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Lexicon :: Strong's H8033 - šām

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שָׁם
Transliteration
šām
Pronunciation
shawm
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive particle [rather from the relative pronoun, אֲשֶׁר (H834)]; there (transferring to time) then
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 2404

Strong’s Definitions

שָׁם shâm, shawm; a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, H834); there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence:—in it, thence, there (-in, of, out), thither, whither.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's H8033 in the following manner: there, therein, thither, whither, in it, thence, thereout.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's H8033 in the following manner: there, therein, thither, whither, in it, thence, thereout.

  1. there, thither

    1. there

    2. thither (after verbs of motion)

    3. from there, thence

    4. then (as an adverb of time)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׁם shâm, shawm; a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, H834); there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence:—in it, thence, there (-in, of, out), thither, whither.
STRONGS H8033: Abbreviations
שָׁם adverb there, thither (Arabic bdb102701 there, compare bdb102702 then; Biblical Aramaic תַּמָּה, Egyptian Aramaic תמה S-CPap. A 4, J 6, Targum תַּמָּן (with demonstrative n, compare אֱדַיִן beside אֲזַי), Syriac bdb102703; ZenjHad. 8 (Cooke159) שם); —
1.
a. there Genesis 2:8, Genesis 2:12; Genesis 11:2, Genesis 11:7, Genesis 11:31 + often; placed early in sentence for emphasis, Micah 4:10 שָׁם תִּנָּצֵ֑לִי, Nahum 3:15; Ezekiel 32:22, Ezekiel 32:24; Psalm 104:26 +, וְשָׁם ֗֗֗ Genesis 41:12; Exodus 15:27; Numbers 13:22, Numbers 13:33 +, שָׁם ֗֗֗ וְשָׁם Exodus 15:25; Deuteronomy 12:14; Isaiah 27:10; Job 3:17 +, וְהִנֵּה שָׁם ֗֗֗ Genesis 29:2, כִּי שָׁם ֗֗֗ Genesis 11:9; Genesis 21:31; Genesis 35:7; 2 Samuel 1:21; 2 Samuel 15:21 +, אַךְ שָׁם ֗֗֗ Isaiah 34:14, Isaiah 34:15, גַּם שָׁם ֗֗֗ Isaiah 23:12; Isaiah 57:7; Psalm 139:10; resuming a preceding 'where,' Job 39:30 בַּאֲשֶׁר חֲלָלִים שָׁם הוּא, Judges 5:27; Jeremiah 22:12; Ecclesiastes 11:3, compare Ecclesiastes 1:7. Repeated, שָׁם ֗֗֗ שָׁם here... there Isaiah 28:10, Isaiah 28:13. In poetry, pointing to a spot in which a scene is localized vividly in the imagination, Psalm 14:5 שׁם פחדו פחד there feared they a fear! Psalm 36:13 [Psalm 36:12], compare Psalm 48:7 [Psalm 48:6]; Psalm 66:6; Psalm 132:17; Hosea 6:7; Zephaniah 1:14. — Habakkuk 3:4 read probably (We Now) שָׂם the flashes at his side made he the hiding of his power; Ecclesiastes 3:17 שָׁם = with God, in the Divine plan or scheme: but read perhaps שָׂם Hi De and others
b. preceded by the rel., אֲשֶׁר שָׁם where, Genesis 2:11; Exodus 20:21; 1 Samuel 9:10 +, usually with one or more words between, Genesis 13:3, Genesis 13:14; Genesis 19:27; Exodus 29:42; 2 Samuel 11:16; 2 Kings 23:27 + often; after בַּאֲשֶׁר, בַּאֲשֶׁר הוּא שָׁם Genesis 21:17. With אשׁר omitted (the relative being indicated by construct, Ges§ 130 c, d) Ezekiel 39:11 מְקוֺם שָׁם קֶבֶר בְּיִשְׂר׳ a place where a grave (may be) in Israel, but Greek Version of the LXX Targum Co Or and others read שֵׁם a place of renown.
2. thither, after verbs of motion ( = שָׁ֫מָּה, see 3), H8033Deuteronomy 1:37 לֹא תָבאֹ שָׁם, Judges 19:15; Judges 21:10; 1 Samuel 2:14; 1 Samuel 9:6 and elsewhere; אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ שָׁם whither, 1 Kings 18:10; 1 Kings 21:18; 2 Kings 1:4,2 Kings 1:6, 2 Kings 1:16; Isaiah 20:6, more often in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, as Jeremiah 8:3; Jeremiah 22:27; Jeremiah 23:3,Jeremiah 23:8; Jeremiah 45:5 +, Ezekiel 4:13; Ezekiel 12:16; Ezekiel 36:20, Ezekiel 36:22 +; so שֶׁשָּׁם Psalm 122:4.
3. with ה locative, שָׁ֫מָּה (shắmmāh):
a. after verbs of motion, thither, Genesis 19:20 לָנוּס שָׁ֫מָּה to flee thither, Genesis 19:22; Genesis 20:13; Genesis 24:6; Genesis 29:3; Deuteronomy 1:38 + often; = into it, therein (of a basket, pit, etc.), Exodus 16:33 וְתֶןשָֿׁ֫מָּה מְלֹא הָעֹמֶר, Exodus 21:33 וְנָפַל שָׁמָּה, Exodus 30:18; Judges 8:25; 2 Kings 12:10; pregnantly, after a verb implying motion, as to bury, Genesis 23:13 וְאֶקְבְּרָה אֶתמֵֿתִי שָׁ֫מָּה, Genesis 25:10; Genesis 49:31; Genesis 50:5 (all P), נוֺעַד to meet Exodus 29:42, Exodus 29:43; Exodus 30:6, Exodus 30:36; Numbers 17:19 [Numbers 17:4] (all P), Joshua 2:16; Joshua 7:3; Jeremiah 13:7; Joel 4:7 [Joel 3:7], perhaps Songs 8:5 (? c).
b. אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ שָׁ֫מָּה whither Genesis 20:13; Numbers 33:54; Deuteronomy 4:5 ,Deuteronomy 4:14 + often; where 2 Kings 23:8; 1 Chronicles 4:41.
c. more rarely, i. q. שָׁם there, Genesis 43:30 וַיֵּבְךְ שָׁ֫מָּה, Joshua 2:1; Judges 16:27; 2 Kings 4:11; 2 Kings 9:16; Hosea 2:17 [Hosea 2:15]; Isaiah 22:18; Isaiah 34:15; Isaiah 65:9; Jeremiah 18:2; Jeremiah 27:22; Ezekiel 23:3; Ezekiel 32:29, Ezekiel 32:30 (Ezekiel 32:22; Ezekiel 32:24; Ezekiel 32:26 שָׁם), [H3074 Ezekiel 48:35] שָׁ֫מָּה י׳, Psalm 76:4 [Psalm 76:3]; Psalm 122:5; Ecclesiastes 3:16.
4. מִשָּׁם from there, thence:
a. often after verbs of departing, taking, etc., Genesis 2:10; Genesis 11:8, Genesis 11:9; Genesis 12:8; Genesis 18:16; Genesis 24:7; Genesis 42:2, etc., Numbers 13:23; Numbers 21:12; Numbers 22:41 וַיַּרְא מִשָּׁם, Deuteronomy 4:29 וּבִקַּשְׁתֶּם מִשָּׁם, Deuteronomy 30:4; Jeremiah 37:12; Hosea 2:17 [Hosea 2:15]; Amos 9:2, Amos 9:3, Amos 9:4; Job 39:29 +. Peculiarly, Genesis 49:24 מִשָּׁם רֹעֶה אֶבֶן יִשְׂר׳ Ges De RVm from there [from heaven], (from) the Shepherd (י׳), the Stone (Rock) of Israel, Ew Di Sta from there (where is) the Shepherd of (רֹעֵה) the (Bethel-)stone of Israel; but both forced: text dubious; Gunk by the name (מִשֵּׁם; so Syriac Version) of the Shepherd, etc. (as Ew Di).
b. אֲשֶׁר ֗֗֗ מִשָּׁם whence Genesis 24:5; Numbers 23:13 +.
c. expressing origin, Genesis 3:23 the ground אֲשֶׁר לֻקַּח מִשָּׁם, Genesis 10:14 whence (= from whom) came forth the Philistines, Judges 19:18 מִשָּׁם אָנֹכִי, 1 Samuel 10:12 אִישׁ מִשָּׁם, Isaiah 65:20.
d. of the mass, from which something is taken or made, Genesis 27:9; Genesis 30:32 (of צאֹן), Leviticus 2:2 וְקָמַץ מִשָּׁם זגו׳ (from the meal, etc., of a מנחה), 1 Kings 17:13 אַךְ עֲשִׁי לִי מִשָּׁם עֻגָה קְטַנָּה i.e. from the meal and oil, 2 Kings 7:2, 2 Kings 7:19 וּמִשָּׁם לֹא תאֵֹֽֽֽכל׃, Ezekiel 5:3.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H8536.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:8; 2:10; 2:11; 2:12; 3:23; 10:14; 11:2; 11:7; 11:8; 11:9; 11:9; 11:31; 12:8; 13:3; 13:14; 18:16; 19:20; 19:22; 19:27; 20:13; 20:13; 21:17; 21:31; 23:13; 24:5; 24:6; 24:7; 25:10; 27:9; 29:2; 29:3; 30:32; 35:7; 41:12; 42:2; 43:30; 49:24; 49:31; 50:5

Exodus

15:25; 15:27; 16:33; 20:21; 21:33; 29:42; 29:42; 29:43; 30:6; 30:18; 30:36

Leviticus

2:2

Numbers

13:22; 13:23; 13:33; 17:4; 21:12; 22:41; 23:13; 33:54

Deuteronomy

1:37; 1:38; 4:5; 4:14; 4:29; 12:14; 30:4

Joshua

2:1; 2:16; 7:3

Judges

5:27; 8:25; 16:27; 19:15; 19:18; 21:10

1 Samuel

2:14; 9:6; 9:10; 10:12

2 Samuel

1:21; 11:16; 15:21

1 Kings

17:13; 18:10; 21:18

2 Kings

1:4; 1:6; 1:16; 4:11; 7:2; 7:19; 9:16; 12:10; 23:8; 23:27

1 Chronicles

4:41

Job

3:17; 39:29; 39:30

Psalms

14:5; 36:12; 48:6; 66:6; 76:3; 104:26; 122:4; 122:5; 132:17; 139:10

Ecclesiastes

1:7; 3:16; 3:17; 11:3

Song of Songs

8:5

Isaiah

20:6; 22:18; 23:12; 27:10; 28:10; 28:13; 34:14; 34:15; 34:15; 57:7; 65:9; 65:20

Jeremiah

8:3; 13:7; 18:2; 22:12; 22:27; 23:3; 23:8; 27:22; 37:12; 45:5

Ezekiel

4:13; 5:3; 12:16; 23:3; 32:22; 32:22; 32:24; 32:24; 32:26; 32:29; 32:30; 36:20; 36:22; 39:11

Hosea

2:15; 2:15; 2:17; 6:7

Joel

3:7

Amos

9:2; 9:3; 9:4

Micah

4:10

Nahum

3:15

Habakkuk

3:4

Zephaniah

1:14

H8033

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Strong's Number H8033 matches the Hebrew שָׁם (šām),
which occurs 835 times in 732 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 15 (Gen 2:8–Gen 27:45)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:8 - And the LORD God [fn]planted a garden (oasis) in the east, in Eden (delight, land of happiness); and He put the man whom He had formed (created) there.

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Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four [branching] rivers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:11 - The first [river] is named Pishon; it flows around the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - The gold of that land is good; bdellium (a fragrant, valuable resin) and the [fn]onyx stone are found there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - therefore the LORD God sent Adam away from the Garden of Eden, to till and cultivate the ground from which he was taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:14 - and Pathrusim and Casluhim—from whom came the Philistines—and Caphtorim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - “Come, let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) go down and there confuse and mix up their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the surface of the entire earth; and they stopped building the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - Therefore the name of the city was [fn]Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the entire earth; and from that place the LORD scattered and dispersed them over the surface of all the earth.

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Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together to go from Ur of the Chaldeans into the land of Canaan; but when they came to Haran [about five hundred and fifty miles northwest of Ur], they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:7 - Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your descendants.” So Abram built an altar there to [honor] the LORD who had appeared to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - Then he moved on from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD [in worship through prayer, praise, and thanksgiving].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 -

Now there was a famine in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to live temporarily, for the famine in the land was oppressive and severe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - He journeyed on from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - where he had first built an altar; and there Abram called on the name of the LORD [in prayer].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 -

The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had left him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are standing, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - Then Abram broke camp and moved his tent, and came and settled by the [grove of the great] terebinths (oak trees) of Mamre [the Amorite], which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to [honor] the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar (bitumen) pits; and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell into them. But the remainder [of the kings] who survived fled to the hill country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 -

Then the men got up from there, and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham walked with them to send them on the way.

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Now the [two] men (angelic beings) turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - “If five of the fifty righteous are lacking, will You destroy the entire city for lack of five?” And He said, “If I find [at least] forty-five [righteous people] there, I will not destroy it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Abraham spoke to Him yet again and said, “Suppose [only] forty are found there.” And He said, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty [who are righteous].”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - Then Abraham said [to Him], “Oh, may the Lord not be angry, and I will speak; suppose thirty [righteous people] are found there?” And He said, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - And he said, “Now behold, I have decided to speak to the Lord [again]. Suppose [only] twenty [righteous people] are found there?” And the Lord said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the twenty.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Then Abraham said, “Oh may the Lord not be angry [with me], and I will speak only this once; suppose ten [righteous people] are found there?” And He said, “I will not destroy it for the sake of the ten.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - “Now look, this town [in the distance] is near enough for us to flee to, and it is small [with only a few people]. Please, let me escape there (is it not small?) so that my life will be saved.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - “Hurry and take refuge there, for I cannot do anything [to punish Sodom] until you arrive there.” For this reason the town was named Zoar (few, small).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 -

Abraham started out early the next morning to the place where he [only the day before] had stood before the LORD;

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Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the Negev (the South country), and settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived temporarily in Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - “When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This kindness and loyalty you can show me: at every place we stop, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What troubles you, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy from where he is [resting].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - Therefore that place was called Beersheba (Well of the Oath or Well of the Seven), because there the two of them swore an oath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:33 - Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the LORD [in prayer], [fn]the Eternal God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - God said, “Take now your son, your only son [of [fn]promise], whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of [fn]Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

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When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood, and bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - He said to Ephron in the presence of the people of the land, “If you will only please listen to me and accept my offer. I will give you the price of the field; accept it from me and I will bury my dead there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman will not be willing to follow me back to this country; should I take your son back to the country from which you came?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:6 - Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - “The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, from the land of my family and my birth, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you [to guide you], and you will take a wife from there for my son [and bring her here].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - “If the woman is not willing to follow you [to this land], then you will be free from this my oath and blameless; only you must never take my son back there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - the field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - It happened when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac [fn]caressing Rebekah his wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:17 - So Isaac left that region and camped in the Valley of Gerar, and settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of flowing [spring] water,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over that one; so he named it Rehoboth (broad places), saying, “For now the LORD has made [fn]room for us, and we shall be [fn]prosperous in the land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 -

Then he went up from there to Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 -

So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD [in prayer]. He pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - “Go now to the flock and bring me two good and suitable young goats, and I will make them into a savory dish [of meat] for your father, the kind he loves [to eat].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - “When your brother’s anger toward you subsides and he forgets what you did to him, then [fn]I will send and bring you back from there. Why should I be deprived of you both in a single day?”

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