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Genesis 6

Gen. 6:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Of fowls
`owph (Hebrew #5775)
a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively
KJV usage: bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
Pronounce: ofe
Origin: from 5774
after their kind
miyn (Hebrew #4327)
a sort, i.e. species
KJV usage: kind. Compare 4480.
Pronounce: meen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to portion out
, and of cattle
bhemah (Hebrew #929)
properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective)
KJV usage: beast, cattle.
Pronounce: be-hay-maw'
Origin: from an unused root (probably meaning to be mute)
after their kind
miyn (Hebrew #4327)
a sort, i.e. species
KJV usage: kind. Compare 4480.
Pronounce: meen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to portion out
, of every creeping thing
remes (Hebrew #7431)
a reptile or any other rapidly moving animal
KJV usage: that creepeth, creeping (moving) thing.
Pronounce: reh'-mes
Origin: from 7430
of the earth
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
after his kind
miyn (Hebrew #4327)
a sort, i.e. species
KJV usage: kind. Compare 4480.
Pronounce: meen
Origin: from an unused root meaning to portion out
, 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
of every sort shall come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
unto thee, to keep them alive
chayah (Hebrew #2421)
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV usage: keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Pronounce: khaw-yaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421)
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Cross References

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fowls.
Gen. 1:20‑24• 20And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living souls, and let fowl fly above the earth in the expanse of the heavens.
 21And God created the great sea monsters, and every living soul that moves with which the waters swarm, after their kind, and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
 22And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth.
 23And there was evening, and there was morning--a fifth day.
 24And God said, Let the earth bring forth living souls after their kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth, after their kind. And it was so. (Gen. 1:20‑24)
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Acts 10:11‑12• 11and he beholds the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as a great sheet, bound by the four corners and let down to the earth;
 12in which were all the quadrupeds and creeping things of the earth, and the fowls of the heaven. (Acts 10:11‑12)
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Gen. 1:28• 28And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over every animal that moveth on the earth. (Gen. 1:28)
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Gen. 2:19• 19And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought them to Man, to see what he would call them; and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name. (Gen. 2:19)
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Gen. 7:8‑16• 8Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowl, and of everything that creeps on the ground,
 9there came two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.
 10And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were on the earth.
 11In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
 12And the pour of rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
 13On the same day went Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;
 14they, and every beast after its kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and all fowl after its kind--every bird of every wing.
 15And they went to Noah, into the ark, two and two of all flesh, in which was the breath of life.
 16And they that came, came male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him. And Jehovah shut him in. (Gen. 7:8‑16)
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John 5:40• 40and ye will not come to me that ye might have life. (John 5:40)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep them alive.

W. Kelly Translation

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Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every reptile of the ground after its kind, two of every [kind] shall come to thee, to keep [them] alive.