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Genesis 3

Gen. 3:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
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
r, 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
whom thou gavest
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
to be with me
`immad (Hebrew #5978)
along with
KJV usage: against, by, from, + me, + mine, of, + that I take, unto, upon, with(-in.)
Pronounce: im-mawd'
Origin: prol. for 5973
, she
huw' (Hebrew #1931)
a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
KJV usage: he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
Pronounce: hoo
Origin: of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is hiyw {he}
gave
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
me of the tree
`ets (Hebrew #6086)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
KJV usage: + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Pronounce: ates
Origin: from 6095
, and I did eat
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
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Job 31:33• 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, (Job 31:33)
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Prov. 28:13• 13He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy. (Prov. 28:13)

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Gen. 2:18,20,22• 18And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone; I will make him a helpmate, his like.
 20And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he found no helpmate, his like.
 22And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man. (Gen. 2:18,20,22)
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Ex. 32:21‑24• 21And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin on them?
 22And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord burn! thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
 23And they said to me, Make us a god, who will go before us; for this Moses, the man that has brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what is become of him!
 24And I said to them, Who has gold? They broke it off, and gave it me, and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf. (Ex. 32:21‑24)
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1 Sam. 15:20‑24• 20And Saul said to Samuel, I have indeed hearkened to the voice of Jehovah, and have gone the way which Jehovah sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
 21But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the choicest of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.
 22And Samuel said, Has Jehovah delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, As in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, Attention than the fat of rams.
 23For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And selfwill is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of Jehovah, He hath also rejected thee from being king.
 24And Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of Jehovah, and thy words; for I feared the people, and hearkened to their voice. (1 Sam. 15:20‑24)
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Job 31:33• 33If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom, (Job 31:33)
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Prov. 19:3• 3The folly of man distorteth his way, and his heart is irritated against Jehovah. (Prov. 19:3)
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Prov. 28:13• 13He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy. (Prov. 28:13)
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Luke 10:29• 29But he, desirous of justifying himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour? (Luke 10:29)
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Rom. 10:3• 3For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. (Rom. 10:3)
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James 1:13‑15• 13Let no man, being tempted, say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil things, and himself tempts no one.
 14But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;
 15then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death. (James 1:13‑15)
• “Is it not I that have sinned?” {1 Chron. 21:17} is the inquiry of a truly humbled soul. (“Genesis 3” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• The people who draw a plea from the divine counsels for rejecting the divine testimony, only want some flimsy excuse to continue in sin. (“Genesis 3” by C.H. Mackintosh)
• The hardest thing for a sinner to do is to confess his sin truly and thoroughly; to judge oneself is only the fruit of grace through faith. A bad conscience dreads God and the consequences too much to confess, while it knows its sin too well to deny it. (“Man Fallen and the Seed of the Woman” by J.N. Darby)
• Self-justification, which seeks to cast upon another, and even upon God, that of which we have been guilty. (“Genesis 3” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Man said, The woman, whom thou hast given to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.