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Genesis 31

Gen. 31:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Are we not counted
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
of him strangers
nokriy (Hebrew #5237)
strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
KJV usage: alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).
Pronounce: nok-ree'
Origin: from 5235 (second form)
? for he hath sold
makar (Hebrew #4376)
to sell, literally (as merchandise, a daughter in marriage, into slavery), or figuratively (to surrender)
KJV usage: X at all, sell (away, -er, self).
Pronounce: maw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
usk, and hath quite
'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
devoured
'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
also our money
keceph (Hebrew #3701)
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
KJV usage: money, price, silver(-ling).
Pronounce: keh'-sef
Origin: from 3700
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Gen. 29:27• 27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years. (Gen. 29:27)
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Neh. 5:8• 8And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. (Neh. 5:8)

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Cross References

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sold us.
Gen. 31:41• 41Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times. (Gen. 31:41)
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Gen. 29:15‑20,27‑30• 15And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?
 16And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.
 17Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.
 18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
 19And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
 20And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
 27Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
 28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
 29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his handmaid to be her maid.
 30And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. (Gen. 29:15‑20,27‑30)
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Gen. 30:26• 26Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee. (Gen. 30:26)
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Ex. 21:7‑11• 7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.
 8If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
 9And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.
 10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
 11And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money. (Ex. 21:7‑11)
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Neh. 5:8• 8And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer. (Neh. 5:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Are we not reckoned of him strangers? for he has sold us, and has even constantly devoured our money.