Lot
לוֹטStrong’s H3876lot
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lot is the Hebrew word usually translated “lot”. It appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.11.27
How it's translated
- lot 28
- and lot 4
- to lot 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 27
- Deuteronomy 2
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 11:31And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
- Genesis 12:4So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
- Genesis 12:5And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
- Genesis 13:1And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
- Genesis 13:5And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
- Genesis 13:7And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
Hebrew dictionary
לוֹט lot · Lot
A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.11.27; son of: Haran (H2039); brother of: Milcah (H4435) and Iscah (H3252); father of: daughter1_of_Lot (H3876H), daughter2_of_Lot (H3876I), Moab (H4124H), Ben-ammi (H1151) Also named: Lōt (Λώτ "Lot" G3091) § Lot = "covering" son of Haran and Abraham's nephew who settled in Sodom and was delivered from its destruction by God
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “lot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOT, noun
- That which, in human speech, is called chance, hazard, fortune; but in strictness of language, is the determination of Providence; as, the land shall be divided by lot Numbers 26:55
- That by which the fate or portion of one is determined; that by which an event is committed to chance, that is, to the determination of Providence; as, to cast lots; to draw lots.“The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord” Proverbs 16:33
- The part, division or fate which falls to one by chance, that is, by divine determination.“The second lot came forth to Simeon” Joshua 19:1
- A distinct portion or parcel; as a lot of goods; a lot of boards.
All definitions and other forms of “lot”
- Proportion or share of taxes; as, to pay scot and lot
- In the United States, a piece or division of land; perhaps originally assigned by drawing lots, but now any portion, piece or division.
LOT, verb transitive
To allot; to assign; to distribute; to sort; to catalogue; to portion.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.