KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Genesis 20:17–18
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Genesis 20:17
17¶ So Abraham prayed unto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants; and they bare children.
17¶ So Abraham prayed vnto God: and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-seruants, and they bare children.
Genesis 20:18
18For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
18For the LORD had fast closed vp all the wombes of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abrahams wife.
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DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 20:17
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)
Restored to a sound state.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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maidservants
Female servants or attendants.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Uncovered or naked; also carried, endured, or produced, according to context.
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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 20:18
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
Firm, fixed, or secure; moving quickly; also an abstinence from food or the act of abstaining.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Shut, fastened, enclosed, ended, or brought together with no opening.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A building or dwelling; the people of a household or family; a lineage or family line; as a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 17
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Open the full verse study16Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
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Open the full verse study9So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the Lord commanded them: the Lord also accepted Job.
10And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.
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Open the full verse study22And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
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Open the full verse study6Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
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Open the full verse study8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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Open the full verse study11So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
12And the men that died not were smitten with the emerods: and the cry of the city went up to heaven.
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Open the full verse study25Brethren, pray for us.
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Open the full verse study10That they may offer sacrifices of sweet savours unto the God of heaven, and pray for the life of the king, and of his sons.
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Open the full verse study7Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
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Open the full verse study31¶ And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
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Open the full verse study11Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
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Open the full verse study7¶ Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
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Open the full verse study24Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
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Open the full verse study29The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study17And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife.
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Open the full verse study2And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
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Open the full verse study6And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
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Open the full verse study10¶ Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.
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Open the full verse study2And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.
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Open the full verse study7Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
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