Bible Verse Dictionary
Genesis 18:31 - Peradventure
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And he said | H559 | אָמַר |
[Verb] to say (used with great latitude) |
Behold | H2009 | הִנֵּה |
lo! |
now | H4994 | נָא |
added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or {future}) or to {interjections} occasionally to an adverb or conjugation |
I have taken upon | H2974 | יָאַל |
[Verb] properly to {yield} especially assent; hence (positively) to undertake as an act of volition |
me to speak | H1696 | דָבַר |
[Verb] perhaps properly to arrange; but used figuratively (of words) to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue |
unto | H413 | אֵל |
[Preposition] a primitive {particle} properly denoting motion {towards} but occasionally used of a quiescent {position} that {is} near: with or among; often in {general} to |
the Lord | H136 | אֲדֹנָי |
[Noun Masculine] the Lord (used as a proper name of God only) |
Peradventure | H194 | אוּלַי |
[Adverb] if not; hence perhaps |
there | H8033 | שָׁם |
[Adverb] there (transfered to time) then; often {thither} or thence |
shall be twenty | H6242 | עֶשְׂרִים |
[Noun] twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth |
found | H4672 | מָצָא |
[Verb] properly to come forth {to} that {is} appear or exist; transitively to {attain} that {is} find or acquire; figuratively to {occur} meet or be present |
there | H8033 | שָׁם |
[Adverb] there (transfered to time) then; often {thither} or thence |
And he said | H559 | אָמַר |
[Verb] to say (used with great latitude) |
I will not | H3808 | לֹא |
[Adverb] a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles |
destroy | H7843 | שָׁחַת |
[Verb] to {decay} that {is} (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively) |
it for twenty's sake | H5668 | עָבוּר |
[Preposition] properly {crossed} that {is} (abstractly) transit; used only adverbially on account {of} in order that |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.