Lexicon :: Strong's G2259 - hēnika

When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,

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

When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,

At daybreak the angels urged Lot on: “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment[fn] of the city.”

As soon as the angels got them outside, one of them[fn] said, “Run for your lives! Don’t look back and don’t stop anywhere on the plain! Run to the mountains, or you will be swept away! ”

“So when God had me wander from my father’s house, I said to her: Show your loyalty to me wherever we go and say about me, ‘He’s my brother.’ ”

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

At evening, the time when women went out to draw water, he made the camels kneel beside a well outside the town.

As the camels finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing half a shekel, and for her wrists two bracelets weighing ten shekels of gold.

As soon as he had seen the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he had heard his sister Rebekah’s words ​— ​“The man said this to me! ” ​— ​he went to the man. He was standing there by the camels at the spring.

“Then you will be free from my oath if you go to my family and they do not give her to you ​— ​you will be free from my oath.’

When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, my father! ”

You will live by your sword,

and you will serve your brother.

But when you rebel,[fn]

you will break his yoke from your neck.

As for the weaklings of the flocks, he did not put out the branches. So it turned out that the weak sheep belonged to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.

“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.

When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called that place Mahanaim.[fn]

The sun shone on him as he passed by Penuel[fn] ​— ​limping because of his hip.

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped off Joseph’s robe, the long-sleeved robe that he had on.

She gave birth to another son and named him Shelah. It was at Chezib that[fn][fn] she gave birth to him.

When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

Although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her.[fn]

When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little food.”

“When we came to the place where we lodged for the night and opened our bags of grain, each one’s silver was at the top of his bag! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.

“This is what happened when we went back to your servant my father: We reported to him the words of my lord.

Joseph could no longer keep his composure in front of all his attendants,[fn] so he called out, “Send everyone away from me! ” No one was with him when he revealed his identity to his brothers.

“When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, some distance from Ephrath in the land of Canaan. I buried her there along the way to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

“Come, let’s deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and when war breaks out, they will join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

“you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians, and he spared our homes.’ ” So the people knelt low and worshiped.

“When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites,[fn] which he swore to your ancestors that he would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you must carry out this ceremony in this month.

“When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD killed every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of humans and the firstborn of livestock. That is why I sacrifice to the LORD all the firstborn of the womb that are males, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

As Aaron was speaking to the entire Israelite community, they turned toward the wilderness, and there in a cloud the LORD’s glory appeared.

They gathered it every morning. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

When he finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets inscribed by the finger of God.

As he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became enraged and threw the tablets out of his hands, smashing them at the base of the mountain.

Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would stand up, each one at the door of his tent, and they would watch Moses until he entered the tent.

“and when my glory passes by, I will put you in the crevice of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

“For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory. No one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

But whenever Moses went before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil until he came out. After he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,

The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey.

“once he has sinned and acknowledged his guilt ​— ​he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found,

“You and your sons are not to drink wine or beer when you enter the tent of meeting, or else you will die; this is a permanent statute throughout your generations.

“As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there.

Whenever the cloud was lifted up above the tent, the Israelites would set out; at the place where the cloud stopped, there the Israelites camped.

“If you listen to and are careful to keep these ordinances, the LORD your God will keep his covenant loyalty with you, as he swore to your ancestors.