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Genesis 17

Gen. 17:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But my covenant
briyth (Hebrew #1285)
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV usage: confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Pronounce: ber-eeth'
Origin: from 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like 1254))
will I establish
quwm (Hebrew #6965)
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
KJV usage: abide, accomplish, X be clearer, confirm, continue, decree, X be dim, endure, X enemy, enjoin, get up, make good, help, hold, (help to) lift up (again), make, X but newly, ordain, perform, pitch, raise (up), rear (up), remain, (a-)rise (up) (again, against), rouse up, set (up), (e-)stablish, (make to) stand (up), stir up, strengthen, succeed, (as-, make) sure(-ly), (be) up(-hold, - rising).
Pronounce: koom
Origin: a primitive root
with Isaac
Yitschaq (Hebrew #3327)
laughter (i.e. mochery); Jitschak (or Isaac), son of Abraham
KJV usage: Isaac. Compare 3446.
Pronounce: yits-khawk'
Origin: from 6711
, which Sarah
Sarah (Hebrew #8283)
Sarah, Abraham's wife
KJV usage: Sarah.
Pronounce: saw-raw'
Origin: the same as 8282
shall bear
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
unto thee at this set time
mow`ed (Hebrew #4150)
or (feminine) moweadah (2 Chronicles 8:13) {mo-aw-daw'}; from 3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand)
KJV usage: appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).
Pronounce: mo-ade'
Origin: or moled {mo-ade'}
b in the next
'acher (Hebrew #312)
properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.
KJV usage: (an-)other man, following, next, strange.
Pronounce: akh-air'
Origin: from 309
year
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
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Gen. 21:2• 2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. (Gen. 21:2)

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Covenant,
Isaac,
Sarah; Sarai; Sara,
Year

Cross References

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Gen. 21:10‑12• 10Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
 11And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.
 12And God said unto Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad, and because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. (Gen. 21:10‑12)
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Gen. 26:2‑5• 2And Jehovah appeared to him and said, Go not down to Egypt: dwell in the land that I shall tell thee of.
 3Sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee and bless thee; for to thee and to thy seed I will give all these lands; and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham thy father.
 4And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and to thy seed I will give all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
 5because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. (Gen. 26:2‑5)
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Gen. 46:1• 1And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-Sheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac. (Gen. 46:1)
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Gen. 48:15• 15And he blessed Joseph and said, The God before whom walked my fathers, Abraham and Isaac, the God that tended me all my life long till this day, (Gen. 48:15)
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Ex. 2:24• 24And God heard their groaning; and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. (Ex. 2:24)
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Ex. 3:6• 6And he said, I [am] the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. (Ex. 3:6)
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Luke 1:55,72• 55as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed forever.
 72to fulfil mercy with our fathers, and remember his holy covenant; (Luke 1:55,72)
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Rom. 9:5‑6,9• 5whose are the fathers, and of whom [is] the Christ as far as according to flesh, who is over all God blessed forever. Amen.
 6Not however that the word of God hath failed; for not all those that are of Israel [are] Israel;
 9for this word is of promise, “According to this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.” (Rom. 9:5‑6,9)
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Gal. 3:29• 29And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise. (Gal. 3:29)
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Heb. 11:9• 9By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as not his own, dwelling as he did in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise; (Heb. 11:9)
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Gen. 18:10• 10{i}And he said,{/i} I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. {i}and Sarah was listening at the tent-door, which was behind him.{/i} (Gen. 18:10)
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Gen. 21:2‑3• 2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
 3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. (Gen. 21:2‑3)
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Job 14:13• 13O that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol,{HR}Hide me till the turning of thine anger,{HR}Appoint me a set time, and then remember me! (Job 14:13)
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Acts 1:7• 7And he said unto them, It is not yours to know times or seasons which the Father set in his own authority. (Acts 1:7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.

W. Kelly Translation

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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)