Genesis 9:4
NASB Lexicon
NASB ©HebrewStrong'sOrigin
"Onlyאַךְ־
(ach-)
389: surely, howbeitof uncertain derivation, see aken
you shall not eatתֹאכֵֽלוּ׃
(to·che·lu.)
398: to eata prim. root
fleshבָּשָׂ֕ר
(ba·sar)
1320: fleshfrom basar
with its life,בְּנַפְשֹׁ֥ו
(be·naf·shov)
5315: a soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion from an unused word
[that is], its blood.דָמֹ֖ו
(da·mov)
1818: blooda prim. root


















KJV Lexicon
But
'ak  (ak)
a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only
flesh
basar  (baw-sawr')
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man -- body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
with the life
nephesh  (neh'-fesh)
a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
thereof which is the blood
dam  (dawm)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
thereof shall ye not eat
'akal  (aw-kal')
to eat -- at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, freely, in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, quite.
Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
"Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

King James Bible
But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
However, you must not eat meat with its lifeblood in it.

International Standard Version
However, you are not to eat meat with its life—that is, its blood—in it!

NET Bible
But you must not eat meat with its life (that is, its blood) in it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"But you are not to eat meat with blood in it. (Blood is life.)

King James 2000 Bible
But flesh with its life, which is its blood, shall you not eat.
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