Genesis 3:22
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
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Become
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Revelation 18:2
And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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γίνομαι
gínomai · ghin'-om-ahee
25 times translated as this KJV form701 total Strong's occurrences
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: :--arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Strong's first: Matthew 18:3Strong's last: Revelation 18:2
Open full G1096 profile →הָיָה
hâyâh · haw-yaw
2 times translated as this KJV form76 total Strong's occurrences
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
Strong's KJV usage: beacon, × altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, follow, happen, × have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, × use.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 27:9Strong's last: 2 Samuel 7:24
Open full H1961 profile →καταργέω
katargéō · kat-arg-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
to be (render) entirely idle (useless), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--abolish, cease, cumber, deliver, destroy, do away, become (make) of no (none, without) effect, fail, loose, bring (come) to nought, put away (down), vanish away, make void.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Galatians 5:4Strong's last: Galatians 5:4
Open full G2673 profile →πρέπω
prépō · prep'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to tower up (be conspicuous), i.e. (by implication) to be suitable or proper (third person singular present indicative, often used impersonally, it is fit or right)
Strong's KJV usage: :--become, comely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Titus 2:1Strong's last: Titus 2:1
Open full G4241 profile →הָפַךְ
hâphak · haw-fak'
1 times translated as this KJV form94 total Strong's occurrences
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
Strong's KJV usage: × become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 30:21Strong's last: Job 30:21
Open full H2015 profile →מָשַׁל
mâshal · maw-shal'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like); intransitively, to resemble
Strong's KJV usage: be(-come) like, compare, use (as a) proverb, speak (in proverbs), utter.
Strong's first: Psalms 28:1Strong's last: Psalms 28:1
Open full H4911 profile →עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh · aw-saw'
1 times translated as this KJV form2,630 total Strong's occurrences
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Strong's first: Esther 2:11Strong's last: Esther 2:11
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For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
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He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
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How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
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Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
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With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
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Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
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All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
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All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
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Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellers of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
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The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.
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And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
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And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
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And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
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Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
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A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
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Thus saith the LORD, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?
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They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
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And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
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As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
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Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.
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For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
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But if ye will not hear these words, I swear by myself, saith the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.
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Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
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For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
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How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
English meaning and historical usage.
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become
BECOME, verb intransitive becum'. preterit tense became, participle passive become
1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state or condition, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character; as, a cion becomes a tree.
The Lord God breathed into his nostrils the breath of like and man became a living soul.
To the Jew, I became a Jew.
2. To become of, usually with what preceding; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition; as, what will become of our commerce? what will become of us?
In the present tense, it applies to place as well as condition. What has become of my friend? that is, where is he? as well as, what is his condition? Where is he become? used by Shakespeare and Spenser, is obsolete; but this is the sense in Saxon, where has he fallen?
BECOME, verb transitive In general, to suit or be suitable; to be congruous; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, decent or proper. It is used in the same sense applied to persons or things.
If I become not a cart as well as another man.
This use of the word however is less frequent, the verb usually expressing the suitableness of things, to persons or to other things; as, a robe becomes a prince.
It becomes not a cart as well as another man.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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