Word study

Include

11 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: including, include, included. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “include” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • כֹּל kôlthe whole, alltranslated this way 12 times of its 5,107 uses · Strong’s H3605Noun  ·  Translated: all 1,589, and all 471, whole 223, every 196Full study and all 4,112 verses →
  • אֶחָד echâdonetranslated this way 12 times of its 855 uses · Strong’s H259Number  ·  Translated: one 278, first 43, and one 43, a 36Full study and all 688 verses →
  • אֵת êthmark of the accusativetranslated this way 5 times of its 1,485 uses · Strong’s H853Direct object marker  ·  Translated: and 348, them 229, you 199, him 146

    Genesis 19:25 Thus He destroyed these cities and the entire plain, including all the inhabitants of the cities and everything that grew on the ground.

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  • עִיר îrexcitementtranslated this way 5 times of its 1,034 uses · Strong’s H5892Noun  ·  Translated: city 583, cities 344, towns 21, town 13

    Numbers 32:33 So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan — the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.

    Joshua 13:23 And the border of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the clans of the Reubenites, including the cities and villages.

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  • הָיָה hâyâhfall out, come to pass, become, betranslated this way 4 times of its 2,848 uses · Strong’s H1961Verb  ·  Translated: will be 206, become 178, came 169, was 151Full study and all 2,573 verses →
  • אִשָּׁה ishshâhwoman, wife, femaletranslated this way 4 times of its 711 uses · Strong’s H802Noun  ·  Translated: wife 251, woman 172, wives 92, women 88

    Deuteronomy 2:34 At that time we captured all his cities and devoted to destruction the people of every city, including women and children. We left no survivors.

    Joshua 8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua failed to read before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who lived among them.

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  • מֶכֶס mekescomputation, proportion to be paid, taxtranslated this way 3 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s H4371Noun  ·  Translated: tribute 3, including a tribute 3

    Numbers 31:38 36,000 cattle, including a tribute to the LORD of 72,

    Numbers 31:39 30,500 donkeys, including a tribute to the LORD of 61,

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  • אֵלֶּה êl-lehthesetranslated this way 3 times of its 693 uses · Strong’s H428Pronoun  ·  Translated: these 377, things 36, of these 28, this 25Full study and all 655 verses →
  • בַּד badseparationtranslated this way 3 times of its 163 uses · Strong’s H905Noun  ·  Translated: alone 43, poles 34, addition 26, only 12

    1 Kings 5:16 not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers.

    2 Chronicles 9:14 not including the revenue from the merchants and traders. And all the Arabian kings and governors of the land also brought gold and silver to Solomon.

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  • כֹּהֵן kôhênpriesttranslated this way 3 times of its 726 uses · Strong’s H3548Noun  ·  Translated: priest 387, priests 285, way the priest 8, priestly 5Full study and all 646 verses →
  • בּוֹא bôcome in, come, go in, gotranslated this way 2 times of its 2,442 uses · Strong’s H935Verb  ·  Translated: come 358, came 298, bring 209, brought 201Full study and all 2,217 verses →

Greek words (New Testament)

  • καί kaíand, even, also, namelytranslated this way 7 times of its 6,414 uses · Strong’s G2532Conjunction  ·  Translated: and 5,245, then 262, also 157, even 101

    Matthew 8:33 Those tending the pigs ran off into the town and reported all this, including the account of the demon-possessed men.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.