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Words
מָאֵן H3985
- Home gloss
- refuse
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- refuse
- Note
- Jacob's refusal of comfort (37:35); Joseph's of his master's wife (39:8); Pharaoh's (Exod 4:23)
Occurrences (3)
- 37:35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose to comfort him, and he refused to comfort himself, and he said, "For I will go down to my son mourning, to Sheol." And his father wept for him.
- 39:8 And he refused, and he said to the woman of his lord, "Look, my lord does not know, with me there, what is in the house, and all that there is to him he has given into my hand.
- 48:19 And his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know. He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; and however, his brother, the small one, shall be greater than he, and his seed shall be the fullness of the nations."