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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And he said unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there also: for therefore came I forth.
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)
That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.
And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.
And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.
For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.
Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?
They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross, that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him reviled him.
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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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