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Genesis 12:19 Interlinear

“ Why saidst thou She is my sister so I might have taken her to me to wife her to me to wife so I might have taken ”

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Genesis 12 with commentary

Word-by-Word Analysis

#	Original	Strong's	English	Definition
1	לָמָ֤ה	H4100		properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
2	אָמַ֙רְתָּ֙	H559	Why saidst thou	to say (used with great latitude)
3	אֲחֹ֣תִי	H269	She is my sister	a sister (used very widely [like h0251], literally and figuratively)
4	הִ֔וא	H1931		he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
5	קַ֥ח	H3947	so I might have taken	to take (in the widest variety of applications)
6	אֹתָ֛הּ	H853		properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
7	לִ֖י	H0
8	אִשְׁתְּךָ֖	H802	her to me to wife	a woman
9	וְעַתָּ֕ה	H6258		at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive
10	הִנֵּ֥ה	H2009		lo!
11	אִשְׁתְּךָ֖	H802	her to me to wife	a woman
12	קַ֥ח	H3947	so I might have taken	to take (in the widest variety of applications)
13	וָלֵֽךְ׃	H1980		to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)

Genesis 12:19 (current) Why saidst thou She is my sister so I might have taken her to me to wife her to me to wife so I might have taken