11 translations · Hebrew
Genesis 3:15
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
Genesis 3:15 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
- KJV King James Version
- And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- and I put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He bruises your head, and you bruise His heel.”
- FBV Free Bible Version
- I will make sure you and your children, and the woman and her children, are enemies. One of her children will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- and enmity I put between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he doth bruise thee — the head, and thou dost bruise him — the heel.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; he shall crush thy head, and thou shalt crush his heel.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵיבָ֣ה׀ | wə·’ê·ḇāh | enmity | H342 אֵיבָה enmity |
| אָשִׁ֗ית | ’ā·šîṯ | I will put | H7896 שִׁית to set: make |
| בֵּֽינְךָ֙ | bê·nə·ḵā | And | H996 בַּ֫יִן between |
| וּבֵ֣ין | ū·ḇên | between [you] | H996 בַּ֫יִן between |
| הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה | hā·’iš·šāh | and the woman | H802 אִשָּׁה woman |
| וּבֵ֥ין | ū·ḇên | and between | H996 בַּ֫יִן between |
| זַרְעֲךָ֖ | zar·‘ă·ḵā | your seed | H2233 זֶ֫רַע seed |
| וּבֵ֣ין | ū·ḇên | — | H996 בַּ֫יִן between |
| זַרְעָ֑הּ | zar·‘āh | and her seed | H2233 זֶ֫רַע seed |
| ה֚וּא | hū | He | H1931 הוּא he/she/it |
| יְשׁוּפְךָ֣ | yə·šū·p̄ə·ḵā | {will} crush | H7779 שׁוּף to bruise |
| רֹ֔אשׁ | rōš | your head | H7218 רֹאשׁ head |
| וְאַתָּ֖ה | wə·’at·tāh | and you | H859 אַתָּ֫ה you(m.s.) |
| תְּשׁוּפֶ֥נּוּ | tə·šū·p̄en·nū | {will} strike | H7779 שׁוּף to bruise |
| עָקֵֽב׃ס | ‘ā·qêḇ | his heel | H6119 עָקֵב heel |
Related verses
- Romans 16:20
And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- 1 John 3:8
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
- Revelation 12:17
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
- Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- Hebrews 2:14–15
Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
- Galatians 4:4
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
- John 8:44
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
- Matthew 1:23
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
- Revelation 12:7–13
There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war. They didn’t prevail, neither was a place found for them any more in heaven. The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. …
- Isaiah 53:3–4
He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him. Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
13 Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
16 To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
17 To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.
Read all of Genesis 3 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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