King James Version
Genesis 13:11 in the King James Version says “Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other...” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.”
Genesis 13:11 · KJV
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.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“him all the plain”
H3603a circle, i.e., (by implication) a circumjacent tract or region, especially the ghor or valley of the jordan; also a (round) loaf; also a talent (or l
“journeyed”
H5265properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e., start on a journey
“east”
H6924the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the east) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
“and they separated themselves”
H6504to break through, i.e., spread or separate (oneself)
“the one”
H376a 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)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“from the other”
H251a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance [like h0001])
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