Lexicon :: Strong's H859 - 'atâ

Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from? ”

So the LORD God said to the serpent:

Because you have done this,

you are cursed more than any livestock

and more than any wild animal.

You will move on your belly

and eat dust all the days of your life.

“You will eat bread[fn] by the sweat of your brow

until you return to the ground,

since you were taken from it.

For you are dust,

and you will return to dust.”

“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.”

“So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood you have shed.[fn]

“But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark with your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives.

“Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them.”

Then the LORD said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you alone are righteous before me in this generation.

“Come out of the ark, you, your wife, your sons, and your sons’ wives with you.

“But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarai, “Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are.

“Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.”

After Lot had separated from him, the LORD said to Abram, “Look from the place where you are. Look north and south, east and west,

“But you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

So she named the LORD who spoke to her: “You are El-roi,”[fn] for she said, “In this place, have I actually seen the one who sees me? ”[fn]

God also said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep my covenant.

“Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.”

At that time Abimelech, accompanied by Phicol the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.

Abimelech replied, “I don’t know who did this thing. You didn’t report anything to me, so I hadn’t heard about it until today.”

Then he said, “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

“Listen to us, my lord. You are a prince of God[fn] among us. Bury your dead in our finest burial place.[fn] None of us will withhold from you his burial place for burying your dead.”

and said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, “Listen to me, if you please. Let me pay the price of the field. Accept it from me, and let me bury my dead there.”

“Whose daughter are you? ” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night? ”

“and who responds to me, ‘Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels also’ ​— ​let her be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.

“Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you? ’ She responded, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.

They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:

Our sister, may you become

thousands upon ten thousands.

May your offspring possess

the city gates of their[fn] enemies.

Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me? You hated me and sent me away from you.”

“You will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only what was good to you, sending you away in peace. You are now blessed by the LORD.”

When he came to his father, he said, “My father.”

And he answered, “Here I am. Who are you, my son? ”

Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not? ”

Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau? ”

And he replied, “I am.”

But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you? ”

He answered, “I am Esau your firstborn son.”

The LORD was standing there beside him,[fn] saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your offspring the land on which you are lying.

Jacob asked the men at the well, “My brothers! Where are you from? ”

“We’re from Haran,” they answered.

Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”[fn]

After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

“Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go. You know how hard I have worked for you.”

So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your herds have fared with me.

“You know that with all my strength I have served your father

Then Laban answered Jacob, “The daughters are my daughters; the children, my children; and the flocks, my flocks! Everything you see is mine! But what can I do today for these daughters of mine or for the children they have borne?

“This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm.

“You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to be counted.’ ”

And he told the first one, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you? ’

Judah replied, “Let her keep the items for herself; otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send this young goat, but you couldn’t find her.”

“No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do this immense evil, and how could I sin against God? ”

“You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your commands.[fn] Only I, as king,[fn] will be greater than you.”

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said to them, “You are spies. You have come to see the weakness[fn] of the land.”