Psalms 25:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The friendship of Jehovah is with them that fear him; And he will show them his covenant.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ס֣וֹד יְ֭הוָה לִירֵאָ֑יו וּ֝בְרִית֗וֹ לְהוֹדִיעָֽם

Transliteration

sôḏ YHWH lîrēʾāyw ûḇĕrîṯô lĕhôḏîʿām

Grammar Details

• *sôḏ*: noun, masculine singular construct - 'counsel/secret'
• *lîrēʾāyw*: preposition + participle, Qal masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'to those who fear him'
• *ûḇĕrîṯô*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'and his covenant'
• *lĕhôḏîʿām*: preposition + verb, Hiphil infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'to make them know'

Word Meanings

• *sôḏ*: counsel/secret/intimate conversation/assembly
• *yĕrēʾāyw*: those who fear him/those who revere him
• *ḇĕrîṯô*: his covenant/his agreement/his pledge
• *lĕhôḏîʿām*: to make them know/to reveal to them/to inform them

Referenced Verses

• Prov 3:32 : 32 For the perverse is an abomination to Jehovah; But his friendship is with the upright.
• John 7:17 : 17 If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself.
• Matt 13:11-12 : 11 And he answered and said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.
• Gen 18:17-19 : 17 And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do; 18 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? 19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
• John 15:15 : 15 No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.
• 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him; and he {G3756} cannot know them, because they are spiritually judged.
• Col 3:3 : 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
• Rev 2:17 : 17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but {G3361} he that receiveth it.
• Eph 1:9 : 9 making known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in him
• Eph 1:18 : 18 having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, {G2532} what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• John 17:6 : 6 I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.
• Rom 11:26-27 : 26 and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; {G2532} He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: 27 And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take away their sins.
• Deut 4:13 : 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
• Jer 13:18 : 18 Say thou unto the king and to the queen-mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headtires are come down, even the crown of your glory.
• Jer 31:31-34 : 31 Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was a husband unto them, saith Jehovah. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
• Gen 17:13 : 13 He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
• John 14:17 : 17 [ even] the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot {G3756} receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: {G1161} ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.
• John 14:21-23 : 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) saith unto him, Lord, what is come to pass that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.