Genesis 1:27
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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Male
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Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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12 occurrences in 11 verses.
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זָכָר
zâkâr · zaw-kawr'
37 times translated as this KJV form81 total Strong's occurrences
properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
Strong's KJV usage: × him, male, man(child, -kind).
Strong's first: Genesis 1:27Strong's last: Malachi 1:14
Open full H2145 profile →ἄῤῥην
árrhēn · ar'-hrane
4 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
male (as stronger for lifting)
Strong's KJV usage: :--male, man.
Strong's first: Matthew 19:4Strong's last: Galatians 3:28
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ʼîysh · eesh
2 times translated as this KJV form1,622 total Strong's occurrences
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Strong's KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-) man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), none, one, people, person, steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Strong's first: Genesis 7:2Strong's last: Genesis 7:2
Open full H376 profile →זָכוּר
zâkûwr · zaw-koor'
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a male (of man or animals)
Strong's KJV usage: males, men-children.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 20:13Strong's last: Deuteronomy 20:13
Open full H2138 profile →זָכַר
zâkar · zaw-kar'
1 times translated as this KJV form233 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; to be male
Strong's KJV usage: × burn (incense), × earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, × still, think on, × well.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 34:19Strong's last: Exodus 34:19
Open full H2142 profile →עָקָר
ʻâqâr · aw-kawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
sterile (as if extirpated in the generative organs)
Strong's KJV usage: (× male or female) barren (woman).
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 7:14Strong's last: Deuteronomy 7:14
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H2145
And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
H2145
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
H2145
And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
H2145
Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
H2145
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
H2145
Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
H2145
In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
H2145
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
H2145
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
H6135
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.
H2138
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
H2145
There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
H2145
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
H2145
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
H2145
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
H2145
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
H2145
But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
G730
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
G730
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
G730
(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
G730
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
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male
MALE, adjective [Latin masculus, from mas, maris.]
1. Pertaining to the sex that procreates young, and applied to animals of all kinds; as a male child; a male beast, fish, or fowl.
2. Denoting the sex of a plant which produces the fecundating dust, or a flower or plant that bears the stamens only, without pistils.
3. Denoting the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding or female screw.
MALE, noun Among animals, one of the sex whose office is to beget young; a he-animal.
1. In botany, a plant of flower which produces stamens only, without pistils.
2. In mechanics, the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding part or female screw.
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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