Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

The Emphasized Bible

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

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 'To thee I will give the land of Canaan, to be the portion of your inheritance.' 19 When you were a small company in number, even but a few, and thereto strangers therein. 20 And they went from people to people, and from one kingdom to another nation.

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Ye have troubled me, and made me stink unto the inhabiters of the land, both to the Canaanites and also unto the Perizzites. And I am few in number. Wherefore they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed."

Deuteronomy 7:7

It was not because of the multitude of you, above all nations, that the LORD had lust unto you and chose you: For ye were fewest of all nations.

Acts 7:5

and he gave him none inheritance in it - no, not the breadth of a foot - But promised that he would give it to him to possess and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Hebrews 11:13

And they all died in faith, and received not the promises: but saw them afar off, and believed them, and saluted them: and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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