Lexicon :: Strong's H637 - 'ap̄

Now the serpent was more crafty (subtle, skilled in deceit) than any living creature of the field which the LORD God had made. And [fn]the serpent (Satan) said to the woman, “Can it really be that God has said, ‘You shall not eat from [fn]any tree of the garden’?”

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation [of the dream] was good, he said to Joseph, “I also dreamed, and [in my dream] there were three cake baskets on my head;

“Indeed, He loves His people;

All [fn]Your holy ones are in Your hand.

They followed in Your steps;

They accept and receive direction from You.

Of Gad he said,

“Blessed is the one who enlarges Gad;

He lurks like a lioness,

And tears the arm and the crown of the head.

“So Israel dwells in safety and security,

The fountain of Jacob alone and secluded,

In a land of grain and new wine;

His heavens also drop down dew.

“Her wise ladies answered her,

Indeed, she repeated her words to herself,

“The LORD makes poor and makes rich;

He brings low and He lifts up.

Now Joab went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, even Beth-maacah, and all the Berites; and they assembled and also went after Sheba.

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

Tremble [reverently] before Him, all the earth;

The world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

“But will God actually dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built!

“Even when they had made for themselves

A [fn]calf of cast metal

And said, ‘This is your god

Who brought you up from Egypt,’

And committed great [and contemptible] blasphemies,

In those days I saw some in Judah who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves or sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I protested and warned them on the day they sold the produce.

‘How much more [will He blame and charge] those who dwell in houses (bodies) of clay,

Whose foundations are in the dust,

Who are crushed like a moth.

“You would cast lots (gamble) over the fatherless

And bargain away your friend.

“How can I answer Him [and plead my case],

Choosing my words [to reason] with Him?

“You also open Your eyes upon him

And bring him into judgment with Yourself.

“Indeed, you are doing away with fear,

And you are diminishing meditation before God.

How much less [pure and clean is] the one who is repulsive and corrupt,

Man, who drinks unrighteousness and injustice like water!

“And if it were true that I have erred,

My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].

How much less man, that maggot,

And the son of man, that worm!”