Psalm 105:12

Old Testament • 4 words with Strong's data

"When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it."

Word-by-Word Analysis

When they were but a few

אֱנוֹשׁ

ʼĕnôwsh

H582

a man in general (singly or collectively)

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in

מִסְפָּר

miçpâr

H4557

a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration

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אִלּוּ

ʼillûw

H432

nay, i.e. (softened) if

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very few and

זוּר

zûwr

H2114

to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery

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in it

Key Terms in This Verse

strangers H2114

זוּר zûwr

to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be aforeigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery

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number H4557

מִסְפָּר miçpâr

a number, definite (arithmetical) or indefinite (large, innumerable; small, a few); also (abstractly) narration

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yea H432

אִלּוּ ʼillûw

nay, i.e. (softened) if

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men H582

אֱנוֹשׁ ʼĕnôwsh

a man in general (singly or collectively)

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Cross References

Genesis 34:30 cross-reference

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather them...

Deuteronomy 7:7 cross-reference

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

Hebrews 11:9 cross-reference

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Genesis 23:4 cross-reference

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Deuteronomy 26:5 cross-reference

And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and...

Acts 7:5 cross-reference

And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Hebrews 11:12 cross-reference

Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.

Genesis 17:8 cross-reference

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

Isaiah 51:2 cross-reference

Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

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