Verse | Translation | Text |
Ge 13:2 | Strong Concordance | And Abram [087] was very [03966] rich [03513] in cattle [04735], in silver [03701], and in gold [02091]. |
King James | And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. |
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
very rich--compared with the pastoral tribes to which Abraham belonged. An Arab sheik is considered rich who has a hundred or two hundred tents, from sixty to a hundred camels, a thousand sheep and goats respectively. And Abram being very rich, must have far exceeded that amount of pastoral property. "Gold and silver" being rare among these peoples, his probably arose from the sale of his produce in Egypt. |