KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Genesis 35:15–16
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Genesis 35:15
15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.
15And Iacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
Genesis 35:16
16¶ And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
16¶ And they iourneyed from Bethel: and there was but a †litle way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel traueiled, and she had hard labour.
- Hebr. a litle piece of ground.
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DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 35:15
Named, summoned, invited, proclaimed, or addressed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A word or appellation by which a person or thing is known; also reputation, character, authority, remembrance, or the person represented, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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)
DEFINED WORDS
Genesis 35:16
Travel by land to any distance and for any time, indefinitely.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Only; no more than what follows.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Painful toil or labour, especially the labour and pain of childbirth.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
Firm, difficult, severe, harsh, laborious, forceful, or resistant to pressure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study19And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
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Open the full verse study2But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
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Open the full verse study7And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Beth-lehem.
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Open the full verse study19And when Azubah was dead, Caleb took unto him Ephrath, which bare him Hur.
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Open the full verse study15Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
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Open the full verse study19And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.
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Open the full verse study16Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
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Open the full verse study19And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.
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Open the full verse study1NOW when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
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Open the full verse study16¶ Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
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Open the full verse study18In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.
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Open the full verse study6Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
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Open the full verse study2And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beth-lehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
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