Genesis 18:19

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

For I knowe him that he will commaunde his childern and his housholde after him yt they kepe the waye of the LORde to do after righte and conscyence that the LORde may brynge vppon Abraham that he hath promysed him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י יְדַעְתִּ֗יו לְמַעַן֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְצַוֶּ֜ה אֶת־בָּנָ֤יו וְאֶת־בֵּיתוֹ֙ אַחֲרָ֔יו וְשָֽׁמְרוּ֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ יְהוָ֔ה לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת צְדָקָ֖ה וּמִשְׁפָּ֑ט לְמַ֗עַן הָבִ֤יא יְהוָה֙ עַל־אַבְרָהָ֔ם אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֖ר עָלָֽיו׃

Transliteration

For yəḏaʿtîw for-purpose that yəṣawweh ʾeṯ-his-sons and-ʾeṯ-his-house after-him and-wəšāmərû dereḵ YHWH to-laʿăśôṯ ṣəḏāqâ and-mišpāṭ for-purpose hāḇîʾ YHWH upon-ʾAḇrāhām ʾēṯ which-dibber upon-him.

Grammar Details

• *yəḏaʿtîw*: qal perfect, 1st person singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - I have known him
• *yəṣawweh*: piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he will command
• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *wəšāmərû*: qal perfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd masculine plural - they will keep
• *dereḵ*: noun, masculine singular construct - way of
• *laʿăśôṯ*: qal infinitive construct with prefix - to do/practice
• *ṣəḏāqâ*: noun, feminine singular - righteousness
• *mišpāṭ*: noun, masculine singular - justice/judgment
• *hāḇîʾ*: hiphil infinitive construct - to bring
• *dibber*: piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - has spoken

Word Meanings

• *yəḏaʿtîw*: I have known him/chosen him/acknowledged him
• *ṣəḏāqâ*: righteousness/right action/what is right
• *mišpāṭ*: justice/judgment/legal decision

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:9-9 : 9 Take hede to thy selfe therfore only ad kepe thy soule diligently, that thou forgett not the thinges which thyne eyes haue sene and that they departe not out of thyne harte, all the dayes of thine life: but teach them thy sonnes, ad thy sonnes sonnes. 10 The daye that I stode before the Lorde youre god in Horeb, whe he sayed vnto me, gather me the people together, that I maye make them heare my wordes that they maye lerne to fere me as longe as thei lyue vppon the erth and that they maye teache their childern:
• Deut 6:6-7 : 6 And these wordes which I commaunde the this daye, shalbe in thine hert 7 ad thou shalt whett them on thy childern, and shalt talke of them when thou art at home in thyne housse and as thou walkest by the waye, ad when thou lyest doune and when thou rysest vpp:
• Deut 11:19-21 : 19 and teach them youre childern: so that thou talke of them when thou syttest in thyne housse, and when thou walkest by the waye, and when thou lyest doune and when thou rysest vpp: 20 yee and write them vppon the dorepostes of thine housse and vppon thi gates, 21 that youre dayes may be multiplyed ad the dayes of youre childern apon the erth which the Lorde sware vnto youre fathers to geue them, as longe as the dayes of heaue last vpon the erth.
• Eph 6:4 : 4 And ye fathers move not youre children to wrath: but bringe the vp wt the norter and informacio of ye Lorde.
• 1 Tim 3:4-5 : 4 and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste. 5 For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.
• 1 Tim 3:12 : 12 Let the deacons be the husbandes of one wyfe and suche as rule their chyldren well and their awne housholdes.
• 2 Tim 1:5 : 5 whe I call to remembraunce the vnfayned fayth that is in the which dwelt fyrst in thy graumoder Lois and in thy mother Eunica: and am assured that it dwelleth in the also.
• 2 Tim 3:15 : 15 and for as moche also as thou hast knowe holy scripture of a chylde which is able to make the wyse vnto saluacion thorowe the fayth which ys in Christ Iesu.
• Deut 32:46 : 46 then he sayed vnto them. Sett youre hertes vnto all the wordes whiche I testifye vnto you this daye: that ye commaunde them vnto youre childern, to obserue and doo all the wordes off thys lawe.
• John 10:14 : 14 I am that good shepeheerd and knowe myne and am knowe of myne.
• John 21:17 : 17 He sayde vnto him ye thyrde tyme: Simon Ioanna lovest thou me? And Peter sorowed because he sayde to him ye thyrde tyme lovest thou me and sayde vnto him: Lorde thou knowest all thinge thou knowest that I love the. Iesus sayde vnto him: fede my shepe.
• Acts 27:23-24 : 23 For ther stode by me this nyght the angell of God whose I am and whom I serve 24 sayinge: feare not Paul for thou must be brought before Cesar. And lo God hath geven vnto the all that sayle with ye.
• Acts 27:31 : 31 Paul sayd vnto ye vnder captayne and the soudiers: excepte these abyde in the ship ye cannot be safe.
• 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 But the sure grounde of god remayneth and hath this seale: the LORde knoweth them that are his and let every man that calleth on the name of Christ departe from iniquite.
• Gen 17:23-27 : 23 And Abraham toke Ismaell his sonne and all the servauntes borne in his housse and all that was bought with money as many as were menchildren amonge the me of Abrahas housse and circumcysed the foreskynne of their flesh even the selfe same daye as God had sayde vnto him. 24 Abraham was nynetie yere olde and.ix. when he cutt of the foreskynne of his flesh. 25 And Ismaell his sonne was.xiij. yere olde when the foreskynne of hys flesh was circumcysed. 26 The selfe same daye was Abraha circucised and Ismael his sonne. 27 And all the men in his housse whether they were borne in his housse or bought wyth money (though they were straungers) were circumcysed with him.