1 Chronicles 29:15

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫כִּֽי־גֵרִ֨ים אֲנַ֧חְנוּ לְפָנֶ֛יךָ וְתוֹשָׁבִ֖ים כְּכָל־אֲבֹתֵ֑ינוּ כַּצֵּ֧ל ׀ יָמֵ֛ינוּ עַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְאֵ֥ין מִקְוֶֽה׃‬

Transliteration

For-gērîm ʾănaḥnû before-you and-tôšābîm like-all-our-ʾăbōtênû; like-the-ṣēl our-yāmênû upon-the-ʾāreṣ and-without miqweh.

Grammar Details

• *gērîm*: noun, masculine plural - sojourners/foreigners
• *ʾănaḥnû*: pronoun, 1st common plural - we
• *tôšābîm*: noun, masculine plural - resident aliens/temporary dwellers
• *ʾăbōtênû*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person plural suffix - our fathers
• *ṣēl*: noun, masculine singular - shadow
• *yāmênû*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person plural suffix - our days
• *ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth/land
• *miqweh*: noun, masculine singular - hope

Word Meanings

• *gērîm*: sojourners/foreigners/resident aliens
• *tôšābîm*: resident aliens/temporary dwellers/settlers
• *ṣēl*: shadow/shade/protection
• *miqweh*: hope/expectation/ground of hope

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For we are but pilgrems & straugers before the, as were all oure fathers. Oure life vpon earth is as a shadowe, and here is no abydinge.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

Referenced Verses

• Job 14:2 : 2 He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.
• Ps 39:12 : 12 With reproofs for iniquity, You discipline a man; like a moth, You consume his cherished things. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.
• Lev 25:23 : 23 The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine; you are only foreigners and residents with me.
• Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
• Ps 102:11 : 11 Because of your wrath and indignation, for you have lifted me up and thrown me aside.
• Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a sojourner on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
• Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few days of their fleeting life? They pass like a shadow. Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?
• Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice says, 'Cry out.' And I said, 'What shall I cry?' All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. 7 The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are like grass. 8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.
• Heb 11:13-16 : 13 All these people died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar and been persuaded of them, and having embraced them, they openly declared that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
• Jas 4:14 : 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to abstain from fleshly desires, which wage war against the soul.
• Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob replied to Pharaoh, 'The days of my sojourning have been one hundred thirty years. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not compare to the years of the lives of my fathers during their sojourning.'
• Ps 90:9 : 9 All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a sigh.