John 4:18

New Testament • 5 words with Strong's data

"For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly."

Word-by-Word Analysis

For thou hast had

חָמֵשׁ

châmêsh

H2568

five

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בַּעַל

baʻal

H1167

a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)

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and he whom thou now hast is not thy

אִישׁ

ʼîysh

H376

a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)

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in that

אָמַר

ʼâmar

H559

to say (used with great latitude)

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thou

אֶמֶת

ʼemeth

H571

stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness

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Key Terms in This Verse

husbands H1167

בַּעַל baʻal

a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)

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saidst H559

אָמַר ʼâmar

to say (used with great latitude)

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truly H571

אֶמֶת ʼemeth

stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness

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husband H376

אִישׁ ʼîysh

a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)

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five H2568

חָמֵשׁ châmêsh

five

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Cross References

Jeremiah 3:20 cross-reference

Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.

Romans 7:3 cross-reference

So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she ...

Mark 10:12 cross-reference

And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Genesis 34:2 cross-reference

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

Genesis 34:31 cross-reference

And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with an harlot?

Genesis 20:3 cross-reference

But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

Ruth 4:10 cross-reference

Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren...

Numbers 5:29 cross-reference

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

Ezekiel 16:32 cross-reference

But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

Hebrews 13:4 cross-reference

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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