Romans 9:29
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.”
κύριος
Lord, master, owner. Kurios. Jesus is Lord. The foundational confession of Christianity. Lord means owner. To confess Jesus as Lord is to surrender ownership of your life.
γίνομαι
we should have become
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γίνομαι
To become, to come into being, to happen. Ginomai. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. What is true in heaven is meant to become true on earth through prayer.
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ὁμοιόω
we have been made.
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ὁμοιόω
To be like, to liken, to compare. The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field. When you find the kingdom everything else loses its value by comparison.
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ἐγκαταλείπω
had left
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ἐγκαταλείπω
To forsake, to abandon, to leave behind. Egkataleipo. My God My God why have you forsaken Me. Jesus experienced abandonment so we never would. He took our separation.
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σπέρμα
descendants,
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σπέρμα
something sown, i.e. seed (including the male "sperm"); by implication, offspring; specially, a remnant (figuratively, as if kept over for planting)
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προερέω
has foretold
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προερέω
used as alternate of G4277 (προέπω); to say already, predict
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σαβαώθ
of Hosts
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σαβαώθ
armies; sabaoth (i.e. tsebaoth), a military epithet of God
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Γόμοῤῥα
Gomorrah
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Γόμοῤῥα
Gomorrha (i.e. Amorah), a place near the Dead Sea
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Σόδομα
Sodom
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Σόδομα
Sodoma (i.e. Sedom), a place in Palestine
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Ἡσαΐας
Isaiah:
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Ἡσαΐας
Hesaias (i.e. Jeshajah), an Israelite
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καθώς
even as
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καθώς
just (or inasmuch) as, that
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εἰ
only
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εἰ
if, whether, that, etc.
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