Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

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.

The Emphasized Bible

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

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, "Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance." 12 When there was yet but a few of them - and they strangers in the land - 13 what time as they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another.

Cross References

Genesis 34:30

And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "Ye have troubled me, and made me stink unto the inhabiters of the land, both to the Canaanites and also unto the Perizzites. And I am few in number. Wherefore they shall gather themselves together against me and slay me, and so shall I and my house be destroyed."

Deuteronomy 7:7

It was not because of the multitude of you, above all nations, that the LORD had lust unto you and chose you: For ye were fewest of all nations.

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he removed into the land that was promised him, as into a strange country, and dwelt in tabernacles: and so did Isaac, and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

Genesis 23:4

"I am a stranger and a foreigner among you; give me a possession to bury in with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."

Deuteronomy 26:5

And thou shalt answer and say before the LORD thy God, 'The Syrians would have destroyed my father, and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few folk and grew there unto a nation great, mighty and full of people.

Genesis 17:8

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger: even all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and will be their God."

Isaiah 51:2

Look unto Abraham your father and unto Sarah that bare you: how I called him only, and blessed him and multiplied him.

Ezekiel 33:24-33

"Thou son of man, these that dwell in the wasted land of Israel say, 'Abraham was but one man, and he had the land in possession: now are we many, and the land is given us to possess also.'

Acts 7:5

and he gave him none inheritance in it - no, not the breadth of a foot - But promised that he would give it to him to possess and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Hebrews 11:12

And therefore sprang thereof one - and of one which was as good as dead - so many in multitude, as the stars of the sky, and as the sand of the sea shore which is innumerable.

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