וַיַּעֲמִידֶ֤הָ לְיַעֲקֹב֙ לְחֹ֔ק לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּרִ֥ית עוֹלָֽם
Confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Chronicles 16:17
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Chronicles 16:17 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.
English Translation
Confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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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
Confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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King James Version Public Domain
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, to Israel, a covenant forever,
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
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King James Version Public Domain
And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And hath confirmed it to Iaakob for a Law, and to Israel for an euerlasting couenant,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And he appointed the same to Jacob for a precept: and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And He establishes it to Jacob for a statute, || To Israel [for] a perpetual covenant,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what he confirmed to Jacob as a statute, and to Israel as an everlasting covenant.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he confirmed it to Jacob as a statute, to Israel, a covenant forever,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, Unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He confirmed it to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And which he confirmed to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The Lord legally confirmed it with Jacob, he made this everlasting agreement with Israel:
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And He established it unto Jacob for a statute, to Israel for an everlasting covenant;
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לְחֹ֔ק
chôq
H2706
“to/for · statute”
Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 128× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 47:22
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due
- prescribed task
- prescribed portion
- action prescribed (for oneself), resolve
- prescribed due
- prescribed limit, boundary
- enactment, decree, ordinance
- specific decree
- law in general
- enactments, statutes
- conditions
- enactments
- decrees
- civil enactments prescribed by God
- וַיַּעֲמִידֶ֤הָ ʻâmad H5975 “and · to stand · her” Conjunction + Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- לְיַעֲקֹב֙ Yaʻăqôb H3290 “to/for · Jacob” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- לְחֹ֔ק chôq H2706 “to/for · statute” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל Yisrâʼêl H3478 “to/for · Israel” Preposition + Noun, Proper
- בְּרִ֥ית bᵉrîyth H1285 “covenant of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- עוֹלָֽם ʻôwlâm H5769 “forever” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 5 nouns
Verb forms
- וַיַּעֲמִידֶ֤הָ Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
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.
Cross-references
9Topical passages linked to 1 Chronicles 16:17 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 17:7–8 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.
- Genesis 35:11–12 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.
- Exodus 3:17 and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, to a land flowing with milk and honey."'
- Joshua 24:11–13 You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
- 2 Samuel 23:5 Most assuredly my house is not so with God; Yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, Ordered in all things, and sure: For it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, Although he doesn't make it grow.
- Psalms 78:10 They didn't keep God's covenant, And refused to walk in his law.
- Isaiah 55:3 Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Jeremiah 11:2 Hear you the words of this covenant, and speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;
- Hebrews 13:20 Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
ἵστημι αὐτός ὁ ἰακώβ εἰς πρόσταγμα ὁ ἰσραήλ διαθήκη αἰώνιος
He confirmed it to Jacob for an ordinance, to Israel as an everlasting covenant,
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
1 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chôq (“statute”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word chôq carries the sense “statute.” How does it shape the verse?
- Genesis 17:7–8 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- The verb «וַיַּעֲמִידֶ֤הָ» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Chronicles 16:17 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
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.