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Malachi 2

Mal. 2:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And did not he make
`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
one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
o? Yet had he the μresidue
sh'ar (Hebrew #7605)
a remainder
KJV usage: X other, remnant, residue, rest.
Pronounce: sheh-awr'
Origin: from 7604
of the spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
. And wherefore one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
? That he might seek
baqash (Hebrew #1245)
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Pronounce: baw-kash'
Origin: a primitive root
a νgodly
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
seed
zera` (Hebrew #2233)
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Pronounce: zeh'-rah
Origin: from 2232
p. Therefore take heed
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
to your spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
, and let none deal ρtreacherously
bagad (Hebrew #898)
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
KJV usage: deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress(-or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, man), X very.
Pronounce: baw-gad'
Origin: a primitive root
against the 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
of his youth
na`uwr (Hebrew #5271)
and (feminine) nturah {neh- oo-raw'}; properly, passive participle from 5288 as denominative; (only in plural collectively or emphatic form) youth, the state (juvenility) or the persons (young people)
KJV usage: childhood, youth.
Pronounce: naw-oor'
Origin: or naur {naw-oor'}
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Matt. 19:4‑5• 4But he answering said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them, from the beginning made them male and female,
 5and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh? (Matt. 19:4‑5)
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or, excellency.
ν
seed of God.
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1 Cor. 7:14• 14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy. (1 Cor. 7:14)
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or, unfaithfully.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Gen. 1:27• 27And God created Man in his image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Gen. 1:27)
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Gen. 2:20‑24• 20And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but as for Adam, he found no helpmate, his like.
 21And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.
 22And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman; and brought her to Man.
 23And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man.
 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. (Gen. 2:20‑24)
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Matt. 19:4‑6• 4But he answering said to them, Have ye not read that he who made them, from the beginning made them male and female,
 5and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?
 6so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. (Matt. 19:4‑6)
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Mark 10:6‑8• 6but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
 7For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be united to his wife,
 8and the two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two but one flesh. (Mark 10:6‑8)
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1 Cor. 7:2• 2but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband. (1 Cor. 7:2)
residue.
or, excellency.
the spirit.
Gen. 2:7• 7And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and Man became a living soul. (Gen. 2:7)
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Job 27:3• 3All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of +God is in my nostrils, (Job 27:3)
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Eccl. 12:7• 7and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it. (Eccl. 12:7)
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John 20:22• 22And having said this, he breathed into them, and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit: (John 20:22)
That he.
Gen. 24:3‑7,44• 3and I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of the heavens and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am dwelling;
 4but thou shalt go to my land and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
 5And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land: must I, then, bring thy son again in any case to the land from which thou hast removed?
 6And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou bring not my son thither again.
 7Jehovah the God of the heavens, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land of my nativity, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land--he will send his angel before thee, that thou mayest take a wife for my son thence.
 44and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels--that she should be the woman whom Jehovah hath appointed for my master's son. (Gen. 24:3‑7,44)
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Gen. 26:34‑35• 34And Esau was forty years old, when he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
 35And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebecca. (Gen. 26:34‑35)
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Gen. 27:46• 46And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good should my life do me? (Gen. 27:46)
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Gen. 28:2‑4• 2Arise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
 3And the Almighty *God bless thee, and make thee fruitful and multiply thee, that thou mayest become a company of peoples.
 4And may he give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, in order that thou mayest possess the land of thy sojourning, which God gave to Abraham! (Gen. 28:2‑4)
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Deut. 7:4• 4for he will turn away thy son from following me, and they will serve other gods, and the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly. (Deut. 7:4)
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Ezra 9:4• 4Then were assembled to me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the unfaithfulness of those that had been carried away; and I sat overwhelmed until the evening oblation. (Ezra 9:4)
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Neh. 13:24• 24And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people. (Neh. 13:24)
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Jer. 2:21• 21And I,--I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me? (Jer. 2:21)
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1 Cor. 7:14• 14For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since otherwise indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy. (1 Cor. 7:14)
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Eph. 6:4• 4And ye fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord. (Eph. 6:4)
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1 Tim. 3:4‑5,11‑12• 4conducting his own house well, having his children in subjection with all gravity;
 5(but if one does not know how to conduct his own house, how shall he take care of the assembly of God?)
 11The women in like manner grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
 12Let the ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting their children and their own houses well: (1 Tim. 3:4‑5,11‑12)
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Titus 1:6• 6if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly. (Titus 1:6)
godly seed.
Heb. seed of God.
Gen. 6:2• 2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose. (Gen. 6:2)
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Hos. 1:10• 10Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured or numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, it shall be said unto them, Sons of the living *God. (Hos. 1:10)
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Acts 3:25• 25*Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Acts 3:25)
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2 Cor. 6:18• 18and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (2 Cor. 6:18)
take.
Mal. 2:14• 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. (Mal. 2:14)
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Prov. 4:23• 23Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life. (Prov. 4:23)
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Prov. 6:25• 25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids; (Prov. 6:25)
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Prov. 7:25• 25Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths: (Prov. 7:25)
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Matt. 5:28‑29• 28But *I* say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
 29But if thy right eye be a snare to thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not thy whole body be cast into hell. (Matt. 5:28‑29)
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Matt. 15:19• 19For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:19)
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James 1:14‑15• 14But every one is tempted, drawn away, and enticed by his own lust;
 15then lust, having conceived, gives birth to sin; but sin fully completed brings forth death. (James 1:14‑15)
treacherously.
or, unfaithfully.
• “That He might seek a godly seed.” The Lord thus looks to find His people among the children of His servants; and it is on this account indeed that the apostle enjoins believing parents to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. (“Malachi 2” by E. Dennett)
• The Lord lays, in this way, great stress upon, attaches great importance to, the godly maintenance of natural relationships; and wherever these are slighted under whatever pretense, whether spiritual or otherwise, the door is already opened to the worst forms of license and corruption. (“Malachi 2” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And did not one make thema? and the remnant of the Spirit was his. And wherefore the oneb? He sought a seed of God. Take heed then to your spirit, and let none deal unfaithfully against the wife of his youth,

JND Translation Notes

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a
Or "did he not make [them] one thing?"
b
Or "one thing." The application of this passage to Abraham, which some insist on, is not to be admitted.