King James Version
Genesis 19:38 in the King James Version says “And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto ...” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.”
Genesis 19:38 · KJV
Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day.
And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And the younger”
H6810little; (in number) few; (in age) young, (in value) ignoble
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
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
“she also bare”
H3205to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
“a son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
“and called”
H7121to call out to (i.e., properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
“his name”
H8034an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
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
“the same is the father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“a son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“unto this day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
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