Lexicon :: Strong's H3808 - lō'

no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land,[fn] and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the LORD God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

“but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”

The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man[fn] no helper was found corresponding to him.

Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’? ”

“But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”

And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.

You will eat from it by means of painful labor[fn]

all the days of your life.

but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.

“If you do what is right, won’t you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”

Then the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel? ”

“I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s guardian? ”

“If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”

And the LORD said, “My Spirit will not remain[fn] with[fn] mankind forever, because they are corrupt.[fn] Their days will be 120 years.”

“You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,

but the dove found no resting place for its foot. It returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought it into the ark to himself.

After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but it did not return to him again.

When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, he said to himself, “I will never again curse the ground because of human beings, even though the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth onward. And I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.

“However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

“I establish my covenant with you that never again will every creature be wiped out by floodwaters; there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.”

“I will remember my covenant between me and you and all the living creatures: water will never again become a flood to destroy every creature.

Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.

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.

So Pharaoh sent for Abram and said, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?

But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,

“Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

“that I will not take a thread or sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you can never say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

Abram continued, “Look, you have given me no offspring, so a slave born in[fn] my house will be my heir.”

So he brought all these to him, cut them in half, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know this for certain: Your offspring will be resident aliens for four hundred years in a land that does not belong to them and will be enslaved and oppressed.[fn]

“In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”[fn]

Abram’s wife, Sarai, had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.

The angel of the LORD said to her, “I will greatly multiply your offspring, and they will be too many to count.”

“Your name will no longer be Abram;[fn] your name will be Abraham,[fn] for I will make you the father of many nations.

“Throughout your generations, every male among you is to be circumcised at eight days old ​— ​every male born in your household or purchased from any foreigner and not your offspring.

“If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

Sarah denied it. “I did not laugh,” she said, because she was afraid.

But he replied, “No, you did laugh.”

“I will go down to see if what they have done justifies the cry that has come up to me. If not, I will find out.”

“What if there are fifty righteous people in the city? Will you really sweep it away instead of sparing the place for the sake of the fifty righteous people who are in it?

“suppose the fifty righteous lack five. Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five? ”

He replied, “I will not destroy it if I find forty-five there.”

and said, “My lords, turn aside to your servant’s house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way.”

“No,” they said. “We would rather spend the night in the square.”