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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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,
2:4¶ These are the generations of the heauens, & of the earth, when they were created; in the day that the LORD God made the earth, and the heauens,
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.
2:5And 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.
2:6But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
2:6‖But there went vp a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Selected passage2:7And 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.
2:7And 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.