Genesis 18:31
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty’s sake.”
נָא
'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
מָצָא
they will be found/ !
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מָצָא
To find, to discover, to encounter. Matsa. God is findable. He is not playing hide and seek. He actively reveals Himself to genuine seekers.
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הִנֵּה
here!
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הִנֵּה
Behold, look, see. Hinneh. The word used to get attention. Behold I stand at the door and knock. God is always trying to get our attention.
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יָאַל
I have undertaken
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יָאַל
properly, to yield, especially assent; hence (pos.) to undertake as an act of volition
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שָׁחַת
I will destroy it
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שָׁחַת
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
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שָׁם
there
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שָׁם
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
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עֶשְׂרִים
twenty
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עֶשְׂרִים
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
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