Lexicon :: Strong's H5704 - ʿaḏ

“You will eat bread[fn] by the sweat of your brow

until you return to the ground,

since you were taken from it.

For you are dust,

and you will return to dust.”

Then the LORD said, “I will wipe mankind, whom I created, off the face of the earth, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky ​— ​for I regret that I made them.”

He wiped out every living thing that was on the face of the earth, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

The water continued to recede until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were visible.

and he sent out a raven. It went back and forth until the water had dried up from the earth.

The Canaanite border went from Sidon going toward Gerar as far as Gaza, and going toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim as far as Lasha.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities on the plain and set up his tent near Sodom.

“for I will give you and your offspring[fn] forever all the land that you see.

and the Horites in the mountains of Seir, as far as El-paran by the wilderness.

When Abram heard that his relative had been taken prisoner, he assembled[fn] his 318 trained men, born in his household, and they went in pursuit as far as Dan.

“that I will not take a thread or sandal strap or anything that belongs to you, so you can never say, ‘I made Abram rich.’

“In the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.”[fn]

On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “I give this land to your offspring, from the Brook of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River:

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with blindness[fn] so that they were unable to find the entrance.

“Hurry up! Run to it, for I cannot do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city is Zoar.[fn]

The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab.[fn] He is the father of the Moabites of today.

Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”

When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I’ll also draw water for your camels until they have had enough to drink.”[fn]

A meal was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.”

So Laban said, “Please speak.”

And they[fn] settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt as you go toward Asshur.[fn] He[fn] stayed near[fn] all his relatives.

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

He called it Sheba.[fn] Therefore the name of the city is still Beer-sheba[fn] today.

Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed! ”

“and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides ​— ​

“Look, I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go. I will bring you back to this land, for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

But they replied, “We can’t until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled from the well’s opening. Then we will water the sheep.”

But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself! ” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

“I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Watch yourself! Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’

He commanded them, “You are to say to my lord Esau, ‘This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.

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

That is why, still today, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because he struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.[fn]

He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground seven times until he approached his brother.

“Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent until they returned.

Jacob set up a marker on her grave; it is the marker at Rachel’s grave still today.

At that time Judah left his brothers and settled near an Adullamite named Hirah.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” he replied.

But she said, “Only if you leave something with me until you send it.”

She put Joseph’s garment beside her until his master came home.

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance ​— ​like the sand of the sea ​— ​that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

Since the men had heard that they were going to eat a meal there, they prepared their gift for Joseph’s arrival at noon.

“One is gone from me ​— ​I said he must have been torn to pieces ​— ​and I have never seen him again.