Genesis 28:3 KJV

And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;

Thou and Ye

  • thee, thou one person

In the King James Bible, thee, thou, thy, and thine always mean one person, and ye, you, and your more than one: a difference modern English lost. Why keep these words?

Matthew Henry

  • Isaac sends Jacob to Padan-aramJacob had blessings promised both as to this world and that which is to come; yet goes out to a hard service. This corrected him for the fraud on his father....

Thompson Chains

Parallel Passages

  • Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).

Cross References

  • Genesis 35:11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
  • Genesis 48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
  • Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
  • Genesis 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
  • Genesis 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

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  • God(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning...

Hebrew and Strong’s

  • And God וְאֵל wĕʾēl אֵל Proper name · with and
  • Almighty שַׁדַּי šadday שַׁדַּי Proper name
  • bless יְבָרֵךְ yĕbārēk בָרַךְ Verb · piel jussive, third person masculine singular
  • thee, and make thee fruitful אֹתְךָ ʾōtĕkā Object marker · with suffix: second person masculine singular וְיַפְרְךָ wĕyaprĕkā פָּרָה Verb · hiphil jussive, third person masculine singular · with and, suffix: second person masculine singular
  • and multiply וְיַרְבֶּךָ wĕyarbekā רָבָה Verb · hiphil jussive, third person masculine singular · with and, suffix: second person masculine singular
  • thee, that thou mayest be a multitude וְהָיִיתָ wĕhāyîtā Verb · qal sequential perfect, second person masculine singular · with and לִקְהַל liqhal קָהָל Noun · masculine singular construct · with preposition
  • of people עַמִּים ʿammîm עַם Noun · masculine plural

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex, Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible · CC BY 4.0

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