Lexicon :: Strong's H7896 - šîṯ

I will put hostility between you and the woman,

and between your offspring and her offspring.[fn]

He will strike your head,

and you will strike his heel.

Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, “God has given[fn] me another offspring[fn] in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

Jacob separated the lambs and made the flocks face the streaked sheep and the completely dark sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and didn’t put them with Laban’s sheep.

“So now, let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and set him over the land of Egypt.

“I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you back. Joseph will close your eyes when you die.”[fn]

But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and crossing his hands, put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

When Joseph saw that his father had placed his right hand on Ephraim’s head, he thought it was a mistake[fn] and took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s.

Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and didn’t take even this to heart.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may do these miraculous signs of mine among them,[fn]

“When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

“If instead a ransom is demanded of him, he can pay a redemption price for his life in the full amount demanded from him.

“You must not spread a false report. Do not join[fn] the wicked to be a malicious witness.

“I will set your borders from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,[fn] and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River.[fn] For I will place the inhabitants of the land under your control, and you will drive them out ahead of you.

When the people heard this bad news, they mourned and didn’t put on their jewelry.

and said to Moses, “My lord, please don’t hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.

Since Balaam saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Israel, he did not go to seek omens as on previous occasions, but turned[fn] toward the wilderness.

And he told Ruth, “Bring the shawl you’re wearing and hold it out.” When she held it out, he shoveled six measures of barley into her shawl, and she[fn] went into the town.

Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a mother to him.

He raises the poor from the dust

and lifts the needy from the trash heap.

He seats them with noblemen

and gives them a throne of honor.[fn]

For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s;

he has set the world on them.

As she was dying,[fn] the women taking care of her said, “Don’t be afraid. You’ve given birth to a son! ” But she did not respond or pay attention.

Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Don’t take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.

“For my grandfather’s entire family deserves death from my lord the king, but you set your servant among those who eat at your table. So what further right do I have to keep on making appeals to the king? ”

He made darkness a canopy around him,

a gathering[fn] of water and thick clouds.

“ ‘However, I will not take the whole kingdom from him but will let him be ruler all the days of his life for the sake of my servant David, whom I chose and who kept my commands and my statutes.

What is a mere human, that you think so highly of him

and pay so much attention to him?

There is no mediator between us,

to lay his hand on both of us.

“Are my days not few? Stop it![fn]

Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

If only you would hide me in Sheol

and conceal me until your anger passes.

If only you would appoint a time for me

and then remember me.

and consign your gold to the dust,

the gold of Ophir to the stones in the wadis,

But now they mock me,

men younger than I am,

whose fathers I would have refused to put

with my sheep dogs.

when I declared, “You may come this far, but no farther;

your proud waves stop here”?

Who put wisdom in the heart[fn]

or gave the mind understanding?

I will not be afraid of thousands of people

who have taken their stand against me on every side.

You made him ruler over the works of your hands;

you put everything under his feet:

Put terror in them, LORD;

let the nations know they are only humans.Selah

“Because of the devastation of the needy

and the groaning of the poor,

I will now rise up,” says the LORD.

“I will provide safety for the one who longs for it.”

How long will I store up anxious concerns[fn] within me,

agony in my mind every day?

How long will my enemy dominate me?

They advance against me;[fn] now they surround me.

They are determined[fn]

to throw me to the ground.

He made darkness his hiding place,

dark storm clouds his canopy around him.

For you meet him with rich blessings;

you place a crown of pure gold on his head.

You give him blessings forever;

you cheer him with joy in your presence.

You will make them burn

like a fiery furnace when you appear;

the LORD will engulf them in his wrath,

and fire will devour them.

Instead, you will put them to flight

when you ready your bowstrings to shoot at them.

Your sons will succeed your ancestors;

you will make them princes throughout the land.

note its ramparts; tour its citadels

so that you can tell a future generation:

Place no trust in oppression

or false hope in robbery.

If wealth increases,

don’t set your heart on it.

Indeed, you put them in slippery places;

you make them fall into ruin.

But as for me, God’s presence is my good.

I have made the Lord GOD my refuge,

so I can tell about all you do.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,

and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like straw before the wind.