Isaiah 41:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed 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

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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 Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?
• Jas 2:23 : 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. And he was called the Friend of God.
• Isa 44:1-2 : 1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen: 2 Thus says the LORD that made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and you, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
• Isa 44:21 : 21 Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant: I have formed you; you are my servant: O Israel, you shall not be forgotten by me.
• Deut 14:2 : 2 For you are a holy people to the LORD your God, and the LORD has chosen you to be a peculiar people to Himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
• Ps 135:4 : 4 For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, and Israel for his special treasure.
• Isa 29:22 : 22 Therefore thus says the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now grow pale.
• Isa 43:1 : 1 But now, this is what the LORD who created you says, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.
• Gal 3:19 : 19 Why then serves the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the seed should come to whom the promise was made, and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
• Deut 10:15 : 15 Only the LORD delighted in your fathers to love them, and he chose their descendants after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to me above all people; for all the earth is mine: 6 And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.
• Ps 33:12 : 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
• Ps 105:6 : 6 O seed of Abraham his servant, you children of Jacob his chosen.
• Isa 48:12 : 12 Listen to me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
• Isa 49:3 : 3 And said to me, You are my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.
• Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
• Isa 63:16 : 16 Doubtless you are our Father, though Abraham is ignorant of us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer; your name is from everlasting.
• Jer 33:24 : 24 Do you not consider what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? Thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
• Matt 3:9 : 9 And do not think to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones.
• John 8:33-44 : 33 They answered him, We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone: how can you say, You shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And the slave does not abide in the house forever: but the Son abides forever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. 37 I know that you are Abraham's descendants; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. 38 I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God: Abraham did not do this. 41 You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came out and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you wish to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and did not abide in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• John 15:14-15 : 14 You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 From now on I call you not servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
• Rom 4:12-13 : 12 And the father of circumcision to those who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had while still uncircumcised. 13 For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham, or to his descendants, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
• Rom 9:4-8 : 4 Who are Israelites; to whom belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; 5 Of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen. 6 Not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are Abraham's descendants, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your descendants be called. 8 That is, those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted as descendants.
• Ps 105:42-45 : 42 For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant. 43 And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness: 44 And gave them the lands of the nations: and they inherited the labor of the people; 45 That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise the LORD.
• Lev 25:42 : 42 For they are my servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.
• Deut 7:6-8 : 6 For you are a holy people unto the LORD your God: the LORD your God has chosen you to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of 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 a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, but he of the freewoman was through promise. 24 These things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.' 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? 'Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.' 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.