Cross References What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty. Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes. Genesis 18:29 And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty. Daniel 2:18 To the end that they should ask mercy at the face of the God of heaven, concerning this secret, and that Daniel and his companions might not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty. wilt. Numbers 14:17-19 Let then the strength of the Lord be magnified, as thou hast sworn, saying: . . . 1 Kings 20:32,33 So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant, Benadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he be yet alive, he is my brother. . . . Job 23:3,4 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . . If I. Genesis 18:26,29 And the Lord said to him: If I find in Sodom fifty just within the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake. . . . Context Abraham Begs for Sodom…27And Abraham answered, and said: Seeing I have once begun, I will speak to my Lord, whereas I am dust and ashes. 28What if there be five less than fifty just persons? wilt thou for five and forty destroy the whole city: And he said: I will not destroy it, if I find five and forty.29And again he said to him: But if forty be found there, what wilt thou do? He said: I will not destroy it for the sake of forty.… Lexicon supposeא֠וּלַי (’ū·lay) Adverb Strong's Hebrew 194: Perhaps the fifty חֲמִשִּׁ֤ים (ḥă·miš·šîm) Number - common plural Strong's Hebrew 2572: Fifty righteous ones הַצַּדִּיקִם֙ (haṣ·ṣad·dî·qim) Article | Adjective - masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 6662: Just, righteous lack יַחְסְר֞וּן (yaḥ·sə·rūn) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun Strong's Hebrew 2637: To lack, need, be lacking, decrease five. חֲמִשָּׁ֔ה (ḥă·miš·šāh) Number - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2568: Five Will you destroy הֲתַשְׁחִ֥ית (hă·ṯaš·ḥîṯ) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin the whole כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every city הָעִ֑יר (hā·‘îr) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement for the lack of five?” בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה (ba·ḥă·miš·šāh) Preposition-b, Article | Number - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2568: Five He replied, וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (way·yō·mer) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say “If אִם־ (’im-) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not I find אֶמְצָ֣א (’em·ṣā) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present forty-five אַרְבָּעִ֖ים (’ar·bā·‘îm) Number - common plural Strong's Hebrew 705: Forty there, שָׁ֔ם (šām) Adverb Strong's Hebrew 8033: There, then, thither I will not לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no destroy [it].” אַשְׁחִ֔ית (’aš·ḥîṯ) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 7843: Perhaps to go to ruin Additional Translations suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: will you destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five. But if the fifty righteous should be diminished to forty-five, wilt thou destroy the whole city because of the five wanting? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I should find there forty-five. Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy [it]. peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, I will not destroy it, if I find there forty and five. Peradventure there will lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there." peradventure there are lacking five of the fifty righteous -- dost Thou destroy for five the whole of the city?' and He saith, 'I destroy it not, if I find there forty and five.' 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