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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• 4And He answered and said, Have ye not read that He that made from the beginning made them male and female,
 5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife; and the two shall become 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 then your children are unclean, but now are they 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 God's image created he him; male and female created he them. (Gen. 1:27)
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Gen. 2:20‑24• 20And the man gave names to all the cattle, and to bird of the heavens, and to every animal of the field; but for Adam was not found a help answering to him.
 21And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs, and closed up flesh in its stead.
 22And the rib which Jehovah Elohim had taken from the man he built into a woman, and. brought her unto the man.
 23And the man said, This time [it is] bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh this shall be called Woman [Ishshah], because out of man [Ish] was taken this.
 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. (Gen. 2:20‑24)
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Matt. 19:4‑6• 4And He answered and said, Have ye not read that He that made from the beginning made them male and female,
 5and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be united to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
 6So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God joined together, let not man put asunder. (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 shall a man 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 have her own husband. (1 Cor. 7:2)
residue.
or, excellency.
the spirit.
Gen. 2:7• 7And Jehovah Elohim formed Man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils breath of life; and Man became a living soul. (Gen. 2:7)
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Job 27:3• 3All the while thy breath [is] in me,{HR}And God’s spirit in my nostrils, (Job 27:3)
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Eccl. 12:7• 7And the dust return to the earth as it was,{HR}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 and saith 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 dwell;
 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 anywise to the land from which thou camest?
 6And Abraham said to him, Beware thou 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 spake to me and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed will I give this land; even he will send his angel before thee; and thou shalt take a wife thence for my son.
 44and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels—that she [shall] 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 wife Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basmath daughter of Elon the Hittite;
 35and they were bitterness of spirit to Isaac and 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 be to 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 thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
 3And God Almighty [El Shaddai] bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples.
 4And may he give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest possess the land of thy sojournings, which God gave to Abraham. (Gen. 28:2‑4)
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Deut. 7:4• 4{i}for 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.{/i} (Deut. 7:4)
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Ezra 9:4• 4Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice. (Ezra 9:4)
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Neh. 13:24• 24And their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, {i}and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people{/i}. (Neh. 13:24)
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Jer. 2:21• 21{i}And 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?{/i} (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 then your children are unclean, but now are they holy. (1 Cor. 7:14)
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Eph. 6:4• 4And, fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but bring them up in [the] Lord's discipline and admonition. (Eph. 6:4)
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1 Tim. 3:4‑5,11‑12• 4one that ruleth well his own house, having children in subjection with all gravity,
 5(but if one knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he care for God's assembly?),
 11Women likewise [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
 12Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling [their] children and their own houses well; (1 Tim. 3:4‑5,11‑12)
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Titus 1:6• 6If anyone is blameless, husband of one wife, having children faithful, not under charge of profligacy, or unruly. (Titus 1:6)
godly seed.
Heb. seed of God.
Gen. 6:2• 2that the sons of God saw the daughters of mankind that they [were] fair and they took to them 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 nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it shall be said unto them, Ye [are] not my people, [there] it shall be said unto them, [Ye are] the sons of the living God. (Hos. 1:10)
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Acts 3:25• 25Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God covenanted with our fathers, saying unto 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 will be to you for 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 witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: 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 all thou guardest;{HR}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,{HR}Nor 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;{HR}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 that looketh at a woman to lust after her committed adultery with her already in his heart.
 29And if thy right eye stumbleth thee, pluck out and cast it from thee; for it profiteth 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• 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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James 1:14‑15• 14But each is tempted when by his own lust drawn away and enticed;
 15then lust having conceived bringeth forth sin; and sin when completed giveth birth to 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.