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Leviticus 18

Lev. 18:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Neither shalt thou take
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
βa wife
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
to her sister
'achowth (Hebrew #269)
a sister (used very widely (like 250), literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (an-)other, sister, together.
Pronounce: aw-khoth'
Origin: irregular feminine of 251
, to vex
tsarar (Hebrew #6887)
to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows)
KJV usage: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
Pronounce: tsaw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
n her, to uncover
galah (Hebrew #1540)
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
KJV usage: + advertise, appear, bewray, bring, (carry, lead, go) captive (into captivity), depart, disclose, discover, exile, be gone, open, X plainly, publish, remove, reveal, X shamelessly, shew, X surely, tell, uncover.
Pronounce: gaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
her nakedness
`ervah (Hebrew #6172)
nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish)
KJV usage: nakedness, shame, unclean(-ness).
Pronounce: er-vaw'
Origin: from 6168
, beside the other in her life
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
time.
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or, one wife to another.
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1 Sam. 1:6‑8• 6And her adversary provoked her much also, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.
 7And as he did so year by year, as often as she went up to the house of Jehovah, she provoked her thus; and she wept and did not eat.
 8And Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons? (1 Sam. 1:6‑8)
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Mal. 2:14‑15• 14Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because Jehovah hath been a witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt unfaithfully: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.
 15And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth, (Mal. 2:14‑15)

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Cross References

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wife.
or, one wife to another.
Gen. 4:19• 19And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah. (Gen. 4:19)
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Gen. 29:28• 28And Jacob did so, and fulfilled the week with this one, and he gave him Rachel his daughter to be his wife. (Gen. 29:28)
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Ex. 26:3• 3Five of the curtains shall be coupled one to another, and the other five curtains coupled one to another. (Ex. 26:3)
to vex her.
Gen. 30:15• 15And she said to her, Is it too little that thou hast taken my husband, that thou wilt take my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to-night for thy son's mandrakes. (Gen. 30:15)
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1 Sam. 1:6‑8• 6And her adversary provoked her much also, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.
 7And as he did so year by year, as often as she went up to the house of Jehovah, she provoked her thus; and she wept and did not eat.
 8And Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weepest thou? and why eatest thou not? and why is thy heart grieved? Am not I better to thee than ten sons? (1 Sam. 1:6‑8)
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Mal. 2:15• 15And did not one make them? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the one? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth, (Mal. 2:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life.