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Strong #

Bible Version

Hebrew

Strong’s Concordance Definitions

and Brown-Driver-Brigg’s Lexicon

New Comprehensive Meaning

Verse 3

3212

And hath gone

yalak

(yaw-lak’)

to walk; to carry; depart; follow; go; come away;

Have departed

5647

and served

`abad (aw-bad’)

to work; to serve; enslave; be bondmen; keep in bondage; compel; keep; worship;

serving

312

other

‘acher

(akh-air’)

hinder; other; next; another; different;

other

430

gods,

‘elohiym

plural gods in an ordinary sense; of the supreme God; occasional applied to judges; angels; mighty;

gods,

7812

and worshipped

shachah

(shaw-khaw’)

to prostrate in homage to royalty or God; bow down; fall down flat; humbly beseech; do reverence; worship;

worshiping

3807a

them,

le-   (le)

to; toward; at; in; till; until; in order to; for the purpose of; with respect to; in regard to; according to;

according to the

8121

either the sun,

shemesh

(sheh’-mesh);

to be brilliant; the sun; a ray; sun rising; by implication the east; westward;

sun

176

or

‘ow   (o)

BDB Lexicon:

by way of the alternative; or; also; and; either; if; at the least; otherwise; then; whether;

or; rather; implying that the latter choice is preferred; introducing an example to be seen under a particular principle; either—or; except; or else;

rather than 

3394

moon,

yareach

(yaw-ray’-akh)

the moon;

the moon.

176

or

‘ow   (o)

BDB Lexicon:

by way of the alternative; or; also; and; either; if; at the least; otherwise; then; whether;

or; rather; implying that the latter choice is preferred; introducing an example to be seen under a particular principle; either—or; except; or else;

By way of this alternate

3605

any of

kol  (kole)

the whole; all; any; every; altogether; as many as; whatsoever; whosoever;

all the

8064

the

shamayim

(shaw-mah’-yim)

meaning to be lofty; the sky; alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move; the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve;

revolving celestial bodies

6635

host of

tsaba’

(tsaw-baw’)

BDB Lexicon:

a mass of persons; organized for war; specifically worship; appointed time; service; host;

the sun, moon, and stars; the whole of creation;

appointed times

8064

heaven,

shamayim

(shaw-mah’-yim)

meaning to be lofty; the sky; alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move; the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve;

in the heavens

834

which

‘aher  (ash-er’)

who; which; what; that; also; when; where; how; because; in order that; because; after; until;

which

6680

I have

tsavah

(tsaw-vaw’)

to constitute; enjoin; appoint; bid; charge; command; set in order;

I have

3808

not

lo’ 

not; no; not before; neither; never;

not

6680

commanded

tsavah

(tsaw-vaw’)

to constitute; enjoin; appoint; bid; charge; command; set in order;

appointed

5046

and it be told

Nagad

(naw-gad’)

to front; stand boldly out opposite; to manifest; specifically to expose, predict, explain, praise; denounce; expound; show forth;

will be exposed.