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Genesis 2:15–16
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Genesis 2:15
15And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
15And the LORD God tooke ‖the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dresse it, and to keepe it.
- Or, Adam.
Genesis 2:16
16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of euery tree of the garden thou mayest †freely eate.
- Hebr. eating thou shalt eate.
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DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 2:15
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
An enclosed or cultivated place for plants, herbs, or fruit.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A place of pleasure or delight.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604
To prepare, arrange, tend, cultivate, or adorn.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 2:16
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ordered; directed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A human being; an adult male; a person, husband, servant, or representative, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
An enclosed or cultivated place for plants, herbs, or fruit.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Without payment, restraint, compulsion, or reserve; willingly or generously, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
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Open the full verse study8¶ And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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Open the full verse study28Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
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Open the full verse study2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
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Open the full verse study33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
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Open the full verse study22And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
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Open the full verse study4For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
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Open the full verse study17Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
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Open the full verse study9And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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Open the full verse study1NOW the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
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