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Genesis 15

Gen. 15:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
God
Yhovih (Hebrew #3069)
a variation of 3068 (used after 136, and pronounced by Jews as 430, in order to prevent the repetition of the same sound, since they elsewhere pronounce 3068 as 136)
KJV usage: God.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vee'
y, whereby
mah (Hebrew #4100)
or ma {maw}; or ma {mah}; also meh {meh}; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
KJV usage: how (long, oft, (- soever)), (no-)thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
Pronounce: maw
Origin: or mah {mah}
shall I know
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
that I shall inherit it
yarash (Hebrew #3423)
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
KJV usage: cast out, consume, destroy, disinherit, dispossess, drive(-ing) out, enjoy, expel, X without fail, (give to, leave for) inherit(-ance, -or) + magistrate, be (make) poor, come to poverty, (give to, make to) possess, get (have) in (take) possession, seize upon, succeed, X utterly.
Pronounce: yaw-rash'
Origin: or yaresh {yaw-raysh'}
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Judg. 6:17• 17And he said to him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, show me a sign that it is thou who talkest with me. (Judg. 6:17)
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2 Kings 20:8• 8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Jehovah will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah the third day? (2 Kings 20:8)
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Luke 1:18• 18And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years? (Luke 1:18)

Cross References

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Gen. 24:2‑4,13‑14• 2And Abraham said to his servant, the eldest in his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,
 3and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;
 4but thou shalt go to my land and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
 13Behold, I stand by the fountain of water; and daughters of men of the city come out to draw water.
 14And let it come to pass [that] the maiden, to whom I shall say, Let down, I pray thee, thy pitcher, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also, [be] she whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and hereby shall I know that thou hast done kindly to my master. (Gen. 24:2‑4,13‑14)
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Judg. 6:17‑24,36‑40• 17And he said to him, If now I have found favour in thine eyes, show me a sign that it is thou who talkest with me.
 18Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.
 19And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid of the goats, and an ephah of flour in unleavened cakes: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out to him under the terebinth, and presented it.
 20And the Angel of God said to him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
 21And the Angel of Jehovah put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. And the Angel of Jehovah departed out of his sight.
 22When Gideon perceived that he was an angel of Jehovah, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord Jehovah for because I have seen an angel of Jehovah face to face.
 23And Jehovah said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
 24And Gideon built there an altar to Jehovah, and called it Jehovah-shalom. To this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.
 36And Gideon said to God, If thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said,
 37behold, I put a fleece of wool on the threshing-floor; if dew shall be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the ground, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel by my hand, as thou hast said.
 38And it was so. And when he rose up early on the morrow, he pressed the fleece together, and wrung dew out of the fleece, a bowl-full of water.
 39And Gideon said to God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once! Let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it, I pray thee, be dry upon the fleece only, and upon all the ground let there be dew.
 40And God did so that night, and it was dry upon the fleece only, but on all the ground there was dew. (Judg. 6:17‑24,36‑40)
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1 Sam. 14:9‑10• 9If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
 10But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for Jehovah hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us. (1 Sam. 14:9‑10)
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2 Kings 20:8• 8And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What shall be the sign that Jehovah will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of Jehovah the third day? (2 Kings 20:8)
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Psa. 86:17• 17Show me a token for good;{HR}And my haters shall see and be ashamed,{HR}Because thou, O Jehovah, hast helped me and comforted me. (Psa. 86:17)
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Isa. 7:11• 11Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God: ask it in the depth or in the height above. (Isa. 7:11)
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Luke 1:18,34• 18And Zacharias said to the angel, How shall I know this, for I am an old man, and my wife advanced in years?
 34But Mary said to the angel, How shall this be, since I know not a man? (Luke 1:18,34)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he said, Lord Jehovah, how shall I know that I shall possess it?

W. Kelly Translation

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And he said, Lord Jehovah, Whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?