KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
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“Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:”
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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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| “Now” | וְעַתָּ֗ה | At this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive | Now |
| “therefore, I pray” | נָ֥א | 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction | therefore pray |
| “you, swear” | הִשָּֽׁבְעוּ | To seven oneself, i.e., swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times) | swear |
| “unto me by the Lord,” | בַּֽיהוָ֔ה | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
| “since” | כִּֽי | (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed | since |
| “I have shewed” | עָשִׂ֥יתִי | To do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application | shewed |
| “you kindness,” | חָ֑סֶד | Kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty | kindness |
| “that ye” | אַתֶּ֜ם | Thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you | that ye |
| “will also” | גַּם | Properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and | also |
| “shew” | וַֽעֲשִׂיתֶ֨ם | To do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application | shew |
| “kindness” | חֶ֔סֶד | Kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty | kindness |
| “unto” | עִם | 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) | unto |
| “my father's” | אָבִי֙ | Father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application | fathers |
| “house,” | בֵּ֤ית | A house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.) | house |
| “and give” | וּנְתַתֶּ֥ם | To give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.) | give |
| “me a true” | אֱמֶֽת׃ | Stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness | true |
| “token:” | א֥וֹת | A signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc | token |
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10 For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.
14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
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