KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
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“For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “For it was,” | וַיְהִ֗י | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | For it was |
| “so” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “that” | כִּֽי | (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed | that |
| “the children” | בְנֵֽי | A son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.) | children |
| “of Israel” | יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ | He will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity | Israel |
| “had sinned” | חָטְא֤וּ | Properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn | sinned |
| “against the Lord” | לַֽיהוָ֣ה | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | against Lord |
| “their God,” | אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֔ם | 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 | God |
| “which had brought them up” | הַמַּֽעֲלֶ֤ה | To ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative | brought up |
| “out of the land” | מֵאֶ֣רֶץ | The earth (at large, or partitively a land) | out land |
| “of Egypt,” | מִצְרַ֔יִם | Mitsrajim, i.e., Upper and Lower Egypt | Egypt |
| “from under” | מִתַּ֕חַת | The bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc | under |
| “the hand” | יַ֖ד | A hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows] | hand |
| “of Pharaoh” | פַּרְעֹ֣ה | Paroh, a general title of Egyptian kings | Pharaoh |
| “king” | מֶֽלֶךְ | A king | king |
| “of Egypt,” | מִצְרָ֑יִם | Mitsrajim, i.e., Upper and Lower Egypt | Egypt |
| “and had feared” | וַיִּֽירְא֖וּ | To fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten | feared |
| “other” | אֲחֵרִֽים׃ | Properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc | other |
| “gods,” | אֱלֹהִ֥ים | 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 | gods |
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5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
8 And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
9 And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
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