Psalms 78:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For he established a testimony in Jacob, And appointed a law in Israel, Which he commanded our fathers, That they should make them known to their children;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיָּ֤קֶם עֵד֨וּת ׀ בְּֽיַעֲקֹ֗ב וְתוֹרָה֮ שָׂ֤ם בְּיִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר צִ֭וָּה אֶת־אֲבוֹתֵ֑ינוּ לְ֝הוֹדִיעָ֗ם לִבְנֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

And he wayyāqem ʿēḏût in bᵉyaʿăqōḇ and wᵉtôrâ he śām in bᵉyiśrāʾēl ʾăšer he ṣiwwâ ʾet-our ʾăḇôtênû lᵉhôḏîʿām to their liḇnêhem

Grammar Details

*wayyāqem*: waw consecutive + hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - and he established/set up
*ʿēḏût*: noun, feminine singular - testimony/witness
*bᵉyaʿăqōḇ*: preposition + proper noun - in Jacob
*wᵉtôrâ*: waw conjunctive + noun, feminine singular - and law/instruction
*śām*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he placed/put/set
*bᵉyiśrāʾēl*: preposition + proper noun - in Israel
*ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/that
*ṣiwwâ*: piel perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he commanded/ordered
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*ʾăḇôtênû*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person plural suffix - our fathers
*lᵉhôḏîʿām*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to make them know
*liḇnêhem*: preposition + noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to their children/sons

Word Meanings

*ʿēḏût*: testimony/witness/ordinance/decree
*tôrâ*: law/instruction/teaching/direction
*śām*: placed/put/set/established
*ṣiwwâ*: commanded/ordered/appointed
*lᵉhôḏîʿām*: to make them know/to inform them/to teach them

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Referenced Verses

Ps 81:5 : 5 He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, [Where] I heard a language that I knew not.
Ps 147:19 : 19 He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel.
Eph 6:4 : 4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.
Deut 4:45 : 45 these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,
Deut 6:7 : 7 and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Ps 19:7 : 7 The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: The testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple.
Rom 3:2 : 2 Much {G2596} every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
Isa 38:19 : 19 The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Ps 119:152 : 152 Of old have I known from thy testimonies, That thou hast founded them for ever.
1 John 5:9-9 : 9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for the witness of God is this, that he hath borne witness concerning his Son. 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in him: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he hath not believed in the witness that God hath borne concerning his Son. 11 And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.
Ps 78:3-4 : 3 Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us. 4 We will not hide them from their children, Telling to the generation to come the praises of Jehovah, And his strength, and his wondrous works that he hath done.
Deut 11:19 : 19 And ye shall teach them your children, talking of them, when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Gen 18:19 : 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.
Exod 25:16 : 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
Exod 25:21 : 21 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Exod 40:3 : 3 And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the ark with the veil.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 78:6-7
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6That the generation to come might know [them], even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tell [them] to their children,
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Ps 78:3-4
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3Which we have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
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Ps 105:8-10
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8He hath remembered his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
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Joel 1:3
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3Tell ye your children of it, and [let] your children [tell] their children, and their children another generation.
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Deut 32:46
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Ps 81:4-5
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4For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.
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Ps 147:19
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Deut 6:20
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20When thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah our God hath commanded you?
1 Chr 16:15
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Deut 33:4
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Deut 4:10
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28Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.
1 Chr 28:8
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Ps 89:30
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Gen 18:19
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Josh 4:6
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Deut 4:13-14
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Deut 11:19
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Deut 5:2
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Deut 6:7
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7and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Jer 5:20
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Deut 32:7
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Deut 33:10
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Josh 4:21
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Deut 4:5
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Deut 29:13
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13that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.