Genesis 4:23
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Adah Attention Blow Boy Bruise Bruising Death Ear Hear Hearken Heed Hurt Injuring Killed Lamech Slain Speech Striking Voice Wives Words Wound Wounding Young Youth Zillah
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Adah Attention Blow Boy Bruise Bruising Death Ear Hear Hearken Heed Hurt Injuring Killed Lamech Slain Speech Striking Voice Wives Words Wound Wounding Young Youth Zillah
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English Standard Version
Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

New American Standard Bible
Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Listen to my voice, You wives of Lamech, Give heed to my speech, For I have killed a man for wounding me; And a boy for striking me;

King James Bible
And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lamech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words. For I killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.

International Standard Version
Lamech told his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to what I have to say: You wives of Lamech, hear what I'm announcing! I've killed a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

NET Bible
Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah! Listen to me! You wives of Lamech, hear my words! I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for hurting me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, listen to me! Wives of Lamech, hear what I say! I killed a man for bruising me, a young man for wounding me.

King James 2000 Bible
And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a man for wounding me, and a young man for hurting me.

American King James Version
And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

American Standard Version
And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, And a young man for bruising me:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Lamech said to his wives Ada and Sell: Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to the wounding of myself, and a stripling to my own bruising.

Darby Bible Translation
And Lemech said to his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice, Ye wives of Lemech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for my wound, and a youth for my bruise.

English Revised Version
And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man for wounding me, And a young man for bruising me:

Webster's Bible Translation
And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

World English Bible
Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.

Young's Literal Translation
And Lamech saith to his wives: -- 'Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Wives of Lamech, give ear to my saying: For a man I have slain for my wound, Even a young man for my hurt;
Lexicon
And Lamech
Lemek  (leh'-mek)
Lemek, the name of two antediluvian patriarchs -- Lamech.
said
'amar  (aw-mar')
to say (used with great latitude)
unto his wives
'ishshah  (ish-shaw')
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman
Adah
`Adah  (aw-daw')
ornament; Adah, the name of two women -- Adah.
and Zillah
Tsillah  (tsil-law')
Tsillah, an antediluvian woman -- Zillah.
Hear
shama`  (shaw-mah')
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
my voice
qowl  (kole)
from an unused root meaning to call aloud; a voice or sound
ye wives
'ishshah  (ish-shaw')
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman
of Lamech
Lemek  (leh'-mek)
Lemek, the name of two antediluvian patriarchs -- Lamech.
hearken
'azan  (aw-zan')
probably to expand; to broaden out the ear (with the hand), i.e. (by implication) to listen
unto my speech
'imrah  (im-raw')
commandment, speech, word.
for I have slain
harag  (haw-rag')
to smite with deadly intent -- destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), surely.
a man
'iysh  (eesh)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
to my wounding
petsa`  (peh'-tsah)
a wound -- wound(-ing).
and a young man
yeled  (yeh'-led)
something born, i.e. a lad or offspring -- boy, child, fruit, son, young man (one).
to my hurt
chabbuwrah  (khab-boo-raw')
bound (with stripes), i.e. a weal (or black-and-blue mark itself) -- blueness, bruise, hurt, stripe, wound.
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