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Lexicon :: Strong's H376 - 'îš

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אִישׁ
Transliteration
'îš
Pronunciation
eesh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contracted for אֱנוֹשׁ (H582) [or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant]
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TWOT Reference: 83a

Strong’s Definitions

אִישׁ ʼîysh, eesh; contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):—also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare H802.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,639x

The KJV translates Strong's H376 in the following manner: man (1,002x), men (210x), one (188x), husband (69x), any (27x), miscellaneous (143x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,639x
The KJV translates Strong's H376 in the following manner: man (1,002x), men (210x), one (188x), husband (69x), any (27x), miscellaneous (143x).

  1. man

    1. man, male (in contrast to woman, female)

    2. husband

    3. human being, person (in contrast to God)

    4. servant

    5. mankind

    6. champion

    7. great man

  2. whosoever

  3. each (adjective)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אִישׁ ʼîysh, eesh; contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):—also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare H802.
STRONGS H376: Abbreviations
אִישׁ 2166 noun masculine man (= vir) (MI, SI, Phoenician אש, perhaps also Sabean אסם compare Prätl.c., but DHMZMG 1883, 330) — א׳ absolute Genesis 2:23 +; construct Genesis 25:27 +; suffix אִישִׁי Genesis 29:32 +, etc.; plural אִישִׁים Psalm 141:4 + 2 times (Phoenician אשם); usually אֲנָשִׁים Genesis 12:20 +, from √ אנשׁ which see; construct אַנְשֵׁי Judges 6:27 +; suffix אֲנָשַׁי 1 Samuel 23:12 etc.; — man, opposed to woman Genesis 2:23, 24; Leviticus 20:27; Numbers 5:6; Deuteronomy 17:2f; Joshua 6:21; Joshua 8:25; Jeremiah 40:7, emphasis on sexual distinction & relation Genesis 19:8; Genesis 24:16; Genesis 38:25; Exodus 22:15; Leviticus 15:16 (שִׁכְבַת זָרַ֑ע) Leviticus 15:18 (בֶּןא׳ אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁכַּב אִישׁ אֹתָהּ שׁ׳־ז׳ וְאִשָּׁה) Leviticus 20:10f; Numbers 5:13f; Deuteronomy 22:22f; Isaiah 4:1 +; thence = husband, especially with suffix Genesis 3:6, 16; Genesis 16:3; Genesis 29:32, 34; Leviticus 21:7; Numbers 30:7f; Deuteronomy 28:56; Judges 13:8f; Ruth 1:3f; 1 Samuel 25:19; Jeremiah 29:6; Ezekiel 16:45 +; figurative of י׳ as husband of Israel אִישִׁי Hosea 2:18 (opposed to בַּעְלִּי); man as procreator, father Ecclesiastes 6:3; of male child Genesis 4:1 compare זֶרַע אֲנָשִׁים 1 Samuel 1:11; man, opposed to beast Exodus 11:7; Leviticus 20:15 (compare אָדָם); compare figurative Psalm 22:7 but also of male of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse) (אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֺ); man, opposed to God Genesis 32:29; Numbers 23:19 לֹא אִישׁ אֵל וִיכַזֵּב (|| וּבֶן־אָדָם וְיִתְנֶחָ֑ם); Job 9:32; Job 32:13; Hosea 11:9 compare Isaiah 31:8; Job 12:10 (רוּחַ כָּל־בְּשַׂר אִישׁ); hence in phrases to denote ordinary, customary, common שֵׁבֶט אֲנָשִׁים 2 Samuel 7:14 (|| נִגְעֵי בְּנֵי אָדָם); לֶחֶם אֲנָשִׁים Ezekiel 24:17, 22 [**אֲנָשִׁים Ezekiel 24:17; Ezekiel 24:22 is textual error; We (apparently Sm) אֲנֻשִׁים; ToyHpt אוֺנִים (Hos 9:4).] (compare Isaiah 8:1); אַמַּת־אִישׁ Deuteronomy 3:11; but also contracted אָדָם Psalm 49:3; Psalm 62:10; man, as valiant 1 Samuel 4:9 (twice in verse) (וִהְיוּ לַאֲנָשִׁים) so, 1 Kings 2:2 compare 1 Samuel 26:15; so אִישׁ חַיִל [H381 1 Samuel 31:12; 2 Samuel 24:9; 1 Kings 1:42] +; also אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה Numbers 31:49; Deuteronomy 2:14, 16; Joshua 5:4, 6 +; even of י׳ Exodus 15:3 יהוה אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה; often prefixed to other nouns in apposition אָדוֺן א׳ Genesis 42:30, 33, שַׂר וְשֹׁפֵט א׳ Exodus 2:14, כֹּהֵן א׳ Leviticus 21:9, סָרִיס א׳ Jeremiah 38:7; particular before adjective, of a people אִישׁ מִצְרִי Genesis 39:1; Exodus 2:11, 19 compare Genesis 37:28; Genesis 38:1, 2; Genesis 39:14; 1 Samuel 17:12; 1 Samuel 30:11, 13 +; a man as resident in, or belonging to a place or people Numbers 25:6; Judges 10:1 + (so Phoenician); usually plural אַנְשֵׁי יִשְׂרָאֵל 1 Samuel 7:11; 1 Samuel 31:7 (twice in verse) compare Joshua 7:4, 5 +; also singular collective Deuteronomy 27:14; Joshua 9:6, 7; Judges 20:11; 1 Samuel 11:8 (see Dr) +; [H382 2 Samuel 10:6, 8] (טוֺב א׳); (so MI10; MI13); men = retainers, followers, soldiers 1 Samuel 18:27; 1 Samuel 23:3; f 1 Samuel 24:3; 1 Samuel 25:13 — Deuteronomy 33:8 singular collective see Di; אִישׁ אֱלֹהִים man of God = prophet Deuteronomy 33:1; Joshua 14:6; 1 Samuel 9:6f; 1 Kings 12:13f + (see אלהים); in phrase followed by abstract אִישׁ חַיִל, מִלְחָמָה א׳ see above; שֵׂיבָה א׳ Deuteronomy 32:25, הַדָּמִים א׳ 2 Samuel 16:7 compare see 8, הַבְּלִיַּעַל א׳ 2 Samuel 16:7, מָוֶת א׳ 1 Kings 2:26, חָמָס א׳ Psalm 140:12; Proverbs 3:31 +; followed by word of occupation, etc. שָׂדֶה א׳ Genesis 25:27, הָאֲדָמָה א׳ Genesis 9:20 (compare Zechariah 13:5), א׳ הַבֵּנַיִם champion 1 Samuel 17:4 (compare Dr) 1 Samuel 17:23, בְּשׂרָה א׳ 2 Samuel 18:20, אִישׁ עֲצָתוֺ his counsellor Isaiah 40:13, compare אִישׁ חֶרְמִי 1 Kings 20:42, רֵעִים א׳ Proverbs 18:24; often distributive = each, every Genesis 9:5; Genesis 10:5; Genesis 40:5 (twice in verse); Exodus 12:3 +; including women Job 42:11; 1 Chronicles 16:3 וַיְחַלֵּק לְכָל־אִישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאִישׁ וְעַד אִשָּׁה לְאִישׁ כִּכַּר־לֶחֶם; of inanimate things 1 Kings 7:30, 36; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Exodus 36:4; Numbers 4:19, 49; Ezekiel 14:4, 7 +; any one Exodus 34:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 34:24 +; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Leviticus 15:2; Leviticus 22:4, 18 +; of gods 2 Kings 18:33 = Isaiah 36:18; one...another וְהִרְגוּ אִישׁ־ אֶת־אָחִיו וְאִישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵהוּ וְאִישׁ אֶת־קְרֹבוֺ Exodus 32:27, ⬩⬩⬩אִישׁ אָחִיו Deuteronomy 1:16; Micah 7:2 (see אָח), רֵעֵהוּ⬩⬩⬩אִישׁ Genesis 11:3, 7 + (see רֵעַ) of inanimate things Genesis 15:10.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:23; 2:23; 2:24; 3:6; 3:16; 4:1; 7:2; 9:5; 9:20; 10:5; 11:3; 11:7; 12:20; 15:10; 16:3; 19:8; 24:16; 25:27; 25:27; 29:32; 29:32; 29:34; 32:29; 37:28; 38:1; 38:2; 38:25; 39:1; 39:14; 40:5; 42:30; 42:33

Exodus

2:11; 2:14; 2:19; 11:7; 12:3; 15:3; 22:15; 32:27; 34:3; 34:24; 36:4

Leviticus

15:2; 15:16; 15:18; 20:10; 20:15; 20:27; 21:7; 21:9; 22:4; 22:18

Numbers

4:19; 4:49; 5:6; 5:13; 23:19; 25:6; 30:7; 31:49

Deuteronomy

1:16; 2:14; 2:16; 3:11; 17:2; 22:22; 27:14; 28:56; 32:25; 33:1; 33:8

Joshua

5:4; 5:6; 6:21; 7:4; 7:5; 8:25; 9:6; 9:7; 14:6

Judges

6:27; 10:1; 13:8; 20:11

Ruth

1:3

1 Samuel

1:11; 4:9; 7:11; 9:6; 11:8; 17:4; 17:12; 17:23; 18:27; 23:3; 23:12; 24:3; 25:13; 25:19; 26:15; 30:11; 30:13; 31:7

2 Samuel

7:14; 16:7; 16:7; 18:20

1 Kings

2:2; 2:26; 7:30; 7:36; 12:13; 20:42

2 Kings

18:33

1 Chronicles

16:3

Job

9:32; 12:10; 32:13; 42:11

Psalms

22:7; 49:3; 62:10; 140:12; 141:4

Proverbs

3:31; 18:24

Ecclesiastes

6:3

Isaiah

4:1; 8:1; 31:8; 36:18; 40:13

Jeremiah

29:6; 38:7; 40:7

Ezekiel

14:4; 14:7; 16:45; 24:17; 24:17; 24:22; 24:22

Hosea

2:18; 9:4; 11:9

Micah

7:2

Zechariah

13:5

H376

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Strong's Number H376 matches the Hebrew אִישׁ ('îš),
which occurs 2,182 times in 1,847 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 37 (Gen 2:23–Gen 24:59)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - And Adam said, This now is bone [fn]of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called [fn]woman, because she was taken out [fn]of her husband.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall [fn]cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission [fn]shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - And Lamech said to his wives, Ada and Sella, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, consider my words, because I have slain a man to my [fn]sorrow and a youth to my [fn]grief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - Now the giants were upon the earth in those days; and after that when the sons of God were wont to go in to the daughters of men, they bore children to them, those were the giants of old, the men of renown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9 - And these are the generations of Noe. Noe was a just man; being perfect in his generation, Noe was well-pleasing to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - And of the clean cattle take in to thee sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - For your blood of your lives will I require at the hand of all wild beasts, and I will require the life of man at the hand of his brother man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:20 - And Noe began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5 - From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And a man said to his neighbour, Come, let us make bricks and bake them with fire. And the brick was to them for stone, and their mortar was bitumen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Come, and having gone down let us there confound their tongue, that they may not understand each the voice of his neighbour.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:20 - And Pharao gave charge to men concerning Abram, to join in sending him forward, and his wife, and all that he had.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - And Abram said to Lot, Let there not be a strife between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen, for we are [fn]brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - And Lot chose for himself all the country round Jordan, and Lot went from the east, and they were separated each from his brother. And Abram dwelt in the land of Chanaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:13 - But the men of Sodom were evil, and exceedingly sinful before God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - And I will make thy seed like the [fn]dust of the earth; if any one is able to number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - Except what things the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men that went with me, Eschol, Aunan, Mambre, these shall take a portion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - So he took to him all these, and divided them in the midst, and set them opposite to each other, but the birds he did not divide.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So Sara the wife of Abram having taken Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - And Abraam took Ismael his son, and all his home-born servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraam, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27 - and all the men of his house, both those born in the house, and those bought with money of foreign nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:2 - And he lifted up his eyes and beheld, and lo! three men stood before him; and having seen them he ran to meet them from the door of his tent, and did obeisance to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 - And the men having risen up from thence looked towards Sodom and Gomorrha. And Abraam went with them, attending them on their journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22 - And the men having departed thence, came to Sodom; and Abraam was still standing before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - But before they went to sleep, the men of the city, the Sodomites, compassed the house, both young and old, all the people together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:5 - And they called out Lot, and said to him, Where are the men that went in to thee this night? bring them out to us that we may be with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - But I have two daughters, who have not known a man. I will bring them out to you, and do ye use them as it may please you, only do not injury to these men, to avoid which they came under the shelter of my [fn]roof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said to him, Stand back there, thou camest in to sojourn, was it also to judge? Now then we would harm thee more than them. And they pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and they drew nigh to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:10 - And the men stretched forth their hands and drew Lot in to them into the house, and shut the door of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:11 - And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, and they were wearied with seeking the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - And the men said to Lot, Hast thou here sons-in-law, or sons or daughters, or if thou hast any other friend in the city, bring them out of this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - But now return the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live; but if thou restore her not, know that thou shalt die and all thine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 - And Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and he spoke all these words in their ears, and all the men feared exceedingly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - but hear us; thou art in the midst of us a king from God; bury thy dead in our choice sepulchres, for not one of us will by any means withhold his sepulchre from thee, so that thou shouldest not bury thy dead there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - Lo! I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of them that inhabit the city come forth to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - And the virgin was very beautiful in appearance, she was a virgin, a man had not known her; and she went down to the well, and filled her water-pot, and came up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:21 - And the man took great notice of her, and remained silent to know whether the Lord had made his way prosperous or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - And it came to pass when all the camels ceased drinking, that the man took golden ear-rings, each of a drachm weight, and he put two bracelets on her hands, their weight was ten pieces of gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:26 - And the man being well pleased, worshipped the Lord,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - And Rebecca had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to meet the man, to the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30 - And it came to pass when he saw the ear-rings and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heard the words of Rebecca his sister, saying, Thus the man spoke to me, that he went to the man, as he stood by the camels at the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:32 - And the man entered into the house, and unloaded the camels, and gave the camels straw and provender, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 - And both he and the men with him ate and drank and went to sleep. And he arose in the morning and said, Send me away, that I may go to my master.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58 - And they called Rebecca, and said to her, Wilt thou go with this man? and she said, I will go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - So they sent forth Rebecca their sister, and her goods, and the servant of Abraam, and his attendants.

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