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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 - Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:10 - A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:11 - The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:12 - (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin[fn] and onyx are also there.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:23 - So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:14 - Pathrusites, Kasluhites (from whom the Philistines came) and Caphtorites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:2 - As people moved eastward,[fn] they found a plain in Shinar[fn] and settled there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:9 - That is why it was called Babel[fn]—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, the wife of his son Abram, and together they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. But when they came to Harran, they settled there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:8 - From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 - Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - From the Negev he went from place to place until he came to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had been earlier

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:4 - and where he had first built an altar. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:18 - So Abram went to live near the great trees of Mamre at Hebron, where he pitched his tents. There he built an altar to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:10 - Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and when the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some of the men fell into them and the rest fled to the hills.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 - When the men got up to leave, they looked down toward Sodom, and Abraham walked along with them to see them on their way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22 - The men turned away and went toward Sodom, but Abraham remained standing before the LORD.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - what if the number of the righteous is five less than fifty? Will you destroy the whole city for lack of five people?” “If I find forty-five there,” he said, “I will not destroy it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:29 - Once again he spoke to him, “What if only forty are found there?” He said, “For the sake of forty, I will not do it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:30 - Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:31 - Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:32 - Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - Look, here is a town near enough to run to, and it is small. Let me flee to it—it is very small, isn’t it? Then my life will be spared.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[fn])

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:27 - Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - Now Abraham moved on from there into the region of the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. For a while he stayed in Gerar,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:13 - And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.” ’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:17 - God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:31 - So that place was called Beersheba,[fn] because the two men swore an oath there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:33

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:9 - When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:13 - and he said to Ephron in their hearing, “Listen to me, if you will. I will pay the price of the field. Accept it from me so I can bury my dead there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:6 - “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring[fn] I will give this land’—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - the field Abraham had bought from the Hittites.[fn] There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:8 - When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelek king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:17 - So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:19 - Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:22 - He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth,[fn] saying, “Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:23 - From there he went up to Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:25 - Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:9 - Go out to the flock and bring me two choice young goats, so I can prepare some tasty food for your father, just the way he likes it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:45

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”

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