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Genesis 12

Gen. 12:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, I pray thee
na' (Hebrew #4994)
added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
KJV usage: I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
Pronounce: naw
Origin: a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered: "I pray," "now," or "then"
, thou art mya sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
: that
ma`an (Hebrew #4616)
properly, heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
KJV usage: because of, to the end (intent) that, for (to,... 's sake), + lest, that, to.
Pronounce: mah'-an
Origin: from 6030
it may be well
yatab (Hebrew #3190)
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
KJV usage: be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful, be comely, + be content, diligent(-ly), dress, earnestly, find favour, give, be glad, do (be, make) good((-ness)), be (make) merry, please (+ well), shew more (kindness), skilfully, X very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well (said, seen).
Pronounce: yaw-tab'
Origin: a primitive root
with me for thy sake; and my soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
shall live
chayah (Hebrew #2421)
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV usage: keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Pronounce: khaw-yaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421)
because of thee
galal (Hebrew #1558)
a circumstance (as rolled around); only used adverbially, on account of
KJV usage: because of, for (sake).
Pronounce: gaw-lawl'
Origin: from 1556
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Gen. 20:2• 2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. (Gen. 20:2)
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Gen. 26:7• 7And the men of the place asked him about his wife. And he said, She [is] my sister; for he feared to say, My wife, lest the men of the place slay me on account of Rebecca; because she was fair in countenance. (Gen. 26:7)

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John 8:44• 44Ye are of your father, the devil, and ye desire to practice the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him: whenever he speaketh the lie, he speaketh out of his own things, because he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44)
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Rom. 3:6‑8• 6Let it not be: since how shall God judge the world?
 7For if the truth of God abounded in my lie to his glory, why any longer am I too judged as a sinner?
 8and not, even as we are slanderously reported, and even as some give out that we say, “Let us do evil that good things may come?” whose judgment is just. (Rom. 3:6‑8)
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Rom. 6:23• 23For the wages of sin [is] death, but the free gift of God life eternal in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:23)
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Col. 3:6• 6on account of which things cometh the wrath of God [upon the sons of disobedience]: (Col. 3:6)
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Gen. 11:29• 29And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarah; and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. (Gen. 11:29)
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Gen. 20:2,5,12‑13• 2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
 5Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and in the innocency of my hands have I done this.
 12And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
 13And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. (Gen. 20:2,5,12‑13)
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Gen. 26:7• 7And the men of the place asked him about his wife. And he said, She [is] my sister; for he feared to say, My wife, lest the men of the place slay me on account of Rebecca; because she was fair in countenance. (Gen. 26:7)
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Isa. 57:11• 11And of whom hast thou been afraid and in fear, that thou hast lied and not remembered me, nor laid [it] to thy heart? Have not I held my peace even of long time, and thou fearest me not? (Isa. 57:11)
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Matt. 26:69‑75• 69Now Peter was sitting without in the court, and a maid came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus, the Galilean.
 70But he denied before them all, saying, I know not what thou sayest.
 71And when he went out into the porch, another [maid] saw him and saith to those there, This [man] also was with Jesus the Nazarene.
 72And again he denied with an oath, I know not the man.
 73And after a little those that stood came up and said to Peter, Truly thou also art [one] of them, for thy speech too maketh thee manifest.
 74Then he began to curse and to swear, I know not the man. And immediately a cock crew.
 75And Peter remembered the word of Jesus as having said, Before a cock crow, thou wilt thrice deny me. And going forth without he wept bitterly. (Matt. 26:69‑75)
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Gal. 2:12‑13• 12for before that certain came from James, he ate with the nations; but when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, being afraid of those of the circumcision;
 13and the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation. (Gal. 2:12‑13)
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Psa. 146:3‑5• 3Confide not in nobles,{HR}In a son of man in whom is no salvation.
 4His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth:{HR}In that very day his purposes perish.
 5Blessed he, whose help [is] Jacob's God ,{HR}Whose hope [is] in Jehovah his God, (Psa. 146:3‑5)
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Jer. 17:5‑8• 5Thus saith Jehovah; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
 6For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
 7Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose hope Jehovah is.
 8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. (Jer. 17:5‑8)
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Ezek. 18:4• 4Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth it shall die. (Ezek. 18:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee.

W. Kelly Translation

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Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)