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Genesis 26

Gen. 26:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Isaac
Yitschaq (Hebrew #3327)
laughter (i.e. mochery); Jitschak (or Isaac), son of Abraham
KJV usage: Isaac. Compare 3446.
Pronounce: yits-khawk'
Origin: from 6711
departed
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
thence, and pitched his tent
chanah (Hebrew #2583)
properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch a tent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege)
KJV usage: abide (in tents), camp, dwell, encamp, grow to an end, lie, pitch (tent), rest in tent.
Pronounce: khaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2603)
in the valley
nachal (Hebrew #5158)
or nachalah (Ezekiel 47:19; 48:28) {nakh-al-aw'}; from 5157 in its original sense; a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
KJV usage: brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
Pronounce: nakh'-al
Origin: or (feminine) nachlah (Psalm 124:4) {nakh'-law}
of Gerar
Grar (Hebrew #1642)
a rolling country; Gerar, a Philistine city
KJV usage: Gerar.
Pronounce: gher-awr'
Origin: probably from 1641
, and dwelt
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
there
sham (Hebrew #8033)
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
KJV usage: in it, + thence, there (-in, + of, + out), + thither, + whither.
Pronounce: shawm
Origin: a primitive particle (rather from the relative pronoun, 834)
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Gerar,
Isaac,
Tent,
Vale; Valley

Cross References

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Gen. 26:17• 17And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. (Gen. 26:17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his camp in the valleyc of Gerar, and dwelt there.

JND Translation Notes

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Elsewhere "torrent"; it is a valley in which a torrent runs. see ch. 32.23.