Genesis 12:9
New International Version
Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.

New Living Translation
Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.

English Standard Version
And Abram journeyed on, still going toward the Negeb.

Berean Standard Bible
And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

King James Bible
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

New King James Version
So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

New American Standard Bible
Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

NASB 1995
Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

NASB 1977
And Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

Amplified Bible
Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev (the South country of Judah).

Christian Standard Bible
Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.

American Standard Version
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Abram picked up and he went on and picked up to the south.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Abram departed and went and encamped in the wilderness.

Contemporary English Version
Later, Abram started out toward the Southern Desert.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.

English Revised Version
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Abram kept moving toward the Negev.

Good News Translation
Then he moved on from place to place, going toward the southern part of Canaan.

International Standard Version
Then Abram traveled on, continuing into the Negev.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

Literal Standard Version
And Abram journeys, going on and journeying toward the south.

Majority Standard Bible
And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

New American Bible
Then Abram journeyed on by stages to the Negeb.

NET Bible
Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

New Revised Standard Version
And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.

New Heart English Bible
And Abram traveled on, continuing toward the Negev.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south.

World English Bible
Abram traveled, still going on toward the South.

Young's Literal Translation
And Abram journeyeth, going on and journeying towards the south.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Calling of Abram
8From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD. 9And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

Cross References
Genesis 13:1
So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev--he and his wife and all his possessions--and Lot was with him.

Genesis 13:3
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

Genesis 20:1
Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

Genesis 24:62
Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

Numbers 13:17
When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

Deuteronomy 1:7
Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

Isaiah 30:6
This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.


Treasury of Scripture

And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

going on still.

Genesis 13:3
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;

Genesis 24:62
And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi; for he dwelt in the south country.

Psalm 105:13
When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;

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Genesis 12
1. God calls Abram, and blesses him with a promise of Christ.
4. He departs with Lot from Haran, and comes to Canaan.
6. He journeys through Canaan,
7. which is promised to him in a vision.
10. He is driven by famine into Egypt.
11. Fear makes him feign his wife to be his sister.
14. Pharaoh, having taken her from him, is compelled to restore her.
18. Pharaoh reproves Abram, whom he dismisses.














(9) Toward the south.--The Negeb, or dry land, so called because the soil being a soft white chalk, the rains sink through it, and even in the valleys run below the surface of the ground. Though treeless, it is still rich in flocks and herds, but the water has to be collected in tanks and cisterns (Conder, Tent Work, ii. 87).

Verse 9. - And Abram journeyed (literally, broke up, e. g., his encampment, going on still - literally, going on and breaking up (cf. Genesis 8:3); "going and returning" - towards the south. Negleb, the dry region, from nagabh, to be dried, the southern district of Palestine (Genesis 13:3; Genesis 20:1; Genesis 24:62). The LXX. render, ἐστρατοπέδευσεν ἐν, τῇ ἐρήμῳ. . Of this section vers. 5, 6, 8a are commonly assigned to the Elohist; and 7, 8b, and 9 to the Jehovist.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And Abram
אַבְרָ֔ם (’aḇ·rām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 87: Abram -- 'exalted father', the original name of Abraham

journeyed on
וַיִּסַּ֣ע (way·yis·sa‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5265: To pull up, the tent-pins, start on a, journey

toward
וְנָס֖וֹעַ (wə·nā·sō·w·a‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 5265: To pull up, the tent-pins, start on a, journey

the Negev.
הַנֶּֽגְבָּה׃ (han·neḡ·bāh)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5045: South country, the Negeb, south


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