Romans

Romans 9:29

²⁹It is just as Isaiah foretold:

“Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants,

we would have become like Sodom,

we would have resembled Gomorrah.”^l

Footnotes

Word by word

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English	Greek	Sounds like	Grammar	Word study
just as	καθὼς	kathōs	Adverb	G2531 just as, as
Isaiah	Ἠσαΐας	Ēsaias	Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular	G2268 Isaiah
foretold	προείρηκεν	proeirēken	Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular	G4302 I forewarn
Unless	Εἰ	Ei	Conjunction	G1487 if
Lord	Κύριος	Kyrios	Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular	G2962 lord, Lord, master, sir
of Hosts	Σαβαὼθ	Sabaōth	Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural	G4519 hosts, armies
had left	ἐγκατέλιπεν	enkatelipen	Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular	G1459 I abandon, desert
us	ἡμῖν	hēmin	Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Plural	G1473 I
descendants	σπέρμα	sperma	Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular	G4690 seed, offspring
we would have become	ἐγενήθημεν	egenēthēmen	Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 1st Person Plural	G1096 I come into being, am born
like	ὡς	hōs	Adverb	G5613 as, like as, how, while, so that
Sodom	Σόδομα	Sodoma	Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural	G4670 Sodom
we would have resembled	ὡμοιώθημεν	hōmoiōthēmen	Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 1st Person Plural	G3666 I make like, liken, compare
Gomorrah	Γόμορρα	Gomorra	Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular	G1116 Gomorrah

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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.