Genesis 2:16
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
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And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
Read in context →I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
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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: Deuteronomy 7:22Strong's last: Deuteronomy 22:3
Open full H3201 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: Luke 16:2Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 7:21
Open full G1410 profile →apallássō · ap-al-las'-so
to change away, i.e. release, (reflexively) remove
Strong's KJV usage: :--deliver, depart.
Strong's first: Luke 12:58Strong's last: Luke 12:58
Open full G525 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: Revelation 3:18Strong's last: Revelation 3:18
Open full G991 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 8:37Strong's last: Acts 8:37
Open full G1832 profile →ésomai · es'-om-ahee
will be
Strong's KJV usage: :--shall (should) be (have), (shall) come (to pass), X may have, X fall, what would follow, X live long, X sojourn.
Strong's first: Ephesians 6:3Strong's last: Ephesians 6:3
Open full G2071 profile →peribállō · per-ee-bal'-lo
to throw all around, i.e. invest (with a palisade or with clothing)
Strong's KJV usage: :--array, cast about, clothe(-d me), put on.
Strong's first: Revelation 3:18Strong's last: Revelation 3:18
Open full G4016 profile →ploutéō · ploo-teh'-o
to be (or become) wealthy (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be increased with goods, (be made, wax) rich.
Strong's first: Revelation 3:18Strong's last: Revelation 3:18
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And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:
When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in the siege:
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself.
But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.
When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
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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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