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Deuteronomy 12

Deut. 12:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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When the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
thy God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
shall enlarge
rachab (Hebrew #7337)
to broaden (intransitive or transitive, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be an en-(make) large(-ing), make room, make (open) wide.
Pronounce: raw-khab'
Origin: a primitive root
s thy border
gbuwl (Hebrew #1366)
from 1379; properly, a cord (as twisted), i.e. (by implication) a boundary; by extens. the territory inclosed
KJV usage: border, bound, coast, X great, landmark, limit, quarter, space.
Pronounce: gheb-ool'
Origin: or (shortened) gbul {gheb-ool'}
, as he hatht promised
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
thee, and thou shalt say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, I will eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
, because thy soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
longeth
'avah (Hebrew #183)
to wish for
KJV usage: covet, (greatly) desire, be desirous, long, lust (after).
Pronounce: aw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
to eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
; thou mayest eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
, whatsoever thy soul
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
lusteth after
'avvah (Hebrew #185)
longing
KJV usage: desire, lust after, pleasure.
Pronounce: av-vaw'
Origin: from 183
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1 Chron. 4:10• 10And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, Oh that thou wouldest richly bless me, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God brought about what he had requested. (1 Chron. 4:10)
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Gen. 28:14• 14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Gen. 28:14)
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Ex. 34:24• 24For I will dispossess the nations before thee, and enlarge thy border, and no man shall desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the face of Jehovah thy God thrice in the year. (Ex. 34:24)

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1 Chron. 4:10• 10And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, Oh that thou wouldest richly bless me, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God brought about what he had requested. (1 Chron. 4:10)
as he hath.
Deut. 11:24• 24Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall your border be. (Deut. 11:24)
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Deut. 19:8• 8And if Jehovah thy God enlarge thy border, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers (Deut. 19:8)
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Gen. 15:18‑21• 18On the same day Jehovah made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates;
 19the Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
 20and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaim,
 21and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. (Gen. 15:18‑21)
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Gen. 28:14• 14And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Gen. 28:14)
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Ex. 23:31• 31And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the river; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, that thou mayest dispossess them from before thee. (Ex. 23:31)
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Ex. 34:24• 24For I will dispossess the nations before thee, and enlarge thy border, and no man shall desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before the face of Jehovah thy God thrice in the year. (Ex. 34:24)
I will.
Deut. 12:15• 15Nevertheless, according to all the desire of thy soul thou mayest slay and eat flesh in all thy gates, according to the blessing of Jehovah thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the gazelle, and the hart. (Deut. 12:15)
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Gen. 31:30• 30And now that thou must needs be gone, because thou greatly longedst after thy father's house, why hast thou stolen my gods? (Gen. 31:30)
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Num. 11:4,20,34• 4And the mixed multitude that was among them lusted; and the children of Israel also wept again and said, Who will give us flesh to eat?
 20but for a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it become loathsome unto you; because that ye have despised Jehovah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
 34And they called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they buried the people who lusted. (Num. 11:4,20,34)
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2 Sam. 13:39• 39And king David longed to go forth to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead. (2 Sam. 13:39)
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2 Sam. 23:15• 15And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me to drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate! (2 Sam. 23:15)
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Psa. 63:1• 1A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my *God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water: (Psa. 63:1)
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Psa. 84:2• 2My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living *God. (Psa. 84:2)
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Psa. 107:9• 9For he hath satisfied the longing soul and filled the hungry soul with good. (Psa. 107:9)
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Psa. 119:20,40,174• 20My soul breaketh for longing after thy judgments at all times.
 40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
 174I have longed for thy salvation, O Jehovah, and thy law is my delight. (Psa. 119:20,40,174)
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2 Cor. 9:14• 14and in their supplication for you, full of ardent desire for you, on account of the exceeding grace of God which is upon you. (2 Cor. 9:14)
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Phil. 1:8• 8For God is my witness how I long after you all in the bowels of Christ Jesus. (Phil. 1:8)
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Phil. 2:26• 26since he had a longing desire after you all, and was distressed because ye had heard that he was sick; (Phil. 2:26)

J. N. Darby Translation

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When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he promised thee, and thou say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh, thou mayest eat flesh, according to all the desire of thy soul.