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Genesis 2

Gen. 2:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And 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
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
caused
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
az deep sleep
tardemah (Hebrew #8639)
a lethargy or (by implication) trance
KJV usage: deep sleep.
Pronounce: tar-day-maw'
Origin: from 7290
to fall
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
upon Adam
'Adam (Hebrew #121)
Adam the name of the first man, also of a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Adam.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: the same as 120
, and he slept
yashen (Hebrew #3462)
properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate
KJV usage: old (store), remain long, (make to) sleep.
Pronounce: yaw-shane'
Origin: a primitive root
: and he took
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
one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
of his ribs
tsela` (Hebrew #6763)
from 6760; a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, i.e. leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collective, i.e. a flooring)
KJV usage: beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).
Pronounce: tsay-law'
Origin: or (feminine) tsalTah {tsal-aw'}
, and closed up
cagar (Hebrew #5462)
to shut up; figuratively, to surrender
KJV usage: close up, deliver (up), give over (up), inclose, X pure, repair, shut (in, self, out, up, up together), stop, X straitly.
Pronounce: saw-gar'
Origin: a primitive root
the 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
instead thereof;
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Gen. 15:12• 12And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him. (Gen. 15:12)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Gen. 15:12• 12And as the sun was just going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, a horror, a great darkness, fell upon him. (Gen. 15:12)
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1 Sam. 26:12• 12And David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's head; and they went away, and no man saw it, and none knew it, and none awaked, for they were all asleep; for a deep sleep from Jehovah had fallen upon them. (1 Sam. 26:12)
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Job 4:13• 13In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men:-- (Job 4:13)
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Job 33:15• 15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; (Job 33:15)
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Prov. 19:15• 15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger. (Prov. 19:15)
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Dan. 8:18• 18Now, as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep stupor, with my face toward the ground. And he touched me, and set me up where I had stood. (Dan. 8:18)
• Adam foreshadows the second Man and last Adam, on whom fell a deeper sleep, that a heavenly Eve might be formed, even the Church for which Christ in His love gave Himself (“Woman”)
• He threw the man into an ecstasy, as the LXX. render it, that he might not feel painfully, yet know perfectly what God was giving him. (“The Early Chapters of Genesis: Chapter 2:21-23” by W. Kelly)
• God formed-not another man, for then the one were not a center-but out of the one man himself, his wife, that the union might be the most absolute and intimate possible, and Adam head and center of all. (“Genesis 2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.