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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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fowls.
two.
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 fish of the sea and bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that creepeth 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 every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man, to see what he would call them; and all that the man called a living creature , 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 birds, and everything that creeps on the ground,
9went in two [and] two to Noah into the ark, male and female, as God 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, and the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day were broken up all the fountains of the great deep, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
12And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13On the same day went Noah, and Shem and Ham and Japheth, 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 creepeth on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind—every bird of every wing.
15And they went unto Noah into the ark, two [and] two of all flesh wherein was the breath of life.
16And they that came came male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him; and Jehovah shut him in.
(Gen. 7:8‑16)
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John 5:40• 40And ye are not willing to come unto me that ye may 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.