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Genesis 6

Gen. 6:5 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And God
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
saw
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
p that the wickedness
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
of 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
was great
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
in the earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and that θevery imagination
yetser (Hebrew #3336)
a form; figuratively, conception (i.e. purpose)
KJV usage: frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work.
Pronounce: yay'-tser
Origin: from 3335
q of the thoughts
machashabah (Hebrew #4284)
from 2803; a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
KJV usage: cunning (work), curious work, device(-sed), imagination, invented, means, purpose, thought.
Pronounce: makh-ash-aw-baw'
Origin: or machashebeth {makh-ash-eh'-beth}
of his heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
was only
raq (Hebrew #7535)
properly, leanness, i.e. (figuratively) limitation; only adverbial, merely, or conjunctional, although
KJV usage: but, even, except, howbeit howsoever, at the least, nevertheless, nothing but, notwithstanding, only, save, so (that), surely, yet (so), in any wise.
Pronounce: rak
Origin: the same as 7534 as a noun
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
κcontinually
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
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Psa. 14:2• 2The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. (Psa. 14:2)
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Psa. 53:2• 2God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. (Psa. 53:2)
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Rom. 3:9• 9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; (Rom. 3:9)
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or, the whole imagination. The Hebrew word signifies not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires.
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Gen. 8:21• 21And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. (Gen. 8:21)
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Deut. 29:19• 19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: (Deut. 29:19)
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Ezek. 8:9,12• 9And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
 12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth. (Ezek. 8:9,12)
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Matt. 15:19• 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: (Matt. 15:19)
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every day.

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Cross References

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Gen. 13:13• 13But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord exceedingly. (Gen. 13:13)
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Gen. 18:20‑21• 20And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
 21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. (Gen. 18:20‑21)
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Psa. 14:1‑4• 1<<To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.>> The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
 2The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
 3They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
 4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord. (Psa. 14:1‑4)
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Psa. 53:2• 2God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. (Psa. 53:2)
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Rom. 1:28‑31• 28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
 29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
 30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
 31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: (Rom. 1:28‑31)
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Rom. 3:9‑19• 9What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
 10As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
 11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
 12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
 13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
 15Their feet are swift to shed blood:
 16Destruction and misery are in their ways:
 17And the way of peace have they not known:
 18There is no fear of God before their eyes.
 19Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. (Rom. 3:9‑19)
every imagination.
or, the whole imagination.The Hebrew word signifies not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires.
Gen. 8:21• 21And the Lord smelled a sweet savor; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. (Gen. 8:21)
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Deut. 29:19• 19And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: (Deut. 29:19)
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Job 15:16• 16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? (Job 15:16)
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Prov. 6:18• 18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, (Prov. 6:18)
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Eccl. 7:29• 29Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions. (Eccl. 7:29)
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Eccl. 9:3• 3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead. (Eccl. 9:3)
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Jer. 17:9• 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jer. 17:9)
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Ezek. 8:9,12• 9And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
 12Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth. (Ezek. 8:9,12)
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Matt. 15:19• 19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: (Matt. 15:19)
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Mark 7:21‑23• 21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
 22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
 23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. (Mark 7:21‑23)
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Eph. 2:1‑3• 1And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
 2Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
 3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. (Eph. 2:1‑3)
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Titus 3:3• 3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (Titus 3:3)
thoughts.
Jer. 4:14• 14O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee? (Jer. 4:14)
continually.
Heb. every day.

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of Man was great on the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil continuallyi.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "the whole day."