Luke 1 · Verse 73

Luke 1:73

The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
Luke 1:73, King James Version

Luke 1:73 in other translations

BSBthe oath He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us
WEBthe oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
ASVThe oath which he sware unto Abraham our father,
YLTAn oath that He sware to Abraham our father,
DARBYthe oath which he swore to Abraham our father,
BBEThe oath which he made to Abraham, our father,
WebsterThe oath which he swore to our father Abraham,

What does Luke 1:73 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 1:68-79

68-79. There is not a word in this noble burst of divine song about his own child; like Elisabeth losing sight entirely of self, in the glory of a Greater than both. Lord God of Israel--the ancient covenant God of the peculiar people. visited and redeemed--that is, in order to redeem: returned after long absence, and broken His long silence (see Mt 15:31). In the Old Testament, God is said to "visit" chiefly for…

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 73. The oath (q). This oath is recorded in Gen 22:16,17. It was an oath in which God swore by himself (because he could swear by no greater, Heb 6:13,14) that he would surely bless Abraham and his posterity. That promise was now to be entirely fulfilled by the coming of the Messiah.

(q) Gen 22:16,17

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 1:67-80

Zacharias uttered a prophecy concerning the kingdom and salvation of the Messiah. The gospel brings light with it; in it the day dawns. In John the Baptist it began to break, and increased apace to the perfect day. The gospel is discovering; it shows that about which we were utterly in the dark; it is to give light to those that sit in darkness, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus…

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Luke 1:73 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ὅρκονhorkon[the] oathG3727
ὃνhonthatG3739
ὤμοσενōmosenHe sworeG3660
πρὸςprostoG4314
ἈβραὰμAbraamAbrahamG11
τὸνtontheG3588
πατέραpaterafatherG3962
ἡμῶν,hēmōnof us,G3165

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Luke 1:73

  • Genesis 22:16-18

    And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

  • Deuteronomy 7:8

    But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

  • Psalms 105:9

    Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;

  • Jeremiah 11:5

    That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O Lord.

  • Deuteronomy 7:12

    Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:

  • Hebrews 6:16-17

    For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

  • Genesis 26:3

    Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

  • Hebrews 6:13

    For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

  • Genesis 24:7

    The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ge 22:16,17; 24:7; 26:3; De 7:8,12; Ps 105:9; Jer 11:5; Heb 6:16,17

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Context

  • Luke 1:72

    To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

  • Luke 1:73

    The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

  • Luke 1:74

    That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

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Luke 1:73 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Del juramento que juró á Abraham nuestro padre, que nos había de dar,
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
du serment qu’il a juré à Abraham notre père, de nous accorder,
German
Elberfelder 1871
des Eides, den er Abraham, unserem Vater, geschworen hat, um uns zu geben,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
jusjurandum, quod juravit ad Abraham patrem nostrum, daturum se nobis