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Genesis 1

Gen. 1:30 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And to every beast
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
of the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and to every fowl
`owph (Hebrew #5775)
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
KJV usage: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
Pronounce: ofe
Origin: from 5774
of the air
shamayim (Hebrew #8064)
from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
KJV usage: air, X astrologer, heaven(-s).
Pronounce: shaw-mah'-yim
Origin: dual of an unused singular shameh {shaw-meh'}
, and to every thing that creepeth
ramas (Hebrew #7430)
properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm
KJV usage: creep, move.
Pronounce: raw-mas'
Origin: a primitive root
upon the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, wherein there is πlife
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
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
, I have given every green
yereq (Hebrew #3418)
properly, pallor, i.e. hence, the yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation; concretely, verdure, i.e. grass or vegetation
KJV usage: grass, green (thing).
Pronounce: yeh'-rek
Origin: from 3417 (in the sense of vacuity of color)
herb
`eseb (Hebrew #6212)
grass (or any tender shoot)
KJV usage: grass, herb.
Pronounce: eh'seb
Origin: from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green)
for meat
'oklah (Hebrew #402)
food
KJV usage: consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
Pronounce: ok-law'
Origin: feminine of 401
: and it was so.
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a living soul.

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Cross References

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Gen. 9:3• 3Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. (Gen. 9:3)
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Job 38:39‑41• 39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
 40When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
 41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat. (Job 38:39‑41)
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Job 39:4,8,30• 4Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.
 8The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
 30Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she. (Job 39:4,8,30)
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Job 40:15,20• 15Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.
 20Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. (Job 40:15,20)
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Psa. 104:14• 14He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth; (Psa. 104:14)
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Psa. 145:15‑16• 15The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
 16Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. (Psa. 145:15‑16)
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Psa. 147:9• 9He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry. (Psa. 147:9)
life.
Heb. a living soul.

J. N. Darby Translation

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and to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth on the earth, in which is a living soul, every green herb for food. And it was so.