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by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
Bible Verse Dictionary
Hosea 12:12 - Served
Hosea 12:12 - And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And Jacob | H3290 | יַעֲקֹב |
[Proper Name Masculine] heel catcher (that {is} supplanter); {Jaakob} the Israelitish patriarch |
fled | H1272 | בָּרַח |
[Verb] to {bolt} that {is} figuratively to flee suddenly |
into the country | H7704 | שָׂדֶה |
[Noun Masculine] a field (as flat) |
of Syria | H758 | אֲרָם |
[Noun] the highland; Aram or {Syria} and its inhabitants; also the name of a son of {Shem} a grandson of {Nahor} and of an Israelite |
and Israel | H3478 | יִשְׂרָאֵל |
[Proper Name Masculine] he will rule as God; {Jisrael} a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity |
served | H5647 | עָבַד |
[Verb] to work (in any sense); by implication to {serve} {till } (causatively) {enslave} etc. |
for a wife | H802 | אִשָּׁה |
[Noun Feminine] the second form is an irregular plural; a woman (used in the same wide sense as H582). |
and for a wife | H802 | אִשָּׁה |
[Noun Feminine] the second form is an irregular plural; a woman (used in the same wide sense as H582). |
he kept | H8104 | שָׁמַר |
[Verb] properly to hedge about (as with {thorns}) that {is} guard; generally to {protect} attend {to} etc. |
sheep |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.