Bible Verse Dictionary
Genesis 28:12 - Stones
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And he dreamed | H2492 | חָלַם |
[Verb] properly to bind {firmly} that {is} (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump; also (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream |
and behold | H2009 | הִנֵּה |
lo! |
a ladder | H5551 | סֻלָּם |
[Noun Masculine] a stair case |
set up | H5324 | נָצַב |
[Verb] to {station} in various applications (literally or figuratively) |
on the earth | H776 | אֶרֶץ |
[Noun Feminine] the earth (at {large} or partitively a land) |
and the top | H7218 | רֹאשׁ |
[Noun Masculine] the head (as most easily {shaken }) whether literally or figuratively (in many {applications} of {place} {time} {rank} etc.) |
of it reached | H5060 | נָגַע |
[Verb] properly to {touch} that {is} lay the hand upon (for any purpose; {euphemistically} to lie with a woman); by implication to reach (figuratively to {arrive} acquire); {violently} to strike ({punish} {defeat} {destroy} etc.) |
to 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 behold | H2009 | הִנֵּה |
lo! |
the angels | H4397 | מֲלְאָךְ |
[Noun Masculine] a messenger; specifically of {God} that {is} an angel (also a {prophet} priest or teacher) |
of God | H430 | אֱלֹהִים |
[Noun Masculine] gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural {thus} especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative |
ascending | H5927 | עָלָה |
[Verb] to {ascend} intransitively (be high) or active (mount); used in a great variety of {senses} primary and {secondary} literally and figuratively |
and descending | H3381 | יָרַד |
[Verb] to descend (literally to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower {region} as the {shore} a {boundary} the {enemy} etc.; or figuratively to fall); causatively to bring down (in all the above applications) |
on it |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.