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Ruth 4:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And all the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
that were in the gate
sha`ar (Hebrew #8179)
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV usage: city, door, gate, port (X -er).
Pronounce: shah'-ar
Origin: from 8176 in its original sense
, and the elders
zaqen (Hebrew #2205)
old
KJV usage: aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.
Pronounce: zaw-kane'
Origin: from 2204
, said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, We are witnesses
`ed (Hebrew #5707)
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
KJV usage: witness.
Pronounce: ayd
Origin: contracted from 5749
. 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
b make
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
the woman
'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
that is come
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
into thine house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
like Rachel
Rachel (Hebrew #7354)
Rachel, a wife of Jacob
KJV usage: Rachel.
Pronounce: raw-khale'
Origin: the same as 7353
and like Leah
Le'ah (Hebrew #3812)
weary; Leah, a wife of Jacob
KJV usage: Leah.
Pronounce: lay-aw'
Origin: from 3811
, which two
shnayim (Hebrew #8147)
feminine shttayim {shet-tah'-yim}; two; also (as ordinal) twofold
KJV usage: both, couple, double, second, twain, + twelfth, + twelve, + twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
Pronounce: shen-ah'-yim
Origin: dual of 8145
c did build
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
the house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
: and γdo
`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
thou worthily
chayil (Hebrew #2428)
probably a force, whether of men, means or other resources; an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength
KJV usage: able, activity, (+) army, band of men (soldiers), company, (great) forces, goods, host, might, power, riches, strength, strong, substance, train, (+)valiant(-ly), valour, virtuous(-ly), war, worthy(-ily).
Pronounce: khah'-yil
Origin: from 2342
in Ephratah
'Ephraath (Hebrew #672)
from 6509; fruitfulness; Ephrath, another name for Bethlehem; once (Psa. 132:6) perhaps for Ephraim; also of an Israelitish woman
KJV usage: Ephrath, Ephratah.
Pronounce: ef-rawth'
Origin: or mEphrathah {ef-raw'-thaw}
f, and δbe famous
shem (Hebrew #8034)
an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
KJV usage: + base, (in-)fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.
Pronounce: shame
Origin: a primitive word (perhaps rather from 7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare 8064)
qara' (Hebrew #7121)
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met)
in Bethlehem
Beyth (Hebrew #1035)
house of bread; Beth- Lechem, a place in Palestine
KJV usage: Beth-lehem.
Pronounce: Lechem
Origin: from 1004 and 3899
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the Lord.
Rachel.
Gen. 29:32‑35• 32And Leah conceived, and bore a son, and called his name Reuben ; for she said, Because Jehovah hath looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.
33And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Because Jehovah hath heard that I [am] hated, he hath therefore given me this one also; and she called his name Simeon .
34And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, Now this time will my husband be united to me, for I have borne him three sons; therefore was his name called Levi .
35And she again conceived, and bore a son, and said, This time will I praise Jehovah; therefore she called his name Judah . And she ceased from bearing.
(Gen. 29:32‑35)
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Gen. 30:1‑24• 1And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
2And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel; and he said, [Am] I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
3And she said, Behold, my maid Bilhah; go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I may also be built up by her.
4And she gave him Bilhah her bondmaid as wife; and Jacob went in to her.
5And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
6And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and also heard my voice, and given me a son: therefore she called his name Dan .
7And Bilhah Rachel's bondmaid again conceived and bore Jacob a second son.
8And Rachel said, Wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali .
9When Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her bond-maid, and gave her to Jacob as wife.
10And Zilpah Leah's bondmaid bore Jacob a son.
11And Leah said, What fortune! and she called his name Gad .
12And Zilpah Leah's bondmaid bore Jacob a second son.
13And Leah said, With my happiness; for the daughters will call me happy! and she called his name Asher .
14And Reuben went out in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field; and he brought them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
15And she said to her, Is it 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.
16And when Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, Thou must come in to me, for indeed I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
17And God hearkened to Leah; and she bore Jacob a fifth son.
18And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I gave my bond-maid to my husband; and she called his name Issachar .
19And Leah again conceived, and bore Jacob a sixth son;
20and Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; this time will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons. And she called his name Zebulun .
21Afterward she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah .
22And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.
23And she conceived and bore a son, and said, God hath taken away my reproach.
24And she called his name Joseph ; and said, Jehovah will add to me another son.
(Gen. 30:1‑24)
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Gen. 35:16‑20• 16And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was yet some way to come to Ephrath; and Rachel travailed, and it went hard with her in childbirth.
17And it came to pass when it went hard in her bearing, that the midwife said to her, Fear not; for this also [is] a son for thee.
18And it came to pass as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Benoni ; but his father called him Benjamin .
19And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
20And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave, which [is] the pillar of Rachel's grave to [this] day.
(Gen. 35:16‑20)
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Gen. 46:8‑27• 8And these [are] the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Jacob's first-born, Reuben;
9and the sons of Reuben, Enoch and Phallu and Hezron and Carmi;
10and the sons of Simeon, Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Saul son of a Canaanitish woman.
11And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath and Merari;
12and the sons of Judah, Er and Onan and Shelah, and Pherez and Zarah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Pherez were Hezron and Hamul.
13And the sons of Issachar, Tola and Puah, and Job and Shimron;
14and the sons of Zebulun, Sered and Elon and Jahleel.
15These [are] the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Padan-Aram, and his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and daughters [were] thirty-three.
16And the sons of Gad, Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli;
17and the sons of Asher, Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Serah their sister, and the sons of Beriah, Heber and Malchiel.
18These [are] the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and she bore these to Jacob: sixteen souls.
19The sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife, Joseph and Benjamin.
20And to Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, whom Asenath bore to him, daughter of Potiphera, priest in On;
21and the sons of Benjamin, Belah and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.
22These [are] the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob: all the souls [were] fourteen.
23And the sons of Dan, Hushim;
24and the sons of Naphtali, Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.
25These [are] the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel his daughter, and she bore these to Jacob: all the souls [were] seven.
26All the souls belonging to Jacob that came into Egypt, that came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives: all the souls [were] sixty-six.
27And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt [were] two souls. All the souls of the house of Jacob which came into Egypt, [were] seventy.
(Gen. 46:8‑27)
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Num. 26:1‑65• 1{i}And it came to pass after the plague, that Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,{/i}
2{i}Take the sum of the whole assembly of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, according to their fathers' houses, all that go forth to military service in Israel.{/i}
3{i}And Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan of Jericho, saying,{/i}
4{i}From twenty years old and upward…; as Jehovah had commanded Moses and the children of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt.{/i}
5{i}Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: the children of Reuben: of Enoch, the family of the Enochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;{/i}
6{i}of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.{/i}
7{i}These are the families of the Reubenites; and they that were numbered of them were forty-three thousand seven hundred and thirty.{/i}
8{i}And the sons of Pallu: Eliab;{/i}
9{i}and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, and Dathan, and Abiram. This is that Dathan and Abiram, summoned of the assembly, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the band of Korah, when they contended against Jehovah.{/i}
10{i}And the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that band died, when the fire devoured the two hundred and fifty men; and they became a sign.{/i}
11{i}But the children of Korah died not.{/i}
12{i}The sons of Simeon, after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites;{/i}
13{i}of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites; of Saul, the family of the Saulites.{/i}
14{i}These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.{/i}
15{i}The children of Gad, after their families: of Zephon, the family of the Zephonites; of Haggi, the family of the Haggites; of Shuni, the family of the Shunites;{/i}
16{i}of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;{/i}
17{i}of Arod, the family of the Arodites; of Areli, the family of the Arelites.{/i}
18{i}These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred.{/i}
19{i}The sons of Judah: Er and Onan; and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.{/i}
20{i}And the sons of Judah, after their families: of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites; of Pherez, the family of the Pharzites; of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.{/i}
21{i}And the sons of Pherez: of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites; of Hamul, the family of the Hamulites.{/i}
22{i}These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, seventy-six thousand five hundred.{/i}
23{i}The sons of Issachar, after their families: of Tola, the family of the Tolaites; of Puah, the family of the Punites;{/i}
24{i}of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.{/i}
25{i}These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.{/i}
26{i}The sons of Zebulun, after their families: of Sered, the family of the Sardites; of Elon, the family of the Elonites; of Jahleel, the family of the Jahleelites.{/i}
27{i}These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those that were numbered of them, sixty thousand five hundred.{/i}
28{i}The sons of Joseph, after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.{/i}
29{i}The sons of Manasseh: of Machir, the family of the Machirites (and Machir begot Gilead); of Gilead, the family of the Gileadites.{/i}
30{i}These are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family of the Jeezerites; of Helek, the family of the Helkites;{/i}
31{i}and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;{/i}
32{i}and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.{/i}
33{i}—And Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters; and the names of the daughters of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.{/i}
34{i}—These are the families of Manasseh; and those that were numbered of them, fifty-two thousand seven hundred.{/i}
35{i}These are the sons of Ephraim, after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites; of Becher, the family of the Bachrites; of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.{/i}
36{i}And these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites.{/i}
37{i}These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty-two thousand five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.{/i}
38{i}The sons of Benjamin, after their families: of Bela, the family of the Belaites; of Ashbel, the family of the Ashbelites; of Ahiram, the family of the Ahiramites;{/i}
39{i}of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.{/i}
40{i}And the sons of Bela were Ard and Naaman; of Ard the family of the Ardites; of Naaman, the family of the Naamites.{/i}
41{i}These are the sons of Benjamin after their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty-five thousand six hundred.{/i}
42{i}These are the sons of Dan, after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.{/i}
43{i}All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.{/i}
44{i}The sons of Asher, after their families: of Jimnah, the family of the Jimnites; of Jishvi, the family of the Jishvites; of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.{/i}
45{i}Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.{/i}
46{i}And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.{/i}
47{i}These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them, fifty-three thousand four hundred.{/i}
48{i}The sons of Naphtali, after their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;{/i}
49{i}of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites; of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.{/i}
50{i}These are the families of Naphtali, according to their families; and they that were numbered of them were forty-five thousand four hundred.{/i}
51{i}These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred and one thousand seven hundred and thirty.{/i}
52{i}And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,{/i}
53{i}Unto these shall the land be divided for an inheritance according to the number of the names;{/i}
54{i}to the many thou shalt increase their inheritance, and to the few thou shalt diminish their inheritance; to every one shall his inheritance be given according to those that were numbered of him.{/i}
55{i}Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers shall they inherit;{/i}
56{i}according to lot shall his inheritance be divided to each, be they many or few in number.{/i}
57{i}And these are the numbered of the Levites, after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.{/i}
58{i}These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korahites. —And Kohath begot Amram.{/i}
59{i}And the name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.{/i}
60{i}And to Aaron were born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.{/i}
61{i}And Nadab and Abihu died, when they presented strange fire before Jehovah.{/i}
62{i}And those that were numbered of the Levites were twenty-three thousand, all males from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.{/i}
63{i}These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan of Jericho.{/i}
64{i}But among these there was not a man numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.{/i}
65{i}For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.{/i}
(Num. 26:1‑65)
build.
do thou worthily.
or, get thee riches, or power.
Ephratah.
be famous.
Heb. proclaim thy name.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And all the people that were in the gate and the elders said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that cometh into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel; and acquire power in Ephratah, and make thyself a name in Bethlehem;

W. Kelly Translation

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And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel; and acquire power in Ephratah, and make thyself a name in Bethlehem;

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)