Lexicon :: Strong's G1625 - ektrephō

“God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.[fn]

“There I will sustain you, for there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise, you, your household, and everything you have will become destitute.” ’

So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks of sheep, the herds of cattle, and the donkeys. That year he provided them with food in exchange for all their livestock.

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.

Tahpenes’s sister gave birth to Hadad’s son Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there along with Pharaoh’s sons.

But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and attended him.

The young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying:

If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, bring me the heads of your master’s sons[fn] at this time tomorrow at Jezreel.

All seventy of the king’s sons were being cared for by the city’s prominent men.

Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ’ This is what you should say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

for from my youth, I raised him as his father,

and since the day I was born[fn] I guided the widow —

They crouch down to give birth to their young;

they deliver their newborn.[fn]

He lets me lie down in green pastures;

he leads me beside quiet waters.

The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly,

and one who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

Be ashamed, Sidon, the stronghold of the sea,

for the sea has spoken:

“I have not been in labor or given birth.

I have not raised young men

or brought up young women.”

“Then you will say within yourself,

‘Who fathered these for me?

I was deprived of my children and unable to conceive,

exiled and wandering —

but who brought them up?

See, I was left by myself —

but these, where did they come from? ’ ”[fn]

“The waters caused it to grow;

the underground springs made it tall,

directing their rivers all around

the place where the tree was planted

and sending their channels

to all the trees of the field.

Even if they raise children,

I will bereave them of each one.

Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

And the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you did not labor over and did not grow. It appeared in a night and perished in a night.

Though I sow them among the nations,

they will remember me in the distant lands;

they and their children will live and return.