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Genesis 20

Gen. 20:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Butf 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
came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
to Abimelech
'Abiymelek (Hebrew #40)
father of (the) king; Abimelek, the name of two Philistine kings and of two Israelites
KJV usage: Abimelech.
Pronounce: ab-ee-mel'-ek
Origin: from 1 and 4428
in a dream
chalowm (Hebrew #2472)
from 2492; a dream
KJV usage: dream(-er).
Pronounce: khal-ome'
Origin: or (shortened) chalom {khal-ome'}
by night
layil (Hebrew #3915)
also laylah {lah'- yel-aw}; from the same as 3883; properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
KJV usage: ((mid-))night (season).
Pronounce: lah'-yil
Origin: or (Isa. 21:11) leyl {lale}
, and said
'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
to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
, for the woman
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
which thou hast taken
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
; for she is γa man’s
ba`al (Hebrew #1167)
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
KJV usage: + archer, + babbler, + bird, captain, chief man, + confederate, + have to do, + dreamer, those to whom it is due, + furious, those that are given to it, great, + hairy, he that hath it, have, + horseman, husband, lord, man, + married, master, person, + sworn, they of.
Pronounce: bah'-al
Origin: from 1166
wife
ba`al (Hebrew #1166)
to be master; hence, (as denominative from 1167) to marry
KJV usage: have dominion (over), be husband, marry(-ried, X wife).
Pronounce: baw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
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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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Psa. 105:14• 14He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes, (Psa. 105:14)
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married to an husband.

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Abimelech,
Dreams,
God,
Man,
Night,
Wife,
Woman

Cross References

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a dream.
Gen. 28:12• 12And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder was set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to the heavens. And behold, angels of God ascended and descended upon it. (Gen. 28:12)
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Gen. 31:24• 24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. (Gen. 31:24)
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Gen. 37:5,9• 5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more.
 9And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me. (Gen. 37:5,9)
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Gen. 40:8• 8And they said to him, We have dreamt a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me your dreams, I pray you. (Gen. 40:8)
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Gen. 41:1‑36• 1And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed, and behold, he stood by the river.
 2And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fine-looking and fat-fleshed, and they fed in the reed-grass.
 3And behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, bad-looking and lean-fleshed, and stood by the kine on the bank of the river.
 4And the kine that were bad-looking and lean-fleshed ate up the seven kine that were fine-looking and fat. And Pharaoh awoke.
 5And he slept and dreamed the second time; and behold, seven ears of corn grew up on one stalk, fat and good.
 6And behold, seven ears, thin and parched with the east wind, sprung up after them.
 7And the thin ears devoured the seven fat and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke; and behold, it was a dream.
 8And it came to pass in the morning, that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the scribes of Egypt, and all the sages who were therein, and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none to interpret them to Pharaoh.
 9Then spoke the chief of the cup-bearers to Pharaoh, saying, I remember mine offences this day.
 10Pharaoh was wroth with his bondmen, and put me in custody into the captain of the life-guard's house, me and the chief of the bakers.
 11And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each according to the interpretation of his dream.
 12And there was there with us a Hebrew youth, a bondman of the captain of the life guard, to whom we told them, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each he interpreted according to his dream.
 13And it came to pass, just as he interpreted to us, so it came about: me has he restored to my office, and him he hanged.
 14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph; and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. And he shaved himself, and changed his clothes, and came in to Pharaoh.
 15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamt a dream, and there is none to interpret it. And I have heard say of thee, thou understandest a dream to interpret it.
 16And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
 17And Pharaoh said to Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood on the bank of the river.
 18And behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, fat-fleshed and of fine form, and they fed in the reed-grass.
 19And behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-formed, and lean-fleshed--such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.
 20And the lean and bad kine ate up the seven first fat kine;
 21and they came into their belly, and it could not be known that they had come into their belly; and their look was bad, as at the beginning. And I awoke.
 22And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good.
 23And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, parched with the east wind, sprung up after them;
 24and the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I told it to the scribes; but there was none to make it known to me.
 25And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God will do he has made known to Pharaoh.
 26The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
 27And the seven lean and bad kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears, parched with the east wind, will be seven years of famine.
 28This is the word which I have spoken to Pharaoh: what God is about to do he has let Pharaoh see.
 29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt.
 30And there will arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will waste away the land.
 31And the plenty will not be known afterwards in the land by reason of that famine; for it will be very grievous.
 32And as regards the double repetition of the dream to Pharaoh, it is that the thing is established by God, and God will hasten to do it.
 33And now let Pharaoh look himself out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.
 34Let Pharaoh do this: let him appoint overseers over the land, and take the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty,
 35and let them gather all the food of these coming good years, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, for food in the cities, and keep it.
 36And let the food be as store for the land for the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt, that the land perish not through the famine. (Gen. 41:1‑36)
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Job 4:12‑13• 12Now to me a word was secretly brought, and mine ear received a whisper thereof.
 13In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men:-- (Job 4:12‑13)
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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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Matt. 1:20• 20but while he pondered on these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, Joseph, son of David, fear not to take to thee Mary, thy wife, for that which is begotten in her is of the Holy Spirit. (Matt. 1:20)
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Matt. 2:12‑13• 12And being divinely instructed in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.
 13Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to thee the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it. (Matt. 2:12‑13)
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Matt. 27:19• 19But, as he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that righteous man; for I have suffered to-day many things in a dream because of him. (Matt. 27:19)
a dead.
Gen. 20:7• 7And now, restore the man's wife; for he is a prophet, and will pray for thee, that thou mayest live. And if thou do not restore her, know that thou shalt certainly die, thou and all that is thine. (Gen. 20:7)
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Psa. 105:14• 14He suffered no man to oppress them, and reproved kings for their sakes, (Psa. 105:14)
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Ezek. 33:14‑15• 14And when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt certainly die, and he turneth from his sin, and doeth judgment and justice;
 15if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had taken by robbery, walk in the statutes of life, doing nothing that is wrong; he shall certainly live, he shall not die. (Ezek. 33:14‑15)
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Jonah 3:4• 4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown! (Jonah 3:4)
a man's wife.
Heb. married to an husband.

J. N. Darby Translation

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But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, because of the woman that thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.