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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, like Adam, covered my transgressions,{HR}Hiding in my bosom mine iniquity, (Job 31:33)
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Prov. 28:13• 13{i}He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper;{HR}But whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall obtain mercy.{/i} (Prov. 28:13)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Gen. 2:18,20,22• 18And Jehovah Elohim said, [It is] not good that the man should be alone: I will make him a help answering to him.
 20And the man gave names to all the cattle, and to bird of the heavens, and to every animal of the field; but for Adam was not found a help answering to him.
 22And the rib which Jehovah Elohim had taken from the man he built into a woman, and. brought her unto the man. (Gen. 2:18,20,22)
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Ex. 32:21‑24• 21{i}And Moses said to Aaron, What has this people done to thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin on them?{/i}
 22{i}And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord burn! thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.{/i}
 23{i}And 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!{/i}
 24{i}And 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.{/i} (Ex. 32:21‑24)
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1 Sam. 15:20‑24• 20And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed 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 chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God in Gilgal.
 22And Samuel said,{HR}Hath Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,{HR}As in obeying the voice of Jehovah?{HR}Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice,{HR}And to hearken than the fat of rams.
 23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.{HR}And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.{HR}Because thou hast rejected the word, of Jehovah,{HR}He hath also rejected thee from being king.
 24And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Jehovah, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. (1 Sam. 15:20‑24)
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Job 31:33• 33If I, like Adam, covered my transgressions,{HR}Hiding in my bosom mine iniquity, (Job 31:33)
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Prov. 19:3• 3The folly of a man perverteth his way;{HR}And his heart fretteth against Jehovah. (Prov. 19:3)
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Prov. 28:13• 13{i}He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper;{HR}But whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall obtain mercy.{/i} (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, being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own [righteousness], they have not submitted to the righteousness of God. (Rom. 10:3)
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James 1:13‑15• 13Let none when tempted say, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted by evils, and himself tempteth none.
 14But each is tempted when by his own lust drawn away and enticed;
 15then lust having conceived bringeth forth sin; and sin when completed giveth birth to 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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