Psalms 132:11

Webster's Bible (1833)

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נִשְׁבַּֽע־יְהוָ֨ה ׀ לְדָוִ֡ד אֱמֶת֮ לֹֽא־יָשׁ֢וּב מִ֫מֶּ֥נָּה מִפְּרִ֥י בִטְנְךָ֑ אָ֝שִׁ֗ית לְכִסֵּא־לָֽךְ׃

Transliteration

nišbaʿ-YHWH to-dāwid ʾĕmet not-yāšûb from-mimmennāh from-pərî biṭnəḵā ʾāšît to-kissēʾ-to-you

Grammar Details

• *nišbaʿ*: niphal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - he swore
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *dāwid*: proper name with preposition lamed - to David
• *ʾĕmet*: noun - truth
• *yāšûb*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular with negation - he will not turn back
• *mimmennāh*: from it (feminine singular)
• *pərî*: construct noun with preposition min - from fruit of
• *biṭnəḵā*: noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your body
• *ʾāšît*: qal imperfect, 1st singular - I will set/place
• *kissēʾ*: noun with preposition lamed - on throne

Word Meanings

• *ʾĕmet*: truth/faithfulness/fidelity
• *pərî biṭnəḵā*: fruit of your body/your offspring
• *ʾāšît ləḵissēʾ-lāḵ*: I will set on the throne for you/I will place on your throne

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 7:12 : 12 When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
• 2 Chr 6:16 : 16 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.
• Ps 89:3-4 : 3 "I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant, 4 'I will establish your seed forever, And build up your throne to all generations.'" Selah.
• Ps 110:4 : 4 Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
• Acts 2:30 : 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
• Heb 6:18 : 18 that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
• 1 Sam 15:29 : 29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.
• Jer 33:20-26 : 20 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season; 21 then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. 22 As the host of the sky can't be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured; so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites who minister to me. 23 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah, saying, 24 Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which Yahweh did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. 25 Thus says Yahweh: If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; 26 then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so that I will not take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and will have mercy on them.
• Luke 1:32 : 32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father, David,
• Luke 1:69-70 : 69 And has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David 70 (As he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been from of old),
• Ps 89:33 : 33 But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, Nor allow my faithfulness to fail.
• Ps 89:35 : 35 Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.
• Ps 89:37 : 37 It will be established forever like the moon, The faithful witness in the sky." Selah.
• 2 Sam 7:14 : 14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
• 2 Sam 7:16 : 16 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
• 1 Kgs 8:25 : 25 Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk before me as you have walked before me.
• 1 Chr 17:11-13 : 11 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. 13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you;