Genesis 12:9
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Genesis 12:9 in other translations
| BSB | And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev. |
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| WEB | Abram traveled, still going on toward the South. |
| ASV | And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South. |
| YLT | And Abram journeyeth, going on and journeying towards the south. |
| DARBY | And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south. |
| BBE | And he went on, journeying still to the South. |
| Webster | And Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south. |
What does Genesis 12:9 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Genesis 12:6-9
Abram found the country peopled by Canaanites, who were bad neighbours. He journeyed, going on still. Sometimes it is the lot of good men to be unsettled, and often to remove into various states. Believers must look on themselves as strangers and sojourners in this world, He 11:8, 13, 14. But observe how much comfort Abram had in God. When he could have little satisfaction in converse with the Canaanites whom he…
Genesis 12:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Genesis 12:9
- Genesis 13:3
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Hai;
- Genesis 13:1
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
- Genesis 24:62
And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai–roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
- Hebrews 11:13-14
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.
- Psalms 105:13
When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
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Context
- Genesis 12:8
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth–el, and pitched his tent, having Beth–el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
- Genesis 12:9
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
- Genesis 12:10
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
Genesis 12:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y movió Abram de allí, caminando y yendo hacia el Mediodía. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Abram partit, marchant et allant vers le midi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Abram zog fort, immer weiter ziehend, nach dem Süden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Perrexitque Abram vadens, et ultra progrediens ad meridiem. |