King James Version
Genesis 17:10 in the King James Version says “This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be...” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 17 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.”
Genesis 17:10 · KJV
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. wherein: Heb. of thy sojournings
And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger , which is not of thy seed. he that is eight: Heb. a son of eight days
KJV Study — Public Domain
“This is my covenant”
H1285a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which ye shall keep”
H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“between me and you and thy seed”
H2233seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
“after thee”
H310properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
“among you shall be circumcised”
H4135to cut short, i.e., curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e., to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“Every man child”
H2145properly, remembered, i.e., a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
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