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Genesis 23:4 KJV
Genesis · chapter 23 · verse 4
I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.Genesis 23:4 · King James Version
Genesis 23:4 in context
2And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
3And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,
4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
5And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
6Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- buryingplaceqebera sepulchreH6913 →
- possessionʼăchuzzâhsomething seizedH272 →
- sojournertôwshâbresident alienH8453 →
- strangergêrproperly, a guestH1616 →
- givenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- buryqâbarto interH6912 →
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Here is, I. The humble request which Abraham made to his neighbours, the Hittites, for a burying-place among them, Gen 23:3, Gen 23:4. It was strange he had this to do now;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 3-15