Genesis 3:24
So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
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So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Read in context →And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
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derek · deh'-rek
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
Strong's KJV usage: along, away, because of, by, conversation, custom, (east-) ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-) way(-side), whither(-soever).
Strong's first: Genesis 3:24Strong's last: Malachi 3:1
Open full H1870 profile →hodós · hod-os'
a road; by implication, a progress (the route, act or distance); figuratively, a mode or means
Strong's KJV usage: :--journey, (high-)way.
Strong's first: Matthew 2:12Strong's last: Revelation 16:12
Open full G3598 profile →ʼôrach · o'-rakh
a well-trodden road (literally or figuratively); also a caravan
Strong's KJV usage: manner, path, race, rank, traveller, troop, (by-, high-) way.
Strong's first: Job 16:22Strong's last: Isaiah 41:3
Open full H734 profile →hypágō · hoop-ag'-o
to lead (oneself) under, i.e. withdraw or retire (as if sinking out of sight), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--depart, get hence, go (a-)way.
Strong's first: Matthew 5:24Strong's last: John 18:8
Open full G5217 profile →yâlak · yaw-lak'
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Strong's KJV usage: × again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, pursue, cause to run, spread, take away (-journey), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, × be weak.
Strong's first: Genesis 12:19Strong's last: Daniel 12:13
Open full H3212 profile →apérchomai · ap-erkh'-om-ahee
to go off (i.e. depart), aside (i.e. apart) or behind (i.e. follow), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--come, depart, go (aside, away, back, out, … ways), pass away, be past.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:25Strong's last: James 1:24
Open full G565 profile →poreúomai · por-yoo'-om-ahee
to traverse, i.e. travel (literally or figuratively; especially to remove (figuratively, die), live, etc.);
Strong's KJV usage: --depart, go (away, forth, one's way, up), (make a, take a) journey, walk.
Strong's first: Luke 4:30Strong's last: Acts 24:25
Open full G4198 profile →propémpō · prop-em'-po
to send forward, i.e. escort or aid in travel
Strong's KJV usage: :--accompany, bring (forward) on journey (way), conduct forth.
Strong's first: Acts 15:3Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 1:16
Open full G4311 profile →ʼerets · eh'-rets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
Strong's KJV usage: × common, country, earth, field, ground, land, × natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Strong's first: Genesis 35:16Strong's last: 2 Kings 5:19
Open full H776 profile →mésos · mes'-os
middle (as an adjective or (neuter) noun)
Strong's KJV usage: :--among, X before them, between, + forth, mid(-day, -night), midst, way.
Strong's first: Colossians 2:14Strong's last: 2 Thessalonians 2:7
Open full G3319 profile →trópos · trop'-os
a turn, i.e. (by implication) mode or style (especially with preposition or relative prefix as adverb, like); figuratively, deportment or character
Strong's KJV usage: :--(even) as, conversation, (+ like) manner, (+ by any) means, way.
Strong's first: Romans 3:2Strong's last: Philippians 1:18
Open full G5158 profile →kôh · ko
properly, like this, i.e. by implication, (of manner) thus (or so); also (of place) here (or hither); or (of time) now
Strong's KJV usage: also, here, hitherto, like, on the other side, so (and much), such, on that manner, (on) this (manner, side, way, way and that way), mean while, yonder.
Strong's first: Exodus 2:12Strong's last: Exodus 2:12
Open full H3541 profile →nâthîyb · naw-theeb'
a (beaten) track
Strong's KJV usage: path(-way), × travel(-ler), way.
Strong's first: Job 18:10Strong's last: Psalms 78:50
Open full H5410 profile →tâʻâh · taw-aw'
to vacillate, i.e. reel or stray (literally or figuratively); also causative of both
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) go astray, deceive, dissemble, (cause to, make to) err, pant, seduce, (make to) stagger, (cause to) wander, be out of the way.
Strong's first: Isaiah 28:7Strong's last: Isaiah 28:7
Open full H8582 profile →adelphós · ad-el-fos'
a brother (literally or figuratively) near or remote (much like G1)
Strong's KJV usage: :--brother.
Strong's first: Romans 14:13Strong's last: Romans 14:13
Open full G80 profile →allachóthen · al-lakh-oth'-en
from elsewhere
Strong's KJV usage: :--some other way.
Strong's first: John 10:1Strong's last: John 10:1
Open full G237 profile →ekklínō · ek-klee'-no
to deviate, i.e. (absolutely) to shun (literally or figuratively), or (relatively) to decline (from piety)
Strong's KJV usage: :--avoid, eschew, go out of the way.
Strong's first: Romans 3:12Strong's last: Romans 3:12
Open full G1578 profile →ektrépō · ek-trep'-o
to deflect, i.e. turn away (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--avoid, turn (aside, out of the way).
Strong's first: Hebrews 12:13Strong's last: Hebrews 12:13
Open full G1624 profile →makrán · mak-ran'
at a distance (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(a-)far (off), good (great) way off.
Strong's first: Luke 15:20Strong's last: Luke 15:20
Open full G3112 profile →párodos · par'-od-os
a by-road, i.e. (actively) a route
Strong's KJV usage: :--way.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 16:7Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 16:7
Open full G3938 profile →planáō · plan-ah'-o
to (properly, cause to) roam (from safety, truth, or virtue)
Strong's KJV usage: :--go astray, deceive, err, seduce, wander, be out of the way.
Strong's first: Hebrews 5:2Strong's last: Hebrews 5:2
Open full G4105 profile →pórrhō · por'-rho
forwards, i.e. at a distance
Strong's KJV usage: :--far, a great way off.
Strong's first: Luke 14:32Strong's last: Luke 14:32
Open full G4206 profile →ʼay · ah'ee
where? hence how?
Strong's KJV usage: how, what, whence, where, whether, which (way).
Strong's first: 1 Kings 22:24Strong's last: 1 Kings 22:24
Open full H335 profile →bôwʼ · bo
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, × be, befall, besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, × certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, × doubtless again, eat, employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, have, × indeed, (in-) vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, × (well) stricken (in age), × surely, take (in), way.
Strong's first: Genesis 24:62Strong's last: Genesis 24:62
Open full H935 profile →hênnâh · hane'-naw
hither or thither (but used both of place and time)
Strong's KJV usage: here, hither(-to), now, on this (that) side, since, this (that) way, thitherward, thus far, to...fro, yet.
Strong's first: Joshua 8:20Strong's last: Joshua 8:20
Open full H2008 profile →hâphak · haw-fak'
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
Strong's KJV usage: × become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Strong's first: Genesis 3:24Strong's last: Genesis 3:24
Open full H2015 profile →mânôwç · maw-noce'
a retreat (literally or figuratively); abstractly, a fleeing
Strong's KJV usage: × apace, escape, way to flee, flight, refuge.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 25:35Strong's last: Jeremiah 25:35
Open full H4498 profile →mᵉçillâh · mes-il-law'
a thoroughfare (as turnpiked), literally or figuratively; specifically a viaduct, a staircase
Strong's KJV usage: causeway, course, highway, path, terrace.
Strong's first: Numbers 20:19Strong's last: Numbers 20:19
Open full H4546 profile →mᵉʻaṭ · meh-at'
a little or few (often adverbial or comparative)
Strong's KJV usage: almost (some, very) few(-er, -est), lightly, little (while), (very) small (matter, thing), some, soon, × very.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 19:36Strong's last: 2 Samuel 19:36
Open full H4592 profile →nâçaʻ · naw-sah'
properly, to pull up, especially the tent-pins, i.e. start on a journey
Strong's KJV usage: cause to blow, bring, get, (make to) go (away, forth, forward, onward, out), (take) journey, march, remove, set aside (forward), × still, be on his (go their) way.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 4:7Strong's last: Jeremiah 4:7
Open full H5265 profile →ʻâbar · aw-bar'
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
Strong's KJV usage: alienate, alter, × at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-) come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, shave, cause to (make) sound, × speedily, × sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-) faring man, be wrath.
Strong's first: Esther 4:17Strong's last: Esther 4:17
Open full H5674 profile →qirʼâh · keer-aw'
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Strong's KJV usage: × against (he come), help, meet, seek, × to, × in the way.
Strong's first: Exodus 5:20Strong's last: Exodus 5:20
Open full H7125 profile →râchaq · raw-khak'
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Strong's KJV usage: (a-, be, cast, drive, get, go, keep (self), put, remove, be too, (wander), withdraw) far (away, off), loose, × refrain, very, (be) a good way (off).
Strong's first: Judges 18:22Strong's last: Judges 18:22
Open full H7368 profile →shâlach · shaw-lakh'
to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications)
Strong's KJV usage: × any wise, appoint, bring (on the way), cast (away, out), conduct, × earnestly, forsake, give (up), grow long, lay, leave, let depart (down, go, loose), push away, put (away, forth, in, out), reach forth, send (away, forth, out), set, shoot (forth, out), sow, spread, stretch forth (out).
Strong's first: Genesis 18:16Strong's last: Genesis 18:16
Open full H7971 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
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(There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.
Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.
But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.
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WAY, noun [G., Latin ]
1. Literally, a passing; hence, a passage; the place of passing; hence, a road of any kind; a highway; a private road; a lane; a street; any place for the passing of men; cattle or other animals; a word of very comprehensive signification.
2. Length of space; as a great way; a little way
3. Course; direction of motion or travel. What way did he take? Which way shall I go? Keep in the way of truth and knowledge.
Mark what way I make.
4. Passage; room for passing. Make way for the jury.
5. Course, or regular course.
And let eternal justice take the way
6. Tendency to any meaning or act.
There is nothing in the words that sounds that way
7. Sphere of observation.
The general officers and the public ministers that fell in my way--
8. Manner of doing any thing; method; means of doing. Seek the best way of learning, and pursue it.
By noble ways we conquest will prepare.
9. Method; scheme of management.
What impious ways my wishes took.
10. Manner of thinking or behavior; particular turn of opinion; determination or humor. Let him have his way when that will not injure him, or any other person. But multitudes of children are ruined by being permitted to have their way
11. Manner; mode. In no way does this matter belong to me. We admire a persons way of expressing his ideas.
12. Method; manner of practice. Find, if you can, the easiest way to live.
Having lost the way of nobleness.
13. Method or plan of life and conduct. Instruct your children in the right way
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Proverbs 3:23.
All flesh had corrupted his way Genesis 6:12.
14. Course; process of things, good or bad. Things are in a prosperous way
15. Right method to act or know.
We are quite out of the way
16. General scheme of acting.
Men who go out of the way to hint free things, must be guilty of absurdity or rudeness.
17. Ways, plural the timbers on which a ship is launched.
To make way to give room for passing; or to make a vacancy.
To give way to recede; to make room; or to yield; to concede the place or opinion to another.
To make ones way to advance in life by efforts; to advance successfully.
By the way en passant, as we proceed; a phrase introducing something in discourse, not immediately connected with the subject.
To go ones way or to come ones way to go or come along.
To go the way of all the earth, to die.
In the way a phrase noting obstruction. What is there in the way of your success?
In Scripture, the ways of God, are his providential government, or his works. Romans 11:33. Job 11:1.
WAY and ways are used in certain phrases, in the sense of wise. He is no ways a match for his antagonist.
Tis no way the interest even of the priesthood.
To be under way in seamens language, to be in motion, as when a ship begins to move. So a ship is said to have head-way, when she moves forward in her course, and stern-way, when she is driven astern. She is said also to gather way or to lose way Lee-way is a movement of a ship aside of her course, or to the leeward.
Milky way in astronomy, the galaxy; a broad luminous belt or space in the heavens, supposed to be occasioned by the blended light of an immense number of stars. By means of a telescope of uncommon magnifying powers, Dr. Herschel has been able to ascertain this fact, by distinguishing the stars.
Covert way in fortification, a passage covered from the enemys fire.
WAYs and means, in legislation, means for raising money; resources for revenue.
WAY-going crop, among farmers, is the crop which is taken from the ground the year the tenant leaves the farm. [England.]
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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