1 Chronicles 16:17

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַעֲמִידֶ֤הָ לְיַעֲקֹב֙ לְחֹ֔ק לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּרִ֥ית עוֹלָֽם׃

Transliteration

And he ʿāmad [established] it to yaʿăqōb [Jacob] for ḥōq [statute], to yiśrāʾēl [Israel] bĕrît [covenant] ʿôlām [everlasting].

Grammar Details

• *wǎy-* (prefix): consecutive waw - and then/so
• *ʿāmad*: hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix with waw consecutive - he established it
• *ḥōq*: singular noun - statute/decree
• *bĕrît*: construct state - covenant of
• *ʿôlām*: singular noun - everlasting/eternal
• *lĕ-* (prefix): preposition - to/for

Word Meanings

• *ʿāmad*: stand/establish/confirm
• *ḥōq*: statute/decree/ordinance
• *bĕrît*: covenant/agreement/treaty
• *ʿôlām*: everlasting/eternal/perpetual

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  And confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And he comfirmed the same vnto Iacob for a perpetuall lawe, and to Israel for an euerlastinge couenaunt.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a Law, & to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And he appoynted the same vnto Iacob for a law: and to Israel for an euerlasting couenaunt.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant,

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

• World English Bible (2000)

  He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,

Referenced Verses

• Gen 35:11-12 : 11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed a community of nations, will come from you, and kings will come from your own body." 12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you, and I will also give it to your descendants after you.
• Exod 3:17 : 17 'And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.'
• Josh 24:11-13 : 11 You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The leaders of Jericho, along with the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. 12 I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings from before you. It was not by your sword or bow. 13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities you did not build. You are living in them and eating from vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.
• 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Is not my house right with God? He has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and secure. For He is all my salvation and all my desire, and He will not fail to make it grow.
• Ps 78:10 : 10 They did not keep God's covenant and refused to live by His teachings.
• Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear and come to me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.
• Jer 11:2 : 2 Listen to the words of this covenant, and speak them to the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
• Heb 13:20 : 20 Now may the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 And I will give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now living as a foreigner—all the land of Canaan—as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.