Genesis 24:59
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
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Nurse
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1 Thessalonians 2:7
But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children:
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יָנַק
yânaq · yaw-nak'
7 times translated as this KJV form32 total Strong's occurrences
to suck; causatively, to give milk
Strong's KJV usage: milch, nurse(-ing mother), (give, make to) suck(-ing child, -ling).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 24:59Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 22:11
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ʼâman · aw-man'
2 times translated as this KJV form108 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain;
Strong's KJV usage: hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ruth 4:16Strong's last: 2 Samuel 4:4
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trophós · trof-os'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a nourisher, i.e. nurse
Strong's KJV usage: :--nurse.
Strong's first: 1 Thessalonians 2:7Strong's last: 1 Thessalonians 2:7
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H3243
Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
H3243
Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?
H3243
And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.
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nurse
NURSE, noun
1. A woman that has the care of infants, or a woman employed to tend the children of others.
2. A woman who suckles infants.
3. A woman that has the care of a sick person.
4. A man who has the care of the sick.
5. A person that breeds, educates or protects; hence, that which breeds, brings up or causes to grow; as Greece, the nurse of the liberal arts.
6. An old woman; in contempt.
7. The state of being nursed; as, to put a child to nurse
8. In composition, that which supplies food; as a nurse-pond.
NURSE, verb transitive
1. To tend, as infants; as, to nurse a child.
2. To suckle; to nourish at the breast.
3. To attend and take care of in child-bed; as, to nurse a woman in her illness.
4. To tend the sick; applied to males and females.
5. To ffed; to maintain; to bring up. Isaiah 60:4.
6. To cherish; to foster; to encourage; to promote growth in. We say, to nurse a feeble animal or plant.
By what hands has vice been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion?
7. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
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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