John 6:49

King James Version:

(The Lord speaking is red text)

Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

Complete Jewish Bible:

Your fathers ate the man in the desert; they died.

Berean Standard Bible:

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.

American Standard Version:

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

KJV with Strong’s Numbers:

Your{G5216} fathers{G3962} did eat{G5315} manna{G3131} in{G1722} the wilderness{G2048}, and{G2532} are dead{G599}.

Cross-References (KJV):

Jude 1:5

  • I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

1 Corinthians 10:3

  • And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

1 Corinthians 10:5

  • But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

John 6:31

  • Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat.

John 6:58

  • This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

Numbers 26:65

  • For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Hebrews 3:17

  • But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

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Commentary for John 6:49

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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:

Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)

  1. Strong's Number: G5216
    There are 503 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: ὑμῶν
    Transliteration: hymōn
    Pronunciation: hoo-mone'
    Description: genitive case of ὑμεῖς; of (from or concerning) you:--ye, you, your (own, -selves).
  2. Strong's Number: G3962
    There are 372 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: πατήρ
    Transliteration: patḗr
    Pronunciation: pat-ayr'
    Description: apparently a primary word; a "father" (literally or figuratively, near or more remote):--father, parent.
  3. Strong's Number: G5315
    There are 90 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: φάγω
    Transliteration: phágō
    Pronunciation: fag'-o
    Description: a primary verb (used as an alternate of ἐσθίω in certain tenses); to eat (literally or figuratively):--eat, meat.
  4. Strong's Number: G3131
    There are 5 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: μάννα
    Transliteration: mánna
    Pronunciation: man'-nah
    Description: of Hebrew origin (מָן); manna (i.e. man), an edible gum:--manna.
  5. Strong's Number: G1722
    There are 2129 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: ἐν
    Transliteration: en
    Pronunciation: en
    Description: a primary preposition denoting (fixed) position (in place, time or state), and (by implication) instrumentality (medially or constructively), i.e. a relation of rest (intermediate between εἰς and ἐκ); "in," at, (up-)on, by, etc.:--about, after, against, + almost, X altogether, among, X as, at, before, between, (here-)by (+ all means), for (… sake of), + give self wholly to, (here-)in(-to, -wardly), X mightily, (because) of, (up-)on, (open-)ly, X outwardly, one, X quickly, X shortly, (speedi-)ly, X that, X there(-in, -on), through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), under, when, where(-with), while, with(-in). Often used in compounds, with substantially the same import; rarely with verbs of motion, and then not to indicate direction, except (elliptically) by a separate (and different) preposition.
  6. Strong's Number: G2048
    There are 50 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: ἔρημος
    Transliteration: érēmos
    Pronunciation: er'-ay-mos
    Description: of uncertain affinity; lonesome, i.e. (by implication) waste (usually as a noun, χώρα being implied):--desert, desolate, solitary, wilderness.
  7. Strong's Number: G2532
    There are 5212 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: καί
    Transliteration: kaí
    Pronunciation: kahee
    Description: apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
  8. Strong's Number: G599
    There are 99 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: ἀποθνήσκω
    Transliteration: apothnḗskō
    Pronunciation: ap-oth-nace'-ko
    Description: from ἀπό and θνήσκω; to die off (literally or figuratively):--be dead, death, die, lie a-dying, be slain (X with).