Genesis 12:10
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
אַבְרָם
ʼAbrâm
Abram, the original name of Abraham
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
גּוּר
gûwr
properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); a...
כָּבֵד
kâbêd
heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Key Terms in This Verse
גּוּר gûwr
properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather forhostility (as afraid)
Study H1481 →כָּבֵד kâbêd
heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid)
Study H3515 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →Cross References
And the famine was sore in the land.
The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the dearth.
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass’s head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove’s dung for five pieces of silv...
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.
And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
And Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for th...
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonit...
Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two so...
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.
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