Isaiah 63:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־אַתָּ֣ה אָבִ֔ינוּ כִּ֤י אַבְרָהָם֙ לֹ֣א יְדָעָ֔נוּ וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֹ֣א יַכִּירָ֑נוּ אַתָּ֤ה יְהוָה֙ אָבִ֔ינוּ גֹּאֲלֵ֥נוּ מֵֽעוֹלָ֖ם שְׁמֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

For ʾattāh our ʾābînû, for ʾabrāhām lōʾ yĕdāʿānû, and yiśrāʾēl lōʾ yakkîrānû; ʾattāh YHWH our ʾābînû, our gōʾălēnû from ʿôlām your šĕmeḵā.

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*ʾattāh*: 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - you
*ʾābînû*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person plural suffix - our father
*ʾabrāhām*: proper noun - Abraham
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*yĕdāʿānû*: Qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person plural suffix - he knew us
*wĕyiśrāʾēl*: conjunction waw + proper noun - and Israel
*yakkîrānû*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person plural suffix - he acknowledges us
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
*gōʾălēnû*: Qal participle, masculine singular with 1st person plural suffix - our redeemer
*mēʿôlām*: preposition min + noun, masculine singular - from everlasting
*šĕmeḵā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your name

Word Meanings

*ʾābînû*: our father/our ancestor
*yĕdāʿānû*: he knew us/he recognized us
*yakkîrānû*: he acknowledges us/he recognizes us
*gōʾălēnû*: our redeemer/our rescuer/our kinsman-redeemer
*ʿôlām*: everlasting/eternity/ancient time
*šĕmeḵā*: your name/your reputation

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:6 : 6 Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.
Isa 41:14 : 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
Isa 64:8 : 8 But now, O Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Mal 2:10 : 10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Isa 43:14 : 14 Thus saith Jehovah, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring down all of them as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing.
Job 14:21 : 21 His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
1 Chr 29:10 : 10 Wherefore David blessed Jehovah before all the assembly; and David said, Blessed be thou, O Jehovah, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
Isa 54:5 : 5 For thy Maker is thy husband; Jehovah of hosts is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is thy Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
Isa 63:12 : 12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
Matt 6:9 : 9 After this manner therefore pray ye. Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
1 Pet 1:18-21 : 18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers; 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb without spot, {G299} even the blood of Christ: 20 who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of times for your sake, 21 who through him are believers in God, that raised him {G1453} from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
Exod 4:22 : 22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my first-born:
Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born.
Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?

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