Genesis 13:11
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other."
Word-by-Word Analysis
גּוֹרָל
gôwrâl
properly, a pebble, i.e. a lot (small stones being used for that purpose); figuratively, a portion or destiny (as if determined by lot)
בָּחַר
bâchar
properly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select
עֲרָבָה
ʻărâbâh
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
יַרְדֵּן
Yardên
Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
גּוֹרָל
gôwrâl
properly, a pebble, i.e. a lot (small stones being used for that purpose); figuratively, a portion or destiny (as if determined by lot)
נָסַע
nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
קָדִים
qâdîym
the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind)
בָּדַל
bâdal
to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
Key Terms in This Verse
נָסַע nâçaʻ
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on ajourney
Study H5265 →בָּדַל bâdal
to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)
Study H914 →עֲרָבָה ʻărâbâh
a desert; especially (with the article prefix) the (generally) sterile valley of the Jordan and its continuation to the Red Sea
Study H6160 →גּוֹרָל gôwrâl
properly, a pebble, i.e. a lot (small stones being used for that purpose); figuratively, a portion or destiny (as if determined by lot)
Study H1486 →גּוֹרָל gôwrâl
properly, a pebble, i.e. a lot (small stones being used for that purpose); figuratively, a portion or destiny (as if determined by lot)
Study H1486 →קָדִים qâdîym
the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind)
Study H6921 →עָשָׂה ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Study H6213 →Cross References
Is 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...
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.
But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
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:
And 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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