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Genesis 35:15

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And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.
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  1. Genesis 28:19Rank 1 from verse 15
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    19And 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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Genesis 35:15

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called

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of call. Sense 1: To name. Sense 2: To summon or invite. Sense 3: To proclaim or address. Sense 4: To request.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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name

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Sense 1: A word, appellation, or designation by which a person or thing is called or known. Sense 2: The person or persons named or represented. Sense 3: Reputation, character, renown, or remembrance. Sense 4: The authority, behalf, or standing represented by a name. Sense 5: As a verb, to call, designate, or mention by name.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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place

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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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spake

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The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.

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35:9¶ And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.

35:10And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

35:11And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

35:12And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.

35:13And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.

35:14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

35:15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.

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