Lexicon :: Strong's H376 - 'îš

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us? ”

The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.

So Abimelech warned all the people, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly be put to death.”

and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy.

They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other.[fn] Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

So Laban invited all the men of the place and sponsored a feast.

Leah conceived, gave birth to a son, and named him Reuben,[fn] for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction; surely my husband will love me now.”

She conceived again, gave birth to a son, and said, “At last, my husband will become attached to me because I have borne three sons for him.” Therefore he was named Levi.[fn]

Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my slave to my husband,” and she named him Issachar.[fn]

“God has given me a good gift,” Leah said. “This time my husband will honor me because I have borne six sons for him,” and she named him Zebulun.[fn]

And the man became very rich.[fn] He had many flocks, female and male slaves, and camels and donkeys.

“If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.”

Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

“Your name will no longer be Jacob,” he said. “It will be Israel[fn] because you have struggled with God and with men and have prevailed.”

“We cannot do this thing,” they said to them. “Giving our sister to an uncircumcised man is a disgrace to us.

So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city.

“These men are peaceful toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them.

“But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and killed every male.

“They’ve moved on from here,” the man said. “I heard them say, ‘Let’s go to Dothan.’ ” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.

They said to one another, “Oh, look, here comes that dream expert![fn]

When Midianite traders passed by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph to Egypt.

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her.

He asked the men of the place, “Where is the cult prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim? ”

“There has been no cult prostitute here,” they answered.

So the Adullamite returned to Judah, saying, “I couldn’t find her, and besides, the men of the place said, ‘There has been no cult prostitute here.’ ”

As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these? ”

The LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving[fn] in the household of his Egyptian master.

Now one day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were there.[fn]

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.

“Now a young Hebrew, a slave of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, he interpreted our dreams for us, and each had its own interpretation.

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

and he said to them, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit[fn] in him? ”

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh and no one will be able to raise his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt without your permission.”

But they replied, “We, your servants, were twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now[fn] with our father, and one is no longer living.”

Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us.”