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 a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.
That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.
Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father's house have sinned.
Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them.
That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
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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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