Genesis 15:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אַבְרָ֔ם הֵ֣ן לִ֔י לֹ֥א נָתַ֖תָּה זָ֑רַע וְהִנֵּ֥ה בֶן־בֵּיתִ֖י יוֹרֵ֥שׁ אֹתִֽי׃

Transliteration

And-yōʾmer ʾAḇrām hēn to-me not nāṯattāh zāraʿ and-hinnēh ben-bêṯî yôrēš me.

Grammar Details

*yōʾmer*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with waw consecutive - and he said
*ʾAḇrām*: proper name
*hēn*: demonstrative particle - behold/indeed
*nāṯattāh*: Qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you have given
*zāraʿ*: masculine singular noun - seed/offspring
*hinnēh*: demonstrative particle - behold/here is
*ben*: construct form of masculine singular noun - son of
*bêṯî*: masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my house
*yôrēš*: Qal participle masculine singular - inheriting/possessing

Word Meanings

*hēn*: behold/look/indeed/if
*zāraʿ*: seed/offspring/descendants/posterity
*yôrēš*: inheriting/possessing/taking possession of

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 14:14 : 14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
Prov 29:21 : 21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
Prov 30:23 : 23 For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Eccl 2:7 : 7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
Jer 12:1 : 1 Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Heb 10:35-36 : 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Prov 13:12 : 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Gen 13:16 : 16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

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