Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

and they sat down in squares, by hundreds, and by fifties.

New American Standard Bible

They sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties.

King James Version

And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

Holman Bible

So they sat down in ranks of hundreds and fifties.

International Standard Version

So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

A Conservative Version

And they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.

American Standard Version

And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

Amplified

They sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties [so that the crowd resembled an orderly arrangement of colorful garden plots].

An Understandable Version

So, they reclined in groups of fifty and one hundred.

Anderson New Testament

And they reclined in oblong squares, by hundreds, and by fifties.

Bible in Basic English

And they were placed in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.

Common New Testament

So they sat down in groups, of hundreds and fifties.

Daniel Mace New Testament

and they sat down in several divisions, some consisting of an hundred, and some of fifty.

Darby Translation

And they sat down in ranks by hundreds and by fifties.

Godbey New Testament

And they sat down in ranks, about one hundred, and about fifty.

Goodspeed New Testament

And they threw themselves down in groups, in hundreds and in fifties.

John Wesley New Testament

And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

Julia Smith Translation

And the borders, the borders reclined, by one hundred, and by fifty.

King James 2000

And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And they reclined in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.

Modern King James verseion

And they reclined group by group, by hundred and by fifty.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And they sat down: here a row, and there a row, by hundreds and by fifties.

Moffatt New Testament

so they arranged themselves in groups of a hundred and of fifty;

Montgomery New Testament

And they sat down like beds in a garden, by hundreds and by fifties.

NET Bible

So they reclined in groups of hundreds and fifties.

New Heart English Bible

They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

Noyes New Testament

And they lay down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

Sawyer New Testament

And they sat down in squares, by hundreds and by fifties.

The Emphasized Bible

And they fell back, in companies, by hundreds and by fifties.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

and they lay along row against row, a hundred deep, and fifty wide.

Twentieth Century New Testament

And they sat down in groups--in hundreds, and in fifties.

Webster

And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

Weymouth New Testament

And they sat down in rows of hundreds and of fifties.

Williams New Testament

And so they tumbled down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

World English Bible

They sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

Worrell New Testament

And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and fifties.

Worsley New Testament

and they sat down in an oblong square, an hundred by fifty.

Interlinear

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

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

ἀναπίπτω 
Anapipto 
Usage: 8

in ranks
πρασιά 
Prasia 
in ranks, not tr.
Usage: 2

by
ἀνά 
Ana 
ἀνά 
Ana 
by, apiece, every man, each, several, two and two , among, through, between, by, in
by, apiece, every man, each, several, two and two , among, through, between, by, in
Usage: 10
Usage: 10

ἑκατόν 
hekaton 
Usage: 8

and

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

Context Readings

The Feeding Of Five Thousand

39 And he commanded them to make all recline in companies upon the green grass, 40 and they sat down in squares, by hundreds, and by fifties. 41 And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he blessed, and brake the loaves, and was giving to his disciples, that they may set before them, and the two fishes divided he to all,

Cross References

Luke 9:14-15

for they were about five thousand men. And he said unto his disciples, 'Cause them to recline in companies, in each fifty;'

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