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Lexicon :: Strong's H376 - 'îš

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אִישׁ
Transliteration
'îš
Pronunciation
eesh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Contracted for אֱנוֹשׁ (H582) [or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant]
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 83a

Strong’s Definitions

אִישׁ ʼîysh, eesh; contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):—also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare H802.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,639x

The KJV translates Strong's H376 in the following manner: man (1,002x), men (210x), one (188x), husband (69x), any (27x), miscellaneous (143x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,639x
The KJV translates Strong's H376 in the following manner: man (1,002x), men (210x), one (188x), husband (69x), any (27x), miscellaneous (143x).

  1. man

    1. man, male (in contrast to woman, female)

    2. husband

    3. human being, person (in contrast to God)

    4. servant

    5. mankind

    6. champion

    7. great man

  2. whosoever

  3. each (adjective)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אִישׁ ʼîysh, eesh; contracted for H582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant); a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation):—also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare H802.
STRONGS H376: Abbreviations
אִישׁ 2166 noun masculine man (= vir) (MI, SI, Phoenician אש, perhaps also Sabean אסם compare Prätl.c., but DHMZMG 1883, 330) — א׳ absolute Genesis 2:23 +; construct Genesis 25:27 +; suffix אִישִׁי Genesis 29:32 +, etc.; plural אִישִׁים Psalm 141:4 + 2 times (Phoenician אשם); usually אֲנָשִׁים Genesis 12:20 +, from √ אנשׁ which see; construct אַנְשֵׁי Judges 6:27 +; suffix אֲנָשַׁי 1 Samuel 23:12 etc.; — man, opposed to woman Genesis 2:23, 24; Leviticus 20:27; Numbers 5:6; Deuteronomy 17:2f; Joshua 6:21; Joshua 8:25; Jeremiah 40:7, emphasis on sexual distinction & relation Genesis 19:8; Genesis 24:16; Genesis 38:25; Exodus 22:15; Leviticus 15:16 (שִׁכְבַת זָרַ֑ע) Leviticus 15:18 (בֶּןא׳ אֲשֶׁר יִשְׁכַּב אִישׁ אֹתָהּ שׁ׳־ז׳ וְאִשָּׁה) Leviticus 20:10f; Numbers 5:13f; Deuteronomy 22:22f; Isaiah 4:1 +; thence = husband, especially with suffix Genesis 3:6, 16; Genesis 16:3; Genesis 29:32, 34; Leviticus 21:7; Numbers 30:7f; Deuteronomy 28:56; Judges 13:8f; Ruth 1:3f; 1 Samuel 25:19; Jeremiah 29:6; Ezekiel 16:45 +; figurative of י׳ as husband of Israel אִישִׁי Hosea 2:18 (opposed to בַּעְלִּי); man as procreator, father Ecclesiastes 6:3; of male child Genesis 4:1 compare זֶרַע אֲנָשִׁים 1 Samuel 1:11; man, opposed to beast Exodus 11:7; Leviticus 20:15 (compare אָדָם); compare figurative Psalm 22:7 but also of male of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse) (אִישׁ וְאִשְׁתּוֺ); man, opposed to God Genesis 32:29; Numbers 23:19 לֹא אִישׁ אֵל וִיכַזֵּב (|| וּבֶן־אָדָם וְיִתְנֶחָ֑ם); Job 9:32; Job 32:13; Hosea 11:9 compare Isaiah 31:8; Job 12:10 (רוּחַ כָּל־בְּשַׂר אִישׁ); hence in phrases to denote ordinary, customary, common שֵׁבֶט אֲנָשִׁים 2 Samuel 7:14 (|| נִגְעֵי בְּנֵי אָדָם); לֶחֶם אֲנָשִׁים Ezekiel 24:17, 22 [**אֲנָשִׁים Ezekiel 24:17; Ezekiel 24:22 is textual error; We (apparently Sm) אֲנֻשִׁים; ToyHpt אוֺנִים (Hos 9:4).] (compare Isaiah 8:1); אַמַּת־אִישׁ Deuteronomy 3:11; but also contracted אָדָם Psalm 49:3; Psalm 62:10; man, as valiant 1 Samuel 4:9 (twice in verse) (וִהְיוּ לַאֲנָשִׁים) so, 1 Kings 2:2 compare 1 Samuel 26:15; so אִישׁ חַיִל [H381 1 Samuel 31:12; 2 Samuel 24:9; 1 Kings 1:42] +; also אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה Numbers 31:49; Deuteronomy 2:14, 16; Joshua 5:4, 6 +; even of י׳ Exodus 15:3 יהוה אִישׁ מִלְחָמָה; often prefixed to other nouns in apposition אָדוֺן א׳ Genesis 42:30, 33, שַׂר וְשֹׁפֵט א׳ Exodus 2:14, כֹּהֵן א׳ Leviticus 21:9, סָרִיס א׳ Jeremiah 38:7; particular before adjective, of a people אִישׁ מִצְרִי Genesis 39:1; Exodus 2:11, 19 compare Genesis 37:28; Genesis 38:1, 2; Genesis 39:14; 1 Samuel 17:12; 1 Samuel 30:11, 13 +; a man as resident in, or belonging to a place or people Numbers 25:6; Judges 10:1 + (so Phoenician); usually plural אַנְשֵׁי יִשְׂרָאֵל 1 Samuel 7:11; 1 Samuel 31:7 (twice in verse) compare Joshua 7:4, 5 +; also singular collective Deuteronomy 27:14; Joshua 9:6, 7; Judges 20:11; 1 Samuel 11:8 (see Dr) +; [H382 2 Samuel 10:6, 8] (טוֺב א׳); (so MI10; MI13); men = retainers, followers, soldiers 1 Samuel 18:27; 1 Samuel 23:3; f 1 Samuel 24:3; 1 Samuel 25:13 — Deuteronomy 33:8 singular collective see Di; אִישׁ אֱלֹהִים man of God = prophet Deuteronomy 33:1; Joshua 14:6; 1 Samuel 9:6f; 1 Kings 12:13f + (see אלהים); in phrase followed by abstract אִישׁ חַיִל, מִלְחָמָה א׳ see above; שֵׂיבָה א׳ Deuteronomy 32:25, הַדָּמִים א׳ 2 Samuel 16:7 compare see 8, הַבְּלִיַּעַל א׳ 2 Samuel 16:7, מָוֶת א׳ 1 Kings 2:26, חָמָס א׳ Psalm 140:12; Proverbs 3:31 +; followed by word of occupation, etc. שָׂדֶה א׳ Genesis 25:27, הָאֲדָמָה א׳ Genesis 9:20 (compare Zechariah 13:5), א׳ הַבֵּנַיִם champion 1 Samuel 17:4 (compare Dr) 1 Samuel 17:23, בְּשׂרָה א׳ 2 Samuel 18:20, אִישׁ עֲצָתוֺ his counsellor Isaiah 40:13, compare אִישׁ חֶרְמִי 1 Kings 20:42, רֵעִים א׳ Proverbs 18:24; often distributive = each, every Genesis 9:5; Genesis 10:5; Genesis 40:5 (twice in verse); Exodus 12:3 +; including women Job 42:11; 1 Chronicles 16:3 וַיְחַלֵּק לְכָל־אִישׁ יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאִישׁ וְעַד אִשָּׁה לְאִישׁ כִּכַּר־לֶחֶם; of inanimate things 1 Kings 7:30, 36; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Exodus 36:4; Numbers 4:19, 49; Ezekiel 14:4, 7 +; any one Exodus 34:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 34:24 +; also אִישׁ אִישׁ Leviticus 15:2; Leviticus 22:4, 18 +; of gods 2 Kings 18:33 = Isaiah 36:18; one...another וְהִרְגוּ אִישׁ־ אֶת־אָחִיו וְאִישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵהוּ וְאִישׁ אֶת־קְרֹבוֺ Exodus 32:27, ⬩⬩⬩אִישׁ אָחִיו Deuteronomy 1:16; Micah 7:2 (see אָח), רֵעֵהוּ⬩⬩⬩אִישׁ Genesis 11:3, 7 + (see רֵעַ) of inanimate things Genesis 15:10.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:23; 2:23; 2:24; 3:6; 3:16; 4:1; 7:2; 9:5; 9:20; 10:5; 11:3; 11:7; 12:20; 15:10; 16:3; 19:8; 24:16; 25:27; 25:27; 29:32; 29:32; 29:34; 32:29; 37:28; 38:1; 38:2; 38:25; 39:1; 39:14; 40:5; 42:30; 42:33

Exodus

2:11; 2:14; 2:19; 11:7; 12:3; 15:3; 22:15; 32:27; 34:3; 34:24; 36:4

Leviticus

15:2; 15:16; 15:18; 20:10; 20:15; 20:27; 21:7; 21:9; 22:4; 22:18

Numbers

4:19; 4:49; 5:6; 5:13; 23:19; 25:6; 30:7; 31:49

Deuteronomy

1:16; 2:14; 2:16; 3:11; 17:2; 22:22; 27:14; 28:56; 32:25; 33:1; 33:8

Joshua

5:4; 5:6; 6:21; 7:4; 7:5; 8:25; 9:6; 9:7; 14:6

Judges

6:27; 10:1; 13:8; 20:11

Ruth

1:3

1 Samuel

1:11; 4:9; 7:11; 9:6; 11:8; 17:4; 17:12; 17:23; 18:27; 23:3; 23:12; 24:3; 25:13; 25:19; 26:15; 30:11; 30:13; 31:7

2 Samuel

7:14; 16:7; 16:7; 18:20

1 Kings

2:2; 2:26; 7:30; 7:36; 12:13; 20:42

2 Kings

18:33

1 Chronicles

16:3

Job

9:32; 12:10; 32:13; 42:11

Psalms

22:7; 49:3; 62:10; 140:12; 141:4

Proverbs

3:31; 18:24

Ecclesiastes

6:3

Isaiah

4:1; 8:1; 31:8; 36:18; 40:13

Jeremiah

29:6; 38:7; 40:7

Ezekiel

14:4; 14:7; 16:45; 24:17; 24:17; 24:22; 24:22

Hosea

2:18; 9:4; 11:9

Micah

7:2

Zechariah

13:5

H376

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Strong's Number H376 matches the Hebrew אִישׁ ('îš),
which occurs 2,183 times in 1,847 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 37 (Gen 2:23–Gen 24:59)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - And Adam said:

“This is now bone of my bones
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - To the woman He said:

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;
In pain you shall bring forth children;
Your desire shall be for your husband,
And he shall rule over you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, and said, “I have acquired a man from the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Then Lamech said to his wives:

“Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
Wives of Lamech, listen to my speech!
For I have killed a man for wounding me,
Even a young man for hurting me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:4 - There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:9 - This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - “You shall take with you seven each of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:5 - “Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man’s brother I will require the life of man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:20 - And Noah began to be a farmer, and he planted a vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5 - From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:3 - Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:7 - “Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:20 - So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:8 - So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:11 - Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:13 - But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - “And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth; so that if a man could number the dust of the earth, then your descendants also could be numbered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:24 - “except only what the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me: Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, down the middle, and placed each piece opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds in two.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - Then Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27 - and all the men of his house, born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:2 - So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, and bowed himself to the ground,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:16 - Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:22 - Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:5 - And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:8 - “See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said, “Stand back!” Then they said, “This one came in to stay here, and he keeps acting as a judge; now we will deal worse with you than with them.” So they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near to break down the door.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:10 - But the men reached out their hands and pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:11 - And they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - Then the men said to Lot, “Have you anyone else here? Son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whomever you have in the city—take them out of this place!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - And while he lingered, the men took hold of his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hands of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - Now the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man on the earth to come in to us as is the custom of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:7 - “Now therefore, restore the man’s wife; for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you shall live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:8 - So Abimelech rose early in the morning, called all his servants, and told all these things in their hearing; and the men were very much afraid.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - “Hear us, my lord: You are a mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places. None of us will withhold from you his burial place, that you may bury your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - “Behold, here I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - Now the young woman was very beautiful to behold, a virgin; no man had known her. And she went down to the well, filled her pitcher, and came up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:21 - And the man, wondering at her, remained silent so as to know whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - So it was, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels of gold,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:26 - Then the man bowed down his head and worshiped the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban, and Laban ran out to the man by the well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30 - So it came to pass, when he saw the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he heard the words of his sister Rebekah, saying, “Thus the man spoke to me,” that he went to the man. And there he stood by the camels at the well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:32 - Then the man came to the house. And he unloaded the camels, and provided straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:54

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 - And he and the men who were with him ate and drank and stayed all night. Then they arose in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:58

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58 - Then they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” And she said, “I will go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:59

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant and his men.

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