Genesis 13:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וֽ͏ַיהוָ֞ה אָמַ֣ר אֶל־אַבְרָ֗ם אַחֲרֵי֙ הִפָּֽרֶד־ל֣וֹט מֽ͏ֵעִמּ֔וֹ שָׂ֣א נָ֤א עֵינֶ֙יךָ֙ וּרְאֵ֔ה מִן־הַמָּק֖וֹם אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֣ה שָׁ֑ם צָפֹ֥נָה וָנֶ֖גְבָּה וָקֵ֥דְמָה וָיָֽמָּה׃

Transliteration

And YHWH ʾāmar unto ʾAḇrām after hippāreḏ-Lôṭ from him, śāʾ nāʾ your ʿêneḵā and rĕʾēh from hammāqôm where you are there, ṣāp̄ōnâ and wāneḡbâ and wāqēḏmâ and wāyāmmâ.

Grammar Details

*YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD/Yahweh
*ʾāmar*: qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - said
*ʾAḇrām*: proper noun, masculine singular
*hippāreḏ-Lôṭ*: niphal infinitive construct + proper noun - Lot's separating
*śāʾ*: qal imperative, masculine singular - lift up
*nāʾ*: particle of entreaty - please/now
*ʿêneḵā*: noun, feminine dual construct + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your eyes
*rĕʾēh*: qal imperative, masculine singular - see/look
*hammāqôm*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the place
*ṣāp̄ōnâ*: noun + directional he - northward
*wāneḡbâ*: waw conjunction + noun + directional he - and southward
*wāqēḏmâ*: waw conjunction + noun + directional he - and eastward
*wāyāmmâ*: waw conjunction + noun + directional he - and westward

Word Meanings

*ʾāmar*: said/spoke/told
*hippāreḏ*: being separated/separating himself
*śāʾ*: lift up/raise
*ʿêneḵā*: your eyes/your sight
*rĕʾēh*: see/look/observe
*hammāqôm*: the place/the location/the site
*ṣāp̄ōnâ*: northward/to the north
*wāneḡbâ*: southward/to the south
*wāqēḏmâ*: eastward/to the east
*wāyāmmâ*: westward/to the west/seaward

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 28:14 : 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Deut 3:27 : 27 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
Isa 49:18 : 18 Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith the LORD, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.
Gen 13:10 : 10 And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Isa 60:4 : 4 Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.

Similar Verses (AI)

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8And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
9Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
11Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
12Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
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Gen 13:15
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15For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.
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17Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.
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Gen 19:27-29
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27And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD:
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1Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
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17And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.
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Gen 22:4
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Gen 15:1-2
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Gen 15:18
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Deut 3:27
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