Bible Verse Dictionary
Genesis 12:19 - Concerning
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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Why | H4100 | מָה |
properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses |
saidst | H559 | אָמַר |
[Verb] to say (used with great latitude) |
thou She | H1931 | הוּא |
[Pronoun] a primitive {word} the third person pronoun {singular} he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) {self} or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are |
is my sister | H269 | אָחוֹת |
[Noun Feminine] a sister (used very widely (like {H250 }) literally and figuratively) |
so I might have taken | H3947 | לָקַח |
[Verb] to take (in the widest variety of applications) |
her to me to wife | H802 | אִשָּׁה |
[Noun Feminine] the second form is an irregular plural; a woman (used in the same wide sense as H582). |
now therefore | H6258 | עַתָּה |
[Adverb] at this {time} whether {adverbial} conjugational or expletive |
behold | H2009 | הִנֵּה |
lo! |
thy wife | H802 | אִשָּׁה |
[Noun Feminine] the second form is an irregular plural; a woman (used in the same wide sense as H582). |
take | H3947 | לָקַח |
[Verb] to take (in the widest variety of applications) |
her and go thy way | H1980 | הָלַךְ |
[Verb] a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of {applications} literally and figuratively) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.