Galatians 4:26

New Testament • 4 words with Strong's data

"But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all."

Word-by-Word Analysis

But

יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם

Yᵉrûwshâlaim

H3389

Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine

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which is

מַעַל

maʻal

H4605

properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.

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is

חׇפְשִׁי

chophshîy

H2670

exempt (from bondage, tax or care)

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which is the

אֵם

ʼêm

H517

a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))

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of us all

Key Terms in This Verse

free H2670

חׇפְשִׁי chophshîy

exempt (from bondage, tax or care)

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above H4605

מַעַל maʻal

properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.

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mother H517

אֵם ʼêm

a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))

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Jerusalem H3389

יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם Yᵉrûwshâlaim

Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine

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Cross References

Hebrews 12:22 cross-reference

But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Philippians 3:20 cross-reference

For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Revelation 21:2 cross-reference

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Revelation 3:12 cross-reference

Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,...

Isaiah 66:10 cross-reference

Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:

Isaiah 65:18 cross-reference

But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

Romans 6:14 cross-reference

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Joel 3:17 cross-reference

So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

Romans 6:18 cross-reference

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

Galatians 5:1 cross-reference

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

1 Peter 2:16 cross-reference

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Isaiah 50:1 cross-reference

Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, ...

Galatians 4:22 cross-reference

For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.

Isaiah 52:9 cross-reference

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

Hosea 4:5 cross-reference

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

Hosea 2:5 cross-reference

For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my...

Hosea 2:2 cross-reference

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

John 8:36 cross-reference

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

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