KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Numbers 22:19 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more.”
What does this verse really mean? Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. Follow the buttons in the right-hand column for detailed definitions and verses that use the same root words. Use this reference information to gain deeper insight into the Bible and enrich your understanding. Information based on Strong's Exhaustive Concordance[1].
| 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 you,” | 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 |
| “tarry” | שְׁב֨וּ | Properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry | tarry |
| “ye” | אַתֶּ֖ם | Thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you | ye |
| “also” | גַּם | Properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and | also |
| “here” | בָזֶ֛ה | The masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that | here |
| “this night,” | הַלָּ֑יְלָה | Properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity | night |
| “that I may know” | וְאֵ֣דְעָ֔ה | To know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) | know |
| “what” | מַה | Properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses | what |
| “the Lord” | יְהוָ֖ה | (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God | Lord |
| “will say” | דַּבֵּ֥ר | Perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue | say |
| “unto” | עִמִּֽי׃ | 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 |
| “me more.” | יֹּסֵ֥ף | To add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing) | more |
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17 For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
18 And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.
19 Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more.
20 And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
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