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Genesis 2

Gen. 2:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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These
'el-leh (Hebrew #428)
these or those
KJV usage: an- (the) other; one sort, so, some, such, them, these (same), they, this, those, thus, which, who(-m).
Pronounce: ale'-leh
Origin: prolonged from 411
are the generations
towldah (Hebrew #8435)
from 3205; (plural only) descent, i.e. family; (figuratively) history
KJV usage: birth, generations.
Pronounce: to-led-aw'
Origin: or toldah {to-led-aw'}
of the heavens
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 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
when they were created
bara' (Hebrew #1254)
(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
KJV usage: choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
Pronounce: baw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
, in the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
that 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
made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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 the heavens
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'}
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God,
Heaven

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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the generations.
Gen. 1:4• 4And God saw the light that [it was] good; and God divided between the light and the darkness. (Gen. 1:4)
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Gen. 5:1• 1This [is the] book of Adam's generations. In the day God created man, in God's likeness made he him; (Gen. 5:1)
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Gen. 10:1• 1And these [are the] generations of Noah's sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood. (Gen. 10:1)
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Gen. 11:10• 10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood; (Gen. 11:10)
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Gen. 25:12,19• 12And these [are] Ishmael's generations, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's bondwoman, bore to Abraham.
 19And these [are] the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begot Isaac. (Gen. 25:12,19)
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Gen. 36:1,9• 1And these are the generations of Esau, that is Edom.
 9And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, in mount Seir. (Gen. 36:1,9)
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Ex. 6:16• 16And these are the names of the sons of Levi, according to their generations: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari. And the years of the life of Levi were a hundred and thirty-seven years. (Ex. 6:16)
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Job 38:28• 28Hath the rain a father?{HR}Or who begetteth the drops of dew? (Job 38:28)
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Psa. 90:1‑2• 1A prayer of Moses the man of God.{HR}O Lord , thou hast been our dwelling-place{HR}In generation and generation.
 2Before mountains were brought forth,{HR}And thou gavest birth to earth and world,{HR}Even from eternity to eternity thou [art] God . (Psa. 90:1‑2)
Lord.
Ex. 15:3• 3Jehovah is a man of war; Jehovah, his name.{HR} (Ex. 15:3)
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1 Kings 18:39• 39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Jehovah, he is the God; Jehovah, he is the God. (1 Kings 18:39)
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2 Chron. 20:6• 6and he said, Jehovah, God of our fathers, art not thou God in the heavens, and rulest thou not over all the kingdoms of the nations? And in thy hand there is power and might, and none can withstand thee. (2 Chron. 20:6)
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Psa. 18:31• 31For who [is] God besides Jehovah?{HR}And who [is] a rock except our God? (Psa. 18:31)
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Psa. 86:10• 10For thou [art] great{HR}And doest wondrous things;{HR}Thou [art] God, alone. (Psa. 86:10)
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Isa. 44:6• 6Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel and his Redeemer Jehovah of hosts; I [am] the first, and I [am] the last; and besides me there is no God. (Isa. 44:6)
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Rev. 1:4,8• 4John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him that is and that was and that is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;
 8I am the Alpha and the Omega, saith the Lord God, that is and that was and that is to come, the Almighty. (Rev. 1:4,8)
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Rev. 11:17• 17saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God the Almighty, that art and that wast; because thou hast taken thy great power and reigned. (Rev. 11:17)
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Rev. 16:5• 5And I heard the angel of the waters say, Righteous art thou that art and that wast holy, because thou hast judged these things. (Rev. 16:5)
• Genesis 2 regards the scene from the point of moral relationship which brings in the name of Him who governs on earth as revealed to Israel nationally, and so, in the Old Testament as a whole, Jehovah, but Jehovah here carefully identified with the Creator, Jehovah Elohim, the LORD God. (“Woman”)
• The distinction of Jehovistic and Elohistic documents is the merest child’s play, and flows from entire ignorance of the ways and mind of God. There is always a reason for one or the other. Elohim is simply God; Jehovah is the acting governing Person in time, though self-existing, who abides ever the same and having to do with others, who is, and was, and is to come. (“Genesis 2” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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These are the historiesg of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohimh made earth and heavens,

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "generations." the word implies "origin" and occurs in chs. 5.1; 6.9; 10.1,32; 11.10,27; 25.12,13,19; 36.1,9; 37.2.
h
See ch. 1.1.

W. Kelly Translation

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These [are]; the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovaha Elohim made earth and heavens.

WK Translation Notes

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Jehovah is His personal name, "The Name," and this in relationship with man on earth, especially with His people; the Self-existent and Eternal, always the proper name of the true God for those on earth, and in due time that by which He made Himself known as the covenant God of Israel, in Whose presence they were to walk.