Genesis 17:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיְהִ֣י אַבְרָ֔ם בֶּן־תִּשְׁעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְתֵ֣שַׁע שָׁנִ֑ים וַיֵּרָ֨א יְהוָ֜ה אֶל־אַבְרָ֗ם וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ אֲנִי־אֵ֣ל שַׁדַּ֔י הִתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ לְפָנַ֖י וֶהְיֵ֥ה תָמִֽים׃

Transliteration

wə-yhî ʾAḇrām ben-tišʿîm šānāh wə-tēšaʿ šānîm wa-yērāʾ YHWH ʾel-ʾAḇrām wa-yōʾmer ʾēlāyw ʾănî-ʾĒl Šadday hithalēḵ lə-p̄ānay we-hyēh tāmîm

Grammar Details

*wə-yhî*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and it happened/came to pass
*ʾAḇrām*: proper noun, masculine singular - Abram
*ben*: construct state noun, masculine singular - son of
*tišʿîm*: cardinal number - ninety
*šānāh*: noun, feminine singular - year
*wə-tēšaʿ*: conjunction + cardinal number - and nine
*šānîm*: noun, feminine plural - years
*wa-yērāʾ*: conjunction + niphal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and appeared
*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
*ʾel*: preposition - to/unto
*wa-yōʾmer*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and said
*ʾēlāyw*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to him
*ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
*ʾĒl*: noun, divine name - God/deity
*Šadday*: divine epithet - Almighty/All-sufficient
*hithalēḵ*: hithpael imperative masculine singular - walk yourself/continually walk
*lə-p̄ānay*: preposition + noun + 1st person singular suffix - before me/in my presence
*we-hyēh*: conjunction + qal imperative masculine singular - and be
*tāmîm*: adjective, masculine singular - complete/whole/blameless/perfect

Word Meanings

*yhî*: to be/happen/exist
*ʾĒl Šadday*: God Almighty/All-sufficient One/God of the mountain
*hithalēḵ*: walk habitually/walk back and forth/live one's life
*tāmîm*: complete/whole/blameless/perfect/having integrity

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 18:13 : 13 Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God.
Gen 6:9 : 9 These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.
Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.
Isa 38:3 : 3 and said, Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Matt 5:48 : 48 Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 Remember now, O Jehovah, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
Ps 116:9 : 9 I will walk before Jehovah In the land of the living.
Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.
1 Kgs 3:6 : 6 And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father great lovingkindness, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great lovingkindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
Gen 28:3 : 3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;
Gen 35:11 : 11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
1 Kgs 8:25 : 25 Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
Job 11:7 : 7 Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
1 Kgs 2:4 : 4 That Jehovah may establish his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall not fail thee (said he) a man on the throne of Israel.
Exod 6:3 : 3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them.
Heb 7:25 : 25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore, receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us have grace, whereby {G1223} we may offer service well-pleasing to God with reverence and awe:
Matt 19:26 : 26 And Jesus looking upon [them] said to them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Acts 23:1 : 1 And Paul, looking stedfastly on the council, said, {G435} Brethren, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day.
Acts 24:16 : 16 {G1161} {G1722} Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.
Eph 3:20 : 20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Jer 32:17 : 17 Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for thee,
Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Num 11:23 : 23 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Is Jehovah's hand waxed short? now shalt thou see whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Deut 10:17 : 17 For Jehovah your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the terrible, who regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward.
Ps 115:3 : 3 But our God is in the heavens: He hath done whatsoever he pleased.
Gen 48:15 : 15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who hath fed me all my life long unto this day,
Gen 5:22 : 22 and Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
Gen 5:24 : 24 and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
Gen 12:1 : 1 Now Jehovah said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto the land that I will show thee:
Gen 12:7 : 7 And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.
Gen 16:16 : 16 And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
Gen 18:1 : 1 And Jehovah appeared unto him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.

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