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Genesis 12:6

Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.

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ASV

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Shechem, unto the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

KJV

And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיַּעֲבֹ֤רvai.ya.'a.Vorand he passedH5674 →
אַבְרָם֙'av.RamAbramH87 →
בָּאָ֔רֶץba.'A.retzin the landH776 →
עַ֚ד'adtoH5704 →
מְק֣וֹםme.Kom[the] place ofH4725 →
שְׁכֶ֔םshe.KhemShechemH7927 →
עַ֖ד'adtoH5704 →
אֵל֣וֹן'e.Lon[the] great tree ofH436 →
מוֹרֶ֑הmo.RehMorehH4176 →
וְהַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֖יve.ha.ke.na.'a.Niand the Canaanite[s]H3669 →
אָ֥ז'azthenH227 →
בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ba.'A.retz[was] in the landH776 →

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Hebrews 11:9By faith he dwelt in the promised land as a stranger in a foreign country. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise.Deuteronomy 11:30Are not these mountains across the Jordan, west of the road toward the sunset, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah opposite Gilgal near the Oak of Moreh?Psalms 60:6God has spoken from His sanctuary: “I will triumph! I will parcel out Shechem and apportion the Valley of Succoth.Genesis 35:4So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.Genesis 13:7And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.Judges 7:1Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.Genesis 10:18–19the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Later the Canaanite clans were scattered,Genesis 15:18–21On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—John 4:5So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.Genesis 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.Judges 9:1Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother,Joshua 24:32And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.Joshua 20:7So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.1 Kings 12:1Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone there to make him king.Genesis 33:18After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.Acts 7:16Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.Genesis 10:15And Canaan was the father of Sidon his firstborn, and of the Hittites,Joshua 5:1Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.

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