11 translations · Hebrew
Genesis 12:2
I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
Genesis 12:2 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- KJV King James Version
- 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:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
- ASV American Standard Version
- and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing:
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- And I make you become a great nation, and bless you, and make your name great; and be a blessing.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- I will make you the ancestor of a great nation and I will bless you. I will make sure you have a great reputation and that you are a blessing to others.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.
- DBY Darby Translation
- And I will make of thee a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- 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:
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶֽעֶשְׂךָ֙ | wə·’e·‘eś·ḵā | I will make | H6213 עָשָׂה to make: do |
| לְג֣וֹי | lə·ḡō·w | nation | H1471 גּוֹי nation |
| גָּד֔וֹל | gā·ḏō·wl | you into a great | H1419 גָּדוֹל great: large |
| וַאֲבָ֣רֶכְךָ֔ | wa·’ă·ḇā·reḵ·ḵā | and I will bless you | H1288 בָּרַךְ to bless |
| וַאֲגַדְּלָ֖ה | wa·’ă·ḡad·də·lāh | great | H1431 גָּדַל to magnify |
| שְׁמֶ֑ךָ | šə·me·ḵā | I will make your name | H8034 שֵׁם name |
| וֶהְיֵ֖ה | weh·yêh | so that you will be | H1961 הָיָה to be |
| בְּרָכָֽה׃ | bə·rā·ḵāh | a blessing | H1293 בְּרָכָה blessing |
Related verses
- 2 Samuel 7:9
I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
- Galatians 3:14
that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
- Genesis 18:18
since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
- Genesis 17:4–6
“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations. Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.
- Genesis 28:3–4
May God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a company of peoples, and give you the blessing of Abraham, to you, and to your offspring with you, that you may inherit the land where you travel, which God gave to Abraham.”
- Genesis 35:11
God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.
- Genesis 26:4
I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
- Genesis 46:3
He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Don’t be afraid to go down into Egypt, for there I will make of you a great nation.
- Genesis 24:35
Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Genesis 13:16
I will make your offspring as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your offspring may also be counted.
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In context
1 Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
2 I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treates you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.
Read all of Genesis 12 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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