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Genesis 28:3

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

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ASV

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;

KJV

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאֵ֤לve.'Eland GodH410 →
שַׁדַּי֙sha.DaiAlmightyH7706 →
יְבָרֵ֣ךְye.va.Rekhmay he blessH1288 →
אֹֽתְךָ֔'o.te.Kha<obj.> youH853 →
וְיַפְרְךָ֖ve.yaf.re.Khaand may he make fruitful youH6509 →
וְיַרְבֶּ֑ךָve.yar.Be.khaand may he multiply youH7235 →
וְהָיִ֖יתָve.ha.Yi.taand you will becomeH1961 →
לִקְהַ֥לlik.Hal<into> a company ofH6951 →
עַמִּֽים׃'a.MimpeoplesH5971 →

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Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.Genesis 48:3Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed meGenesis 35:11And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.Romans 4:17As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.Genesis 22:17–18I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.Genesis 17:1–6When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”Genesis 43:14May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, that he may release your other brother along with Benjamin. As for me, if I am bereaved, I am bereaved.”Genesis 9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.Genesis 41:52And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”Genesis 13:16I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if one could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.Leviticus 26:9I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will establish My covenant with you.Genesis 24:60And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”Genesis 22:17I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.Genesis 48:20So that day Jacob blessed them and said: “By you shall Israel pronounce this blessing: ‘May God make you like Ephraim and Manasseh.’” So he put Ephraim before Manasseh.Genesis 26:22He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”Revelation 1:8“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.Exodus 6:3I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by My name the LORD I did not make Myself known to them.

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