Genesis 18:28

Genesis 18:28

Peradventure there shall 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.

a. NLT: Suppose there are only forty-five righteous people rather than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five?” And the LORD said, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five righteous people there.”

b. NIV: what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”

c. YLT: 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.'

d. Amplified Bible: If five of the fifty righteous should be lacking—will You destroy the whole city for lack of five? He said, If I find forty-five, I will not destroy it.

e. Septuagint: 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.

f. Stone Edition Chumash: What if the fifty righteous people should lack five? Would You destroy the entire city because of the five?

1. “Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five?...”

a. shall there lack [2637 * chacer] [Strong: a primitive root; to lack; by implication, to fail, want, lessen:--be abated, bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.]

b. five [2568 * chamesh] [Strong: a primitive numeral; five:--fif(-teen), fifth, five (X apiece).]

c. of the fifty [2572 * chamishshiym] [Strong: multiple of 2568; fifty:--fifty.]

d. righteous [6662 * tsaddiyq] [Strong: from 6663; just:--just, lawful, righteous (man).]

e. wilt thou destroy [7843 * shachath] [Strong: a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively):--batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).]

f. all the city [5892 * ‘iyr] [Strong: from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):--Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.]

g. for lack of five [2568 * chamesh] See “five” above.

2. “…And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.”

a. he said [559 * ‘amar] [Strong: a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude):--answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.]

b. if I find [4672 * matsa’] [Strong: a primitive root; properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present:--+ be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.]

c. forty [705 * ‘arba’iym] [Strong:  multiple of 702; forty:---forty.]

d. and five [2568 * chamesh] [Strong: a primitive numeral; five:--fif(-teen), fifth, five (X apiece).]

e. I will not destroy it [7843 * shachath] [Strong: a primitive root; to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively):--batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).]

f. The commentary for the passage Genesis 18:23-33 follows the individual verse studies, or under Genesis 18:23-33.