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lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

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Verse part Definition: Part of speech: Strong's: Greek: Transliteration:
lest [there be] Not, lest. Adv H3361 μή
fornicator A fornicator, man who prostitutes himself. N-NMS H4205 πόρνος pornos
or Or, than. Conj H2228 ē
profane person, Permitted to be trodden, accessible. Adj-NMS H952 βέβηλος bebēlos
as As, like as, about, as it were, according as, how, when, while, as soon as, so that. Adv H5613 ὡς ōs
Esau, Esau, elder son of Isaac the patriarch, brother of Jacob. N-NMS H2269 Ἠσαῦ ēsau
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who Who, which, what, that. RelPro-NMS H3739 ὃς os
sold (a) to give back, return, restore, (b) to give, render, as due, (c) to sell. V-AIM-3S H591 ἀπέδετο apedeto
his Himself, herself, itself. RefPro-GM3S H1438 ἑαυτοῦ eautou
birthright. The birthright, the rights of the first-born. N-ANP H4415 πρωτοτόκια prōtotokia
meal (a) eating, (b) food, a meal, (c) rust. N-GFS H1035 βρώσεως brōseōs

People

Esau

Esau [N] [H] [S] hairy, Rebekah's first-born twin son ( Genesis 25:25 ). The name of Edom, "red", was also given to him from his conduct in connection with the red lentil "pottage" for which he sold his birthright (30,31). The circumstances connected with his birth foreshadowed the enmity which afterwards subsisted between the twin brothers and the nations they founded ( Genesis 25:22  Gene... View Details

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Berean Bible lest there be any fornicator or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.
King James Bible lest Lest there be any fornicator fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal morsel of meat sold his birthright.
Hebrew Greek English lest that there be any fornicator no immoral or profane person, as godless person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.own birthright for a single meal.
New American Standard Bible 1995 lest that there be any fornicator no immoral or profane person, as godless person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.own birthright for a single meal.