The Meaning of Genesis 9:24 Explained

Genesis 9:24

KJV: And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.

YLT: And Noah awaketh from his wine, and knoweth that which his young son hath done to him,

Darby: And Noah awoke from his wine, and learned what his youngest son had done to him.

ASV: And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And Noah  awoke  from his wine,  and knew  what his younger  son  had done  unto him. 

What does Genesis 9:24 Mean?

Context Summary

Genesis 9:18-29 - Noah's Three Sons
Noah's sin reminds us how weak are the best of men; liable to fall, even after the most marvelous deliverances. The love of strong drink will drag a preacher of righteousness into the dust. But if our brethren sin, let us not parade or tell their faults, but cover them with the mantle of divine love. We may abhor the sin, but let us restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, remembering that we also may be tempted. See Galatians 6:1-18 :l-4. The Semitic races have been the source of religious light and teaching to the world. God has been known in their tents. The Japhetic races are the great colonizers and populators of the world, overflowing their own boundaries, and participating in the religious privileges of the Shemites. The progressive ideas of the race of Japheth, which, of course, includes the Indo-European race, have also pervaded the world. The Hamitic races, of which Canaan was one, have always gravitated downward. [source]

Chapter Summary: Genesis 9

1  God blesses Noah and his sons, and grants them flesh for food
4  Blood and murder are forbidden
8  God's covenant, of which the rainbow was constituted a pledge
18  Noah's family replenishes the world
20  Noah plants a vineyard,
21  Is drunken, and mocked by his son;
25  Curses Canaan;
26  Blesses Shem;
27  Prays for Japheth, and dies

What do the individual words in Genesis 9:24 mean?

And awoke Noah from his wine and knew - what had done to him his son younger
וַיִּ֥יקֶץ נֹ֖חַ מִיֵּינ֑וֹ וַיֵּ֕דַע אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־ עָ֥שָׂה־ ל֖וֹ בְּנ֥וֹ הַקָּטָֽן

וַיִּ֥יקֶץ  And  awoke 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָקַץ  
Sense: (Qal) to awake, awaken, become active.
נֹ֖חַ  Noah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: נׄחַ  
Sense: son of Lamech, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; builder of the ark which saved his family from the destruction of the world which God sent on the world by the flood; became the new seminal head of the human race because his family were the only survivors of the flood.
מִיֵּינ֑וֹ  from  his  wine 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: יַיִן  
Sense: wine.
וַיֵּ֕דַע  and  knew 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.
אֵ֛ת  - 
Parse: Direct object marker
Root: אֹות 
Sense: sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative.
עָ֥שָׂה־  had  done 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: עָשָׂה 
Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
ל֖וֹ  to  him 
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
בְּנ֥וֹ  his  son 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
הַקָּטָֽן  younger 
Parse: Article, Adjective, masculine singular
Root: קָטָן 
Sense: young, small, insignificant, unimportant.

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