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Genesis 13:16

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For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.	And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.	Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And I will make^H7760 thy seed^H2233 as the dust^H6083 of the earth^H776: so that^H834 if a man^H376 can^H3201 number^H4487 the dust^H6083 of the earth^H776, then shall thy seed^H2233 also be numbered^H4487.

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Original Hebrew

וְשַׂמְתִּי אֶת־זַרְעֲךָ כַּעֲפַר הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר ׀ אִם־יוּכַל אִישׁ לִמְנֹות אֶת־עֲפַר הָאָרֶץ גַּם־זַרְעֲךָ יִמָּנֶה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/שַׂמְתִּ֥י	ve./sam.Ti	H7760	HC/Vqq1cs	and/ I will make
אֶֽת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖	zar.'a./Kha	H2233	HNcmsc/Sp2ms	offspring/ your
כַּ/עֲפַ֣ר	ka./'a.Far	H6083	HR/Ncmsc	like/ (the) dust of
הָ/אָ֑רֶץ	ha./'A.retz	H776	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ earth
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	H834	HTr	which
אִם	'im-	H518	HC	if
יוּכַ֣ל	yu.Khal	H3201	HVqi3ms	he will be able
אִ֗ישׁ	'Ish	H376	HNcmsa	anyone
לִ/מְנוֹת֙	li/m.nOt	H4487	HR/Vqc	to/ count
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
עֲפַ֣ר	'a.Far	H6083	HNcmsc	(the) dust of
הָ/אָ֔רֶץ	ha./'A.retz	H776	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ earth
גַּֽם	gam-	H1571	HTa	also
זַרְעֲ/ךָ֖	zar.'a./Kha	H2233	HNcmsc/Sp2ms	offspring/ your
יִמָּנֶֽה	yi.ma.Neh	H4487	HVNi3ms	it will numbered

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

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Strong's References

• H376 — אִישׁ (ʼîysh, eesh): contracted for אֱנוֹשׁ (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation); also, another, any (man), a certain, [phrase] champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), [phrase] none, one, people, person, [phrase] steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare אִשָּׁה.
• H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
• H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
• H2233 — זֶרַע (zeraʻ, zeh'-rah): from זָרַע; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity; [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
• H3201 — יָכֹל (yâkôl, yaw-kole'): or (fuller) יָכוֹל; a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might); be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
• H4487 — מָנָה (mânâh, maw-naw'): a primitive root; properly, to weigh out; by implication, to allot or constitute officially; also to enumerate or enroll; appoint, count, number, prepare, set, tell.
• H6083 — עָפָר (ʻâphâr, aw-fawr'): from עָפַר; dust (as powdered or gray); hence, clay, earth, mud; ashes, dust, earth, ground, morter, powder, rubbish.
• H7760 — שׂוּם (sûwm, soom): or שִׂים; a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase] name, [idiom] on, ordain, order, [phrase] paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), [phrase] regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, [phrase] stedfastly, take, [idiom] tell, [phrase] tread down, (over-)turn, [idiom] wholly, work.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H518 — אִם (ʼim, eem): a primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not; (and, can-, doubtless, if, that) (not), [phrase] but, either, [phrase] except, [phrase] more(-over if, than), neither, nevertheless, nor, oh that, or, [phrase] save (only, -ing), seeing, since, sith, [phrase] surely (no more, none, not), though, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] unless, [phrase] verily, when, whereas, whether, while, [phrase] yet.
• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
• H1571 — גַּם (gam, gam): by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and; again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.

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