Psalms 105:12
When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
KJV
Et crediderunt verbis ejus, et laudaverunt laudem ejus.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐπίστευσαν ἐν τοῖς λόγοις αὐτοῦ, καὶ ᾔνεσαν τὴν αἴνεσιν αὐτοῦ.
LXX
When they were but a few men in number, Yea, very few, and sojourners in it.
ASV
בִּֽ֭/הְיוֹתָ/ם מְתֵ֣י מִסְפָּ֑ר כִּ֝/מְעַ֗ט וְ/גָרִ֥ים בָּֽ/הּ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
גָּ֣ר
gr
verb · 98×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
מְעַ֣ט
m't
noun · 101×
מְתֵ֣י
mty
noun · 22×
מִסְפַּ֣ר
mspr
noun · 134×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Deut 7:7 — The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
- Deut 26:5 — And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and
- Gen 23:4 — I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
- Gen 34:30 — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather them
- Gen 34:30 — And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather them
- Heb 11:9 — By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: