Key Words
Words used frequently in the parshah include: God, gods (67 times), man, men (41 times),said (37 times), Lord (the Name of God) (36 times), day, days (35 times), begot (31 times), years (30 times), live, lived, living (26 times), hundred (25 times), eat, eaten (20 times), tree, trees (20 times), call, called (17 times), name, names (17 times), Cain (16 times), made (16 times), good (15 times), ground (15 times), let (15 times), garden (13 times), light, lights (13 times), water, waters, watered (13 times), daughters (12 times), created (11 times), see, saw (11 times), woman (11 times), fruit, fruitful (10 times), Lamech (10 times), and Adam (9 times).
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Famous quotes containing the words key and/or words:
“Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Luke 11:52.
“Oh, Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon,
The maker’s rage to order words of the sea,
Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred,
And of ourselves and of our origins,
In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)