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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,{HR}When deep sleep falleth on mortals,{HR}In slumberings on the bed; (Job 33:15)
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Psa. 105:14• 14He suffered no man to oppress them{HR}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 set up on earth, and its top 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 that 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 he told [it] to his brethren; and they hated him yet more.
 9And he dreamed yet another dream and told [it] to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; 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, well-looking and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.
 3And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-looking and lean-fleshed; and they stood by the kine on the bank of the river.
 4And the ill-looking and lean-fleshed ate up the seven well-looking and fat kine. And Pharaoh awoke.
 5And he slept and dreamed a second time; and, behold, seven ears of corn came up on one stalk, fat and good.
 6And, behold, seven ears, thin and parched with the east wind, came up after them.
 7And the thin ears swallowed up 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.
 9And the chief-butler spoke to Pharaoh, saying, I remember my faults this day.
 10Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house, me and the chief-baker.
 11And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
 12And [there was] with us a young man, a Hebrew, servant of the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he interpreted.
 13And it came to pass, as he interpreted, so it was: me he restored to mine office, and him he hanged.
 14Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they hastened his exit [made him run] out of the dungeon; and he shaved, and changed his raiment, and came in to Pharaoh.
 15And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed 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 brink of a river.
 18And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine fat-fleshed and fine-looking, and they fed in the reed grass.
 19And, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor, and very ill-looking, and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness.
 20And the lean and ill-looking kine ate up the first seven fat kine;
 21and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had come into their belly, and their look was 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 that could declare it to me.
 25And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh [is] one. What God is about to do he hath declared to Pharaoh.
 26The seven good 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 letteth Pharaoh see.
 29Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all 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 consume the land.
 31And the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine that followeth; for it [will be] very grievous.
 32And for that the dream was doubled to Pharaoh twice, [it is] because 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]: and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt during the seven years of plenty;
 35and let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and keep [it].
 36And let the food be a store to the land for the seven years of famine which shall 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• 12And to me there stole a word,{HR}And mine ear caught a whisper from it,
 13In thoughts from visions of the night,{HR}When deep sleep falleth on man; (Job 4:12‑13)
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Job 33:15• 15In a dream, in a vision of the night,{HR}When deep sleep falleth on mortals,{HR}In slumberings on 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 today many things in a dream because of him. (Matt. 27:19)
a dead.
Gen. 20:7• 7Now therefore restore the man his wife: for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine. (Gen. 20:7)
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Psa. 105:14• 14He suffered no man to oppress them{HR}And reproved kings for their sakes, (Psa. 105:14)
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Ezek. 33:14‑15• 14Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
 15if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely 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.

W. Kelly 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.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)