Hebrew Interlinear

Psalms 78:5 Interlinear

For he established a testimony in Jacob a law and appointed in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children

Word-by-Word Analysis

#OriginalStrong'sEnglishDefinition
1וַיָּ֤קֶםH6965For he establishedto rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
2עֵד֨וּת׀H5715a testimonytestimony
3בְּֽיַעֲקֹ֗בH3290in Jacobjaakob, the israelitish patriarch
4וְתוֹרָה֮H8451a lawa precept or statute, especially the decalogue or pentateuch
5שָׂ֤םH7760and appointedto put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
6בְּיִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥לH3478in Israelhe will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
7אֲשֶׁ֣רH834who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
8צִ֭וָּהH6680which he commanded(intensively) to constitute, enjoin
9אֶתH853properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
10אֲבוֹתֵ֑ינוּH1our fathersfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
11לְ֝הוֹדִיעָ֗םH3045that they should make them knownto know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
12לִבְנֵיהֶֽם׃H1121to their childrena son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

Verse Context

Psalms 78:4 We will not hide them from their children to the generation to come shewing...
Psalms 78:5 (current)For he established a testimony in Jacob a law and appointed in Israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children
Psalms 78:6 might know That the generation to come them even the children which should be born...

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