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Genesis 1:30

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And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.	And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so.	And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And to every beast^H2416 of the earth^H776, and to every fowl^H5775 of the air^H8064, and to every thing that creepeth^H7430 upon the earth^H776, wherein there is life^{H2416 H5315}, I have given every green^H3418 herb^H6212 for meat^H402: and it was so.

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Original Hebrew

וּלְכָל־חַיַּת הָאָרֶץ וּלְכָל־עֹוף הַשָּׁמַיִם וּלְכֹל ׀ רֹומֵשׂ עַל־הָאָרֶץ אֲשֶׁר־בֹּו נֶפֶשׁ חַיָּה אֶת־כָּל־יֶרֶק עֵשֶׂב לְאָכְלָה וַיְהִי־כֵן׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וּֽ/לְ/כָל	u./le./khol-	H3605	HC/R/Ncmsc	and/ to/ every
חַיַּ֣ת	chai.Yat	H2416	HNcfsc	(the) animal of
הָ֠/אָרֶץ	Ha./'a.retz	H776	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ earth
וּ/לְ/כָל	u./le./khol-	H3605	HC/R/Ncmsc	and/ to/ every
ע֨וֹף	of	H5775	HNcmsc	(the) bird of
הַ/שָּׁמַ֜יִם	ha./sha.Ma.yim	H8064	HTd/Ncmpa	the/ heavens
וּ/לְ/כֹ֣ל	u./le./Khol	H3605	HC/R/Ncmsc	and/ to/ every
רוֹמֵ֣שׂ	ro.Mes	H7430	HVqrmsa	creeping (thing)
עַל	'al-	H5921	HR	on
הָ/אָ֗רֶץ	ha./'A.retz	H776	HTd/Ncbsa	the/ earth
אֲשֶׁר	'a.Sher-	H834	HTr	which
בּ/וֹ֙	b/o		HR/Sp3ms	(is) in (the)/ it
נֶ֣פֶשׁ	Ne.fesh	H5315	HNcbsa	life
חַיָּ֔ה	chai.Yah	H2416	HAafsa	living
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
כָּל	kol-	H3605	HNcmsc	all
יֶ֥רֶק	Ye.rek	H3418	HNcmsa	greenery of
עֵ֖שֶׂב	'E.sev	H6212	HNcmsa	plant(s)
לְ/אָכְלָ֑ה	le./'okh.Lah	H402	HR/Ncfsa	to/ food
וַֽ/יְהִי	va/y.hi-	H1961	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ it was
כֵֽן	Khen	H3651	HD	so

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H402 — אׇכְלָה (ʼoklâh, ok-law'): feminine of אֻכָל; food; consume, devour, eat, food, meat.
• H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
• H2416 — חַי (chay, khah'-ee): from חָיָה; 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; [phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, [phrase] merry, multitude, [phrase] (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
• H3418 — יֶרֶק (yereq, yeh'-rek): from יָרָק (in the sense of vacuity of color); properly, pallor, i.e. hence, the yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation; concretely, verdure, i.e. grass or vegetation; grass, green (thing).
• H5315 — נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh, neh'-fesh): from נָפַשׁ; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.
• H5775 — עוֹף (ʻôwph, ofe): from עוּף; a bird (as covered with feathers, or rather as covering with wings), often collectively; bird, that flieth, flying, fowl.
• H6212 — עֶשֶׂב (ʻeseb, eh'seb): from an unused root meaning to glisten (or be green); grass (or any tender shoot); grass, herb.
• H7430 — רָמַשׂ (râmas, raw-mas'): a primitive root; properly, to glide swiftly, i.e. to crawl or move with short steps; by analogy to swarm; creep, move.
• H8064 — שָׁמַיִם (shâmayim, shaw-mah'-yim): dual of an unused singular שָׁמֶה; 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); air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H834 — אֲשֶׁר (ʼăsher, ash-er'): a primitive relative pronoun (of every gender and number); who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.; [idiom] after, [idiom] alike, as (soon as), because, [idiom] every, for, [phrase] forasmuch, [phrase] from whence, [phrase] how(-soever), [idiom] if, (so) that ((thing) which, wherein), [idiom] though, [phrase] until, [phrase] whatsoever, when, where ([phrase] -as, -in, -of, -on, -soever, -with), which, whilst, [phrase] whither(-soever), who(-m, -soever, -se). As it is indeclinable, it is often accompanied by the personal pronoun expletively, used to show the connection.
• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
• H1961 — הָיָה (hâyâh, haw-yaw): a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.
• H3605 — כֹּל (kôl, kole): or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from כָּלַל; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense); (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).
• H3651 — כֵּן (kên, kane): from כּוּן; 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); [phrase] after that (this, -ward, -wards), as... as, [phrase] (for-) asmuch as yet, [phrase] be (for which) cause, [phrase] following, howbeit, in (the) like (manner, -wise), [idiom] the more, right, (even) so, state, straightway, such (thing), surely, [phrase] there (where) -fore, this, thus, true, well, [idiom] you.
• H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

Cross References

Reciprocal references (6): Genesis 1:20, Genesis 6:21, Ecclesiastes 5:9, Jeremiah 27:5, Daniel 1:12, 1 Timothy 4:3

Related Topics

• Torrey’s: BEASTS, BIRDS, TREES
• Nave’s: ADAM, ANIMALS, BIRDS, BLESSING, FOOD, GOD, HERBS, VEGETATION

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