Lexicon :: Strong's G1640 - elassōn

God made the two great lights ​— ​the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night ​— ​as well as the stars.

And the LORD said to her:

Two nations are in your womb;

two peoples will come from you and be separated.

One people will be stronger than the other,

and the older will serve the younger.

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. He said,

So the Israelites did this. Some gathered a lot, some a little.

“You are to increase its price in proportion to a greater amount of years, and decrease its price in proportion to a lesser amount of years, because what he is selling to you is a number of harvests.

“Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one. Each is to be given its inheritance according to those who were registered in it.

“You are to receive the land as an inheritance by lot according to your clans. Increase the inheritance for a large clan and decrease it for a small one. Whatever place the lot indicates for someone will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to your ancestral tribes.

“Of the cities that you give from the Israelites’ territory, you should take more from a larger tribe and less from a smaller one. Each tribe is to give some of its cities to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance it receives.”

Saul responded, “Am I not a Benjaminite from the smallest of Israel’s tribes and isn’t my clan the least important of all the clans of the Benjaminite tribe? So why have you said something like this to me? ”

If I speak, my suffering is not relieved,

and if I hold back, does any of it leave me?

His powerful stride is shortened,

and his own schemes trip him up.

But now they mock me,

men younger than I am,

whose fathers I would have refused to put

with my sheep dogs.

Wealth obtained by fraud will dwindle,

but whoever earns it through labor[fn] will multiply it.

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself,

and giving to the rich ​— ​both lead only to poverty.

Four things on earth are small,

yet they are extremely wise:

Therefore, hear the plans that the LORD has drawn up against Edom and the strategies he has devised against the people of Teman: The flock’s little lambs will certainly be dragged away, and their grazing land will be made desolate because of them.