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1 Chronicles 16:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 16:16 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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1 Chronicles 16:16 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/1-chronicles/16/16.

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[The covenant] which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    [The covenant] which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    which he cut with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    [The covenant] which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    the covenant He made with Abraham, and the oath He swore to Isaac.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    `The covenant' which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    The covenant which he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Which he made with Abraham, and his othe to Izhak:
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    The covenant which he made with Abraham: and his oath to Isaac.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Which He hath made with Abraham, And His oath -- to Isaac,
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Which He has made with Abraham, || And His oath—to Isaac,
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He calls to mind the covenant that he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    which he cut with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    Which he made with Abraham, And of his oath unto Isaac;
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath to Isaac;
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    the agreement he made with Abraham, the vow he gave to Isaac.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    The covenant which He made with Abraham, and His oath unto Isaac;

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Shared distinctive vocabulary

וּשְׁבוּעָת֖וֹ oath H7621 occurs in 29 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 3 nouns
  • 1 preposition
  • 1 particle

Verb forms

  • כָּרַת֙ Qal · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 11 words from the Hebrew and 11 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 10 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 16:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 17:2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
  • Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
  • Genesis 35:11 God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.
  • Genesis 15:18 In that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates:
  • Galatians 3:15–17 Brothers, I speak like men. Though it is only a man's covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void, or adds to it.
  • Genesis 12:7 Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.
  • Genesis 22:16–18 and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
  • Genesis 28:13–14 Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
  • Exodus 3:15 God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
  • Nehemiah 9:8 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.
  • Luke 1:72–73 To show mercy towards our fathers, To remember his holy covenant,
  • Acts 3:25 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.'
  • Hebrews 6:13–18 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself,

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 1 Chronicles 16:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

אֲשֶׁ֤ר כָּרַת֙ אֶת אַבְרָהָ֔ם וּשְׁבוּעָת֖וֹ לְיִצְחָֽק

[The covenant] which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 1 Chronicles 16:16 Septuagint · lemma form

ὅς διατίθημι ὁ ἀβραάμ καί ὁ ὅρκος αὐτός ὁ ισαακ

which he covenanted with Abraham, and his oath sworn to Isaac.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

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Commentary

Notes on 1 Chronicles 16:16 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(16) Even of the covenant.—These words should be cancelled. The object is still the word of promise.

Which he made.—Literally, he cut. Same phrase as in Hag_2:5.

With Abraham.—Gen_22:16.

Unto Isaac.—Heb., Yiçhâq. Psa_105:9 has the weaker form, Yishâq (Amo_7:9).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

Abraham

(See Scofield "Gen 15:18").

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shᵉbûwʻâh (“oath”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “oath” (shᵉbûwʻâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Genesis 24:8, which shares the word «oath», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «כָּרַת֙» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and Scofield Reference Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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