Leviticus 26:12

World English Bible (2000)

I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you will be my people.

📖 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 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
• Jer 30:22 : 22 You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
• Jer 7:23 : 23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
• Exod 6:7 : 7 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
• Exod 19:5-6 : 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; 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."
• Joel 2:27 : 27 You will know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Yahweh, your God, and there is no one else; and my people will never again be disappointed.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' and they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
• Ezek 11:20 : 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my 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, out of the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so you shall be my people, and I will be your God;
• Ps 50:7 : 7 "Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
• Gen 3:8 : 8 They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son.
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
• Gen 6:9 : 9 This is the history of the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time. Noah walked with God.
• Deut 23:14 : 14 for Yahweh your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you, and to give up your enemies before you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that he may not see an unclean thing in you, and turn away from you.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says Yahweh: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I 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 flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
• 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 You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there. 19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burdens, even the God who is our salvation. Selah. 20 God is to us a God of deliverance. To Yahweh, the Lord, belongs escape from death.
• Isa 12:2 : 2 Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation."
• Gen 17:7 : 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
• Exod 3:6 : 6 Moreover he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look at God.
• Gen 5:22 : 22 Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
• Gen 5:24 : 24 Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
• Rev 2:1 : 1 "To the angel of the assembly in Ephesus write: "He who holds the seven stars in his right hand, he who walks among the seven golden lampstands says these things: