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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 youngest daughter.
 30And he went in to Rachel also, and he loved 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 mocked 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• 38These twenty years I [have been] with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and rams of thy flock I have 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 youngest daughter.
 19And Laban said, 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 were in his eyes a few days, for his love to her.
 21And Jacob said to Laban, Give [me] my wife for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to 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 to her.
 24And Laban gave to her Zilpah his maid-servant [for] maid-servant to Leah his daughter.
 25And it came to pass in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. And he said to Laban, What [is] this thou hast done to me? Have I not served with thee for Rachel? Why then hast thou deceived me?
 26And Laban said, It is not so done in our place, to give the younger before the first-born.
 27Fulfill the week of this one; and we will give thee the other also for the service that thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
 28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled the week; and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.
 29And Laban gave to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid-servant for her maid-servant.
 30And he went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. (Gen. 29:18‑30)
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Gen. 30:33‑40• 33And my righteousness shall answer for me hereafter, when thou comest about my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and black among the sheep, let that be stolen with me.
 34And Laban said, Behold, let it 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, every one that had white in it, and all the black among the sheep, and gave [them] into the hands of his sons;
 36and he set three days journey between himself and Jacob. And Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
 37And Jacob took him fresh rods of white poplar, almond, and maple, and peeled white stripes in them, uncovering the white which was on the rods.
 38And he set the rods which he had peeled before the flock in the gutters at the watering-places where the flock came to drink; and they were ardent when they came to drink.
 39And the flock was ardent before the rods; and the flock brought forth ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
 40And Jacob separated the lambs, and set the faces of the flock toward the ringstraked and all the black in the flock of Laban; and he made himself separate flocks and put them not with Laban's flock. (Gen. 30:33‑40)
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1 Cor. 15:10• 10but by God's grace I am what I am, and his grace that [was] towards me became not empty, but I laboured more abundantly than they all, yet not I but the grace of God that [was] with me. (1 Cor. 15:10)
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2 Cor. 11:26• 26by wayfarings often, by dangers of rivers, by dangers of robbers, by dangers from countrymen, by dangers from Gentiles, by dangers in town, by dangers in desert, by dangers at sea, by dangers among false brethren, by toil and trouble; (2 Cor. 11:26)
ten times.
Gen. 31:7• 7And your father hath mocked 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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