Genesis 2:6
But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
‖But there went vp a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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- ‖Alternative wordingOr, a mist which went vp from &c.
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Genesis 2:6
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
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.
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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.
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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
1. Entire or complete. 2. Sound or restored to health.
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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.
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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.
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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.
5And euery plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and euery herbe of the field, before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to raine vpon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
6‖But there went vp a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Selected passage7And 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.
7And the LORD God formed man †* of the dust of the ground, & breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and *man became a liuing soule.