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Genesis 2:15
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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.
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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)
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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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