Bible Verse Dictionary
Genesis 4:2 - Abel
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And she again | H3254 | יָסַף |
[Verb] to add or augment (often adverbially to continue to do a thing) |
bare his brother | H251 | אָח |
[Noun Masculine] a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like H1)) |
Abel | H1893 | הֶבֶל |
[Proper Name Masculine] {Hebel} the son of Adam |
And Abel | H1893 | הֶבֶל |
[Proper Name Masculine] {Hebel} the son of Adam |
was | H1961 | הָיָה |
[Verb] to {exist} that {is} be or {become} come to pass (always {emphatic} and not a mere copula or auxiliary) |
a keeper | H7462 | רָעָה |
[Verb] to tend a {flock} that {is} pasture it; intransitively to graze (literally or figuratively); generally to rule; by extension to associate with (as a friend) |
of sheep | H6629 | צֹאן |
[Noun Feminine] a collective name for a flock (of sheep or goats); also figuratively (of men) |
but Cain | H7014 | קַיִן |
[Noun] {Kajin} the name of the first {child} also of a place in {Palestine} and of an Oriental tribe |
was | H1961 | הָיָה |
[Verb] to {exist} that {is} be or {become} come to pass (always {emphatic} and not a mere copula or auxiliary) |
a tiller | H5647 | עָבַד |
[Verb] to work (in any sense); by implication to {serve} {till } (causatively) {enslave} etc. |
of the ground | H127 | אֲדָמָה |
[Noun Feminine] soil (from its general redness) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.