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Genesis 12

Gen. 12:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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 pray thee
na' (Hebrew #4994)
added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
KJV usage: I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.
Pronounce: naw
Origin: a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered: "I pray," "now," or "then"
, thou art mya sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
: that
ma`an (Hebrew #4616)
properly, heed, i.e. purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
KJV usage: because of, to the end (intent) that, for (to,... 's sake), + lest, that, to.
Pronounce: mah'-an
Origin: from 6030
it may be well
yatab (Hebrew #3190)
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
KJV usage: be accepted, amend, use aright, benefit, be (make) better, seem best, make cheerful, be comely, + be content, diligent(-ly), dress, earnestly, find favour, give, be glad, do (be, make) good((-ness)), be (make) merry, please (+ well), shew more (kindness), skilfully, X very small, surely, make sweet, thoroughly, tire, trim, very, be (can, deal, entreat, go, have) well (said, seen).
Pronounce: yaw-tab'
Origin: a primitive root
with me for thy sake; and my 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
shall live
chayah (Hebrew #2421)
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV usage: keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Pronounce: khaw-yaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421)
because of thee
galal (Hebrew #1558)
a circumstance (as rolled around); only used adverbially, on account of
KJV usage: because of, for (sake).
Pronounce: gaw-lawl'
Origin: from 1556
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Gen. 20:2• 2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah. (Gen. 20:2)
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Gen. 26:7• 7And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister; for he feared to say, my wife, saying to himself, Lest the men of the place slay me on account of Rebecca--because she was fair in countenance. (Gen. 26:7)

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Soul; Spirit

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John 8:44• 44Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father: (John 8:44)
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Rom. 3:6‑8• 6Far be the thought: since how shall God judge the world?
 7For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am *I* also judged as a sinner?
 8and not, according as we are injuriously charged, and according as some affirm that we say, Let us practise evil things, that good ones may come? whose judgment is just. (Rom. 3:6‑8)
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Rom. 6:23• 23For the wages of sin is death; but the act of favour of God, eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 6:23)
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Col. 3:6• 6On account of which things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Col. 3:6)
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Gen. 11:29• 29And Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, a daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. (Gen. 11:29)
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Gen. 20:2,5,12‑13• 2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech the king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
 5Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and in the innocency of my hands have I done this.
 12But she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
 13And it came to pass when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said to her, Let this be thy kindness which thou shalt shew to me: at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother. (Gen. 20:2,5,12‑13)
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Gen. 26:7• 7And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister; for he feared to say, my wife, saying to himself, Lest the men of the place slay me on account of Rebecca--because she was fair in countenance. (Gen. 26:7)
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Isa. 57:11• 11And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor taken it to heart? Have not I even of long time held my peace, and thou fearest me not? (Isa. 57:11)
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Matt. 26:69‑75• 69But Peter sat without in the palace-court; and a maid came to him, saying, And *thou* wast with Jesus the Galilaean.
 70But he denied before all, saying, I do not know what thou sayest.
 71And when he had gone out into the entrance, another maid saw him, and says to those there, This man also was with Jesus the Nazaraean.
 72And again he denied with an oath: I do not know the man.
 73And after a little, those who stood there, coming to him, said to Peter, Truly *thou* too art of them, for also thy speech makes thee manifest.
 74Then he began to curse and to swear, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.
 75And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who had said to him, Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went forth without, and wept bitterly. (Matt. 26:69‑75)
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Gal. 2:12‑13• 12for before that certain came from James, he ate with those of the nations; but when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those of the circumcision;
 13and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by their dissimulation. (Gal. 2:12‑13)
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Psa. 146:3‑5• 3Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.
 4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.
 5Blessed is he who hath the *God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God, (Psa. 146:3‑5)
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Jer. 17:5‑8• 5Thus saith Jehovah: Cursed is the man that confideth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from Jehovah.
 6And he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but he shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
 7Blessed is the man that confideth in Jehovah, and whose confidence Jehovah is.
 8For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out its roots by the stream, and he shall not see when heat cometh, but his leaf shall be green; and in the year of drought he shall not be careful, neither shall he cease to yield fruit. (Jer. 17:5‑8)
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Ezek. 18:4• 4Behold, all the souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. (Ezek. 18:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee.