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Genesis 6

Gen. 6:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
n, My spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
shall not always
`owlam (Hebrew #5769)
from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
KJV usage: alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Pronounce: o-lawm'
Origin: or lolam {o-lawm'}
strive
diyn (Hebrew #1777)
a primitive roy a straight course, i.e. sail direct
KJV usage: (come) with a straight course.
Pronounce: deen
Origin: or (Gen. 6:3) duwn {doon}
with man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
, for that he also
shagag (Hebrew #7683)
to stray, i.e. (figuratively) sin (with more or less apology)
KJV usage: X also for that, deceived, err, go astray, sin ignorantly.
Pronounce: shaw-gag'
Origin: a primitive root
gam (Hebrew #1571)
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
KJV usage: again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and , but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
Pronounce: gam
Origin: by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather
is flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
o: yet his days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
shall be an hundred
me'ah (Hebrew #3967)
properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
KJV usage: hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.
Pronounce: may-aw'
Origin: or metyah {may-yaw'}
and twenty
`esriym (Hebrew #6242)
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
KJV usage: (six-)score, twenty(-ieth).
Pronounce: es-reem'
Origin: from 6235
years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
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Neh. 9:30• 30And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. (Neh. 9:30)
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Isa. 5:4• 4What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? (Isa. 5:4)
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Isa. 63:10• 10But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. (Isa. 63:10)
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Jer. 11:7,11• 7For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
 11Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. (Jer. 11:7,11)
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1 Peter 3:20• 20disobedient aforetime when the long-suffering of God was waiting in Noah's days, while an ark was being prepared, in which few, that is eight souls, were brought safe through water; (1 Peter 3:20)
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Psa. 78:39• 39And he remembered that they [were] flesh,{HR}A wind passing and not coming again. (Psa. 78:39)

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Num. 11:17• 17And I will come down and talk with thee there; and I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, and thou shalt not bear it alone. (Num. 11:17)
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Neh. 9:30• 30And many years didst thou forbear with them, and testifiedst against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets; but they would not give ear: and thou gavest them into the hand of the peoples of the lands. (Neh. 9:30)
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Isa. 5:4• 4What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes? (Isa. 5:4)
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Isa. 63:10• 10But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them. (Isa. 63:10)
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Jer. 11:7,11• 7For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
 11Therefore thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them. (Jer. 11:7,11)
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Acts 7:51• 51Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers so ye. (Acts 7:51)
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Gal. 5:16‑17• 16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall in no wise fulfil flesh's lust.
 17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things are opposed one to another, that ye should not do those things which ye would; (Gal. 5:16‑17)
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1 Thess. 5:19• 19Quench not the Spirit; (1 Thess. 5:19)
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1 Peter 3:18‑20• 18Because even Christ once suffered for sins, just for unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in flesh, but made alive in [the] Spirit,
 19in [virtue of] which also he went and preached to the spirits in prison,
 20disobedient aforetime when the long-suffering of God was waiting in Noah's days, while an ark was being prepared, in which few, that is eight souls, were brought safe through water; (1 Peter 3:18‑20)
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Jude 14‑15• 14And Enoch, seventh from Adam, prophesied also as to these, saying, Behold, [the] Lord came amid his holy myriads,
 15to execute judgment against all, and to convict all the ungodly [of them] of all their works of ungodliness which they ungodlily wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners spoke against him. (Jude 14‑15)
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Psa. 78:39• 39And he remembered that they [were] flesh,{HR}A wind passing and not coming again. (Psa. 78:39)
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John 3:6• 6That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (John 3:6)
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Rom. 8:1‑13• 1There is therefore now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus.
 2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath freed me from the law of sin and death.
 3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son in likeness of flesh of sin and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh,
 4that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us that walk not according to flesh but according to Spirit.
 5For those that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh, but those according to Spirit the things of the Spirit.
 6For the mind of the flesh [is] death, and the mind of the Spirit [is] life and peace;
 7because the mind of the flesh [is] enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, for indeed it cannot;
 8but those that are in flesh cannot please God.
 9Ye however are not in flesh but in Spirit, if so be God's Spirit dwell in you. But if anyone has not Christ's Spirit, he is not of him.
 10But if Christ [be] in you, the body [is] dead on account of sin, and the Spirit life on account of righteousness.
 11But if the Spirit of him that raised Jesus out of [the] dead dwell in you, he that raised Christ out of [the] dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
 12So then, brethren, debtors we are not to the flesh to live according to flesh;
 13for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if by [the] Spirit ye mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. (Rom. 8:1‑13)
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Gal. 5:16‑24• 16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall in no wise fulfil flesh's lust.
 17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these things are opposed one to another, that ye should not do those things which ye would;
 18but if ye are led by the Spirit, ye are under no law.
 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
 20idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties,
 21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
 22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, self-control:
 23against such things there is no law.
 24But they that are of Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and its lusts. (Gal. 5:16‑24)
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1 Peter 3:20• 20disobedient aforetime when the long-suffering of God was waiting in Noah's days, while an ark was being prepared, in which few, that is eight souls, were brought safe through water; (1 Peter 3:20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead withg Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "plead in (or amongst) men." "strive in." Many read "plead with men in their wandering (or erring), he is flesh."

W. Kelly Translation

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And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strivea within man forever, for that he also [is] flesh, and his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.

WK Translation Notes

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Translators and commentators differ considerably as to the rendering and scope. Onkelos and Saadiah, the Septuagint, the Syriac, and the Vulgate substantially agree in the sense of "remain" for "strive." But the force is moral rather than physical existence, and fairly given in the KJV.