Isaiah 41:8

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאַתָּה֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל עַבְדִּ֔י יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּחַרְתִּ֑יךָ זֶ֖רַע אַבְרָהָ֥ם אֹהֲבִֽי׃

Transliteration

And-ʾattâ yiśrāʾēl ʿaḇdî yaʿăqōḇ ʾăšer bəḥartîḵā zeraʿ ʾaḇrāhām ʾōhăḇî

Grammar Details

• *ʾattâ*: pronoun, 2nd person masculine singular - you
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ʿaḇdî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person common singular suffix - my servant
• *yaʿăqōḇ*: proper noun - Jacob
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - whom
• *bəḥartîḵā*: verb, qal perfect 1st person common singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - I have chosen you
• *zeraʿ*: noun, masculine singular construct - seed/offspring of
• *ʾaḇrāhām*: proper noun - Abraham
• *ʾōhăḇî*: verb, qal participle masculine singular + 1st person common singular suffix - my friend/one who loves me

Word Meanings

• *ʿaḇdî*: my servant/my slave
• *bəḥartîḵā*: I have chosen you/I have selected you/I have elected you
• *zeraʿ*: seed/offspring/descendants
• *ʾōhăḇî*: my friend/my beloved/one who loves me

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And thou Israel my seruaunt: Iacob my electe sede of Abraha my beloued,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  But thou, Israel, art my seruant, and thou Iaakob, whom I haue chosen, the seede of Abraham my friend.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  But thou Israel art my seruaunt, thou Iacob whom I haue chose, thou art the seede of Abraham my beloued.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  But thou, Israel, [art] my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  -- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  But as for you, Israel, my servant, and you, Jacob, whom I have taken for myself, the seed of Abraham my friend:

• World English Bible (2000)

  "But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  The Lord Encourages His People“You, my servant Israel, Jacob whom I have chosen, offspring of Abraham my friend,

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 20:7 : 7 'Our God, did you not drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend?'
• Jas 2:23 : 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, 'Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,' and he was called a friend of God.
• Isa 44:1-2 : 1 But now listen, Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen. 2 This is what the LORD says—your Maker and the One who formed you from the womb, who helps you: 'Do not fear, my servant Jacob, and Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.'
• Isa 44:21 : 21 Remember these things, Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant. I have formed you; you are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
• Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people set apart for the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
• Ps 135:4 : 4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel as His treasured possession.
• Isa 29:22 : 22 Therefore this is what the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, says to the house of Jacob: 'Jacob will no longer be ashamed, and his face will no longer grow pale.'
• Isa 43:1 : 1 But now this is what the LORD says— He who created you, Jacob, He who formed you, Israel: 'Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine.'
• Gal 3:19 : 19 Why, then, was the law given? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise was made would come. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
• Deut 10:15 : 15 Yet the LORD set His affection on your ancestors and loved them, and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now, if you will carefully listen to My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations, for the whole earth is Mine. 6 You will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites.
• Ps 33:12 : 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His inheritance.
• Ps 105:6 : 6 Descendants of Abraham, His servant, children of Jacob, His chosen ones.
• Isa 48:12 : 12 Listen to Me, Jacob, and Israel, My called one: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
• Isa 49:3 : 3 He said to me, 'You are my servant, Israel, in whom I will display my glory.'
• Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was one person, and I blessed him and made him many.
• Isa 63:16 : 16 But you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
• Jer 33:24 : 24 Have you not noticed what these people are saying: 'The Lord has rejected the two families he chose'? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation.
• Matt 3:9 : 9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones.
• John 8:33-44 : 33 They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?" 34 Jesus replied, "Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. 35 A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free. 37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place in you. 38 I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father." 39 They answered him, "Our father is Abraham." Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you are trying to kill me—a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You are doing the works of your father." They said to him, "We are not illegitimate children. We have one Father—God." 42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. 44 You are from your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
• John 15:14-15 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I have called you friends because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you.
• Rom 4:12-13 : 12 and to be the father of the circumcised who are not only circumcised but also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised. 13 For the promise to Abraham or his descendants that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
• Rom 9:4-8 : 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, came Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. 6 It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, 'Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.' 8 This means it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
• Ps 105:42-45 : 42 For he remembered his holy promise given to Abraham his servant. 43 He brought out his people with rejoicing, his chosen ones with joyful singing. 44 He gave them the lands of the nations, and they inherited what others had worked for, 45 so that they might keep His statutes and observe His laws. Praise the LORD!
• Lev 25:42 : 42 Because the Israelites are my servants, whom I brought out of Egypt, they must not be sold as slaves.
• Deut 7:6-8 : 6 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be His treasured possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your ancestors, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Gal 4:22-31 : 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman. 23 But the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, while the son by the free woman was born through the promise. 24 Now these things may be interpreted allegorically: These women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery—this is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than those of the one who has a husband.' 28 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29 But just as the one born according to the flesh persecuted the one born through the Spirit, so it is also now. 30 But what does the Scripture say? 'Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.' 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.