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Genesis 6

Gen. 6:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And God
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
saw
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
p that the wickedness
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
of man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
was great
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
in the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and that θevery imagination
yetser (Hebrew #3336)
a form; figuratively, conception (i.e. purpose)
KJV usage: frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work.
Pronounce: yay'-tser
Origin: from 3335
q of the thoughts
machashabah (Hebrew #4284)
from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
KJV usage: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
Pronounce: makh-ash-aw-baw'
Origin: or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}
of his heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
was only
raq (Hebrew #7535)
properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
KJV usage: but, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless, nothing but, notwithstanding, only, save, so (that), surely, yet (so), in any wise.
Pronounce: rak
Origin: the same as 7534 as a noun
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
κcontinually
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
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Psa. 14:2• 2Jehovah hath looked down from heaven upon the sons of men{HR}To see if there were [one] acting wisely, seeking God. (Psa. 14:2)
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Psa. 53:2• 2God looked down from the heavens upon the sons of men{HR}To see if there were any understanding, seeking God. (Psa. 53:2)
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Rom. 3:9• 9What then? are we better? Not at all; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin, (Rom. 3:9)
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or, the whole imagination. The Hebrew word signifies not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires.
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Gen. 8:21• 21And Jehovah smelled the odour of rest. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not any more again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will not any more again smite every living thing as I have done. (Gen. 8:21)
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Deut. 29:19• 19{i}and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.{/i} (Deut. 29:19)
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Ezek. 8:9,12• 9And he said unto me, Go in, and, behold, the wicked abominations that they do here.
 12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the earth. (Ezek. 8:9,12)
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Matt. 15:19• 19{i}For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;{/i} (Matt. 15:19)
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every day.

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Cross References

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Gen. 13:13• 13{i}And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.{/i} (Gen. 13:13)
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Gen. 18:20‑21• 20And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
 21I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto, me; and if not, I will know. (Gen. 18:20‑21)
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Psa. 14:1‑4• 1To the chief musician, by David.{HR}The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.{HR}They have acted corruptly, they have acted abominably [in] work;{HR}There is none doing good.
 2Jehovah hath looked down from heaven upon the sons of men{HR}To see if there were [one] acting wisely, seeking God.
 3They all have turned aside, they have together been corrupted;{HR}There is none doing good, there is not even one.
 4Have they not known, all [the] workers of iniquity,{HR}Eating my people [as] they have eaten bread?{HR}Jehovah they have not called upon. (Psa. 14:1‑4)
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Psa. 53:2• 2God looked down from the heavens upon the sons of men{HR}To see if there were any understanding, seeking God. (Psa. 53:2)
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Rom. 1:28‑31• 28And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things;
 29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
 30slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
 31void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless; (Rom. 1:28‑31)
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Rom. 3:9‑19• 9What then? are we better? Not at all; for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin,
 10even as it is written, “There is none righteous, not one;
 11there is not the [man] that understandeth; there is not the [man] that seeketh out God.
 12All went out of the way, together they became unprofitable; there is none that practiceth kindness, there is not so much as one.”
 13“An open grave [is] their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; venom of asps [is] under their lips;
 14whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
 15swift [are] their feet to shed blood;
 16ruin and misery [are] in their ways;
 17and no way of peace they knew.
 18There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
 19Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it speaketh to those that [are] in the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment with God. (Rom. 3:9‑19)
every imagination.
or, the whole imagination.The Hebrew word signifies not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires.
Gen. 8:21• 21And Jehovah smelled the odour of rest. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will not any more again curse the ground on account of man, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will not any more again smite every living thing as I have done. (Gen. 8:21)
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Deut. 29:19• 19{i}and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.{/i} (Deut. 29:19)
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Job 15:16• 16How much less the abominable and corrupt,{HR}Man, that drinketh iniquity like water. (Job 15:16)
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Prov. 6:18• 18A heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,{HR}Feet that are swift in running to mischief, (Prov. 6:18)
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Eccl. 7:29• 29Behold, this only have I found,{HR}That God made man upright;{HR}But they have sought out many inventions. (Eccl. 7:29)
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Eccl. 9:3• 3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun,{HR}That there is one event unto all:{HR}Yea also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil,{HR}And madness is in [their] heart while they live;{HR}And, after that, they go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:3)
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Jer. 17:9• 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jer. 17:9)
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Ezek. 8:9,12• 9And he said unto me, Go in, and, behold, the wicked abominations that they do here.
 12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the earth. (Ezek. 8:9,12)
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Matt. 15:19• 19{i}For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;{/i} (Matt. 15:19)
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Mark 7:21‑23• 21For from within, out of the heart of men, go forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
 22thefts, covetousness, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
 23all these wicked things go forth from within, and defile the man. (Mark 7:21‑23)
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Eph. 2:1‑3• 1And you, being dead in your offences and your sins,
 2in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
 3among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest; (Eph. 2:1‑3)
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Titus 3:3• 3For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gone astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another. (Titus 3:3)
thoughts.
Jer. 4:14• 14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? (Jer. 4:14)
continually.
Heb. every day.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continuallyi.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "the whole day."

W. Kelly Translation

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And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man [was] great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continuallya .

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(all the day)