Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

While, as yet, ye were men who could be counted, a very few, and sojourners therein:

New American Standard Bible

When they were only a few in number,
Very few, and strangers in it,

King James Version

When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.

Holman Bible

When they were few in number,
very few indeed, and temporary residents in Canaan

International Standard Version

When you were few in number very few, and strangers at that

A Conservative Version

when ye were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it,

American Standard Version

When ye were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it;

Amplified


When you were few in number,
Even a very few, and strangers in it,

Bible in Basic English

When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;

Darby Translation

When ye were a few men in number, Of small account, and strangers in it.

Julia Smith Translation

In your being men of number, as few, and strangers in it.

King James 2000

When you were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

When you were few in number, little, and sojourners [were] in it,

Modern King James verseion

when you were but few, even a few, and strangers in it,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

When you were a small company in number, even but a few, and thereto strangers therein.

NET Bible

When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,

New Heart English Bible

when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.

Webster

When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.

World English Bible

when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.

Youngs Literal Translation

When ye are few of number, As a little thing, and sojourners in it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
When ye were but few
מספּר 
Micpar 
Usage: 132

even a few
מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

Verse Info

Context Readings

David's Psalm Of Thanksgiving

18 Saying, To thee, will I give the land of Canaan, as your inherited portion: 19 While, as yet, ye were men who could be counted, a very few, and sojourners therein: 20 And they wandered from nation to nation, and from one kingdom, to another people:

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Then said Jacob unto Simeon and unto Levi - Ye have troubled me by making me odious among them that dwell in the land, among the Canaanites, and among the Perizzites, - I, having only men that may be counted, they will gather themselves, together against me and smite me, - and I shall be destroyed both I and my house.

Deuteronomy 7:7

not because ye were more in number than any of the peoples, did Yahweh become attached to you and make choice of you, - for, ye, were fewer than any of the peoples;

Acts 7:5

And gave him no inheritance therein, not even a place to set his foot on; and yet promised to give it unto him in possession, and unto his seed after him, when as yet he had not a child.

Hebrews 11:13

In faith, all these died - not bearing away the promises, but, from afar, beholding and saluting them, and confessing that, strangers and sojourners, were they upon the land.

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