Psalms 105:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

O seed of Abraham, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זֶ֭רַע אַבְרָהָ֣ם עַבְדּ֑וֹ בְּנֵ֖י יַעֲקֹ֣ב בְּחִירָֽיו׃

Transliteration

zeraʿ ʾAbrāhām ʿabdō bənēy Yaʿăqōb bəḥīrāyw

Grammar Details

• *zeraʿ*: noun, masculine singular construct - seed/offspring of
• *ʾAbrāhām*: proper name - Abraham
• *ʿabdō*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3ms suffix - his servant
• *bənēy*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
• *Yaʿăqōb*: proper name - Jacob
• *bəḥīrāyw*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3ms suffix - his chosen ones

Word Meanings

• *zeraʿ*: seed/offspring/descendants
• *ʿabdō*: his servant/slave
• *bənēy*: sons/children/descendants of
• *bəḥīrāyw*: his chosen ones/elect/selected ones

Referenced Verses

• Exod 3:6 : 6 He saith also, `I `am' the God of thy father, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob;' and Moses hideth his face, for he is afraid to look towards God.
• Deut 7:6-8 : 6 for a holy people `art' thou to Jehovah thy God; on thee hath Jehovah thy God fixed, to be to Him for a peculiar people, out of all the peoples who `are' on the face of the ground. 7 `Not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples hath Jehovah delighted in you, and fixeth on you, for ye `are' the least of all the peoples, 8 but because of Jehovah's loving you, and because of His keeping the oath which He hath sworn to your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out by a strong hand, and doth ransom you from a house of servants, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Ps 105:42 : 42 For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant,
• Ps 106:5 : 5 To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.
• Ps 135:4 : 4 For Jacob hath Jah chosen for Himself, Israel for His peculiar treasure.
• Isa 41:8 : 8 -- And thou, O Israel, My servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, Seed of Abraham, My lover,
• Isa 41:14 : 14 Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 44:1-2 : 1 And now, hear, O Jacob, My servant, And Israel, whom I have fixed on: 2 Thus said Jehovah, thy Maker, and thy Former, From the womb He doth help thee; Fear not, my servant Jacob, And Jeshurun, whom I have fixed on.
• John 15:16 : 16 `Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.
• Rom 9:4-9 : 4 who are Israelites, whose `is' the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the lawgiving, and the service, and the promises, 5 whose `are' the fathers, and of whom `is' the Christ, according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed to the ages. Amen. 6 And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who `are' of Israel are these Israel; 7 nor because they are seed of Abraham `are' all children, but -- `in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;' 8 that is, the children of the flesh -- these `are' not children of God; but the children of the promise are reckoned for seed; 9 for the word of promise `is' this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.' 10 And not only `so', but also Rebecca, having conceived by one -- Isaac our father -- 11 (for they being not yet born, neither having done anything good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to choice, might remain; not of works, but of Him who is calling,) it was said to her -- 12 `The greater shall serve the less;' 13 according as it hath been written, `Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.' 14 What, then, shall we say? unrighteousness `is' with God? let it not be! 15 for to Moses He saith, `I will do kindness to whom I do kindness, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion;' 16 so, then -- not of him who is willing, nor of him who is running, but of God who is doing kindness: 17 for the Writing saith to Pharaoh -- `For this very thing I did raise thee up, that I might shew in thee My power, and that My name might be declared in all the land;' 18 so, then, to whom He willeth, He doth kindness, and to whom He willeth, He doth harden. 19 Thou wilt say, then, to me, `Why yet doth He find fault? for His counsel who hath resisted?' 20 nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus? 21 hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour? 22 And if God, willing to shew the wrath and to make known His power, did endure, in much long suffering, vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on vessels of kindness, that He before prepared for glory, whom also He did call -- us -- 24 not only out of Jews, but also out of nations, 25 as also in Hosea He saith, `I will call what `is' not My people -- My people; and her not beloved -- Beloved, 26 and it shall be -- in the place where it was said to them, Ye `are' not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.' 27 And Isaiah doth cry concerning Israel, `If the number of the sons of Israel may be as the sand of the sea, the remnant shall be saved; 28 for a matter He is finishing, and is cutting short in righteousness, because a matter cut short will the Lord do upon the land. 29 and according as Isaiah saith before, `Except the Lord of Sabaoth did leave to us a seed, as Sodom we had become, and as Gomorrah we had been made like.'
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 and ye `are' a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;