Genesis 30:43

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the man increased exceedingly, and had large flocks, and maid-servants and men-servants, and camels and asses.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּפְרֹ֥ץ הָאִ֖ישׁ מְאֹ֣ד מְאֹ֑ד וֽ͏ַיְהִי־לוֹ֙ צֹ֣אן רַבּ֔וֹת וּשְׁפָחוֹת֙ וַעֲבָדִ֔ים וּגְמַלִּ֖ים וַחֲמֹרִֽים׃

Transliteration

And-wayyiprōṣ the-ʾîš məʾōd məʾōd and-wayəhî-to-him ṣōʾn rabbôt and-šəpāḥôt and-ʿăbādîm and-gəmallîm and-ḥămōrîm

Grammar Details

*wayyiprōṣ*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular from *prṣ* - he broke through/increased
*ʾîš*: common noun with definite article, masculine singular - the man
*məʾōd*: adverb - very (repeated for emphasis)
*wayəhî*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular from *hyh* - and there was
*ṣōʾn*: common noun, feminine singular collective - flock
*rabbôt*: adjective, feminine plural - many/numerous
*šəpāḥôt*: common noun, feminine plural - female servants/maids
*ʿăbādîm*: common noun, masculine plural - male servants/slaves
*gəmallîm*: common noun, masculine plural - camels
*ḥămōrîm*: common noun, masculine plural - donkeys

Word Meanings

*wayyiprōṣ*: he increased/he broke through/he expanded greatly
*ʾîš*: man/the man (referring to Jacob)
*məʾōd* *məʾōd*: exceedingly/extremely/very very much

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 30:30 : 30 For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
Gen 24:35 : 35 And Jehovah hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses.
Gen 26:13-14 : 13 And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great: 14 and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him.
Gen 13:2 : 2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Gen 12:16 : 16 And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
Gen 28:15 : 15 And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee whithersoever thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Gen 31:7-8 : 7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. 8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the flock bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy wages; then bare all the flock ringstreaked.
Gen 31:42 : 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
Gen 32:10 : 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies.
Gen 33:11 : 11 Take, I pray thee, my gift that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
Gen 36:7 : 7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.
Eccl 2:7 : 7 I bought men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;
Ezek 39:10 : 10 so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those that plundered them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Gen 24:35
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35And Jehovah hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and men-servants and maid-servants, and camels and asses.
Job 1:3
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3His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.
Gen 30:39-42
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39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.
40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked and all the black in the flock of Laban: and he put his own droves apart, and put them not unto Laban's flock.
41And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger of the flock did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the flock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods;
42but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
Gen 26:13-14
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13And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great:
14and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him.
Gen 32:14-16
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14two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
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Gen 12:16
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16And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.
Gen 30:29-30
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29And he said unto him, Thou knowest how I have served thee, and how thy cattle have fared with me.
30For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?
Gen 31:17-18
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17Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon the camels;
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Gen 32:5
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Job 42:12
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12So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.
Gen 28:3
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Gen 31:43
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Gen 36:7
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7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.
Num 31:44-45
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44and thirty and six thousand oxen,
45and thirty thousand and five hundred asses,
2 Sam 12:2
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2The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;
Gen 31:9-10
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9Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
10And it came to pass at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the he-goats which leaped upon the flock were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.
Gen 31:12
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12And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see: all the he-goats which leap upon the flock are ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
Num 31:34
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34and threescore and one thousand asses,
Gen 46:6
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Gen 30:7
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Gen 30:12
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12And Zilpah Leah's handmaid bare Jacob a second son.
Gen 45:23
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23And to his father he sent after this manner: ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she-asses laden with grain and bread and provision for his father by the way.
Gen 33:1
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1And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.