Genesis 9:4
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
חַי
chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or livin...
חָלַל
châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (...
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) bloodshe...
חָלַל
châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (...
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →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)
Study H1818 →חַי chay
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
Study H2416 →חָלַל châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Study H2490 →חָלַל châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an 'opening wedge'); to play (the flute)
Study H2490 →Cross References
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.
Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Ye shall not eat any thing with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantment, nor observe times.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
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