Genesis 17:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Genesis 17:27 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the males of his house, the one born in his house and the one bought with money from the son of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And all the men of his house, both borne in his house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised with him.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and all the men of his house -- born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger -- have been circumcised with him.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and all the men of his house—born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger—have been circumcised with him.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    All the men of his household were circumcised with him, including those born into the household and those bought with money from a foreigner.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And all the males of his house, the one born in his house and the one bought with money from the son of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    All the males in Abraham's household, including those born in his household or purchased from foreigners, were circumcised with him.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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יְלִ֣יד
yâlîyd
H3211
“born of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
Part of Speech
Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3205

TWOT: 867e

born
  1. וְכָל kôl H3605 “and · all of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  2. אַנְשֵׁ֤י ʼîysh H376 “men of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  3. בֵיתוֹ֙ bayith H1004 “house · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  4. בָּ֔יִת bayith H1004 “house” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  5. וּמִקְנַת miqnâh H4736 “and · purchase of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  6. כֶּ֖סֶף keçeph H3701 “silver” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  7. מֵאֵ֣ת ʼêth H854 “from · with” Preposition + Preposition
  8. בֶּן bên H1121 “son of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
  9. נֵכָ֑ר nêkâr H5236 “foreign” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. נִמֹּ֖לוּ mûwl H4135 “to circumcise” Verb, Niphal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
  11. אִתּֽוֹ ʼêth H854 “with · him” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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12
words
10
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is יְלִ֣יד born H3211 — appearing just 13 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

יְלִ֣יד born H3211 occurs in 13 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 9 nouns
  • 2 prepositions

Verb forms

  • נִמֹּ֖לוּ Niphal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • בֵיתוֹ֙ house H1004 ×2
  • מֵאֵ֣ת with H854 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 23 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Genesis 17:27 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Genesis 18:19 For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of Yahweh, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that Yahweh may bring on Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Genesis 17:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְכָל אַנְשֵׁ֤י בֵיתוֹ֙ יְלִ֣יד בָּ֔יִת וּמִקְנַת כֶּ֖סֶף מֵאֵ֣ת בֶּן נֵכָ֑ר נִמֹּ֖לוּ אִתּֽוֹ

All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Genesis 17:27 Septuagint · lemma form

καί πᾶς ὁ ἀνήρ ὁ οἶκος αὐτός καί ὁ οἰκογενής καί ὁ ἀργυρώνητος ἐκ ἀλλογενής ἔθνος περιτέμνω αὐτός

and all the men of his house, both those born in the house, and those bought with money of foreign nations.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְכָל אֱנָשֵׁי בֵיתֵהּ יְלִידֵי בֵיתָא וּזְבִינֵי כַסְפָּא מִן בַּר עַמְמִין אִתְגְּזָרוּ (גְזָרוּ) עִמֵּהּ

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְכָל אִנְשֵׁי בֵיתֵהּ מַרְבְּיָינֵי בֵּיתָא וּזְבִינֵי כַּסְפָּא מִן בַּר עַמְמִין אִתְגְזָרוּ עִמֵיהּ

    And every man of his house, the house-trained, and the purchased with money of the sons of the people, was circumcised with him.

    Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Genesis 17:27 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Gen 17:27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

Ver. 27. All the men of his house.] Faciles se proebent in re ardua et ridicula . An excellent pattern of a well-ordered family.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And all the men of his house,.... All the males, whether children or adult:

born in the house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him; by their will, and with their consent; not forced to it, as Aben Ezra rightly observes; and these being before trained up by him in religious exercises, were more easily prevailed upon by him to follow his example; this also is repeated, that it might be served, and be an example to follow in after generations.

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John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Radak

Rabbi David Kimhi (Radak)

נמולו אתו, by Avraham. The root of both נמול and נמולו is the verb נמל.

Radak on the Tanakh — English translations: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “Eliyahu Munk, HaChut Hameshulash” (CC BY 4.0); “Rabbi Mike Feuer, Jerusalem Anthology” (CC BY 4.0); and “R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

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Genesis, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yâlîyd (“born”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word yâlîyd carries the sense “born.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Genesis 14:14, which shares the word «born», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “house” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
  5. «נִמֹּ֖לוּ» is a Niphal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  6. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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