Leviticus 26:12

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my peop.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהִתְהַלַּכְתִּי֙ בְּת֣וֹכְכֶ֔ם וְהָיִ֥יתִי לָכֶ֖ם לֵֽאלֹהִ֑ים וְאַתֶּ֖ם תִּהְיוּ־לִ֥י לְעָֽם׃

Transliteration

And-hithallaktî in-tôkekem and-hāyîtî to-you to-ʾelōhîm and-you tihyû-to-me to-ʿām

Grammar Details

• *hithallaktî*: verb, hitpael perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will walk about
• *tôkekem*: noun, masculine singular construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your midst
• *hāyîtî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular with waw consecutive - and I will be
• *ʾelōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - God
• *tihyû*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural - you will be
• *ʿām*: noun, masculine singular - people

Word Meanings

• *hithallaktî*: walk about/walk around/move about
• *tôkekem*: your midst/among you
• *ʾelōhîm*: God/divine being/deity
• *ʿām*: people/nation/folk

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Jer 30:22 : 22 And ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
• Jer 7:23 : 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
• Exod 6:7 : 7 And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: 6 And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
• Joel 2:27 : 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the LORD your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
• Ezek 11:20 : 20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
• Jer 11:4 : 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
• Ps 50:7 : 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
• Gen 3:8 : 8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
• Gen 6:9 : 9 These are the nerations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his nerations, and Noah walked with God.
• Deut 23:14 : 14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to liver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Ezek 36:38 : 38 As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
• Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
• Ps 68:18-20 : 18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them. 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. 20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
• Isa 12:2 : 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
• Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their nerations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
• Exod 3:6 : 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
• Gen 5:22 : 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
• Gen 5:24 : 24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
• Rev 2:1 : 1 Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;