KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
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“And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.”
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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 by a prophet” | וּבְנָבִ֕יא | A prophet or (generally) inspired man | prophet |
| “the Lord” | יְהוָ֛ה | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
| “brought” | הֶעֱלָ֧ה | To ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative | brought |
| “Israel” | יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | He will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity | Israel |
| “out of Egypt,” | מִמִּצְרָ֑יִם | Mitsrajim, i.e., Upper and Lower Egypt | out Egypt |
| “and by a prophet” | וּבְנָבִ֖יא | A prophet or (generally) inspired man | prophet |
| “was he preserved.” | נִשְׁמָֽר׃ | Properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc | preserved |
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11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13 And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
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