Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”

King James Version

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Holman Bible

The Angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”

International Standard Version

The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count.

A Conservative Version

And the agent of LORD said to her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

American Standard Version

And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Amplified

Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”

Bible in Basic English

And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

Darby Translation

And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Julia Smith Translation

And the messenger of Jehovah will say to her, Multiplying, I will multiply thy seed, and it shall not be counted for multitude.

King James 2000

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, that they shall not be numbered for multitude.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "{I will greatly multiply} your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for [their] abundance."

Modern King James verseion

And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply your seed exceedingly, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, "I will so increase thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude."

NET Bible

I will greatly multiply your descendants," the Lord's angel added, "so that they will be too numerous to count."

New Heart English Bible

The angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

The Emphasized Bible

And the messenger of Yahweh said to her, I will, greatly multiply, thy seed - so that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Webster

And the angel of the LORD said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

World English Bible

The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

Youngs Literal Translation

and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, 'Multiplying I multiply thy seed, and it is not numbered from multitude;'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the angel
מלאך 
Mal'ak 
Usage: 213

of the Lord

Usage: 0

unto her, I will multiply
רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

זרע 
Zera` 
Usage: 229

References

Context Readings

Hagar And The Angel Of Yahweh

9 Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.” 10 Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.” 11 The angel of the Lord said to her further,
“Behold, you are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall call his name Ishmael,
Because the Lord has given heed to your affliction.

Cross References

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 21:13

And of the son of the maid I will make a nation also, because he is your descendant.”

Genesis 22:15-18

Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

Genesis 25:12-18

Now these are the records of the generations of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham;

Genesis 21:16

Then she went and sat down opposite him, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Do not let me see the boy die.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted up her voice and wept.

Genesis 21:18

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”

Genesis 31:11-13

Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

Genesis 32:24-30

Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Genesis 48:15-16

He blessed Joseph, and said,
The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked,
The God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,

Exodus 3:2-6

The angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.

Judges 2:1-3

Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,

Judges 6:11

Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

Judges 6:16

But the Lord said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat Midian as one man.”

Judges 6:21-24

Then the angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

Judges 13:16-22

The angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “Though you detain me, I will not eat your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord.” For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.

Psalm 83:6-7

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites;

Isaiah 63:9

In all their affliction He was afflicted,
And the angel of His presence saved them;
In His love and in His mercy He redeemed them,
And He lifted them and carried them all the days of old.

Hosea 12:3-5

In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
And in his maturity he contended with God.

Zechariah 2:8-9

For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts.

John 1:18

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

Acts 7:30-38

“After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn bush.

1 Timothy 6:16

who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

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