Acts 3:25

Webster's Bible (1833)

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὑμεῖς ἐστε υἱοὶ τῶν προφητῶν, καὶ τῆς διαθήκης ἧς διέθετο ὁ Θεὸς πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν, λέγων πρὸς Ἀβραάμ, Καὶ ἐν τῷ σπέρματί σου ἐνευλογηθήσονται πᾶσαι αἱ πατριαὶ τῆς γῆς.

Transliteration

You este huioi of the prophētōn, and of the diathēkēs which dietheto the Theos pros the pateras of us, saying pros Abraham, And in the spermati of you shall be eneulogēthēsontai all the patriai of the gēs.

Grammar Details

• *este*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you are
• *huioi*: nominative masculine plural - sons
• *prophētōn*: genitive masculine plural - prophets
• *diathēkēs*: genitive feminine singular - covenant
• *dietheto*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - made/established
• *Theos*: nominative masculine singular - God
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - with/to
• *pateras*: accusative masculine plural - fathers
• *spermati*: dative neuter singular - seed
• *eneulogēthēsontai*: future passive indicative, 3rd person plural - will be blessed
• *patriai*: nominative feminine plural - families
• *gēs*: genitive feminine singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *huioi*: sons/descendants/children
• *diathēkēs*: covenant/testament/agreement
• *dietheto*: made/established/arranged
• *spermati*: seed/offspring/descendant
• *patriai*: families/clans/peoples

Referenced Verses

• Gen 22:18 : 18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
• Acts 2:39 : 39 For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
• Gen 12:3 : 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."
• Rom 9:4-5 : 4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises; 5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
• Rev 7:9 : 9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
• Gal 3:8 : 8 The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you all the nations will be blessed."
• Gen 20:7 : 7 Now therefore, restore the man's wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don't restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours."
• Gen 17:19 : 19 God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac.{Isaac means "he laughs."} I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
• Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
• Acts 13:26 : 26 Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.
• Gen 26:4 : 4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
• Ps 22:27 : 27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
• Ps 96:7 : 7 Ascribe to Yahweh, you families of nations, Ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength.
• Ps 105:8-9 : 8 He has remembered his covenant forever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations, 9 The covenant which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac, 10 And confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; To Israel for an everlasting covenant, 11 Saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance;" 12 When they were but a few men in number, Yes, very few, and foreigners in it. 13 They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people. 14 He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes, 15 "Don't touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!"
• Matt 3:9-9 : 9 Don't think to yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. 10 "Even now the axe lies at the root of the trees. Therefore, every tree that doesn't bring forth good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
• Luke 1:72 : 72 To show mercy towards our fathers, To remember his holy covenant,
• Gen 27:36-40 : 36 He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?" 37 Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?" 38 Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. 39 Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above. 40 By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, That you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."
• Rom 4:13 : 13 For the promise to Abraham and to his seed that he should be heir of the world wasn't through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
• Gen 48:14-20 : 14 Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn. 15 He blessed Joseph, and said, "The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, 16 the angel who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads, and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. Let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." 17 When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. He held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. 18 Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head." 19 His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations." 20 He blessed them that day, saying, "In you will Israel bless, saying, 'God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh'" He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
• Gen 49:1-9 : 1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob; Listen to Israel, your father. 3 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; The pre-eminence of dignity, and the pre-eminence of power. 4 Boiling over as water, you shall not have the pre-eminence; Because you went up to your father's bed; Then defiled it. He went up to my couch. 5 "Simeon and Levi are brothers; Weapons of violence are their swords. 6 My soul, don't come into their council; My glory, don't be united to their assembly; For in their anger they killed a man, In their self-will they hamstrung an ox. 7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; And their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel. 8 "Judah, your brothers will praise you: Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; Your father's sons will bow down before you. 9 Judah is a lion's cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, As a lioness. Who will rouse him up? 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be. 11 Binding his foal to the vine, His donkey's colt to the choice vine; He has washed his garments in wine, His robes in the blood of grapes: 12 His eyes will be red with wine, His teeth white with milk. 13 "Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon. 14 "Issachar is a strong donkey, Lying down between the saddlebags. 15 He saw a resting-place, that it was good, The land, that it was pleasant; He bows his shoulder to the burden, And becomes a servant doing forced labor. 16 "Dan will judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel. 17 Dan will be a serpent in the way, An adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, So that his rider falls backward. 18 I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh. 19 "Gad, a troop will press on him; But he will press on their heel. 20 Out of Asher his bread will be fat, He will yield royal dainties. 21 "Naphtali is a doe set free, Who bears beautiful fawns. 22 "Joseph is a fruitful vine, A fruitful vine by a spring; His branches run over the wall. 23 The archers have sorely grieved him, Shot at him, and persecute him: 24 But his bow abode in strength, The arms of his hands were made strong, By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel), 25 Even by the God of your father, who will help you, By the Almighty, who will bless you, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that lies below, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. 26 The blessings of your father Have prevailed above the blessings of the ancient mountains, Above the bounty of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph, On the crown of the head of him who is separated from his brothers. 27 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil." 28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his blessing. 29 He charged them, and said to them, "I am to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah: 32 the field and the cave that is therein, which was purchased from the children of Heth." 33 When Jacob made an end of charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the spirit, and was gathered to his people.
• 1 Chr 16:17 : 17 Confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
• Neh 9:8 : 8 and found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his seed, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.
• Gen 18:18 : 18 seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
• Gen 17:9-9 : 9 God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
• Gal 3:16 : 16 Now the promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. He doesn't say, "To seeds," as of many, but as of one, "To your seed," which is Christ.
• Gal 3:29 : 29 If you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, And to open its seals: For you were killed, And bought us for God with your blood, Out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• Rev 14:6 : 6 I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.
• Rom 15:8 : 8 Now I say that Christ has been made a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,