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Genesis 3

Gen. 3:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Unto 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
he 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
, I will greatly
rabah (Hebrew #7235)
to increase (in whatever respect)
KJV usage: (bring in) abundance (X -antly), + archer (by mistake for 7232), be in authority, bring up, X continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, X -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), X process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
Pronounce: raw-baw'
Origin: a primitive root
multiply
rabah (Hebrew #7235)
to increase (in whatever respect)
KJV usage: (bring in) abundance (X -antly), + archer (by mistake for 7232), be in authority, bring up, X continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, X -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), X process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
Pronounce: raw-baw'
Origin: a primitive root
thy sorrow
`itstsabown (Hebrew #6093)
worrisomeness, i.e. labor or pain
KJV usage: sorrow, toil.
Pronounce: its-tsaw-bone'
Origin: from 6087
and thy conception
herown (Hebrew #2032)
from 2029; pregnancy
KJV usage: conception.
Pronounce: hay-rone'
Origin: or herayown {hay-raw-yone'}
; in sorrow
`etseb (Hebrew #6089)
from 6087; an earthen vessel; usually (painful) toil; also a pang (whether of body or mind): --grievous, idol, labor, sorrow.
Pronounce: eh'-tseb
thou shalt bring forth
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
children
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
; and thy desire
tshuwqah (Hebrew #8669)
a longing
KJV usage: desire.
Pronounce: tesh-oo-kaw'
Origin: from 7783 in the original sense of stretching out after
shall be χto thy husband
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
, and he shalla rule
mashal (Hebrew #4910)
to rule
KJV usage: (have, make to have) dominion, governor, X indeed, reign, (bear, cause to, have) rule(-ing, -r), have power.
Pronounce: maw-shal'
Origin: a primitive root
over thee.
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or, subject to thy husband.
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1 Cor. 14:34• 34Let the women be silent in the assemblies; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but let them be in subjection, as also the law saith. (1 Cor. 14:34)

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in sorrow.
Gen. 35:16‑18• 16And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was yet some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and it went hard with her in childbirth.
 17And it came to pass when it went hard in her bearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also [is] a son for thee.
 18And it came to pass as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Benoni ; but his father called him Benjamin . (Gen. 35:16‑18)
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1 Sam. 4:19‑21• 19And his daughter-in-law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, near to be delivered; and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
 20And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.
 21And she named the child I-chabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. (1 Sam. 4:19‑21)
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Psa. 48:6• 6Trembling seized them there, pain as of one bringing forth. (Psa. 48:6)
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Isa. 13:8• 8and they shall be dismayed: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall writhe as a woman in travail; they shall be amazed one at another; their faces [shall be] faces of flames. (Isa. 13:8)
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Isa. 21:3• 3Therefore are my loins filled with pain; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail; I am bowed down so as not to hear; I am dismayed so as not to see. (Isa. 21:3)
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Isa. 26:17‑18• 17As a woman with child, [that] draweth near the time of her delivery, is in travail [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.
 18We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen. (Isa. 26:17‑18)
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Isa. 53:11• 11From the travail of his soul shall he see, he shall be satisfied; by his knowledge shall my righteous servant instruct the many in righteousness; and he shall bear their iniquities. (Isa. 53:11)
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Jer. 4:31• 31For I hear a voice, as of a woman in travail, anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion: she moaneth, she spreadeth forth her hands, saying , Woe unto me! for my soul faileth because of murderers. (Jer. 4:31)
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Jer. 6:24• 24We have heard the report thereof: our hands are grown feeble; anguish hath taken hold of us, pain as of a woman that travaileth. (Jer. 6:24)
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Jer. 13:21• 21What wilt thou say when he shall punish thee? for thou hast taught them to be captains, and as chief over thee: shall not sorrows take thee, as a woman in travail? (Jer. 13:21)
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Jer. 22:23• 23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail! (Jer. 22:23)
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Jer. 49:24• 24Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail. (Jer. 49:24)
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Mic. 4:9‑10• 9Now why dost thou cry out aloud? Is there no king in thee? is thy counsellor perished, that pangs have seized thee as a woman in travail?
 10Be in pain, and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even to Babylon: there shalt thou be delivered; there Jehovah will redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies. (Mic. 4:9‑10)
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John 16:21• 21The woman, when she bringeth forth, hath grief because her hour is come; but when she shall give birth to the child, she no longer remembereth the affliction for the joy that a man was born into the world. (John 16:21)
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1 Thess. 5:3• 3When they are saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh on them as the pain on her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape. (1 Thess. 5:3)
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1 Tim. 2:15• 15but she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sobriety. (1 Tim. 2:15)
thy desire.
Gen. 4:7• 7If thou doest well, will it not be lifted up ? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and to thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. (Gen. 4:7)
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or, subject to.
rule.
Num. 30:7‑8,13• 7and her husband hear it and be silent at her in the day that he heareth it, then her vows shall stand, and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul shall stand.
 8But if her husband prohibit her on the day that he heareth it, and annul her vow which is upon her, and what hath passed her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul, then Jehovah shall pardon her.
 13Every vow, and every binding oath to afflict the soul, her husband can establish it, or her husband can annul it. (Num. 30:7‑8,13)
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Esther 1:20• 20And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdoms (for it is great), all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small. (Esther 1:20)
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1 Cor. 7:4• 4The wife hath not authority over her own body, but the husband; and likewise, also the husband hath not authority over his own body, but the wife. (1 Cor. 7:4)
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1 Cor. 11:3• 3But I wish you to know that the head of every man is the Christ, and woman's head the man, and the Christ's head God. (1 Cor. 11:3)
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1 Cor. 14:34• 34Let the women be silent in the assemblies; for it is not permitted to them to speak, but let them be in subjection, as also the law saith. (1 Cor. 14:34)
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Eph. 5:22‑24• 22Wives, [submit yourselves] to your own husbands as to the Lord;
 23for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly: he [is] the saviour of the body.
 24But as the assembly is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything. (Eph. 5:22‑24)
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Col. 3:18• 18Wives, be subject to the husbands, as was fitting in [the] Lord. (Col. 3:18)
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1 Tim. 2:11‑12• 11Let a woman in quietness learn in all subjection.
 12But to teach I permit not a woman, nor to exercise authority over a man, but to be in quietness. (1 Tim. 2:11‑12)
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Titus 2:5• 5discreet, chaste, workers at home, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God be not ill-spoken of. (Titus 2:5)
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1 Peter 3:1‑6• 1Likewise, ye wives, [be] subject to your own husbands, that even if any are disobedient to the word, they may be gained without word through the behaviour of the wives,
 2having beheld your chaste behaviour in fear;
 3whose adornment let it not be the outward one of plaiting the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on apparel,
 4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible of the meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God very precious.
 5For thus also heretofore the holy women that hoped in God adorned themselves, being subject to their own husbands;
 6as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, whose children ye became doing good and not being afraid of any dismay. (1 Peter 3:1‑6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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To the woman he said, I will greatly increase thy travail and thy pregnancy; with pain thou shalt bear children; and to thy husband shall be thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

W. Kelly Translation

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Unto the woman he said, Increasinga I will increase thy sorrow and thy conception: in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; unto thy husband [shall be] thy desire, and he shall rule over thee.

WK Translation Notes

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(greatly)