Genesis 21:18
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

Young's Literal Translation
rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold on him with thy hand, for for a great nation I set him.’

King James Bible
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.

Hebrew
Arise,
ק֚וּמִי (qū·mî)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

lift up
שְׂאִ֣י (śə·’î)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

the boy
הַנַּ֔עַר (han·na·‘ar)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5288: A boy, lad, youth, retainer

and take him
וְהַחֲזִ֥יקִי (wə·ha·ḥă·zî·qî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - feminine singular
Strong's 2388: To fasten upon, to seize, be strong, obstinate, to bind, restrain, conquer

by the hand,
יָדֵ֖ךְ (yā·ḏêḵ)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

for
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I will make him
אֲשִׂימֶֽנּוּ׃ (’ă·śî·men·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

into a great
גָּד֖וֹל (gā·ḏō·wl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 1419: Great, older, insolent

nation.”
לְג֥וֹי (lə·ḡō·w)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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