Bible Verse Dictionary
Genesis 11:4 - Name
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And they said | H559 | אָמַר |
[Verb] to say (used with great latitude) |
Go to | H3051 | יָהַב |
[Verb] to give (whether literally or figuratively); generally to put; imperatively (reflexively) come |
let us build | H1129 | בָּנָה |
[Verb] to build (literally and figuratively) |
us a city | H5892 | עִיר |
[Noun Masculine] From H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post) |
and a tower | H4026 | מִגְדָּל |
[Noun Masculine] a tower (from its size or height); by analogy a rostrum; figuratively a (pyramidal) bed of flowers |
whose top | H7218 | רֹאשׁ |
[Noun Masculine] the head (as most easily {shaken }) whether literally or figuratively (in many {applications} of {place} {time} {rank} etc.) |
may reach unto heaven | H8064 | שָׁמַיִם |
[Noun Masculine] from an unused root meaning to be lofty; the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds {move} as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve) |
and let us make | H6213 | עָשָׂה |
[Verb] to do or {make} in the broadest sense and widest application |
us a name | H8034 | שֵׁם |
[Noun Masculine] compare H8064); an {appellation} as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication {honor} {authority } character |
lest | H6435 | פֵּן |
[Conjunction] properly removal; used only (in the constructive) adverbially as conjugation lest |
we be scattered abroad | H6327 | פּוּץ |
[Verb] to dash in {pieces} literally or figuratively (especially to disperse) |
upon | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
the face | H6440 | פָּנִים |
[Noun Masculine] from 6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ({before } etc.) |
of the whole | H3605 | כֹּל |
[Noun Masculine] properly the whole; hence {all} any or every (in the singular {only} but often in a plural sense) |
earth | H776 | אֶרֶץ |
[Noun Feminine] the earth (at {large} or partitively a land) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.