What Does Genesis 13:5 Mean?
And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.THE KEY
Lot walks the same road as Abram while carrying a household of his own.
THE MEANING
The verse speaks of a path traveled with companions and carried by animals and shelter. Lot goes alongside Abram, while the flocks, herds, and tents name the material life moving with him. Their journey is shared, while Lot’s household is named in its own right.
THE ROOT
הֹלֵךְ
holekh
GROWS FROM
הלך
to walk or go
The phrase translated “went with” comes from the root for walking and going: Lot is pictured as moving alongside Abram. The same root can describe a way of life, so this shared journey carries the sense of a shared path, even as the verse names Lot’s own household possessions.
ALSO GROWS
holekh: going; walking
הֹלֵךְ
This is the form describing Lot as he goes alongside Abram.
hithallekh: to walk about; to walk
הִתְהַלֵּךְ
The same root describes Enoch walking with God, making companionship visible as shared movement.
THE PATTERN
A household’s journey takes shape through the provisions and dwelling that travel with it.
And the land could not carry them, that they might settle together; for their gathered goods were great, so that they could not settle together.For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and a great household of servants, and the Philistines burned with envy against him.By trust he dwelt alongside in the land of promise, as in another's land, settling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise.THE THREAD
And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.“Walked” comes from the same root as “went” in the verse about Lot. In both, walking with someone pictures companionship as movement along a shared path.
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