Bible Verse Dictionary
Genesis 9:23 - Brethren
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And Shem | H8035 | שֵׁם |
[Proper Name Masculine] name; {Shem} a son of Noah (often including his posterity) |
and Japheth | H3315 | יֶפֶת |
[Proper Name Masculine] expansion; {Jepheth} a son of Noah; also his posterity |
took | H3947 | לָקַח |
[Verb] to take (in the widest variety of applications) |
a garment | H8071 | שִׂמְלָה |
[Noun Feminine] a {dress} especially a mantle |
and laid | H7760 | שׂוּם |
[Verb] to put (used in a great variety of {applications} {literally} {figuratively} inferentially and elliptically) |
it upon | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
both | H8147 | שְׁנַיִם |
[Noun] the second form being feminine); two; also (as ordinal) twofold |
their shoulders | H7926 | שְׁכֶם |
[Noun Masculine] the neck (between the shoulders) as the place of burdens; figuratively the spur of a hill |
and went | H1980 | הָלַךְ |
[Verb] a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of {applications} literally and figuratively) |
backward | H322 | אֲחֹרַנִּית |
[Adverb] backwards |
and covered | H3680 | כָּסָה |
[Verb] properly to {plump} that {is} fill up hollows; by implication to cover (for clothing or secrecy) |
the nakedness | H6172 | עֶרְוָה |
[Noun Feminine] {nudity} literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively ({disgrace } blemish) |
of their father | H1 | אָב |
[Noun Masculine] father in a literal and {immediate} or figurative and remote application |
and their faces | H6440 | פָּנִים |
[Noun Masculine] from 6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ({before } etc.) |
were backward | H322 | אֲחֹרַנִּית |
[Adverb] backwards |
and they saw | H7200 | רָאָה |
[Verb] to {see} literally or figuratively (in numerous {applications} direct and {implied} {transitively} intransitively and causatively) |
not | H3808 | לֹא |
[Adverb] a primitive particle; not (the simple or abstract negation); by implication no; often used with other particles |
their father's nakedness | H6172 | עֶרְוָה |
[Noun Feminine] {nudity} literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively ({disgrace } blemish) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.