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Genesis 28

Gen. 28:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And give
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
theen the blessing
Brakah (Hebrew #1293)
benediction; by implication prosperity
KJV usage: blessing, liberal, pool, present.
Pronounce: ber-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 1288
of Abraham
'Abraham (Hebrew #85)
father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram
KJV usage: Abraham.
Pronounce: ab-raw-hawm'
Origin: contracted from 1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous)
, to thee, and to thy seed
zera` (Hebrew #2233)
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Pronounce: zeh'-rah
Origin: from 2232
with thee; that thou mayest inherit
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'}
the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
νwherein thou art a stranger
maguwr (Hebrew #4033)
from 1481 in the sense of lodging; a temporary abode; by extension, a permanent residence
KJV usage: dwelling, pilgrimage, where sojourn, be a stranger. Compare 4032.
Pronounce: maw-goor'
Origin: or magur {maw-goor'}
, which God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
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
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
gave
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
unto Abraham
'Abraham (Hebrew #85)
father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram
KJV usage: Abraham.
Pronounce: ab-raw-hawm'
Origin: contracted from 1 and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous)
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Gen. 12:2• 2And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. (Gen. 12:2)
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of thy sojournings.

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Cross References

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the blessing.
Gen. 12:1‑3,7• 1And Jehovah had said to Abram, Go out of thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land that I will shew thee.
 2And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.
 3And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee; and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
 7And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him. (Gen. 12:1‑3,7)
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Gen. 15:5‑7• 5And he led him out, and said, Look now toward the heavens, and number the stars, if thou be able to number them. And he said to him, So shall thy seed be!
 6And he believed Jehovah; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness.
 7And he said to him, I am Jehovah who brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give thee this land to possess it. (Gen. 15:5‑7)
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Gen. 17:6‑8• 6And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
 7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
 8And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them. (Gen. 17:6‑8)
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Gen. 22:17‑18• 17I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
 18and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because thou hast hearkened to my voice. (Gen. 22:17‑18)
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Psa. 72:17• 17His name shall endure for ever; his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall bless themselves in him; all nations shall call him blessed. (Psa. 72:17)
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Rom. 4:7‑8• 7Blessed they whose lawlessnesses have been forgiven, and whose sins have been covered:
 8blessed the man to whom the Lord shall not at all reckon sin. (Rom. 4:7‑8)
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Gal. 3:8,14• 8and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the nations on the principle of faith, announced beforehand the glad tidings to Abraham: In thee all the nations shall be blessed.
 14that the blessing of Abraham might come to the nations in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Gal. 3:8,14)
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Eph. 1:3• 3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ; (Eph. 1:3)
wherein thou art a stranger.
Heb. of thy sojournings.
Gen. 17:8• 8And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them. (Gen. 17:8)
which.
Gen. 12:7• 7And Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah who had appeared to him. (Gen. 12:7)
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Gen. 13:14‑17• 14And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;
 15for all the land that thou seest will I give to thee, and to thy seed for ever.
 16And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth, so that if any one can number the dust of the earth, thy seed also will be numbered.
 17Arise, walk through the land according to the length of it and according to the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee. (Gen. 13:14‑17)
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Gen. 15:18‑21• 18On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;
 19the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
 20and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,
 21and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Gen. 15:18‑21)
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Psa. 39:12• 12Hear my prayer, Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; be not silent at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, a sojourner, like all my fathers. (Psa. 39:12)
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Psa. 105:6‑12• 6Ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye sons of Jacob, his chosen ones.
 7He, Jehovah, is our God; his judgments are in all the earth.
 8He is ever mindful of his covenant,--the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,--
 9Which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
 10And he confirmed it unto Jacob for a statute, unto Israel for an everlasting covenant,
 11Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance;
 12When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it. (Psa. 105:6‑12)
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Heb. 11:9‑13• 9By faith he sojourned as a stranger in the land of promise as a foreign country, having dwelt in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;
 10for he waited for the city which has foundations, of which God is the artificer and constructor.
 11By faith also Sarah herself received strength for the conception of seed, and that beyond a seasonable age; since she counted him faithful who promised.
 12Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.
 13All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth. (Heb. 11:9‑13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And may he give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, in order that thou mayest possess the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham!