KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Genesis 32:11 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.”
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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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| “Deliver me,” | הַצִּילֵ֥נִי | To snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense | Deliver |
| “I pray thee,” | נָ֛א | 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction | pray |
| “from the hand” | מִיַּ֥ד | 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 my brother,” | אָחִ֖י | A brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like H0001]) | brother |
| “from the hand” | מִיַּ֣ד | 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 Esau:” | עֵשָׂ֑ו | Esav, a son of Isaac, including his posterity | Esau |
| “for” | כִּֽי | (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed | for |
| “I” | אָֽנֹכִי֙ | I | I |
| “fear” | יָרֵ֤א | Fearing; morally, reverent | fear |
| “him, lest” | פֶּן | Properly, removal; used only (in the construction) adverb as conjunction, lest | lest |
| “he will come” | יָב֣וֹא | To go or come (in a wide variety of applications) | come |
| “and smite me,” | וְהִכַּ֔נִי | To strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively) | smite |
| “and” | (No Hebrew definition. English implied.) | ||
| “the mother” | אֵ֖ם | A mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father]) | mother |
| “with” | עַל | Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | with |
| “the children.” | בָּנִֽים׃ | 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 |
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9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
10 I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
12 And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
13 And he lodged there that same night; and took of that which came to his hand a present for Esau his brother;
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