Genesis 39:12
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָחַז
ʼâchaz
to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)
בֶּגֶד
beged
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
שָׁכַב
shâkab
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
בֶּגֶד
beged
a covering, i.e. clothing; also treachery or pillage
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
נוּס
nûwç
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
קָנָה
qânâh
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
Key Terms in This Verse
קָנָה qânâh
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
Study H7069 →אָחַז ʼâchaz
to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)
Study H270 →נוּס nûwç
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
Study H5127 →שָׁכַב shâkab
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Study H7901 →Cross References
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent.
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