King James Version
Genesis 18:24 in the King James Version says “Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righ...” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?”
Genesis 18:24 · KJV
And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Peradventure there be”
H3426there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
“the city”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though
“wilt thou also destroy”
H5595properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually figuratively) together (i.e., to accumulate or increase) or away (i.e., to scatter, remove, or r
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“and not spare”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
“the place”
H4725properly, a standing, i.e., a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
“for”
H4616properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“that are therein”
H7130properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
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