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Genesis 2:5–8

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And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
¶ And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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From verse 5

  1. Genesis 3:23Rank 1 from verse 5
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    23Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

  2. Hebrews 6:7Rank 2 from verse 5
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    7For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

  3. Job 5:10Rank 3 from verse 5
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    10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

  4. Genesis 1:11–12Rank 4 from verse 5
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    11And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

    12And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

  5. Genesis 4:12Rank 5 from verse 5
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    12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

  6. Genesis 4:2Rank 6 from verse 5
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    2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

  7. Job 38:26–28Rank 7 from verse 5
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    26To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

    27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

    28Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

  8. Jeremiah 14:22Rank 8 from verse 5
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    22Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Lord our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

  9. Psalms 104:14Rank 9 from verse 5
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    14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

  10. Psalms 135:7Rank 10 from verse 5
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    7He causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain; he bringeth the wind out of his treasuries.

  11. Matthew 5:45Rank 11 from verse 5
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    45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

  12. Psalms 65:9–11Rank 12 from verse 5
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    9Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it: thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn, when thou hast so provided for it.

    10Thou waterest the ridges thereof abundantly: thou settlest the furrows thereof: thou makest it soft with showers: thou blessest the springing thereof.

    11Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

From verse 7

  1. Ecclesiastes 12:7Rank 1 from verse 7
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    7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

  2. Job 33:4Rank 2 from verse 7
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    4The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

  3. 1 Corinthians 15:45Rank 3 from verse 7
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    45And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

  4. Isaiah 64:8Rank 4 from verse 7
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    8But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

  5. Acts 17:25Rank 5 from verse 7
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    25Neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

  6. 1 Corinthians 15:47Rank 6 from verse 7
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    47The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

  7. Job 27:3Rank 7 from verse 7
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    3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

  8. Genesis 3:19Rank 8 from verse 7
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    19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

  9. Genesis 7:22Rank 9 from verse 7
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    22All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

  10. Ecclesiastes 3:20–21Rank 10 from verse 7
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    20All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

    21Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

  11. Psalms 103:14Rank 11 from verse 7
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    14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

  12. Zechariah 12:1Rank 12 from verse 7
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    1THE burden of the word of the Lord for Israel, saith the Lord, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

  13. Psalms 100:3Rank 13 from verse 7
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    3Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

  14. Romans 9:20Rank 14 from verse 7
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    20Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

  15. Isaiah 2:22Rank 15 from verse 7
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    22Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

  16. Genesis 3:23Rank 16 from verse 7
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    23Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

  17. Hebrews 12:9Rank 17 from verse 7
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    9Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

  18. Numbers 16:22Rank 18 from verse 7
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    22And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?

  19. Proverbs 20:27Rank 19 from verse 7
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    27The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

  20. Job 33:6Rank 20 from verse 7
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    6Behold, I am according to thy wish in God’s stead: I also am formed out of the clay.

  21. 2 Corinthians 5:1Rank 21 from verse 7
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    1FOR we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

  22. Job 4:19Rank 22 from verse 7
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    19How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

  23. Psalms 139:14–15Rank 23 from verse 7
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    14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

    15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

  24. 2 Corinthians 4:7Rank 24 from verse 7
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    7But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

  25. John 20:22Rank 25 from verse 7
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    22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

  26. Numbers 27:16Rank 26 from verse 7
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    16Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,

  27. Ecclesiastes 3:7Rank 27 from verse 7
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    7A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

From verse 8

  1. Ezekiel 28:13Rank 1 from verse 8
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    13Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

  2. Genesis 3:24Rank 2 from verse 8
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    24So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

  3. Genesis 13:10Rank 3 from verse 8
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    10And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

  4. 2 Kings 19:12Rank 4 from verse 8
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    12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?

  5. Ezekiel 31:8–9Rank 5 from verse 8
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    8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

    9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

  6. Genesis 4:16Rank 6 from verse 8
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    16¶ And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

  7. Joel 2:3Rank 7 from verse 8
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    3A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

  8. Isaiah 51:3Rank 8 from verse 8
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    3For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

  9. Ezekiel 31:16Rank 9 from verse 8
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    16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

  10. Ezekiel 27:23Rank 10 from verse 8
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    23Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants.

  11. Ezekiel 31:18Rank 11 from verse 8
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    18¶ To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

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Genesis 2:5

COMBINED MEANING

every

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Each individual or member of the class, group, place, time, side, or kind named; all distributively.

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

COMBINED MEANING

plant

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Sense 1: A living growth springing from the ground. Sense 2: To set or establish growth in soil for cultivation. Sense 3: To establish, settle, or cause to take root and grow.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

before

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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

grew

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Increased or developed in size, age, maturity, number, strength, influence, severity, or condition; arose and progressed from a smaller or earlier state.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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caused

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of cause, meaning to make something happen.

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rain

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Sense 1: Water falling in drops from the clouds. Sense 2: As a verb, to fall or pour down like rain.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

till

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Sense 1: To cultivate, plough, dress, and work soil for crops. Sense 2: As a time or limit word, until, up to, or as far as the stated point, condition, or event.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ground

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Sense 1: The soil, earth, land, floor, or supporting surface. Sense 2: Figuratively, a basis, support, or foundation. Sense 3: Crushed or reduced to small particles by grinding.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Genesis 2:6

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

mist

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Sense 1: Fine moisture, vapour, or a cloudlike obscuring condition near the ground or before the eyes. Sense 2: Figuratively, a thick gloom or darkness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

earth

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Sense 1: The world in distinction from heaven. Sense 2: Dry land, ground, soil, or dust. Sense 3: A land, region, or its inhabitants.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

watered

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Sense 1: Supplied, covered, or made wet with water. Sense 2: Figuratively, refreshed or caused to flourish.

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

COMBINED MEANING

face

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The front of the head and its countenance or expression; the front, surface, outward appearance, presence, view, or personally known identity of a person, place, or thing.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ground

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Sense 1: The soil, earth, land, floor, or supporting surface. Sense 2: Figuratively, a basis, support, or foundation. Sense 3: Crushed or reduced to small particles by grinding.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Genesis 2:7

COMBINED MEANING

formed

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Made, shaped, fashioned, created, arranged, or brought into the intended being, body, people, purpose, or condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

ground

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Sense 1: The soil, earth, land, floor, or supporting surface. Sense 2: Figuratively, a basis, support, or foundation. Sense 3: Crushed or reduced to small particles by grinding.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

breath

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Sense 1: Air drawn in or breathed out. Sense 2: The breath by which bodily life is sustained; by extension, bodily life.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

living

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Sense 1: Alive or having life. Sense 2: As a noun, one's means of support or possessions.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

soul

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Sense 1: A living person or creature; a life or self. Sense 2: The inward self distinguished from the body. Sense 3: The seat of desire or appetite.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Genesis 2:8

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

Eden

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Sense 1: The region in which the LORD planted the garden where he placed the man. Sense 2: A personal or place name borne by other persons or locations in later passages.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Bullokar 1616 · Cawdrey 1604

COMBINED MEANING

put

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To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

man

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

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

whom

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The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

formed

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Made, shaped, fashioned, created, arranged, or brought into the intended being, body, people, purpose, or condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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2:4¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

2:5And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

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2:6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

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2:7And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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2:8¶ And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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2:9And 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.

2:10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

2:11The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

2:12And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

2:13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

2:14And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

2:15And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

2:16And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

2:17But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

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