Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

While as yet they were men easily counted, - A very few, and sojourners therein;

New American Standard Bible

When they were only a few men in number,
Very few, and strangers in it.

King James Version

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very 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 the Hebrews were few in number so very few and were sojourners in it,

A Conservative Version

when they were but a few men in number, yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

American Standard Version

When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.

Amplified


When there were only a few men in number,
Very few [in fact], and strangers in it;

Bible in Basic English

When they were still small in number, and strange in the land;

Darby Translation

When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.

Julia Smith Translation

In their being men of number, as few and strangers in it.

King James 2000

When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

When they were {few in number}-- a trifle--and [were] sojourners in it,

Modern King James verseion

when they were a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

When there was yet but a few of them - and they strangers in the land -

NET Bible

When they were few in number, just a very few, and resident aliens within it,

New Heart English Bible

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

Webster

When they were a few men in number; yes, very few, and strangers in it.

World English Bible

when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.

Youngs Literal Translation

In their being few in number, But a few, and sojourners in it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
When they were but a few men
מת 
Math 
Usage: 21

in number
מספּר 
Micpar 
Usage: 132

מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

Verse Info

Context Readings

Praise To Yahweh For His Work On Behalf Of Israel

11 Saying, To thee, will I give the land of Canaan, As your inherited portion; 12 While as yet they were men easily counted, - A very few, and sojourners therein; 13 And they wandered from nation to nation, From a kingdom, to another people.

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

Then said Jacob unto Simeon and unto Levi - Ye have troubled me by making me odious among them that dwell in the land, among the Canaanites, and among the Perizzites, - I, having only men that may be counted, they will gather themselves, together against me and smite me, - and I shall be destroyed both I and my house.

Deuteronomy 7:7

not because ye were more in number than any of the peoples, did Yahweh become attached to you and make choice of you, - for, ye, were fewer than any of the peoples;

Hebrews 11:9

By faith, he sojourned in the land of promise, as a foreign land, in tents, dwelling, along with Isaac and Jacob, the joint-heirs of the same promise;

Genesis 23:4

A sojourner and settler, am I with you, - Give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, That I may bury my dead, from before me.

Deuteronomy 26:5

And thou shalt respond and say before Yahweh thy God - A Syrian ready to perish, was my father, so he went down to Egypt, and became a sojourner there with men only few; but he became there a nation great, mighty and numerous;

Genesis 17:8

And I will give to thee and to thy seed after thee the land of thy sojournings - all the land of Canaan, for an age-abiding possession - And I will be to them a God.

Isaiah 51:2

Look well unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah who gave you birth, - For he was, alone, when called I him, And, I blessed him that I might make him, many.

Ezekiel 33:24-33

Son of man These inhabitants of waste places on the so of Israel are saying thus, One, was Abraham. Yet he inherited the land,- But, we, are many, To us, is the land given as an inheritance.

Acts 7:5

And gave him no inheritance therein, not even a place to set his foot on; and yet promised to give it unto him in possession, and unto his seed after him, when as yet he had not a child.

Hebrews 11:12

Wherefore, even from one, were born, and, as to these things, one who had become dead, - like the stars of the heaven, for multitude, and as the sand that is by the lip of the sea, that cannot be numbered.

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