KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
WORDS OF GOD IN RED
This verse is part of the creation story.
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“And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “And God” | אֱלֹהִ֗ים | 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 | God |
| “said,” | וַיֹּ֣אמֶר | To say (used with great latitude) | said |
| “Let the earth” | הָאָ֜רֶץ | The earth (at large, or partitively a land) | Let earth |
| “bring forth” | תּוֹצֵ֨א | To go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim | bring forth |
| “the living” | חַיָּה֙ | 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 | living |
| “creature” | נֶ֤פֶשׁ | Properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) | creature |
| “after his kind,” | לְמִינָ֔הּ | A sort, i.e., species | kind |
| “cattle,” | בְּהֵמָ֥ה | Properly, a dumb beast; especially any large quadruped or animal (often collective) | cattle |
| “and creeping thing,” | וָרֶ֛מֶשׂ | A reptile or any other rapidly moving animal | creeping thing |
| “and beast” | וְחַֽיְתוֹ | 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 | beast |
| “of the earth” | אֶ֖רֶץ | The earth (at large, or partitively a land) | earth |
| “after his kind:” | לְמִינָ֑הּ | A sort, i.e., species | kind |
| “and it was” | וַֽיְהִי | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | and it was |
| “so.” | כֵֽן׃ | Properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles) | so |
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22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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