Study it in the app“Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.”
AbramאַבְרָםtookוַיִּקַּחSaraiאֶת שָׂרַיhis wife,אִשְׁתּוֹLotוְאֶת לוֹטthe sonבֶּןof his brother,אָחִיוallוְאֶת כָּלtheir possessionsרְכוּשָׁםthatאֲשֶׁרthey had gathered,רָכָשׁוּand the personsוְאֶת הַנֶּפֶשׁthatאֲשֶׁרthey had acquiredעָשׂוּin Haran,בְחָרָןand they set outוַיֵּצְאוּto goלָלֶכֶתto the landאַרְצָהof Canaan.כְּנַעַןAnd they cameוַיָּבֹאוּto the landאַרְצָהof Canaan.כְּנָעַן
Abram
Abram, the name of Abraham before God changed it (Genesis 17:5). It means "exalted father".
Where else “avram” appearsfetch
To take someone along, or go and fetch something.
Where else “yikach” appearsSarai
Sarai, the name of Sarah before God changed it (Genesis 17:15).
Where else “saray” appearswife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “isht” appearsLot
Lot, nephew of Abram, son of Haran; he settled in Sodom and was saved from its destruction. Father of Moab and Ammon.
Where else “lot” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appearsbrother
A son of the same father or the same mother.
Where else “achi” appearspossessions
Goods, possessions, property.
Where else “rechusha” appearsacquire
Gather goods, acquire.
Where else “rachashu” appearsperson
Someone as a whole; "my soul" can simply mean me.
Where else “nefesh” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asu” appearsHaran
See it on the mapWhere else “charan” appearsset out
To set out somewhere, or go out to war.
Where else “yetsu” appearsgo
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechet” appearsland
A region or nation, above all Israel's.
Where else “artsa” appearsCanaan
See it on the mapWhere else “kenaan” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “yavou” appears1Haran
Today: Harran, southern Turkey, near Syria
A city in northern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Turkey near the Syrian border.
Abram stopped there with his family and left at seventy-five at God's command (Gen 12:4). Jacob fled there and worked for Laban (Gen 28:10; 29:4).
2Canaan
Today: Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, western Syria
The land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, today Israel, Palestine and parts of Lebanon.
God promised this land to Abraham and his descendants (Gen 17:8). Israel entered it after forty years in the wilderness (Josh 5:12).
4So Abram went, just as YHWH had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.
5 · This verse (above)
6Abram passed through the land as far as the place of Shechem, as far as the oak of Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.
1. What it says
What did YHWH command and promise Abram, and what did he do (vv. 1-4)?
2. What it means
What does it mean that in Abram all the families of the earth will be blessed (v. 3)?
3. How I live it
What step of trust can you take today, even without seeing the whole road, as Abram did?
