Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count.

New American Standard Bible

Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”

King James Version

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Holman Bible

The Angel of the Lord also said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”

A Conservative Version

And the agent of LORD said to her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

American Standard Version

And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, I will greatly multiply thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Amplified

Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”

Bible in Basic English

And the angel of the Lord said, Your seed will be greatly increased so that it may not be numbered.

Darby Translation

And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Julia Smith Translation

And the messenger of Jehovah will say to her, Multiplying, I will multiply thy seed, and it shall not be counted for multitude.

King James 2000

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply your descendants exceedingly, that they shall not be numbered for multitude.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And the angel of Yahweh said to her, "{I will greatly multiply} your offspring, so that they cannot be counted for [their] abundance."

Modern King James verseion

And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will multiply your seed exceedingly, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, "I will so increase thy seed, that it shall not be numbered for multitude."

NET Bible

I will greatly multiply your descendants," the Lord's angel added, "so that they will be too numerous to count."

New Heart English Bible

The angel of the LORD said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

The Emphasized Bible

And the messenger of Yahweh said to her, I will, greatly multiply, thy seed - so that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Webster

And the angel of the LORD said to her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

World English Bible

The angel of Yahweh said to her, "I will greatly multiply your seed, that they will not be numbered for multitude."

Youngs Literal Translation

and the messenger of Jehovah saith to her, 'Multiplying I multiply thy seed, and it is not numbered from multitude;'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the angel
מלאך 
Mal'ak 
Usage: 213

of the Lord

Usage: 0

unto her, I will multiply
רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

זרע 
Zera` 
Usage: 229

References

Context Readings

Hagar And The Angel Of Yahweh

9 The angel of the LORD told her, "You must go back to your mistress and submit to her authority." 10 The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count. 11 "Look, you are pregnant and will give birth to a son," the angel of the LORD continued to say to her. "You will name him Ishmael, because the LORD has heard your cry of misery.


Cross References

Genesis 17:20

And as for Ishmael, I've heard you. I'll bless him, and he'll have many descendants. I will multiply him greatly, he'll father twelve tribal leaders, and I'll cause his descendants to become a great nation.

Genesis 21:13

Nevertheless, I will make the slave girl's son into a nation, since he, too, is your offspring."

Genesis 22:15-18

The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven

Genesis 25:12-18

Now this is what happened to Ishmael, whom Sarah's Egyptian servant Hagar bore for Abraham.

Genesis 21:16

Then she went and sat by herself about a distance of a bowshot away, because she kept saying to herself, "I can't bear to watch the child die!" That's why she sat a short distance away, crying aloud and weeping.

Genesis 21:18

Get up! Pick up the youth and grab his hand, because I will make a great nation of his descendants."

Genesis 31:11-13

"Later, the angel of God spoke to me in a dream, "Jacob.' ""Here I am,' I replied

Genesis 32:24-30

And so Jacob was left alone, and he struggled with a man until daybreak.

Genesis 48:15-16

Then Israel blessed Joseph by saying: "May the God in whose presence my ancestors Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has continued shepherding me my whole life even until today,

Exodus 3:2-6

the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flaming fire from the center of a bush. As Moses continued to watch, amazingly the bush kept on burning, but was not consumed.

Judges 2:1-3

Some time later, the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim and announced to Israel, "I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land that I promised to your ancestors. I had told them, "I'll never breach my covenant with you.

Judges 6:11

After this, the angel of the LORD arrived and sat down in the shade of the oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash, a descendant of Abiezer, while his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press in order to safeguard it from the Midianites.

Judges 6:16

The LORD told him, "Because I'll be with you, and you'll defeat Midian every single one of them!"

Judges 6:21-24

The angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and unleavened bread. Fire broke out from inside the boulder, consuming the meat and unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished in front of him.

Judges 13:16-22

The angel of the LORD answered Manoah, "If you detain me, I won't be eating your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering, you'll be making a sacrifice to the LORD." The angel of the LORD said this because Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of the LORD.

Psalm 83:6-7

the tents of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, the Hagrites,

Isaiah 63:9

In all their distress he wasn't distressed, but the angel of his presence saved them; in his acts of love and in his acts of pity he redeemed them; he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

Hosea 12:3-5

He circumvented his brother in the womb, and as an adult he fought with God.

Zechariah 2:8-9

For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In pursuit of glory I was sent to the nations who plundered you, because whoever injures you injures the pupil of my eye.

Malachi 3:1

"Watch out! I'm sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly, the LORD you are looking for will come to his Temple. He is the messenger of the covenant whom you desire. Watch out! He is coming!" says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.

Acts 7:30-38

"After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

1 Timothy 6:16

He alone has endless life and lives in inaccessible light. No one has ever seen him, nor can anyone see him. Honor and eternal power belong to him! Amen.

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