Genesis 4:12
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
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Fugitive
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Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
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נוּעַ
nûwaʻ · noo'-ah
2 times translated as this KJV form40 total Strong's occurrences
to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
Strong's KJV usage: continually, fugitive, × make, to (go) up and down, be gone away, (be) move(-able, -d), be promoted, reel, remove, scatter, set, shake, sift, stagger, to and fro, be vagabond, wag, (make) wander (up and down).
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Strong's first: Genesis 4:12Strong's last: Genesis 4:14
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When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
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Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
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fugitive
FU'GITIVE, adjective [Latin fugitivus, from fugio, to flee. Gr.]
1. Volatile; apt to flee away; readily wafted by the wind.
The more tender and fugitive parts -
2. Not tenable; not to be held or detained; readily escaping; as a fugitive idea.
3. Unstable; unsteady; fleeting; not fixed or durable.
4. Fleeing; running from danger or pursuit.
5. Fleeing from duty; eloping; escaping.
Can a fugitive daughter enjoy herself, while her parents are in tears?
6. Wandering; vagabond; as a fugitive physician.
7. In literature, fugitive compositions are such as are short and occasional, written in haste or at intervals, and considered to be fleeting and temporary.
FU'GITIVE, noun
1. One who fees from his station or duty; a deserter; one who flees from danger.
2. One who has fled or deserted and taken refuge under another power, or one who has fled from punishment.
3. One hard to be caught or detained.
Or catch that airy fugitive called wit.
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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