Genesis 24:40
And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father's house:
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Prosper
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3 John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
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9 occurrences in 8 verses.
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Genesis
44 verses
Numbers
11 verses
Deuteronomy
22 verses
Joshua
11 verses
1 Kings
33 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
2 Chronicles
66 verses
Nehemiah
22 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
33 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Ecclesiastes
11 verses
Isaiah
33 verses
Jeremiah
98 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Ezekiel
44 verses
Daniel
44 verses
3 John
11 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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צָלַח
tsâlach · tsaw-lakh'
37 times translated as this KJV form67 total Strong's occurrences
to push forward, in various senses (literal or figurative, transitive or intransitive)
Strong's KJV usage: break out, come (mightily), go over, be good, be meet, be profitable, (cause to, effect, make to, send) prosper(-ity, -ous, -ously).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 24:40Strong's last: Daniel 11:36
Open full H6743 profile →שָׂכַל
sâkal · saw-kal'
6 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent
Strong's KJV usage: consider, expert, instruct, prosper, (deal) prudent(-ly), (give) skill(-ful), have good success, teach, (have, make to) understand(-ing), wisdom, (be, behave self, consider, make) wise(-ly), guide wittingly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 29:9Strong's last: Jeremiah 23:5
Open full H7919 profile →שָׁלָה
shâlâh · shaw-law'
3 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to be tranquil, i.e. secure or successful
Strong's KJV usage: be happy, prosper, be in safety.
Strong's first: Job 12:6Strong's last: Lamentations 1:5
Open full H7951 profile →εὐοδόω
euodóō · yoo-od-o'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to help on the road, i.e. (passively) succeed in reaching; figuratively, to succeed in business affairs
Strong's KJV usage: :--(have a) prosper(-ous journey).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 3 John 1:2Strong's last: 3 John 1:2
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kâshêr · kaw-share'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
by implication, to be acceptable; also to succeed or prosper
Strong's KJV usage: direct, be right, prosper.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 11:6Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 11:6
Open full H3787 profile →שָׁלֵו
shâlêv · shaw-lave'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
tranquil; (in a bad sense) careless; abstractly, security
Strong's KJV usage: (being) at ease, peaceable, (in) prosper(-ity), quiet(-ness), wealthy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 73:12Strong's last: Psalms 73:12
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H6743
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the LORD hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.
H6743
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.
H7919
For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
H6743
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
H7919
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
H6743
Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
H6743
Thus saith the LORD, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah.
H7919
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
H6743
And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?
English meaning and historical usage.
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prosper
PROS'PER, verb transitive [Latin prospero, from prosperus, from the Gr. to carry to or toward; to bear.] To favor; to render successful.
All things concur to prosper our design.
PROS'PER, verb intransitive To be successful; to succeed.
The Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. Genesis 39:3.
He that covereth his sins, shall not prosper Proverbs 28:13.
1. To grow or increase; to thrive; to make gain; as, to prosper in business. Our agriculture, commerce and manufactures now prosper
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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