Exodus 19:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתֶּ֧ם תִּהְיוּ־לִ֛י מַמְלֶ֥כֶת כֹּהֲנִ֖ים וְג֣וֹי קָד֑וֹשׁ אֵ֚לֶּה הַדְּבָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תְּדַבֵּ֖ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

wə-ʾattem tihyû-to me mamleḵet kōhănîm wə-gôy qādôš these the dəbārîm ʾăšer tədabbēr to bənê yiśrāʾēl.

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʾattem*: conjunction + pronoun, 2nd masculine plural - and you
• *tihyû*: verb, qal imperfect 2nd masculine plural - you will be
• *mamleḵet*: noun, feminine singular construct - kingdom of
• *kōhănîm*: noun, masculine plural - priests
• *wə-gôy*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and nation
• *qādôš*: adjective, masculine singular - holy/set apart
• *dəbārîm*: noun, masculine plural (with definite article) - the words/things
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/that
• *tədabbēr*: verb, piel imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you shall speak
• *bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

• *mamleḵet kōhănîm*: kingdom of priests/priestly kingdom
• *gôy qādôš*: holy nation/set-apart people
• *dəbārîm*: words/statements/matters

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
• Isa 62:12 : 12 And they will be named, The holy people, Those whose cause has been taken up by the Lord: and you will be named, Desired, A town not given up.
• Deut 26:19 : 19 And that he will make you high over all the nations he has made, in praise, in name, and in honour, and that you are to be a holy people to the Lord your God as he has said.
• Deut 7:6 : 6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God: marked out by the Lord your God to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
• Rev 1:6 : 6 And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.
• Rev 5:10 : 10 And have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are ruling on the earth.
• Rev 20:6 : 6 Happy and holy is he who has a part in this first coming: over these the second death has no authority, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will be ruling with him a thousand years.
• Deut 28:9 : 9 The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.
• Lev 20:26 : 26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.
• Lev 21:7-8 : 7 They may not take as wife a loose or common woman, or one who has been put away by her husband: for the priest is holy to his God. 8 And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.
• Lev 21:23 : 23 But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.
• Lev 11:44-45 : 44 For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth. 45 For I am the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God; so be you holy, for I am holy.
• Lev 19:2 : 2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
• Lev 20:24 : 24 But I have said to you, You will take their land and I will give it to you for your heritage, a land flowing with milk and honey: I am the Lord your God who have made you separate from all other peoples.
• Deut 33:2-4 : 2 He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples. 3 All his holy ones are at his hand; they go at his feet; they are lifted up on his wings. 4 Moses gave us a law, a heritage for the people of Jacob.
• Isa 61:6 : 6 But you will be named the priests of the Lord, the servants of our God: you will have the wealth of the nations for your food, and you will be clothed with their glory.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
• 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.
• 1 Thess 5:27 : 27 I give orders in the name of the Lord that all the brothers are to be present at the reading of this letter.
• 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 But be holy in every detail of your lives, as he, whose servants you are, is holy; 16 Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.
• Deut 14:21 : 21 You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.