King James Version
Numbers 22:19 in the King James Version says “Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.” — study this verse from Numbers chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.”
Numbers 22:19 · KJV
For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
And God came unto Balaam at night, and said unto him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto thee, that shalt thou do.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
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“Now therefore I pray you tarry”
H3427properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
'i pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the imperative or future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“ye also here this night”
H3915properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e., night; figuratively, adversity
“that I may know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“what the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“will say”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
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