Psalms 105:42

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־זָ֭כַר אֶת־דְּבַ֣ר קָדְשׁ֑וֹ אֶֽת־אַבְרָהָ֥ם עַבְדּֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

For-zākar ʾet-dəbar qodšō ʾet-ʾAbrāhām ʿabdō

Grammar Details

• *zākar*: qal perfect, 3ms - he remembered
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *dəbar*: noun, masculine singular construct - word of
• *qodšō*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3ms suffix - his holiness
• *ʾAbrāhām*: proper name - Abraham
• *ʿabdō*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3ms suffix - his servant

Word Meanings

• *zākar*: remembered/recalled/was mindful of
• *dəbar*: word/promise/matter
• *qodšō*: his holiness/his sacred promise
• *ʿabdō*: his servant/slave

Referenced Verses

• Exod 2:24 : 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
• Luke 1:72-73 : 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
• Gen 12:7 : 7 And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
• Gen 13:14-17 : 14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: 15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever. 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 17 Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
• Gen 15:13-14 : 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14 And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
• Exod 32:13 : 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
• Deut 9:5 : 5 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
• Deut 9:27 : 27 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin:
• Ps 105:8-9 : 8 He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations. 9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac; 10 And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant: 11 Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
• Mic 7:20 : 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
• Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; 55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.