Genesis 31:41
Old Testament • 16 words with Strong's data
"Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times."
Word-by-Word Analysis
עֶשְׂרִים
ʻesrîym
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
בַּיִת
bayith
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
עָבַד
ʻâbad
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
שְׁנַיִם
shᵉnayim
two; also (as ordinal) twofold
בַּת
bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
שֵׁשׁ
shêsh
six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
שָׁנֶה
shâneh
a year (as a revolution of time)
מִקְנֶה
miqneh
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
עֶשֶׂר
ʻeser
ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
פַּעַם
paʻam
a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
Key Terms in This Verse
עָבַד ʻâbad
to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
Study H5647 →פַּעַם paʻam
a stroke, literally or figuratively (in various applications, as follow)
Study H6471 →מִקְנֶה miqneh
something bought, i.e. property, but only livestock; abstractly, acquisition
Study H4735 →שֵׁשׁ shêsh
six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ord. sixth
Study H8337 →בַּת bath
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
Study H1323 →Cross References
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.
In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, i...
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
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