Genesis 2:17
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.Genesis 2:17 in the real world
In what words
- דַּעַתdaʻathknowledge
- עֵץʻêtsa tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
- טוֹבṭôwbgood (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine
- רַעraʻbad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
- מוּתmûwthto die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
- אָכַלʼâkalto eat (literally or figuratively)
- יוֹםyôwma day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.