Lexicon :: Strong's H259 - 'eḥāḏ

God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.

Then God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear.” And it was so.

The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah,[fn] where there is gold.

So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place.

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

The LORD God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah.

The water continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

In the six hundred first year,[fn] in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

Eber had two sons. One was named Peleg,[fn] for during his days the earth was divided; his brother was named Joktan.

The whole earth had the same language and vocabulary.

The LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people all having the same language, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.

“Get out of the way! ” they said, adding, “This one came here as an alien, but he’s acting like a judge! Now we’ll do more harm to you than to them.” They put pressure on Lot and came up to break down the door.

When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes

“Take your son,” he said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

Then Abimelech said, “What have you done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, my father! ” And Esau wept loudly.[fn]

“and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides ​— ​

So Jacob worked seven years for Rachel, and they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

He thought, “If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”

During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of Jabbok.

Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and I have nursing flocks and herds. If they are driven hard for one day, the whole herd will die.

“Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people.

“But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

“So now, come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits.[fn] We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams! ”

The king of Egypt’s cupbearer and baker, who were confined in the prison, each had a dream. Both had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and good, came up on one stalk.

“He and I had dreams on the same night; each dream had its own meaning.

“In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stalk.

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

“We are all sons of one man. We are honest; your servants are not spies.”

But they replied, “We, your servants, were twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now[fn] with our father, and one is no longer living.”

“Send one from among you to get your brother. The rest of you will be imprisoned so that your words can be tested to see if they are true. If they are not, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies! ”

“If you are honest, let one of you[fn] be confined to the guardhouse, while the rest of you go and take grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver there at the top of his bag.

“We were twelve brothers, sons of the same[fn] father. One is no longer living, and the youngest is now with our father in the land of Canaan.’

“One is gone from me ​— ​I said he must have been torn to pieces ​— ​and I have never seen him again.

“Over and above what I am giving your brothers, I am giving you the one mountain slope[fn] that I took from the Amorites with my sword and bow.”

“Dan will judge his people

as one of the tribes of Israel.

The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives ​— ​the first, whose name was Shiphrah, and the second, whose name was Puah ​— ​

The LORD did as Moses had said: He removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people; not one was left.

The LORD did this the next day. All the Egyptian livestock died, but none among the Israelite livestock died.

Then the LORD changed the wind to a strong west[fn] wind, and it carried off the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

The LORD said[fn] to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here. When he lets you go,[fn] he will drive you out of here.

“You are to eat unleavened bread in the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day.