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Lexicon :: Strong's H310 - 'aḥar

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אַחַר
Transliteration
'aḥar
Pronunciation
akh-ar'
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Part of Speech
feminine adjective, adverb, preposition
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 68b, 68c

Strong’s Definitions

אַחַר ʼachar, akh-ar'; from H309; properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses):—after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 709x

The KJV translates Strong's H310 in the following manner: after (454x), follow (78x), afterward(s) (46x), behind (44x), miscellaneous (87x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 709x
The KJV translates Strong's H310 in the following manner: after (454x), follow (78x), afterward(s) (46x), behind (44x), miscellaneous (87x).

  1. after the following part, behind (of place), hinder, afterwards (of time)

    1. as an adverb

      1. behind (of place)

      2. afterwards (of time)

    2. as a preposition

      1. behind, after (of place)

      2. after (of time)

      3. besides

    3. as a conjunction

      1. after that

    4. as a substantive

      1. hinder part

    5. with other prepositions

      1. from behind

      2. from following after

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַחַר ʼachar, akh-ar'; from H309; properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses):—after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
STRONGS H310: Abbreviations
אַחַר properly substantive the hinder or following part (compare the plural)
1. adverb
a. of place, behind, twice Genesis 22:13 (many MSS. Samaritan Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Ol Ew read אֶחָד see Di) Psalm 68:26 [Psalm 68:25].
b. of time, afterwards Genesis 10:18; Genesis 18:5; Genesis 24:55; Genesis 30:21; Judges 19:5 +; וְאַחַר in laws of P, as Leviticus 14:8, Leviticus 14:19; Leviticus 15:28; Leviticus 22:7; Numbers 5:26 and elsewhere.
2. preposition
a. of place, behind, after Exodus 3:1; Exodus 11:5; 2 Kings 11:6; Songs 2:9; Isaiah 57:8; הָלַח אַחַר to go after, follow Genesis 37:17; 2 Kings 13:2; 2 Kings 23:3; Isaiah 65:2; Ezekiel 13:3; Job 31:7; חָיָה אַחַר 1 Samuel 12:14; מֵאַחַר from after 2 Samuel 7:8; Psalm 78:71; Isaiah 59:13.
b. of time, after Genesis 9:28; Leviticus 25:15 al. [and elsewhere]; הָאֵלֶּה אַחַר הַדְּבָרִים after these things Genesis 15:1; Genesis 22:1; Genesis 39:7; Genesis 40:1; 1 Kings 17:17; 1 Kings 21:1; Ezra 7:1; Esther 2:1; Esther 3:1; אַחַר כֵּן Leviticus 14:36; Deuteronomy 21:13; 1 Samuel 10:5; אַחַר זֶה (late) 2 Chronicles 32:9; followed by infinitive Numbers 6:19; Jeremiah 40:1; 1 Chronicles 2:24; Job 21:3; עַד אַחַר till after Nehemiah 13:19.
c. Nehemiah 5:15 strangely: Ew RV besides; but text probably corrupt, see Be Ry.
3. †conjunction אַחַר אֲשֶׁר after that Ezekiel 40:1; and without אשׁר Leviticus 14:43; Jeremiah 41:16; Job 42:7. As preposition & conjunction the plural אַחֲרֵי is much more frequently, which in any case must be used before suffixes.
Plural only construct אַחֲרֵי with suffix אַחֲרַי, ָאַחֲרֶיך, etc.
1. substantive hinder part 2 Samuel 2:23 בְּאַחֲרֵי הַחֲנִית with the hinder end of the spear.
2. preposition
a. of place, behind, after Genesis 18:10 וְהוּא אַחֲרָיו and it behind him Deuteronomy 11:30; Judges 5:14; 1 Samuel 14:13; 1 Samuel 21:10 [1 Samuel 21:9] ; Hosea 5:8 ָאַחֲרֶיך Behind thee! (sc. Look or The foe is); with a verb as הִבִּיט to look Genesis 19:17; 1 Samuel 24:9 [1 Samuel 24:8], ׁהֵנִיעַ ראֹש to shake the head 2 Kings 19:21 (= Isaiah 37:22), especially verbs expressing or implying motion, as בָּא to enter in (see Dr 2 Samuel 20:14) בִּעֵר, דָּבֵק, דָּלַק, הָיָה, הָלַח, מִלֵּא, פָּנָה, רָדַף, הִשְׁלִיח (see these words).
b. of time, after Genesis 9:9 זַרְעֲכֶם אַחֲרֵיכֶם your seed after you; similarly Genesis 17:7-10, Genesis 17:19; Genesis 35:12; Genesis 48:4; Exodus 28:43; Numbers 25:13 all P (also Deuteronomy 1:8; Deuteronomy 4:37; Deuteronomy 10:15; 1 Samuel 24:22 [1 Samuel 24:21]; 2 Samuel 7:12 ||), & with בָּנָיו Genesis 18:19 J (+ ֺבֵּיתו) Exodus 29:29 P Leviticus 25:46 H [Code of Holiness] Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 12:25, Deuteronomy 12:28; Jeremiah 32:18, Jeremiah 32:39; 1 Chronicles 28:8; Proverbs 20:7, ּדּוֺרוֺתֵינו Joshua 22:27, ֺבֵּיתו Job 21:21; Exodus 10:14; Judges 10:3 etc.; with infinitive Genesis 5:4 ֺאַחֲרֵי הוֺלִידֹו after his begetting Sheth, Genesis 13:14; Genesis 14:17; Genesis 18:12; Genesis 25:11 + often; אַחֲרֵי־כֵן afterwards Genesis 6:4 (אחרי כן אשׁר = afterwards, when, compare 2 Chronicles 35:20) Genesis 15:14; Genesis 23:19; Genesis 25:26; Genesis 32:21 [Genesis 32:20]; Genesis 41:31; Genesis 45:15 etc.; ויהי אחרי־כן as a formula of transition chiefly in 2 Samuel (2 Samuel 2:1; 2 Samuel 8:1 || 2 Samuel 10:1 || 2 Samuel 13:1; 2 Samuel 21:18 ||) compare 1 Samuel 24:6 [1 Samuel 24:5]; Judges 16:4; 2 Kings 6:24; 2 Chronicles 20:1; 2 Chronicles 24:4; in late Hebrew אַחֲרֵי זֹאת Job 42:16; Ezra 9:10; 2 Chronicles 21:18 (+ כָּל־ 2 Chronicles 35:20 (do.); compare Aramaic אַחֲרֵי דְנָה Daniel 2:29, Daniel 2:45, and בָּאתַר דְּנָה Daniel 7:6, Daniel 7:7. — The local (metaphor) and temporal senses blend Psalm 49:14 [Psalm 49:13] ּוְאַחֲרֵיהֶם בְּפִיהֶם יִרְצו & after them (i.e. following, imitating them) men applaud their speech, compare Job 21:33.
3. conjunction אַחֲרֵי אֲשֶׁר after that, with the finite verb Deuteronomy 24:4; Joshua 7:8; Joshua 9:16; Joshua 23:1; Joshua 24:20 +; without אשׁר Leviticus 25:48; 1 Samuel 5:9. (The most common construction of אחרי is as a preposition with the infinitive construct) Joshua 2:7 ּאַחֲרֵי כַּאֲשֶׁר יָֽֽֽצְאו must be an error, either for אחרי אשׁר or for כאשׁר alone (notice אחריהם twice in the same verse); 2 Samuel 24:10 read אַחֲרֵי סָפַר see Dr.
4. with other prepositions: —
a. מֵאַחֲרֵי 57, 1 Chronicles 17:7 מִן־אַחֲרֵי (|| 2 Samuel 7:8 מֵאַחַר);
(α) from behind Genesis 19:26; 2 Samuel 2:23; from after i.e. from following after, usually with שׁוּב or סוּר 1 Samuel 24:2; 2 Samuel 2:22, 2 Samuel 2:26, 2 Samuel 2:30; 2 Samuel 11:15; Joshua 22:16, Joshua 22:18, Joshua 22:23, Joshua 22:29; 1 Samuel 15:11 +; with other verbs of motion, as עָלָה 1 Samuel 14:46; 2 Samuel 20:2, נַעֲלָה 2 Samuel 2:27, לָקַח Amos 7:15; 1 Chronicles 17:7, זָנָה Hosea 1:2; pregnantly Isaiah 30:21 thy ears shall hear a word ָמֵאַחֲרֶיך coming from behind thee, Jeremiah 9:21 [Jeremiah 9:22] (that is נָפַל, see Jeremiah 9:21a [Jeremiah 9:22a]) 1 Samuel 13:7 LXX of Lucian (Lag.) We Dr חָֽרְדוּ מֵאַחֲרָיו
(β) denoting position (מן = off, on the side of; see מן behind Exodus 14:19 (twice in verse); Joshua 8:2, Joshua 8:4, Joshua 8:14; 1 Kings 10:19; Nehemiah 4:7 [Nehemiah 4:13] (ְמֵאַחֲרֵי ל) 2 Chronicles 13:13b.
(γ) of time (rare) † Deuteronomy 29:21 [Deuteronomy 29:22]; Ecclesiastes 10:14; מֵאַחֲרֵי כֵן 2 Samuel 3:28; 2 Samuel 15:1; 2 Chronicles 32:23.
b. אֶל־אַחֲרֵי 2 Samuel 5:23; 2 Kings 9:18 סֹב אֶל־אַחֲרַי 2 Kings 9:19; Zechariah 6:6.
c. † עַל־אַחֲרֵי Ezekiel 41:15 beside, at the back of.

†אַחֲרַי Adjective Proverbs 28:23 (si vera lectio). אָדָם אַחֲרַי a man that turneth backwards (compare Jeremiah 7:24) so Jos Ki De Olp. 429 (doubtfully) Now Sta§ 301 b: according to Ew§ 220 a Hi an abnormal adverb = afterwards, LagPr conjectures ֺבְּאָרְחו compare Greek Version of the LXX ὁδούς.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H311.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

5:4; 6:4; 9:9; 9:28; 10:18; 13:14; 14:17; 15:1; 15:14; 17:7; 17:8; 17:9; 17:10; 17:19; 18:5; 18:10; 18:12; 18:19; 19:17; 19:26; 22:1; 22:13; 23:19; 24:55; 25:11; 25:26; 30:21; 32:20; 35:12; 37:17; 39:7; 40:1; 41:31; 45:15; 48:4

Exodus

3:1; 10:14; 11:5; 14:19; 28:43; 29:29

Leviticus

14:8; 14:19; 14:36; 14:43; 15:28; 22:7; 25:15; 25:46; 25:48

Numbers

5:26; 6:19; 25:13

Deuteronomy

1:8; 4:37; 4:40; 10:15; 11:30; 12:25; 12:28; 21:13; 24:4; 29:22

Joshua

2:7; 7:8; 8:2; 8:4; 8:14; 9:16; 22:16; 22:18; 22:23; 22:27; 22:29; 23:1; 24:20

Judges

5:14; 10:3; 16:4; 19:5

1 Samuel

5:9; 10:5; 12:14; 13:7; 14:13; 14:46; 15:11; 21:9; 24:2; 24:5; 24:8; 24:21

2 Samuel

2:1; 2:22; 2:23; 2:23; 2:26; 2:27; 2:30; 3:28; 5:23; 7:8; 7:8; 7:12; 8:1; 10:1; 11:15; 13:1; 15:1; 20:2; 20:14; 21:18; 24:10

1 Kings

10:19; 17:17; 21:1

2 Kings

6:24; 9:18; 9:19; 11:6; 13:2; 19:21; 23:3

1 Chronicles

2:24; 17:7; 17:7; 28:8

2 Chronicles

13:13; 20:1; 21:18; 24:4; 32:9; 32:23; 35:20; 35:20

Ezra

7:1; 9:10

Nehemiah

4:13; 5:15; 13:19

Esther

2:1; 3:1

Job

21:3; 21:21; 21:33; 31:7; 42:7; 42:16

Psalms

49:13; 68:25; 78:71

Proverbs

20:7; 28:23

Ecclesiastes

10:14

Song of Songs

2:9

Isaiah

30:21; 37:22; 57:8; 59:13; 65:2

Jeremiah

7:24; 9:21; 9:21; 9:22; 9:22; 32:18; 32:39; 40:1; 41:16

Ezekiel

13:3; 40:1; 41:15

Daniel

2:29; 2:45; 7:6; 7:7

Hosea

1:2; 5:8

Amos

7:15

Zechariah

6:6

H310

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Strong's Number H310 matches the Hebrew אַחַר ('aḥar),
which occurs 718 times in 664 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 14 (Gen 5:4–Gen 24:55)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:4 - The days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years; and he had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:7 - Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:10 - Enosh lived after he fathered Kenan 815 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:13 - Kenan lived after he fathered Mahalalel 840 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:16 - Mahalalel lived after he fathered Jared 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:19 - Jared lived after he fathered Enoch 800 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:22 - Enoch walked with God[fn] after he fathered Methuselah 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:26 - Methuselah lived after he fathered Lamech 782 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:30 - Lamech lived after he fathered Noah 595 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - The Nephilim[fn] were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:9 - “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:28 - After the flood Noah lived 350 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:1 - These are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:18 - the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the clans of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, in their nations, and from these the nations spread abroad on the earth after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:10 - These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:11 - And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:13 - And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:15 - And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:17 - And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:19 - And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:21 - And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:23 - And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:25 - And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:17 - After his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:1 - After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:13 - So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,”[fn] for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:7 - And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:8 - And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:9 - And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10 - This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac.[fn] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:5 - while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - The LORD said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife shall have a son.” And Sarah was listening at the tent door behind him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:12 - So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out, and my lord is old, shall I have pleasure?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:19 - For I have chosen[fn] him, that he may command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing righteousness and justice, so that the LORD may bring to Abraham what he has promised him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:6 - Lot went out to the men at the entrance, shut the door after him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:17 - And as they brought them out, one said, “Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:26 - But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:1 - After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:13 - And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:20 - Now after these things it was told to Abraham, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:36 - And Sarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39 - I said to my master, ‘Perhaps the woman will not follow me.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go.”

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