Psalms 105:12New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— When they were only a few men in number, Very few, and strangers in it.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and sojourners in it;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— When they were a few men in number; yes, very few, and strangers in it.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— While as yet they were men easily counted,—A very few, and sojourners therein;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— When they were but a small number: yea very few, and sojourners therein:
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Albeit they were fewe in nomber, yea, very fewe, and strangers in the land,
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— When they were [but] a few men in number: yea very few, & strangers in it.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— When they were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— when they were few in number, very few, and sojourners in it.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— When they were [but] a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. |
When they were
x1961 (1961) Complementהָיָהhayah{haw-yaw'}
A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary).
[ but] a few men
4962 {4962} Primeמַתmath{math}
From the same as H4970; properly an adult (as of full length); by implication a man (only in the plural).
in number;
4557 {4557} Primeמִסְפָּרmicpar{mis-pawr'}
From H5608; a number, definitely (arithmetical) or indefinitely (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration.
yea, very few,
4592 {4592} Primeמְעַטm@`at{meh-at'}
From H4591; a little or few (often adverbial or comparative).
and strangers
1481 {1481} Primeגּוּרguwr{goor}
A primitive root; properly to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), that is, sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid).
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
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Psalms 105:12-15
_ _ few ... in number — alluding to Jacob’s words (Genesis 34:30), “I being few in number.”
_ _ yea, very few — literally, “as a few,” that is, like fewness itself (compare Isaiah 1:9).
_ _ strangers — sojourners in the land of their future inheritance, as in a strange country (Hebrews 11:9). |
- a few:
Genesis 34:30 And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I [being] few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
Deuteronomy 7:7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people:
Deuteronomy 26:5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish [was] my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
Isaiah 51:2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah [that] bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
Ezekiel 33:24-33 Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we [are] many; the land is given us for inheritance. ... And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.
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- and strangers:
Genesis 17:8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Genesis 23:4 I [am] a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Acts 7:5 And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not [so much as] to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when [as yet] he had no child.
Hebrews 11:9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as [in] a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
Hebrews 11:12 Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, [so many] as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.
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