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Genesis 13:10 — King James Version← Study notes

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.


Genesis 13:10Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Genesis 13:1025 words
וַיִּשָּׂאwayiśāʾAnd lift
לוֹטlwōṭLot
אֶתʾet
עֵינָיוʿênāywEye
וַיַּרְאwayarəʾAnd see
אֶתʾet
כָּלkālWhole
כִּכַּרkikarCircle
הַיַּרְדֵּןhayarədēnThe Jarden
כִּיRelative conjunction
כֻלָּהּḵulāhWhole
מַשְׁקֶהmašəqehCausing to drink
לִפְנֵיlip̄ənêTo face
שַׁחֵתšaḥētDecay
יְהוָהyəhwāhLORD
אֶתʾet
סְדֹםsədōmSedom
וְאֶתwəʾet
עֲמֹרָהʿămōrāhAmorah
כְּגַןkəganLike garden
יְהוָהyəhwāhLORD
כְּאֶרֶץkəʾereṣLike earth
מִצְרַיִםmiṣərayimMitsrajim
בֹּאֲכָהbōʾăḵāhGo
צֹעַרṣōʿarTsoar
Words read right to left. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Word-by-word meanings

וַיִּשָּׂאwayiśāʾAnd lift
לוֹטlwōṭLot
אֶתʾetdirect object marker (no translation)
עֵינָיוʿênāywEye
וַיַּרְאwayarəʾAnd see
אֶתʾetdirect object marker (no translation)
כָּלkālWhole
כִּכַּרkikarCircle
הַיַּרְדֵּןhayarədēnThe Jarden
כִּיRelative conjunction
כֻלָּהּḵulāhWhole
מַשְׁקֶהmašəqehCausing to drink
לִפְנֵיlip̄ənêTo face
שַׁחֵתšaḥētDecay
יְהוָהyəhwāhLORD
אֶתʾetdirect object marker (no translation)
סְדֹםsədōmSedom
וְאֶתwəʾetdirect object marker (no translation)
עֲמֹרָהʿămōrāhAmorah
כְּגַןkəganLike garden
יְהוָהyəhwāhLORD
כְּאֶרֶץkəʾereṣLike earth
מִצְרַיִםmiṣərayimMitsrajim
בֹּאֲכָהbōʾăḵāhGo
צֹעַרṣōʿarTsoar

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