Genesis 18:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

LORD*. One of the 134 places where the Primitive Text was Jehovah, and the Sopherim changed it to Adonai. These are distinguished in the text by an asterisk, and printed LORD*. See list, App-32.

dust and ashes. Figure of speech Meiosis. App-6. Also Paronomasia (v'ephar 'aphar).

Genesis 18:27

27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes: