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Genesis 16:10

Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”

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ASV

And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

KJV

And the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559 →
לָהּ֙lahto <the> her
מַלְאַ֣ךְmal.'Akh[the] angel ofH4397 →
יְהוָ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
הַרְבָּ֥הhar.Bahcertainly <to increase>H7235 →
אַרְבֶּ֖ה'ar.BehI will increaseH7235 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
זַרְעֵ֑ךְzar.'Ekhoffspring yourH2233 →
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808 →
יִסָּפֵ֖רyi.sa.Ferit will be countedH5608 →
מֵרֹֽב׃me.Rofrom multitudeH7230 →

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Genesis 17:20As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.Genesis 15:5And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”Psalms 83:6–7the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,Genesis 21:13But I will also make a nation of the slave woman’s son, because he is your offspring.”Genesis 21:18Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”Genesis 22:15–18And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,Genesis 25:12–18This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.Genesis 18:10Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.Acts 7:30–38After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.Judges 6:16“Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.Genesis 32:24–30So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.Zechariah 2:8–9For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—Judges 13:16–22And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.Judges 6:21–24Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.Hosea 12:3–5In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.Judges 2:1–3Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,Genesis 21:16Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

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