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Genesis 31

Gen. 31:41 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thus have I been twenty
`esriym (Hebrew #6242)
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
KJV usage: (six-)score, twenty(-ieth).
Pronounce: es-reem'
Origin: from 6235
years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
in thy house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
; I served thee
`abad (Hebrew #5647)
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
KJV usage: X be, keep in bondage, be bondmen, bond-service, compel, do, dress, ear, execute, + husbandman, keep, labour(-ing man, bring to pass, (cause to, make to) serve(-ing, self), (be, become) servant(-s), do (use) service, till(-er), transgress (from margin), (set a) work, be wrought, worshipper,
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
fourteen
`asar (Hebrew #6240)
ten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
KJV usage: (eigh-, fif-, four-, nine-, seven-, six-, thir-)teen(-th), + eleven(-th), + sixscore thousand, + twelve(-th).
Pronounce: aw-sawr'
Origin: for 6235
'arba` (Hebrew #702)
from 7251; four
KJV usage: four.
Pronounce: ar-bah'
Origin: masculine oarbaah {ar-baw-aw'}
t years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
for thy two
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
daughters
bath (Hebrew #1323)
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: apple (of the eye), branch, company, daughter, X first, X old, + owl, town, village.
Pronounce: bath
Origin: from 1129 (as feminine of 1121)
, and six
shesh (Hebrew #8337)
a primitive number; six (as an overplus (see 7797) beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
KJV usage: six((-teen, -teenth)), sixth.
Pronounce: shaysh
Origin: masculine shishshah {shish-shaw'}
years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
for thy cattle
tso'n (Hebrew #6629)
from an unused root meaning to migrate; a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men)
KJV usage: (small) cattle, flock (+ -s), lamb (+ -s), sheep((-cote, -fold, -shearer, -herds)).
Pronounce: tsone
Origin: or tsaown (Psalm 144:13) {tseh-one'}
: and thou hast changed
chalaph (Hebrew #2498)
properly, to slide by, i.e. (by implication) to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce or change
KJV usage: abolish, alter, change, cut off, go on forward, grow up, be over, pass (away, on, through), renew, sprout, strike through.
Pronounce: khaw-laf'
Origin: a primitive root
my wages
maskoreth (Hebrew #4909)
wages or a reward
KJV usage: reward, wages.
Pronounce: mas-koh'-reth
Origin: from 7936
u ten
`eser (Hebrew #6235)
from 6237; ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
KJV usage: ten, (fif-, seven-)teen.
Pronounce: eh'ser
Origin: masculine of term aasarah {as-aw-raw'}
times
moneh (Hebrew #4489)
properly, something weighed out, i.e. (figuratively) a portion of time, i.e. an instance
KJV usage: time.
Pronounce: mo-neh'
Origin: from 4487
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Gen. 29:18,30• 18And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
 30And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. (Gen. 29:18,30)
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Gen. 31:7• 7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. (Gen. 31:7)

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Cross References

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fourteen.
Gen. 31:38• 38This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. (Gen. 31:38)
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Gen. 29:18‑30• 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.
 21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
 22And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast.
 23And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
 24And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid.
 25And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?
 26And Laban said, It must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.
 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. 29:18‑30)
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Gen. 30:33‑40• 33So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
 34And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
 35And he removed that day the he goats that were ringstraked and spotted, and all the she goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
 36And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
 37And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
 38And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
 39And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
 40And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle. (Gen. 30:33‑40)
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1 Cor. 15:10• 10But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. (1 Cor. 15:10)
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2 Cor. 11:26• 26In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; (2 Cor. 11:26)
ten times.
Gen. 31:7• 7And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me. (Gen. 31:7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I have been these twenty years in thy house: I have served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.