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Genesis 2:23

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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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  1. Ephesians 5:28–30Rank 1 from verse 23
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    28So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

    29For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

    30For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

  2. 1 Corinthians 11:8–9Rank 2 from verse 23
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    8For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

    9Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.

  3. 2 Samuel 5:1Rank 3 from verse 23
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    1THEN came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

  4. Genesis 29:14Rank 4 from verse 23
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    14And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

  5. Judges 9:2Rank 5 from verse 23
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    2Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.

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Genesis 2:23

COMBINED MEANING

flesh

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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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called

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of call. Sense 1: To name. Sense 2: To summon or invite. Sense 3: To proclaim or address. Sense 4: To request.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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taken

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1. Received, accepted, or chosen. 2. Seized or captured. 3. Carried or laid hold of.

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out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

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man

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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.

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22And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

23And 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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24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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