King James Version
Genesis 18:3 in the King James Version says “And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 18 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:”
Genesis 18:3 · KJV
And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said. comfort: Heb. stay are: Heb. you have passed
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used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
“if now I have found”
H4672properly, to come forth to, i.e., appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e., find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
“in thy sight”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
“pass not away”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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