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Genesis 28:4

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And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;	And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.	And Isaac sent away Jacob: and he went to Padanaram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And give^H5414 thee the blessing^H1293 of Abraham^H85, to thee, and to thy seed^H2233 with thee; that thou mayest inherit^H3423 the land^H776 wherein thou art a stranger^H4033, which God^H430 gave^H5414 unto Abraham^H85.

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Original Hebrew

וְיִתֶּן־לְךָ אֶת־בִּרְכַּת אַבְרָהָם לְךָ וּלְזַרְעֲךָ אִתָּךְ לְרִשְׁתְּךָ אֶת־אֶרֶץ מְגֻרֶיךָ אֲשֶׁר־נָתַן אֱלֹהִים לְאַבְרָהָם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/יִֽתֶּן	ve./yi.ten-	H5414	HC/Vqj3ms	and/ may he give
לְ/ךָ֙	le./Kha		HR/Sp2ms	to (the)/ you
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
בִּרְכַּ֣ת	bir.Kat	H1293	HNcfsc	(the) blessing of
אַבְרָהָ֔ם	'av.ra.Ham	H85	HNp	Abraham
לְ/ךָ֖	le./Kha		HR/Sp2ms	to/ you
וּ/לְ/זַרְעֲ/ךָ֣	u./le./zar.'a./Kha	H2233	HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp2ms	and/ to/ offspring/ your
אִתָּ֑/ךְ	'i.Ta/kh	H854	HR/Sp2fs	with/ you
לְ/רִשְׁתְּ/ךָ֙	le./rish.te./Kha	H3423	HR/Vqc/Sp2ms	to/ take possession of/ you
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
אֶ֣רֶץ	'E.retz	H776	HNcbsc	(the) land of
מְגֻרֶ֔י/ךָ	me.gu.Rei./kha	H4033	HNcmpc/Sp2ms	sojournings/ your
אֲשֶׁר	'a.Sher-	H834	HTr	which
נָתַ֥ן	na.Tan	H5414	HVqp3ms	he gave
אֱלֹהִ֖ים	'E.lo.Him	H430	HNcmpa	God
לְ/אַבְרָהָֽם	le./'av.ra.Ham	H85	HR/Np	to/ Abraham

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

Strong's References

• H85 — אַבְרָהָם (ʼAbrâhâm, ab-raw-hawm'): contracted from אָב and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram; Abraham.
• H430 — אֱלֹהִים (ʼĕlôhîym, el-o-heem'): plural of אֱלוֹהַּ; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative; angels, [idiom] exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), [idiom] (very) great, judges, [idiom] mighty.
• 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.
• H1293 — בְּרָכָה (Bᵉrâkâh, ber-aw-kaw'): from בָרַךְ; benediction; by implication prosperity; blessing, liberal, pool, present.
• H2233 — זֶרַע (zeraʻ, zeh'-rah): from זָרַע; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity; [idiom] carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
• H3423 — יָרַשׁ (yârash, yaw-rash'): or יָרֵשׁ; a primitive root; to occupy (by driving out previous tenants, and possessing in their place); by implication, to seize, to rob, to inherit; also to expel, to impoverish, to ruin; cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, [idiom] without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) [phrase] magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, [idiom] utterly.
• H4033 — מָגוּר (mâgûwr, maw-goor'): or מָגֻר; from גּוּר in the sense of lodging; a temporary abode; by extension, a permanent residence; dwelling, pilgrimage, where sojourn, be a stranger. Compare מָגוֹר.
• H5414 — נָתַן (nâthan, naw-than'): a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.); add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] without fail, fasten, frame, [idiom] get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), [idiom] have, [idiom] indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), [phrase] lie, lift up, make, [phrase] O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, [idiom] pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), [phrase] sing, [phrase] slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, [idiom] surely, [idiom] take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, [phrase] weep, [phrase] willingly, [phrase] withdraw, [phrase] would (to) God, yield.

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

• 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.
• 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).
• H854 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): probably from אָנָה; properly, nearness (used only as a preposition or an adverb), near; hence, generally, with, by, at, among, etc.; against, among, before, by, for, from, in(-to), (out) of, with. Often with another prepositional prefix.

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