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Bible in Basic English

For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

New American Standard Bible

For length of days and years of life
And peace they will add to you.

King James Version

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

Holman Bible

for they will bring you
many days, a full life, and well-being.

International Standard Version

For they will add length to your days, years to your life, and abundant peace to you.

A Conservative Version

For length of days, and years of life, and peace, they will add to thee.

American Standard Version

For length of days, and years of life, And peace, will they add to thee.

Amplified


For length of days and years of life [worth living]
And tranquility and prosperity [the wholeness of life’s blessings] they will add to you.

Darby Translation

for length of days, and years of life, and peace shall they add to thee.

Julia Smith Translation

For length of days and years of life, and peace they shall add to thee.

King James 2000

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For length of days, years of life, and peace they shall add to you.

Modern King James verseion

for they shall add length of days, and long life, and peace to you.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For they shall prolong the days and years of thy life, and bring thee peace.

NET Bible

for they will provide a long and full life, and they will add well-being to you.

New Heart English Bible

for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

The Emphasized Bible

For, length of days and years of life, and blessedness, shall they and to thee.

Webster

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

World English Bible

for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

Youngs Literal Translation

For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ארך 
'orek 
length, long, ever, as long as, high
Usage: 95

of days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and long
שׁנה שׁנה 
Shaneh (in pl. only), 
year, not translated, yearly, yearly + , year , live , old ,
Usage: 811

חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

and peace
שׁלם שׁלום 
Shalowm 
Usage: 236

יסף 
Yacaph 
Usage: 208

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Wisdom And Piety

1 My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart: 2 For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace. 3 Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;

Cross References

Proverbs 4:10

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

Psalm 91:16

With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

Proverbs 9:11

For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

Psalm 119:165

Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.

Job 5:26

You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

Psalm 21:4

He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

Psalm 34:11-14

Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Proverbs 3:16-17

Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

Proverbs 10:27

The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.

Isaiah 32:17

And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.

Isaiah 57:19-21

I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.

Romans 5:1

For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 6:1-3

Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

1 Timothy 4:8

For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

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