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Genesis 18:29

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Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it].	And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do [it] for forty's sake.	And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And he spake^H1696 unto him yet again^H3254, and said^H559, Peradventure there shall be forty^H705 found^H4672 there. And he said^H559, I will not do^H6213 it for forty's^H705 sake.

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Original Hebrew

וַיֹּסֶף עֹוד לְדַבֵּר אֵלָיו וַיֹּאמַר אוּלַי יִמָּצְאוּן שָׁם אַרְבָּעִים וַיֹּאמֶר לֹא אֶעֱשֶׂה בַּעֲבוּר הָאַרְבָּעִים׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יֹּ֨סֶף	va/i.Yo.sef	H3254	HC/Vhw3ms	and/ he repeated
ע֜וֹד	od	H5750	HD	again
לְ/דַבֵּ֤ר	le./da.Ber	H1696	HR/Vpc	to/ speak
אֵלָי/ו֙	'e.La/v	H413	HR/Sp3ms	to/ him
וַ/יֹּאמַ֔ר	va/i.yo.Mar	H559	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he said
אוּלַ֛י	'u.Lai	H194	HD	perhaps
יִמָּצְא֥וּ/ן	yi.ma.tze.'U/n	H4672	HVNi3mp/Sn	they will be found/ !
שָׁ֖ם	sham	H8033	HD	there
אַרְבָּעִ֑ים	'ar.ba.'Im	H705	HAcbpa	forty
וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙	va/i.Yo.mer	H559	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he said
לֹ֣א	lo'	H3808	HTn	not
אֶֽעֱשֶׂ֔ה	'e.'e.Seh	H6213	HVqi1cs	I will do (it)
בַּ/עֲב֖וּר	ba./'a.Vur	H5668	HR/Ncmsc	for/ sake of
הָ/אַרְבָּעִֽים	ha./'ar.ba.'Im	H705	HTd/Acbpa	the/ forty

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

Strong's References

• H559 — אָמַר (ʼâmar, aw-mar'): a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
• H705 — אַרְבָּעִים (ʼarbâʻîym, ar-baw-eem'): multiple of אַרְבַּע; forty; -forty.
• H1696 — דָבַר (dâbar, daw-bar'): a primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue; answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, [idiom] well, [idiom] work.
• H3254 — יָסַף (yâçaph, yaw-saf'): a primitive root; to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing); add, [idiom] again, [idiom] any more, [idiom] cease, [idiom] come more, [phrase] conceive again, continue, exceed, [idiom] further, [idiom] gather together, get more, give more-over, [idiom] henceforth, increase (more and more), join, [idiom] longer (bring, do, make, much, put), [idiom] (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, [idiom] yet, yield.
• H4672 — מָצָא (mâtsâʼ, maw-tsaw'): a primitive root; properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present; [phrase] be able, befall, being, catch, [idiom] certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), [idiom] have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-) on, meet (with), [idiom] occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
• H6213 — עָשָׂה (ʻâsâh, aw-saw'): a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application; accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, [idiom] certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, [phrase] displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, [phrase] feast, (fight-) ing man, [phrase] finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, [phrase] hinder, hold (a feast), [idiom] indeed, [phrase] be industrious, [phrase] journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, [phrase] officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, [idiom] sacrifice, serve, set, shew, [idiom] sin, spend, [idiom] surely, take, [idiom] thoroughly, trim, [idiom] very, [phrase] vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.

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

• H194 — אוּלַי (ʼûwlay, oo-lah'ee): or (shortened) אֻלַי; from אוֹ; if not; hence perhaps; if so be, may be, peradventure, unless.
• H413 — אֵל (ʼêl, ale): (but only used in the shortened constructive form אֶל ); a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e.; near, with or among; often in general, to; about, according to, after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, [idiom] hath, in(-to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
• H3808 — לֹא (lôʼ, lo): or לוֹא; or לֹה; (Deuteronomy 3:11), a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles; [idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as truly as, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] verily, for want, [phrase] whether, without.
• H5668 — עָבוּר (ʻâbûwr, aw-boor'): or עָבֻר; passive participle of עָבַר; properly, crossed, i.e. (abstractly) transit; used only adverbially, on account of, in order that; because of, for (...'s sake), (intent) that, to.
• H5750 — עוֹד (ʻôwd, ode): or עֹד; from עוּד; properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more; again, [idiom] all life long, at all, besides, but, else, further(-more), henceforth, (any) longer, (any) more(-over), [idiom] once, since, (be) still, when, (good, the) while (having being), (as, because, whether, while) yet (within).
• H8033 — שָׁם (shâm, shawm): a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, אֲשֶׁר); there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence; in it, [phrase] thence, there (-in, [phrase] of, [phrase] out), [phrase] thither, [phrase] whither.

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