Genesis 4:10

Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data

"And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground."

Word-by-Word Analysis

And he

אָמַר

ʼâmar

H559

to say (used with great latitude)

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What hast thou

עָשָׂה

ʻâsâh

H6213

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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the

קוֹל

qôwl

H6963

a voice or sound

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of thy

אָח

ʼâch

H251

a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father))

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דָּם

dâm

H1818

blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe...

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קָרָא

qârâʼ

H7121

to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

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unto me from the

אֶרֶץ

ʼerets

H776

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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Key Terms in This Verse

crieth H7121

קָרָא qârâʼ

to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

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ground H776

אֶרֶץ ʼerets

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

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brother H251

אָח ʼâch

a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father))

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blood H1818

דָּם dâm

blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)

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voice H6963

קוֹל qôwl

a voice or sound

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done H6213

עָשָׂה ʻâsâh

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application

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said H559

אָמַר ʼâmar

to say (used with great latitude)

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Cross References

Hebrews 12:24 cross-reference

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Psalm 72:14 cross-reference

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Hebrews 11:4 cross-reference

By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

Isaiah 5:7 cross-reference

For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

James 5:4 cross-reference

Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth...

Psalm 9:12 cross-reference

When he maketh inquisition for blood, he remembereth them: he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.

Numbers 35:33 cross-reference

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Job 16:18 cross-reference

O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.

Genesis 9:5 cross-reference

And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.

Psalm 50:21 cross-reference

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Exodus 3:7 cross-reference

And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

Genesis 18:20 cross-reference

And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;

Joshua 7:19 cross-reference

And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

Genesis 3:13 cross-reference

And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Job 24:12 cross-reference

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

2 Kings 9:26 cross-reference

Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of grou...

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