King James Version
Genesis 2:10 in the King James Version says “And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.”
Genesis 2:10 · KJV
And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And a river”
H5104a stream (including the sea; expectation the nile, euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
“went out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and from thence it was parted”
H6504to break through, i.e., spread or separate (oneself)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“heads”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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