Romans 9:4
New Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
כְּלִי
kᵉlîy
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
υἱοθεσία
huiothesía
the placing as a son, i.e. adoption (figuratively, Christian sonship in respect to God)
כָּבוֹד
kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
διαθήκη
diathḗkē
properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will)
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
תּוֹרָה
tôwrâh
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
ἐπαγγελία
epangelía
an announcement (for information, assent or pledge; especially a divine assurance of good)
Key Terms in This Verse
διαθήκη diathḗkē
properly, a disposition, i.e. (specially) a contract (especially a devisory will)
Study G1242 →υἱοθεσία huiothesía
the placing as a son, i.e. adoption (figuratively, Christian sonship in respect to God)
Study G5206 →כְּלִי kᵉlîy
something prepared, i.e. any apparatus (as an implement, utensil, dress, vessel or weapon)
Study H3627 →ἐπαγγελία epangelía
an announcement (for information, assent or pledge; especially a divine assurance of good)
Study G1860 →יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
Study H3478 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →כָּבוֹד kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
Study H3519 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →Cross References
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the LORD our God shall call.
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God...
Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the...
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into...
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel,...
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
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