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Micah 7

Mic. 7:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thoud wilt perform
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
the truth
'emeth (Hebrew #571)
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
KJV usage: assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Pronounce: eh'-meth
Origin: contracted from 539
to Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
, and the mercy
checed (Hebrew #2617)
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety: rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
KJV usage: favour, good deed(-liness, -ness), kindly, (loving-)kindness, merciful (kindness), mercy, pity, reproach, wicked thing.
Pronounce: kheh'-sed
Origin: from 2616
to Abraham
'Abraham (Hebrew #85)
father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram
KJV usage: Abraham.
Pronounce: ab-raw-hawm'
Origin: contracted from 1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous)
, which thou hast sworn
shaba` (Hebrew #7650)
propr. to be complete, but used only as a denominative from 7651; to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
KJV usage: adjure, charge (by an oath, with an oath), feed to the full (by mistake for 7646), take an oath, X straitly, (cause to, make to) swear.
Pronounce: shaw-bah'
Origin: a primitive root
unto our fathers
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
from the days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
of old
qedem (Hebrew #6924)
from 6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
KJV usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, X ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.
Pronounce: keh'-dem
Origin: or qedmah {kayd'-maw}
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Luke 1:72‑73• 72to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy covenant,
 73the oath which he swore to Abraham our father, (Luke 1:72‑73)

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Abraham,
Fathers,
Jacob,
Mercy,
Truth

Cross References

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Gen. 12:2‑3• 2And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.
 3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. (Gen. 12:2‑3)
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Gen. 17:7‑8• 7And 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 to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
 8And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them. (Gen. 17:7‑8)
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Gen. 22:16‑18• 16and said, By myself I swear, saith Jehovah, that, because thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,
 17I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
 18and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because thou hast hearkened to my voice. (Gen. 22:16‑18)
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Gen. 26:3‑4• 3Sojourn in this land; and I will be with thee and bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries; and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham thy father.
 4And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and unto thy seed will I give all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves-- (Gen. 26:3‑4)
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Gen. 28:13‑14• 13And behold, Jehovah stood above it. And he said, I am Jehovah, the God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.
 14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Gen. 28:13‑14)
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Psa. 105:8‑10• 8He is ever mindful of his covenant,--the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,--
 9Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
 10And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant, (Psa. 105:8‑10)
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Jer. 33:25‑26• 25Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,
 26then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will turn their captivity, and will have mercy on them. (Jer. 33:25‑26)
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Luke 1:54‑55,72‑74• 54He has helped Israel his servant, in order to remember mercy,
 55(as he spoke to our fathers,) to Abraham and to his seed for ever.
 72to fulfil mercy with our fathers and remember his holy covenant,
 73the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
 74to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear (Luke 1:54‑55,72‑74)
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Acts 3:25‑26• 25*Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
 26To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one of you from your wickedness. (Acts 3:25‑26)
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Rom. 11:26‑31• 26and so all Israel shall be saved. According as it is written, The deliverer shall come out of Zion; he shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
 27And this is the covenant from me to them, when I shall have taken away their sins.
 28As regards the glad tidings, they are enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.
 29For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance.
 30For as indeed *ye* also once have not believed in God, but now have been objects of mercy through the unbelief of *these*;
 31so these also have now not believed in your mercy, in order that *they* also may be objects of mercy. (Rom. 11:26‑31)
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Heb. 6:13‑18• 13For God, having promised to Abraham, since he had no greater to swear by, swore by himself,
 14saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee;
 15and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.
 16For men indeed swear by a greater, and with them the oath is a term to all dispute, as making matters sure.
 17Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,
 18that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, (Heb. 6:13‑18)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou wilt performf truth to Jacob, loving-kindness to Abrahamg, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers, from the days of old.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "give."
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Or "wilt give the truth [promised] to Jacob, the loving-kindness [promised] to Abraham."