Genesis 31:30

KJV1611 – Modern English

And now, though you would certainly be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּה֙ הָלֹ֣ךְ הָלַ֔כְתָּ כִּֽי־נִכְסֹ֥ף נִכְסַ֖פְתָּה לְבֵ֣ית אָבִ֑יךָ לָ֥מָּה גָנַ֖בְתָּ אֶת־אֱלֹהָֽי׃

Transliteration

wĕ-ʿattâ hālōk hālaktā kî-niksōp niksaptâ to bêt ʾābîkā; lāmmâ gānabtā ʾet-ʾĕlōhāy.

Grammar Details

• *wĕ-ʿattâ*: conjunction + adverb - and now
• *hālōk*: qal infinitive absolute - going
• *hālaktā*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you went
• *kî*: conjunction - because/for
• *niksōp*: niphal infinitive absolute - longing
• *niksaptâ*: niphal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you longed
• *bêt*: common noun, masculine singular construct with prefix preposition - to the house of
• *ʾābîkā*: common noun, masculine singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your father
• *lāmmâ*: interrogative adverb - why
• *gānabtā*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you stole
• *ʾĕlōhāy*: common noun, masculine plural with 1st singular possessive suffix - my gods

Word Meanings

• *hālōk* *hālaktā*: you surely went/you had to go/you were determined to go
• *niksōp* *niksaptâ*: you greatly longed/you earnestly desired/you intensely yearned
• *ʾĕlōhāy*: my gods/my deities/my idols

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore londst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And now, [though] thou wouldest needs{H1980} be gone,{H1980} because thou sore{H3700} longedst{H3700} after thy father's{H1} house,{H1004} [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen{H1589} my gods?{H430}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And now, though thou wouldest needs{H1980}{(H8800)} be gone{H1980}{(H8804)}, because thou sore{H3700}{(H8736)} longedst{H3700}{(H8738)} after thy father's{H1} house{H1004}, yet wherefore hast thou stolen{H1589}{(H8804)} my gods{H430}?

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And now though thou wetest thi waye because thou logest after thi fathers house yet wherfore hast thou stollen my goddes?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And for so moch then as thou woldest nedes departe, and longedest sore after yi fathers house, why hast thou stollen away my goddes?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Nowe though thou wentest thy way, because thou greatly longedst after thy fathers house, yet wherefore hast thou stollen my gods?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And nowe though thou wouldest nedes be gone away, because thou sore longest after thy fathers house, yet wherfore hast thou stollen my gods?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `And now, thou hast certainly gone, because thou hast been very desirous for the house of thy father; why hast thou stolen my gods?'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And now, `though' thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, `yet' wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And now, [though] thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, [yet] wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

• World English Bible (2000)

  Now, you want to be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

Referenced Verses

• Gen 31:19 : 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
• Judg 18:24 : 24 And he said, You have taken away my gods which I made and the priest, and you have gone away; what more do I have? And how can you say to me, What troubles you?
• 1 Sam 5:2-6 : 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. 3 And when the people of Ashdod arose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and set him back in his place. 4 And when they arose early the following morning, behold, Dagon had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the torso of Dagon was left to him. 5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon's house tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. 6 But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and He destroyed them and struck them with tumors, even Ashdod and its territory.
• 2 Sam 5:21 : 21 And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
• Isa 37:19 : 19 And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
• Isa 46:1-2 : 1 Bel bows down, Nebo stoops, their idols are upon the beasts and upon the cattle; your carriages are heavily loaded; they are a burden to the weary animal. 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but they themselves have gone into captivity.
• Jer 10:11 : 11 Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
• Jer 43:12 : 12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.
• Exod 12:12 : 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
• Num 33:4 : 4 For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them: the LORD also executed judgments upon their gods.
• Judg 6:31 : 31 And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will you plead for Baal? Will you save him? He that will plead for him, let him be put to death while it is yet morning. If he is a god, let him plead for himself, because someone has cast down his altar.