מִשְׁאֶ֫רֶת
4863 mish'ereth mish-eh'-reth
from 7604 in the original sense of swelling; a
kneading-trough (in which the dough rises):--kneading trough,
store.
see HEBREW for 07604
מִשְׁאֶ֫רֶת (mish.e.ret) — kneading.
kneading trough or bowl
Conj | N-fs | Suff — Conjunction · noun common feminine singular construct · suffixHC/Ncfsc/Sp2ms