Exodus 1:15
And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
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Exodus 1:21
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
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יָלַד
yâlad · yaw-lad'
7 times translated as this KJV form497 total Strong's occurrences
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
Strong's KJV usage: bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
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And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:
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But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.
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And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
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And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
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Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
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And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
English meaning and historical usage.
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midwife
MID'WIFE, noun [supposed by Junius and Skinner to be meedwife, a woman that has a reward. This is probably a mistake. The word is a compound of mid, with, and wif, a woman; in analogy with the Latin obstetrix, from obsto, obstiti, to stand before. Latin cum, with, and madre, mother, which is precisely analogous to midwife ]
A woman that assists other women in childbirth.
MID'WIFE, verb intransitive To perform the office of midwife
MID'WIFE, verb transitive To assist in childbirth.
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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