Luke 1:72

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

To fulfill the mercy promised to oure fathers and to remember his holy covenaunt.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ποιῆσαι ἔλεος μετὰ τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν, καὶ μνησθῆναι διαθήκης ἁγίας αὐτοῦ·

Transliteration

To poiēsai eleos meta the paterōn of us, and to mnēsthēnai diathēkēs hagias of him;

Grammar Details

• *poiēsai*: aorist active infinitive - to do/make
• *eleos*: accusative neuter singular - mercy
• *meta*: preposition with genitive - with
• *paterōn*: genitive masculine plural - of fathers
• *mnēsthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to remember
• *diathēkēs*: genitive feminine singular - of covenant
• *hagias*: genitive feminine singular - of holy

Word Meanings

• *poiēsai*: to do/to show/to perform
• *eleos*: mercy/compassion/lovingkindness
• *meta*: with/toward
• *paterōn*: fathers/ancestors/forefathers
• *mnēsthēnai*: to remember/to be mindful of/to recall
• *diathēkēs*: covenant/testament/agreement
• *hagias*: holy/sacred/set apart

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:42 : 42 And I wil remembre my bonde with Iacob and my testamet with Isaac, and my testament with Abraham, and will thinke on the londe.
• Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He remenbreth mercy: and helpeth his servaunt Israel. 55 Even as he promised to oure fathers Abraham and to his seede for ever.
• Rom 11:28 : 28 As cocernynge the gospell they are enemies for youre sakes: but as touchinge the election they are loved for ye fathers sakes.
• Heb 6:13-18 : 13 For when god made promes to Abraham because he had no greater thinge to sweare by he sware by him silf 14 sayinge: Surely I will blesse the and multiply the in dede. 15 And so after that he had taryed a longe tyme he enioyed the promes. 16 Men verely sweare by him that is greater then them selves and an othe to confyrme the thynge ys amonge them an ende of all stryfe. 17 So god willynge very aboundanly to shewe vnto the heyres of promes the stablenes of his counsayle he added an oth 18 that by two immutable thinges (in which it was vnpossible that god shuld lye) we myght have parfect consolacion which have fled for to holde fast the hope that is set before vs
• Gal 3:15-17 : 15 Brethren I will speake after the maner of men. Though it be but a mans testament yet no ma despiseth it or addeth eny thinge therto when it is once alowed. 16 To Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He sayth not in the seedes as in many: but in thy sede as in one which is Christ. 17 This I saye that the lawe which beganne afterwarde beyonde.iiii.C and.xxx. yeares doth not disanull the testament that was confermed afore of God vnto Christ ward to make the promes of none effect.
• Acts 3:25-26 : 25 Ye are the chyldren of the Prophetes and of the covenaunt which God hath made vnto oure fathers sayinge to Abraham: Eve in thy seede shall all the kinredes of the erth be blessed. 26 Fyrst vnto you hath God raysed vp his sonne Iesus and him he hath sent to blysse you that every one of you shuld turne from youre wickednes.
• Gen 12:3 : 3 And I wyll blesse the that blesse the ad curse the that curse the. And in the shall be blessed all the generations of the erth.
• Gen 17:4-9 : 4 I am beholde my testamet is with the that thou shalt be a father of many natios. 5 Therfore shalt thou no more be called Abram but thy name shalbe Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made th 6 and I will multiplye the excedyngly and wyll make nations of the: yee and kynges shall sprynge out of the. 7 Moreover I will make my bonde betwene me and the and thy seed after the in their tymes to be an everlastynge testament So that I wyll be God vnto the and to thy seed after the. 8 And I will geue vnto the ad to thy seed after the the lande where in thou arte a straunger: Euen all the lande of Canaan for an everlastynge possession and wil be their God. 9 And God sayde vnto Abraha: Se thou kepe my testamente both thou and thy seed after the in their tymes:
• Gen 22:18 : 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voyce.
• Gen 26:4 : 4 and will multiplye thy seed as ye starres of heave and will geue vnto thy seed all these contreis. And thorow thy seed shall all the natios of the erth be blessed
• Gen 28:14 : 14 And thy seed shalbe as the dust of the erth: And thou shalt spreade abrode: west east north and south. And thorow the and thy seed shall all the kynreddes of the erth be blessed.