Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
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And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Read in context →Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
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yâkôl · yaw-kole'
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
Strong's KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Strong's first: Genesis 44:26Strong's last: Jeremiah 13:23
Open full H3201 profile →ō · o
(may, might, can, could, would, should, must, etc.; also with G1487 and its compounds, as well as with other particles) be
Strong's KJV usage: :--+ appear, are, (may, might, should) be, X have, is, + pass the flower of her age, should stand, were.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:4Strong's last: 1 Timothy 4:15
Open full G5600 profile →dýnamai · doo'-nam-ahee
to be able or possible
Strong's KJV usage: :--be able, can (do, + -not), could, may, might, be possible, be of power.
Strong's first: Matthew 26:42Strong's last: Ephesians 3:4
Open full G1410 profile →doxázō · dox-ad'-zo
to render (or esteem) glorious (in a wide application)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(make) glorify(-ious), full of (have) glory, honour, magnify.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:2Strong's last: 1 Peter 2:12
Open full G1392 profile →eídō · i'-do
used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent G3700 and G3708; properly, to see (literally or figuratively); by implication, (in the perfect tense only) to know
Strong's KJV usage: :--be aware, behold, X can (+ not tell), consider, (have) know(-ledge), look (on), perceive, see, be sure, tell, understand, wish, wot.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:16Strong's last: Luke 5:24
Open full G1492 profile →blépō · blep'-o
to look at (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--behold, beware, lie, look (on, to), perceive, regard, see, sight, take heed.
Strong's first: Mark 4:12Strong's last: Romans 11:10
Open full G991 profile →gínomai · ghin'-om-ahee
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 5:45Strong's last: John 12:36
Open full G1096 profile →pisteúō · pist-yoo'-o
to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ)
Strong's KJV usage: :--believe(-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with.
Strong's first: John 11:15Strong's last: John 17:21
Open full G4100 profile →ginṓskō · ghin-oce'-ko
to "know" (absolutely) in a great variety of applications and with many implications (as follow, with others not thus clearly expressed)
Strong's KJV usage: :--allow, be aware (of), feel, (have) know(-ledge), perceived, be resolved, can speak, be sure, understand.
Strong's first: John 10:38Strong's last: John 17:23
Open full G1097 profile →phágō · fag'-o
to eat (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--eat, meat.
Strong's first: Luke 22:8Strong's last: John 6:50
Open full G5315 profile →déchomai · dekh'-om-ahee
to receive (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--accept, receive, take.
Strong's first: Luke 16:4Strong's last: Luke 16:9
Open full G1209 profile →échō · ekh'-o
to hold (used in very various applications, literally or figuratively, direct or remote; such as possession; ability, contiuity, relation, or condition)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (able, X hold, possessed with), accompany, + begin to amend, can(+ -not), X conceive, count, diseased, do + eat, + enjoy, + fear, following, have, hold, keep, + lack, + go to law, lie, + must needs, + of necessity, + need, next, + recover, + reign, + rest, + return, X sick, take for, + tremble, + uncircumcised, use.
Strong's first: John 6:40Strong's last: 1 Timothy 5:20
Open full G2192 profile →plēróō · play-ro'-o
to make replete, i.e. (literally) to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence), satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task), verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.
Strong's KJV usage: :--accomplish, X after, (be) complete, end, expire, fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come), fully preach, perfect, supply.
Strong's first: Luke 21:22Strong's last: John 13:18
Open full G4137 profile →phaínō · fah'-ee-no
to lighten (shine), i.e. show (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: :-- appear, seem, be seen, shine, X think.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:5Strong's last: Matthew 6:16
Open full G5316 profile →shûwb · shoob
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Strong's KJV usage: ((break, build, circumcise, dig, do anything, do evil, feed, lay down, lie down, lodge, make, rejoice, send, take, weep)) × again, (cause to) answer ( again), × in any case (wise), × at all, averse, bring (again, back, home again), call (to mind), carry again (back), cease, × certainly, come again (back), × consider, continually, convert, deliver (again), deny, draw back, fetch home again, × fro, get (oneself) (back) again, × give (again), go again (back, home), (go) out, hinder, let, (see) more, × needs, be past, × pay, pervert, pull in again, put (again, up again), recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render (again), requite, rescue, restore, retrieve, (cause to, make to) return, reverse, reward, say nay, send back, set again, slide back, still, × surely, take back (off), (cause to, make to) turn (again, self again, away, back, back again, backward, from, off), withdraw.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 12:6Strong's last: 1 Kings 12:9
Open full H7725 profile →agorázō · ag-or-ad'-zo
properly, to go to market, i.e. (by implication) to purchase; specially, to redeem
Strong's KJV usage: :--buy, redeem.
Strong's first: Matthew 14:15Strong's last: Matthew 14:15
Open full G59 profile →akoúō · ak-oo'-o
to hear (in various senses)
Strong's KJV usage: :--give (in the) audience (of), come (to the ears), (shall) hear(-er, -ken), be noised, be reported, understand.
Strong's first: Mark 4:12Strong's last: Mark 4:12
Open full G191 profile →anoígō · an-oy'-go
to open up (literally or figuratively, in various applications)
Strong's KJV usage: :--open.
Strong's first: Luke 12:36Strong's last: Luke 12:36
Open full G455 profile →háptomai · hap'-tom-ahee
properly, to attach oneself to, i.e. to touch (in many implied relations)
Strong's KJV usage: :--touch.
Strong's first: Matthew 9:21Strong's last: Matthew 9:21
Open full G680 profile →aphíēmi · af-ee'-ay-mee
to send forth, in various applications (as follow)
Strong's KJV usage: :--cry, forgive, forsake, lay aside, leave, let (alone, be, go, have), omit, put (send) away, remit, suffer, yield up.
Strong's first: Mark 11:25Strong's last: Mark 11:25
Open full G863 profile →báptō · bap'-to
to whelm, i.e. cover wholly with a fluid; in the New Testament only in a qualified or special sense, i.e. (literally) to moisten (a part of one's person), or (by implication) to stain (as with dye)
Strong's KJV usage: :--dip.
Strong's first: Luke 16:24Strong's last: Luke 16:24
Open full G911 profile →gemízō · ghem-id'-zo
to fill entirely
Strong's KJV usage: :--fill (be) full.
Strong's first: Luke 14:23Strong's last: Luke 14:23
Open full G1072 profile →deipnéō · dipe-neh'-o
to dine, i.e. take the principle (or evening) meal
Strong's KJV usage: :--sup (X -er).
Strong's first: Luke 17:8Strong's last: Luke 17:8
Open full G1172 profile →diamartýromai · dee-am-ar-too'-rom-ahee
to attest or protest earnestly, or (by implication) hortatively
Strong's KJV usage: :--charge, testify (unto), witness.
Strong's first: Luke 16:28Strong's last: Luke 16:28
Open full G1263 profile →dídōmi · did'-o-mee
to give (used in a very wide application, properly, or by implication, literally or figuratively; greatly modified by the connection)
Strong's KJV usage: :--adventure, bestow, bring forth, commit, deliver (up), give, grant, hinder, make, minister, number, offer, have power, put, receive, set, shew, smite (+ with the hand), strike (+ with the palm of the hand), suffer, take, utter, yield.
Strong's first: John 15:16Strong's last: John 15:16
Open full G1325 profile →dokéō · dok-eh'-o
compare the base of G1166) of the same meaning; to think; by implication, to seem (truthfully or uncertainly)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be accounted, (of own) please(-ure), be of reputation, seem (good), suppose, think, trow.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 10:9Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 10:9
Open full G1380 profile →ei · i
if, whether, that, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: :--forasmuch as, if, that, (al-)though, whether.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 14:10Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 14:10
Open full G1487 profile →ekzētéō · ek-zay-teh'-o
to search out, i.e. (figuratively)investigate, crave, demand, (by Hebraism) worship
Strong's KJV usage: :--en- (re-)quire, seek after (carefully, diligently).
Strong's first: Luke 11:50Strong's last: Luke 11:50
Open full G1567 profile →éxesti · ex'-es-tee
so also ἐξόν ex-on' neuter present participle of the same (with or without some form of G1510 expressed); impersonally, it is right (through the figurative idea of being out in public)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be lawful, let, X may(-est).
Strong's first: Acts 21:37Strong's last: Acts 21:37
Open full G1832 profile →exypnízō · ex-oop-nid'-zo
to waken
Strong's KJV usage: :--awake out of sleep.
Strong's first: John 11:11Strong's last: John 11:11
Open full G1852 profile →epibaréō · ep-ee-bar-eh'-o
to be heavy upon, i.e. (pecuniarily) to be expensive to; figuratively, to be severe towards
Strong's KJV usage: :--be chargeable to, overcharge.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 2:5Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 2:5
Open full G1912 profile →épō · ep'-o
to speak or say (by word or writing)
Strong's KJV usage: :--answer, bid, bring word, call, command, grant, say (on), speak, tell.
Strong's first: Luke 14:10Strong's last: Luke 14:10
Open full G2036 profile →érchomai · er'-khom-ahee
to come or go (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--accompany, appear, bring, come, enter, fall out, go, grow, X light, X next, pass, resort, be set.
Strong's first: Matthew 23:35Strong's last: Matthew 23:35
Open full G2064 profile →esthíō · es-thee'-o
used only in certain tenses, the rest being supplied by G5315; to eat (usually literal)
Strong's KJV usage: :--devour, eat, live.
Strong's first: Luke 22:30Strong's last: Luke 22:30
Open full G2068 profile →tharrhéō · thar-hreh'-o
to exercise courage
Strong's KJV usage: :--be bold, X boldly, have confidence, be confident.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 10:2Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 10:2
Open full G2292 profile →thaumázō · thou-mad'-zo
to wonder; by implication, to admire
Strong's KJV usage: :--admire, have in admiration, marvel, wonder.
Strong's first: John 5:20Strong's last: John 5:20
Open full G2296 profile →theōréō · theh-o-reh'-o
to be a spectator of, i.e. discern, (literally, figuratively (experience) or intensively (acknowledge))
Strong's KJV usage: :--behold, consider, look on, perceive, see.
Strong's first: John 17:24Strong's last: John 17:24
Open full G2334 profile →hístēmi · his'-tay-mee
to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--abide, appoint, bring, continue, covenant, establish, hold up, lay, present, set (up), stanch, stand (by, forth, still, up).
Strong's first: Matthew 18:16Strong's last: Matthew 18:16
Open full G2476 profile →ísōs · ee'-soce
likely, i.e. perhaps
Strong's KJV usage: :--it may be.
Strong's first: Luke 20:13Strong's last: Luke 20:13
Open full G2481 profile →kataxióō · kat-ax-ee-o'-o
to deem entirely deserving
Strong's KJV usage: :--(ac-)count worthy.
Strong's first: Luke 21:36Strong's last: Luke 21:36
Open full G2661 profile →kerdaínō · ker-dah'-ee-no
to gain (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(get) gain, win.
Strong's first: 1 Peter 3:1Strong's last: 1 Peter 3:1
Open full G2770 profile →kērýssō · kay-roos'-so
to herald (as a public crier), especially divine truth (the gospel)
Strong's KJV usage: :--preacher(-er), proclaim, publish.
Strong's first: Mark 1:38Strong's last: Mark 1:38
Open full G2784 profile →lambánō · lam-ban'-o
while G138 is more violent, to seize or remove))
Strong's KJV usage: :--accept, + be amazed, assay, attain, bring, X when I call, catch, come on (X unto), + forget, have, hold, obtain, receive (X after), take (away, up).
Strong's first: Acts 26:18Strong's last: Acts 26:18
Open full G2983 profile →légō · leg'-o
properly, to "lay" forth, i.e. (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas G2036 and G5346 generally refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while G4483 is properly to break silence merely, and G2980 means an extended or random harangue)); by implication, to mean
Strong's KJV usage: :--ask, bid, boast, call, describe, give out, name, put forth, say(-ing, on), shew, speak, tell, utter.
Strong's first: Hebrews 13:6Strong's last: Hebrews 13:6
Open full G3004 profile →logízomai · log-id'-zom-ahee
to take an inventory, i.e. estimate (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--conclude, (ac-)count (of), + despise, esteem, impute, lay, number, reason, reckon, suppose, think (on).
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 4:16Strong's last: 2 Timothy 4:16
Open full G3049 profile →ménō · men'-o
to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy)
Strong's KJV usage: :--abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry (for), X thine own.
Strong's first: John 14:16Strong's last: John 14:16
Open full G3306 profile →mnēmoneúō · mnay-mon-yoo'-o
to exercise memory, i.e. recollect; by implication, to punish; also to rehearse
Strong's KJV usage: :--make mention; be mindful, remember.
Strong's first: John 16:4Strong's last: John 16:4
Open full G3421 profile →paraskeuázō · par-ask-yoo-ad'-zo
to furnish aside, i.e. get ready
Strong's KJV usage: :--prepare self, be (make) ready.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 9:3Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 9:3
Open full G3903 profile →peirázō · pi-rad'-zo
to test (objectively), i.e. endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline
Strong's KJV usage: :--assay, examine, go about, prove, tempt(-er), try.
Strong's first: Revelation 2:10Strong's last: Revelation 2:10
Open full G3985 profile →siniázō · sin-ee-ad'-zo
to riddle (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sift.
Strong's first: Luke 22:31Strong's last: Luke 22:31
Open full G4617 profile →tēréō · tay-reh'-o
to guard (from loss or injury, properly, by keeping the eye upon; and thus differing from G5442, which is properly to prevent escaping; and from G2892, which implies a fortress or full military lines of apparatus), i.e. to note (a prophecy; figuratively, to fulfil a command); by implication, to detain (in custody; figuratively, to maintain); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried); by extension, to withhold (for personal ends; figuratively, to keep unmarried)
Strong's KJV usage: :--hold fast, keep(- er), (pre-, re-)serve, watch.
Strong's first: Mark 7:9Strong's last: Mark 7:9
Open full G5083 profile →tynchánō · toong-khan'-o
akin to the base of G5088 through the idea of effecting; properly, to affect; or (specially), to hit or light upon (as a mark to be reached), i.e. (transitively) to attain or secure an object or end, or (intransitively) to happen (as if meeting with); but in the latter application only impersonal (with G1487), i.e. perchance; or (present participle) as adjective, usual (as if commonly met with, with G3756, extraordinary), neuter (as adverb) perhaps; or (with another verb) as adverb, by accident (as it were)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be, chance, enjoy, little, obtain, X refresh…self, + special.
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 2:10Strong's last: 2 Timothy 2:10
Open full G5177 profile →phaneróō · fan-er-o'-o
to render apparent (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--appear, manifestly declare, (make) manifest (forth), shew (self).
Strong's first: John 3:21Strong's last: John 3:21
Open full G5319 profile →phérō · fer'-o
to "bear" or carry (in a very wide application, literally and figuratively, as follows)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be, bear, bring (forth), carry, come, + let her drive, be driven, endure, go on, lay, lead, move, reach, rushing, uphold.
Strong's first: John 15:2Strong's last: John 15:2
Open full G5342 profile →chaírō · khah'-ee-ro
to be "cheer"ful, i.e. calmly happy or well-off; impersonally, especially as salutation (on meeting or parting), be well
Strong's KJV usage: :--farewell, be glad, God speed, greeting, hall, joy(- fully), rejoice.
Strong's first: John 4:36Strong's last: John 4:36
Open full G5463 profile →ʼûwlay · oo-lah'ee
if not; hence perhaps
Strong's KJV usage: if so be, may be, peradventure, unless.
Strong's first: Genesis 16:2Strong's last: Genesis 16:2
Open full H194 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once, and will distress them, that they may find it so.
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.
And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold, ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart, that they may not hearken unto me:
Inquire, I pray thee, of the LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
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MAY, noun [Latin Maius.]
1. The fifth month of the year, beginning with January, but the third, beginning with March, as was the ancient practice of the Romans.
2. A young woman.
3. The early part of life.
His may of youth and bloom of lustihood.
MAY, verb intransitive To gather flowers in May-morning.
MAY, verb aux; preterit tense might.
1. To be possible. We say, a thing may be, or may not be; an event may happen; a thing may be done, if means are not wanting.
2. To have physical power; to be able.
Make the most of life you may
3. To have moral power; to have liberty, leave, license or permission; to be permitted; to be allowed. A man may do what the laws permit. He may do what is not against decency, propriety or good manners. We may not violate the laws, or the rules of good breeding. I told the servant he might be absent.
Thou mayest be no longer steward. Luke 16:4.
4. It is used in prayer and petitions to express desire. O may we never experience the evils we dread. So also in expressions of good will. may you live happily, and be a blessing to your country. It was formerly used for can, and its radical sense is the same.
MAY be, it may be, are expressions equivalent to perhaps, by chance, peradventure, that is, it is possible to be.
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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