Genesis 29:3
And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
And thither were all the flockes gathered, and they rolled the stone from the wels mouth, & watered the sheepe, and put the stone againe vpon the wels mouth in his place.
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Genesis 29:3
To that place or point; in that direction.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of gather, meaning to collect, bring together, or assemble.
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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of roll, meaning to turn, move, or wrap over and over.
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Sense 1: A piece or mass of rock. Sense 2: To strike or kill with stones.
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1. In a good, right, or sound manner. 2. A source of water.
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Sense 1: The bodily opening used for eating, breathing, and speaking. Sense 2: The opening or entrance of a thing. Sense 3: Speech, utterance, or the agency of speaking.
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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
Sense 1: Flock animals kept for wool, food, and sacrifice. Sense 2: Figuratively, people pictured as a flock or as needing a shepherd.
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To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be.
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Another time; once more; back to a former place or condition; or in return.
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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.
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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.
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Sense 1: A physical location or room. Sense 2: A position or office. Sense 3: An occasion, circumstance, or passage. Sense 4: To set, fix, locate, or establish.
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2And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
2And he looked, and behold, a well in the field, and loe, there were three flocks of sheepe lying by it: for out of that wel they watered the flocks: and a great stone was vpon the welles mouth.
3And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
3And thither were all the flockes gathered, and they rolled the stone from the wels mouth, & watered the sheepe, and put the stone againe vpon the wels mouth in his place.
Selected passage4And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
4And Iacob said vnto them, My brethren, whence be ye? and they saide, Of Haran are we.