1 Chronicles 29:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫וְהָעֹ֤שֶׁר וְהַכָּבוֹד֙ מִלְּפָנֶ֔יךָ וְאַתָּה֙ מוֹשֵׁ֣ל בַּכֹּ֔ל וּבְיָדְךָ֖ כֹּ֣חַ וּגְבוּרָ֑ה וּבְיָ֣דְךָ֔ לְגַדֵּ֥ל וּלְחַזֵּ֖ק לַכֹּֽל׃‬

Transliteration

And-the-ʿōšer and-the-kābôd from-before-you, and-you môšēl in-everything, and-in-your-yād kōaḥ and-gəbûrāh, and-in-your-yād to-gaddēl and-to-ḥazzēq for-all.

Grammar Details

• *ʿōšer*: noun, masculine singular - riches/wealth
• *kābôd*: noun, masculine singular - glory/honor
• *môšēl*: qal participle, masculine singular - ruling
• *yād*: noun, feminine singular construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your hand
• *kōaḥ*: noun, masculine singular - strength/power
• *gəbûrāh*: noun, feminine singular - might/strength
• *gaddēl*: piel infinitive construct - to make great
• *ḥazzēq*: piel infinitive construct - to strengthen

Word Meanings

• *ʿōšer*: riches/wealth/abundance
• *kābôd*: glory/honor/splendor/abundance
• *môšēl*: ruling/governing/having dominion
• *gaddēl*: to make great/to magnify/to enlarge
• *ḥazzēq*: to strengthen/to make firm/to empower

Referenced Verses

• 2 Chr 20:6 : 6 And said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hands are power and strength so that no one is able to keep his place against you.
• 2 Chr 1:12 : 12 Wisdom and knowledge are given to you; and I will give you wealth and honour, such as no king has had before you or ever will have after you.
• 2 Chr 16:9 : 9 For the eyes of the Lord go this way and that, through all the earth, letting it be seen that he is the strong support of those whose hearts are true to him. In this you have done foolishly, for from now you will have wars.
• Deut 8:18 : 18 But keep in mind the Lord your God: for it is he who gives you the power to get wealth, so that he may give effect to the agreement which he made by his oath with your fathers, as at this day.
• 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up; 8 Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
• Job 9:19 : 19 If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?
• Job 42:10 : 10 And the Lord made up to Job for all his losses, after he had made prayer for his friends: and all Job had before was increased by the Lord twice as much.
• Ps 18:31-32 : 31 For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God? 32 God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.
• Ps 28:8 : 8 The Lord is their strength, and a strong place of salvation for his king.
• Ps 29:1 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Give to the Lord, you sons of the gods, give to the Lord glory and strength.
• Ps 29:11 : 11 The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will give his people the blessing of peace.
• Ps 62:11 : 11 Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:
• Ps 68:34-35 : 34 Make clear that strength is God's: he is lifted up over Israel, and his power is in the clouds. 35 O God, you are to be feared in your holy place: the God of Israel gives strength and power to his people. Praise be to God.
• Ps 75:6-7 : 6 For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south; 7 But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.
• Ps 113:7-8 : 7 He takes the poor man out of the dust, lifting him up from his low position; 8 To give him a place among the rulers, even with the rulers of his people.
• Ps 144:1-2 : 1 <A Psalm. Of David.> Praise be to the God of my strength, teaching my hands the use of the sword, and my fingers the art of fighting: 2 He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.
• Prov 8:18 : 18 Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.
• Prov 10:22 : 22 The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
• Eccl 5:19 : 19 He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
• Isa 40:29 : 29 He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.
• Isa 43:13 : 13 From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?
• Isa 45:24 : 24 Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.
• Isa 46:10 : 10 Making clear from the first what is to come, and from past times the things which have not so far come about; saying, My purpose is fixed, and I will do all my pleasure;
• Dan 5:18-21 : 18 As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour: 19 And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him. 20 But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: 21 And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.
• Dan 6:26 : 26 Then King Darius sent a letter to all the peoples, nations, and languages, living in all the earth: May your peace be increased.
• Matt 28:18 : 18 And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
• Luke 1:51-53 : 51 With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts. 52 He has put down kings from their seats, lifting up on high the men of low degree. 53 Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;
• John 19:11 : 11 Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.
• Rom 11:35-36 : 35 Or who has first given to him, and it will be given back to him again? 36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever. So be it.
• Eph 3:16 : 16 That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;
• Eph 3:20 : 20 Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,
• Phil 4:13 : 13 I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.
• Col 1:11 : 11 Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;
• Rev 11:17 : 17 We give you praise, O Lord God, Ruler of all, who is and who was; because you have taken up your great power and are ruling your kingdom.