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Japanese
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| 繁息 (kyūjitai)
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Etymology
Gikun word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling 繁息 (“multiply”), a term which decomposes into 繁 (“flourish”) + 息 (“give birth, multiply”), to native Japanese verb ふえる (fueru, “to multiply”).
Verb
繁息[1] (fue) → 増える, 殖える (fu.eru)
- multiply (of fish)
- ※ See also 蕃息 and 繁殖. There are three gikun versions of ふえ (fue) in Genesis 1 (a different version for each time the word is used in regards to different creatures) literally multiplying the way in which this can be written and thereby emphasizing God's command for living things to multiply in the earth.
Quotations
- ^ OT, page 1:
- 神之を祝して曰く生よ繁息よ海の水に充牣よ又禽鳥は地に蕃息よと
- Kami kore wo shuku shite iwaku umeyo fueyo umi no mizu ni miteyo mata tori wa chi ni fueyo to
- And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.