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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 2,183 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 is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. H376

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - Therefore shall a man H376 leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband H376 with her; and he did eat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, H376 and he shall rule over thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man H376 from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man H376 to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9 - These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man H376 and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male H376 and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male H376 and his female.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man's H376 brother will I require the life of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:20 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, H376 and he planted a vineyard:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5 - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one H376 after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - And they said one H376 to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one H376 another's speech.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:20 - And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one H376 from the other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:13 - But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man H376 can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - Save only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each H376 piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - And Sarai Abram's wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband H376 Abram to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27 - And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:2 - And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 - And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22 - And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; H376 let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as is good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, H376 even Lot, and came near to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:10 - But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man H376 in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - Now therefore restore the man H376 his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 - Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were sore afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none H376 of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man H376 known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:21 - And the man H376 wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man H376 took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:26 - And the man H376 bowed down his head, and worshipped the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, H376 unto the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30 - And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man H376 unto me; that he came unto the man; H376 and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:32 - And the man H376 came into the house: and he ungirded his camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the men's feet that were with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 - And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:58

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58 - And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? H376 And she said, I will go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:59

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.

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