KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Genesis 19:32 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.”
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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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| “Come,” | לְכָ֨ה | To walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively) | Come |
| “let us make” | אֶת | Properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely) | let make |
| “our father” | אָבִ֛ינוּ | Father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application | father |
| “drink” | נַשְׁקֶ֧ה | To quaff, i.e., (causatively) to irrigate or furnish a potion to | drink |
| “wine,” | יַ֖יִן | Wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication | wine |
| “and we will lie” | וְנִשְׁכְּבָ֣ה | To lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose) | lie |
| “with” | עִמּ֑וֹ | Adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English) | with |
| “him, that we may preserve” | וּנְחַיֶּ֥ה | To live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive | preserve |
| “seed” | זָֽרַע׃ | Seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity | seed |
| “of our father.” | מֵֽאָבִ֖ינוּ | Father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application | father |
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30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
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