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Genesis 37

Gen. 37:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And they took
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
him, and cast
shalak (Hebrew #7993)
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: adventure, cast (away, down, forth, off, out), hurl, pluck, throw.
Pronounce: shaw-lak
Origin: a primitive root
him into a pit
bowr (Hebrew #953)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 952 (in the sense of 877)
n: and the pit
bowr (Hebrew #953)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 952 (in the sense of 877)
was empty
reyq (Hebrew #7386)
from 7324; empty; figuratively, worthless
KJV usage: emptied(-ty), vain (fellow, man).
Pronounce: rake
Origin: or (shorter) req {rake}
, there was no water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
in it.
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Psa. 35:7• 7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. (Psa. 35:7)
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Lam. 4:20• 20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. (Lam. 4:20)

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and cast.
Psa. 35:7• 7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. (Psa. 35:7)
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Lam. 4:20• 20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. (Lam. 4:20)
the pit.
Psa. 40:2• 2He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. (Psa. 40:2)
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Psa. 88:6,8• 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
 8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. (Psa. 88:6,8)
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Psa. 130:1‑2• 1<<A Song of degrees.>> Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
 2Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. (Psa. 130:1‑2)
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Jer. 38:6• 6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. (Jer. 38:6)
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Lam. 3:52‑55• 52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
 53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
 54Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
 55I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon. (Lam. 3:52‑55)
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Zech. 9:11• 11As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water. (Zech. 9:11)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and they took him and cast him into the pit; now the pit was empty—there was no water in it.