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Exodus 21

Ex. 21:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If he take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
him another
'acher (Hebrew #312)
properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.
KJV usage: (an-)other man, following, next, strange.
Pronounce: akh-air'
Origin: from 309
wife; her food
sh'er (Hebrew #7607)
flesh (as swelling out), as living or for food; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood
KJV usage: body, flesh, food, (near) kin(-sman, -swoman), near (nigh) (of kin).
Pronounce: sheh-ayr'
Origin: from 7604
, her raiment
kcuwth (Hebrew #3682)
a cover (garment); figuratively, a veiling
KJV usage: covering, raiment, vesture.
Pronounce: kes-ooth'
Origin: from 3680
, and her dutyq of marriage
`ownah (Hebrew #5772)
sexual (cohabitation)
KJV usage: duty of marriage.
Pronounce: o-naw'
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to dwell together
, shall he not diminish
gara` (Hebrew #1639)
to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
KJV usage: abate, clip, (di-)minish, do (take) away, keep back, restrain, make small, withdraw.
Pronounce: gaw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
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1 Cor. 7:5• 5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. (1 Cor. 7:5)

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Marriage,
Wife

Cross References

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her food.{Sheairah,} "her flesh;" he shall not only afford her a sufficient quantity of food, as before, but of the same quality.
She is not to be fed, like a common slave, with a sufficiency of bread, vegetables, milk, etc., but with her customary supply of flesh, and other agreeable articles of food.
1 Cor. 7:1‑6• 1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
 2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
 3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
 4The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
 5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
 6But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. (1 Cor. 7:1‑6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish.