Genesis 2:22
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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Rib
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2 Samuel 20:10
But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
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צֵלָע
tsêlâʻ · tsay-law'
1 times translated as this KJV form41 total Strong's occurrences
a rib (as curved), literally (of the body) or figuratively (of a door, i.e. leaf); hence, a side, literally (of a person) or figuratively (of an object or the sky, i.e. quarter); architecturally, a (especially floor or ceiling) timber or plank (single or collective, i.e. a flooring)
Strong's KJV usage: beam, board, chamber, corner, leaf, plank, rib, side (chamber).
Strong's first: Genesis 2:22Strong's last: Genesis 2:22
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Howbeit he refused to turn aside: wherefore Abner with the hinder end of the spear smote him under the fifth rib, that the spear came out behind him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still.
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And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
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And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.
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But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
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rib
RIB, noun [Latin costa, signifies side, border, extremity.]
1. A bone of animal bodies which forms a part of the frame of the thorax. The ribs in the human body are twelve on each side, proceeding from the spine to the sternum, or towards it, and serving to inclose and protect the heart and lungs.
2. In ship building, a piece of timber which forms or strengthens the side of a ship.
RIBs of a parrel, are short pieces of plank, having holes through which are reeved the two parts of the parrel-rope.
3. In botany, the continuation of the petiole along the middle of a leaf, and from which the veins take their rise.
4. In cloth, a prominent line or rising, like a rib
5. Something long, thin and narrow; a strip.
RIB, verb transitive
1. To furnish with ribs. In manufactures, to form with rising lines and channels; as, to rib cloth; whence we say, ribbed cloth.
2. To inclose with ribs.
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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