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Genesis 9

Gen. 9:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And Noah
Noach (Hebrew #5146)
rest; Noach, the patriarch of the flood
KJV usage: Noah.
Pronounce: no'-akh
Origin: the same as 5118
began
chalal (Hebrew #2490)
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute)
KJV usage: begin (X men began), defile, X break, defile, X eat (as common things), X first, X gather the grape thereof, X take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.
Pronounce: khaw-lal'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2470)
to be an husbandman
'adamah (Hebrew #127)
soil (from its general redness)
KJV usage: country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
Pronounce: ad-aw-maw'
Origin: from 119
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
, and he planted
nata` (Hebrew #5193)
properly, to strike in, i.e. fix; specifically, to plant (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: fastened, plant(- er).
Pronounce: naw-tah'
Origin: a primitive root
o a vineyard
kerem (Hebrew #3754)
a garden or vineyard
KJV usage: vines, (increase of the) vineyard(-s), vintage. See also 1021.
Pronounce: keh'-rem
Origin: from an unused root of uncertain meaning
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an husbandman.
Gen. 3:18‑19,23• 18and thorns and thistles shall it yield thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground: for out of it wast thou taken. For dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return.
23Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.
(Gen. 3:18‑19,23)
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Gen. 4:2• 2And she further bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a shepherd, but Cain was a husbandman. (Gen. 4:2)
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Gen. 5:29• 29And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and concerning the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed. (Gen. 5:29)
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Prov. 10:11• 11The mouth of a righteous man is a fountain of life; but the mouth of the wicked covereth violence. (Prov. 10:11)
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Prov. 12:11• 11He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread; but he that followeth the worthless is void of understanding. (Prov. 12:11)
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Eccl. 5:9• 9Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upon the field. (Eccl. 5:9)
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Isa. 28:24‑26• 24Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he all day opening and breaking the clods of his land?
25Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?
26His God doth instruct him in his judgment, he doth teach him.
(Isa. 28:24‑26)
planted.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Noah began to be a husbandmana, and planted a vineyard.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "man of the ground."