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Genesis 6

Gen. 6:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And it repented
nacham (Hebrew #5162)
properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself)
KJV usage: comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).
Pronounce: naw-kham'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
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
that he had made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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
on 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 it grieved
`atsab (Hebrew #6087)
properly, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger
KJV usage: displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.
Pronounce: aw-tsab'
Origin: a primitive root
him at
'el (Hebrew #413)
a primitive particle; properly, denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, i.e. near, with or among; often in general, to
KJV usage: about, according to ,after, against, among, as for, at, because(-fore, -side), both...and, by, concerning, for, from, X hath, in(- to), near, (out) of, over, through, to(-ward), under, unto, upon, whether, with(-in).
Pronounce: ale
Origin: (but only used in the shortened constructive form sel {el})
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
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repented.
Ex. 32:14• 14And Jehovah repented of the evil that he had said he would do to his people. (Ex. 32:14)
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Num. 23:19• 19*God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent. Shall he say and not do? and shall he speak and not make it good? (Num. 23:19)
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Deut. 32:36• 36For Jehovah will judge his people, And shall repent in favour of his servants; When he seeth that power is gone, And there is none shut up or left. (Deut. 32:36)
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1 Sam. 15:11,29• 11It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned away from following me, and hath not fulfilled my words. And Samuel was much grieved; and he cried to Jehovah all night.
29And also the Hope of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.
(1 Sam. 15:11,29)
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2 Sam. 24:16• 16And the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it; but Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed among the people, It is enough: withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite. (2 Sam. 24:16)
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1 Chron. 21:15• 15And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; and as he was destroying, Jehovah beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough; withdraw now thine hand. And the angel of Jehovah stood by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (1 Chron. 21:15)
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Psa. 106:45• 45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses; (Psa. 106:45)
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Psa. 110:4• 4Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek. (Psa. 110:4)
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Jer. 18:8‑10• 8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
9And at the moment that I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant,
10if it do evil in my sight, that it hearken not unto my voice, then I will repent of the good wherewith I said I would benefit them.
(Jer. 18:8‑10)
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Jer. 26:19• 19Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? Did he not fear Jehovah, and supplicate Jehovah, and Jehovah repented him of the evil that he had pronounced against them? And we should be doing a great evil against our souls. (Jer. 26:19)
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Hos. 11:8• 8How shall I give thee over, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee up, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? My heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. (Hos. 11:8)
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Jonah 3:10• 10And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil that he had said he would do unto them, and he did it not. (Jonah 3:10)
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Mal. 3:6• 6For I Jehovah change not, and ye, sons of Jacob, are not consumed. (Mal. 3:6)
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Rom. 11:29• 29For the gifts and the calling of God are not subject to repentance. (Rom. 11:29)
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Heb. 6:17‑18• 17Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,
18that by two unchangeable things, in which it was impossible that God should lie, we might have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,
(Heb. 6:17‑18)
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James 1:17• 17Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning. (James 1:17)
grieved.
Deut. 5:29• 29Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments continually, that it might be well with them and with their sons for ever! (Deut. 5:29)
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Deut. 32:29• 29Oh that they had been wise! they would have understood this, They would have considered their latter end! (Deut. 32:29)
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Psa. 78:40• 40How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! (Psa. 78:40)
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Psa. 81:13• 13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways! (Psa. 81:13)
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Psa. 95:10• 10Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways; (Psa. 95:10)
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Psa. 119:158• 158I beheld them that deal treacherously, and was grieved; because they kept not thy *word. (Psa. 119:158)
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Isa. 48:18• 18Oh that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! Then would thy peace have been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea; (Isa. 48:18)
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Isa. 63:10• 10But they rebelled and grieved his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. (Isa. 63:10)
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Ezek. 33:11• 11Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? (Ezek. 33:11)
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Luke 19:41‑42• 41And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,
42saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes;
(Luke 19:41‑42)
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Eph. 4:30• 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption. (Eph. 4:30)
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Heb. 3:10,17• 10Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and *they* have not known my ways;
17And with whom was he wroth forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
(Heb. 3:10,17)
 His work is a thing quite different from His purpose. And when corruption pervaded it, He was in no way bound to perpetuate what existed only to His dishonor. (The Early Chapters of Genesis: Chapter 6:5-8 by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah repented that he had made Man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.