Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

New American Standard Bible

So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

King James Version

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Holman Bible

Then he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

International Standard Version

So he went out to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

A Conservative Version

And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

American Standard Version

And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Amplified

So he went and forced himself on one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

An Understandable Version

So, he went to work for one of the citizens of that country who sent him to his fields to feed his hogs.

Anderson New Testament

And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Bible in Basic English

And he went and put himself into the hands of one of the people of that country, and he sent him into his fields to give the pigs their food.

Common New Testament

So he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Daniel Mace New Testament

and he was reduced to want, which forc'd him to make his application to one of the inhabitants there, who sent him to his farm to look after his swine.

Darby Translation

And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Godbey New Testament

And having gone he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country: and he sent him into his fields to feed swine:

Goodspeed New Testament

And he went and hired himself out to a resident of the country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

John Wesley New Testament

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields, to feed swine.

Julia Smith Translation

And having gone, he was joined to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into the fields to feed swine.

King James 2000

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

Modern King James verseion

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country. And he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he went, and clave to a citizen of that same country, which sent him to his field, to keep his swine.

Moffatt New Testament

so he went and attached himself to a citizen of that land, who sent him to his fields to feed swine.

Montgomery New Testament

"So he went and hired to one of the citizens of that land, who sent him out into the fields to feed swine.

NET Bible

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

New Heart English Bible

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Noyes New Testament

And he went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Sawyer New Testament

And he went and attached himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his field to feed swine.

The Emphasized Bible

And he went his way, and joined himself unto one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to be feeding swine.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And he went and connected himself with one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Twentieth Century New Testament

So he went and engaged himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend pigs.

Webster

And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Weymouth New Testament

So he went and hired himself to one of the inhabitants of that country, who sent him on to his farm to tend swine;

Williams New Testament

So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, and he sent him to his fields to feed hogs.

World English Bible

He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

Worrell New Testament

And, going his way, he attached himself to one of the citizens of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Worsley New Testament

And he went and let himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed swine.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

he went
πορεύομαι 
Poreuomai 
go, depart, walk, go way,
Usage: 101

κολλάω 
Kollao 
Usage: 8

to
εἷς 
heis 
one, a, other, some, not tr,
Usage: 188

πολίτης 
Polites 
Usage: 1

of that
ἐκεῖνος 
Ekeinos 
that, those, he, the same, they,
Usage: 148

χώρα 
Chora 
Usage: 20

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

he sent
πέμπω 
Pempo 
Usage: 39

him

Usage: 0

εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

his

Usage: 0

G68
ἀγρός 
Agros 
Usage: 14

to feed
βόσκω 
Bosko 
Usage: 6

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

The Parable Of The Lost Son

14 and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want; 15 and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine, 16 and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

Cross References

Exodus 10:3

And Moses cometh in -- Aaron also -- unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, 'Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,

2 Chronicles 28:22

And in the time of his distress -- he addeth to trespass against Jehovah, (this king Ahaz),

Isaiah 1:5

Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostasy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart is sick.

Isaiah 1:9-13

Unless Jehovah of Hosts had left to us a remnant, Shortly -- as Sodom we had been, To Gomorrah we had been like!

Isaiah 57:17

For the iniquity of his dishonest gain, I have been wroth, and I smite him, Hiding -- and am wroth, And he goeth on turning back in the way of his heart.

Jeremiah 5:3

Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

Jeremiah 8:4-6

And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return?

Jeremiah 31:18-19

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, 'Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God.

Ezekiel 16:52

Thou also -- bear thy shame, That thou hast adjudged to thy sisters, Because of thy sins that thou hast done more abominably than they, They are more righteous than thou, And thou, also, be ashamed and bear thy shame, In thy justifying thy sisters.

Ezekiel 16:63

So that thou dost remember, And thou hast been ashamed, And there is not to thee any more an opening of the mouth because of thy shame, In My receiving atonement for thee, For all that thou hast done, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

Nahum 3:6

And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.

Malachi 2:9

And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, Because ye are not keeping My ways, And are accepting persons in the law.

Luke 8:32-34

and there was there a herd of many swine feeding in the mountain, and they were calling on him, that he might suffer them to enter into these, and he suffered them,

Luke 15:13

'And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

Romans 1:24-26

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

Romans 6:22

And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

Ephesians 2:2-3

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,

Ephesians 4:17-19

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

Ephesians 5:11-12

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

Colossians 3:5-7

Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth -- whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry --

2 Timothy 2:25-26

in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth,

Titus 3:3

for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

Revelation 2:21-22

and I did give to her a time that she might reform from her whoredom, and she did not reform;

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