KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Genesis 28:20 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,”
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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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| “And Jacob” | יַֽעֲקֹ֖ב | Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch | Jacob |
| “vowed” | וַיִּדַּ֥ר | To promise (pos., to do or give something to God) | vowed |
| “a vow,” | נֶ֣דֶר | A promise (to God); also (concretely) a thing promised | vow |
| “saying,” | לֵאמֹ֑ר | To say (used with great latitude) | saying |
| “If” | אִם | Used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not | If |
| “God” | אֱלֹהִ֜ים | 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 |
| “will be” | יִֽהְיֶ֨ה | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | will be |
| “with me, and will keep me” | וּשְׁמָרַ֙נִי֙ | Properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc | keep |
| “in this” | הַזֶּה֙ | The masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that | in this |
| “way” | בַּדֶּ֤רֶךְ | A road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb | way |
| “that” | אֲשֶׁ֣ר | Who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc | that |
| “I” | אָֽנֹכִ֣י | I | I |
| “go,” | הוֹלֵ֔ךְ | To walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively) | go |
| “and will give” | וְנָֽתַן | To give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.) | give |
| “me bread” | לֶ֛חֶם | Food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it) | bread |
| “to eat,” | לֶֽאֱכֹ֖ל | To eat (literally or figuratively) | eat |
| “and raiment” | וּבֶ֥גֶד | A covering, also treachery or pillage | raiment |
| “to put on,” | לִלְבֹּֽשׁ׃ | Properly, wrap around, i.e., (by implication) to put on a garment or clothe (oneself, or another), literally or figuratively | put |
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18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God:
22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
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