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Lexicon :: Strong's G4098 - piptō

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πίπτω
Transliteration
piptō (Key)
Pronunciation
pip'-to
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A reduplicated and contracted form of peto {pet'-o}, (which occurs only as an alternate in certain tenses), probably akin to πέτομαι (G4072) through the idea of alighting
mGNT
91x in 24 unique form(s) TR
90x in 21 unique form(s) LXX
306x in 43 unique form(s)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:161,846

Strong’s Definitions

†πίπτω píptō, pip'-to; probably akin to G4072 through the idea of alighting; to fall (literally or figuratively):—fail, fall (down), light on.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 90x

The KJV translates Strong's G4098 in the following manner: fall (69x), fall down (19x), light (1x), fail (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 90x
The KJV translates Strong's G4098 in the following manner: fall (69x), fall down (19x), light (1x), fail (1x).

  1. to descend from a higher place to a lower

    1. to fall (either from or upon)

      1. to be thrust down

    2. metaph. to fall under judgment, came under condemnation

  2. to descend from an erect to a prostrate position

    1. to fall down

      1. to be prostrated, fall prostrate

      2. of those overcome by terror or astonishment or grief or under the attack of an evil spirit or of falling dead suddenly

      3. the dismemberment of a corpse by decay

      4. to prostrate one's self

      5. used of suppliants and persons rendering homage or worship to one

      6. to fall out, fall from i.e. shall perish or be lost

      7. to fall down, fall into ruin: of buildings, walls etc.

    2. to be cast down from a state of prosperity

      1. to fall from a state of uprightness

      2. to perish, i.e come to an end, disappear, cease

        1. of virtues

      3. to lose authority, no longer have force

        1. of sayings, precepts, etc.

      4. to be removed from power by death

      5. to fail of participating in, miss a share in

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†πίπτω píptō, pip'-to; probably akin to G4072 through the idea of alighting; to fall (literally or figuratively):—fail, fall (down), light on.
STRONGS G4098:
πίπτω; (imperfect ἔπιπτον (Mark 14:35 T Tr marginal reading WH)); future πεσοῦμαι; 2 aorist ἔπεσον and according to the Alex. form (received everywhere by Lachmann (except Luke 23:30), Tdf. (except Revelation 6:16), Tr (except ibid.), WH; and also used by R G in Revelation 1:17; Revelation 5:14; Revelation 6:13; Revelation 11:16; Revelation 17:10) ἔπεσα (cf. (WHs Appendix, p. 164; Tdf. Proleg., p. 123); Lob. ad Phryn., p. 724f; Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 277f, and see ἀπέρχομαι at the beginning); perfect πέπτωκα, 2 person singular πεπτωκες (Revelation 2:5 T WH; see κοπιάω), 3 person plural πεπτωκαν (Revelation 18:3, Lachmann's stereotyped edition; Tr text WH text; see γίνομαι); (from ΠΑΤΩ, as τίκτω from ΤΑΚΩ (cf. Curtius, Etymol. § 214; Verbum, ii., p. 398)); from Homer down; the Sept. chiefly for נָפַל; to fall; used:
1. of descent from a higher place to a lower;
a. properly, to fall (either from or upon, equivalent to Latin incido, decido): ἐπί with the accusative of place, Matthew 10:29; Matthew 13:5,(Matthew 13:7),Matthew 13:8; Matthew 21:44 (T omits; L WH Tr marginal reading brackets the verse); Mark 4:5; Luke 8:6 (here T Tr WH κατέπεσεν), 8 Rec.; Revelation 8:10; εἰς τί (of the thing that is entered; into), Matthew 15:14; Matthew 17:15; Mark 4:7 (L marginal reading ἐπί); Luke 6:39, R G L marginal reading (but L text T Tr WH ἐμπεσοῦνται); Luke 8:8 G L T Tr WH (Luke 8:14; Luke 14:5 L T Tr WH); John 12:24; εἰς (upon) τήν γῆν, Revelation 6:13; Revelation 9:1; ἐν μέσῳ, with the genitive of the thing, Luke 8:7; παρά τήν ὁδόν, Matthew 13:4; Mark 4:4; Luke 8:5; to fall from or down: followed by ἀπό with the genitive of place, Matthew 15:27; Matthew 24:29 (here Tdf. ἐκ; Luke 16:21); Acts 20:9; followed by ἐκ with the genitive of place (Mark 13:25 L T Tr WH); Revelation 8:10; Revelation 9:1; equivalent to to be thrust down, Luke 10:18.
b. metaphorically: οὐ πίπτει ἐπί τινα ὁ ἥλιος, i. e. the heat of the sun does not strike upon them or incommode them, Revelation 7:16; (ἀχλύς καί σκότος, Acts 13:11 L T Tr WH); ὁ κλῆρος πίπτει ἐπί τινα, the lot falls upon one, Acts 1:20; φόβος πίπτει ἐπί τινα, falls upon or seizes one (Acts 19:17 L Tr); Revelation 11:11 Rec.; (τό πνεῦμα τό ἅγιον, Acts 10:44 Lachmann); πίπτω ὑπό κρίσιν, to fall under judgment, come under condemnation, James 5:12 (where Rec.st εἰς ὑπόκρισιν).
2. of descent from an erect to a prostrate position (Latin labor, ruo; prolabor, procido; collabor, etc.);
a. properly;
α. to fall down: ἐπί λίθον, Luke 20:18; λίθος πίπτει ἐπί τινα, Matthew 21:44 (T omits; L WH Tr marginal reading brackets the verse); Luke 20:18; τό ὄρος ἐπί τινα, Luke 23:30; Revelation 6:16.
β. to be prostrated, fall prostrate; of those overcome by terror or astonishment or grief: χαμαί, John 18:6; εἰς τό ἔδαφος, Acts 22:7; ἐπί τήν γῆν, Acts 9:4; (ἐπί πρόσωπον, Matthew 17:6); or under the attack of an evil spirit: ἐπί τῆς γῆς, Mark 9:20; or falling dead suddenly: πρός τούς πόδας τίνος ὡς νεκρός, Revelation 1:17; πεσών ἐξέψυξε, Acts 5:5; ἔπεσεν παρά (L T Tr WH πρός) τούς πόδας τίνος, Acts 5:10; absolutely, 1 Corinthians 10:8; στόματι μαχαριας, Luke 21:24; absolutely of the dismemberment of corpses by decay, Hebrews 3:17 (Numbers 14:29, 32).
γ. to prostrate oneself; used now of suppliants, now of persons rendering homage or worship to one: ἐπί τῆς γῆς, Mark 14:35; participle with προσκυνεῖν, as finite verb, Matthew 2:11; Matthew 4:9; Matthew 18:26; πίπτειν καί προσκυνεῖν, Revelation 5:14; Revelation 19:4; ἔπεσα προσκυνῆσαι, Revelation 22:8; πεσών εἰς τούς πόδας (αὐτοῦ), Matthew 18:29 Rec.; εἰς (T Tr WH πρός) τούς πόδας τίνος, John 11:32; πρός τούς πόδας τίνος, Mark 5:22; (παρά τούς πόδας τίνος, Luke 8:41); ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ποδῶν τίνος, Revelation 19:10; ἐνώπιον τίνος, Revelation 4:10; Revelation 5:8; ἐπί πρόσωπον, Matthew 26:39; Luke 5:12; ἐπί πρόσωπον παρά τούς πόδας τίνος, Luke 17:16; πεσών ἐπί τούς πόδας προσεκύνησε, Acts 10:25; πεσών ἐπί πρόσωπον προσκυνήσει, 1 Corinthians 14:25; ἐπί τά πρόσωπα καί προσκυνεῖν, Revelation 7:11 (ἐπί πρόσωπον Rec.); Revelation 11:16.
δ. to fall out, fall from: θρίξ ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς πεσεῖται, equivalent to shall perish, be lost, Acts 27:34 Rec.
ε. to fall down, fall in ruin: of buildings, walls, etc., Matthew 7:25,(27); Luke 6:49 (where T Tr WH συνεπεσε); Hebrews 11:30; οἶκος ἐπ' οἶκον πίπτει, Luke 11:17 (see ἐπί, C. I. 2 c.); πύργος ἐπί τινα, Luke 13:4; σκηνή ἡ πεπτωκυῖα, the tabernacle that has fallen down, a figurative description of the family of David and the theocracy as reduced to extreme decay (cf. σκηνή, at the end), Acts 15:16. of a city: ἔπεσε, i. e. has been overthrown, destroyed, Revelation 11:13; Revelation 14:8; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 18:2 (Jeremiah 28:8 (Jer. 51:8).
b. metaphorically,
α. to be cast down from a state of prosperity: πόθεν πέπωκας, from what a height of Christian knowledge and attainment thou hast declined, Revelation 2:5 G L T Tr WH (see above at the beginning).
β. to fall from a state of uprightness, i. e. to sin: opposed to ἑστάναι, 1 Corinthians 10:12; opposed to στήκειν, with a dative of the person whose interests suffer by the sinning (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 31, 1 k.), Romans 14:4; to fall into a state of wickedness, Revelation 18:3; Lachmann's stereotyped edition; Tr WH text (see πίνω).
γ. to perish, i. e. to come to an end, disappear, cease: of virtues, 1 Corinthians 13:8 L T Tr WH (R. V. fail); to lose authority, no longer have force, of sayings, precepts, etc., Luke 16:17 (ὥστε οὐ χαμαί πεσεῖται ὁ τί ἄν εἴπῃς, Plato, Euchyphr. § 17; irrita cadunt promissa, Livy 2, 31). equivalent to to be removed from power by death, Revelation 17:10; to fail of participating in, miss a share in, the Messianic salvation, Romans 11:11,(22); Hebrews 4:11 ((yet see ἐν, I. 5 f.). Compare: ἀναπίπτω, ἀντιπίπτω, ἀποπίπτω, ἐκπίπτω ἐνπίπτω, ἐπιπίπτω, καταπίπτω, παραπίπτω, περιπίπτω, προσπίπτω, συμπίπτω.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Numbers
14:29; 14:32
Jeremiah
28:8; 51:8
Matthew
2:11; 4:9; 7:25; 10:29; 13:4; 13:5; 13:7; 13:8; 15:14; 15:27; 17:6; 17:15; 18:26; 18:29; 21:44; 21:44; 24:29; 26:39
Mark
4:4; 4:5; 4:7; 5:22; 9:20; 13:25; 14:35; 14:35
Luke
5:12; 6:39; 6:49; 8:5; 8:6; 8:7; 8:8; 8:14; 8:41; 10:18; 11:17; 13:4; 14:5; 16:17; 16:21; 17:16; 20:18; 20:18; 21:24; 23:30; 23:30
John
11:32; 12:24; 18:6
Acts
1:20; 5:5; 5:10; 9:4; 10:25; 10:44; 13:11; 15:16; 19:17; 20:9; 22:7; 27:34
Romans
11:11; 14:4
1 Corinthians
10:8; 10:12; 13:8; 14:25
Hebrews
3:17; 4:11; 11:30
James
5:12
Revelation
1:17; 1:17; 2:5; 2:5; 4:10; 5:8; 5:14; 5:14; 6:13; 6:13; 6:16; 6:16; 7:11; 7:16; 8:10; 8:10; 9:1; 9:1; 11:11; 11:13; 11:16; 11:16; 14:8; 16:19; 17:10; 17:10; 18:2; 18:3; 18:3; 19:4; 19:10; 22:8

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4098 matches the Greek πίπτω (piptō),
which occurs 306 times in 290 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 - Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man a hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth to a child?”

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When Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, he was still there, and they fell down to the ground before him.

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“Dan shall be a serpent in the way,

A horned viper in the path,

That bites the horse’s heels,

So that its rider falls backward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:19 - “So now, send word, bring your livestock and whatever you have in the field to safety. Every person and animal that is found in the field and is not brought home, when the hail comes down on them, will die.”’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:21 - Then the LORD spoke to Moses: “Go down, [fn]warn the people, so that they do not break through to the LORD to stare, and many of them [fn]perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:5 - “If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall not leave it helpless for [fn]its owner; you must arrange the load with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:28 - So the sons of Levi did [fn]as Moses instructed, and about three thousand men of the people fell that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:24 - Then fire went out from the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell [fn]face downward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:33 - ‘As for any earthenware vessel into which one of them may fall, whatever is in it becomes unclean and you shall break [fn]the vessel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 11:35 - ‘Moreover, everything on which part of their carcass may fall becomes unclean; an oven or a [fn]stove shall be smashed; they are unclean and shall continue as unclean to you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:7 - ‘Instead, you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:8 - five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:17 - ‘And I will set My face against you so that you will be defeated before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:36 - ‘As for those among you who are left, I will also bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a scattered leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee [fn]as though from the sword, and they will fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:3 - “So why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder! Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”

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Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness, all your [fn]numbered men according to your complete number from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against Me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:32 - ‘But as for you, your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:42 - “Do not go up, for the LORD is not among you, [fn]to prevent you from being defeated [fn]by your enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:43 - “For the Amalekites and the Canaanites will be there [fn]to confront you, and you will fall by the sword, since you have turned back from following the LORD. And the LORD will not be with you.”

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When Moses heard this, he fell on his face;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:22 - But they fell on their faces and said, “God, the God of the spirits of [fn]humanity, when one person sins, will You be angry with the entire congregation?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:45 - “Get away from among this congregation so that I may consume them instantly.” Then they fell on their faces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:6 - Then Moses and Aaron came in from the presence of the assembly to the entrance of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared to them;

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“If a person who has been killed by someone is found lying in the open country in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to [fn]possess, and it is not known who struck him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:4 - “You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the road, and avoid them; you shall certainly help him raise them up.

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“When you build a new house, you shall make a [fn]parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring guilt for bloodshed on your house if anyone falls from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:14 - He said, “No; rather I have come now as captain of the army of the LORD.” And Joshua fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - “It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down [fn]flat, and the people shall go up, everyone [fn]straight ahead.”

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Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, both he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

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So the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:25 - So all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand—all the [fn]people of Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:5 - So ten portions fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:25 - So they waited [fn]until it would have been shameful to wait longer; but behold, he did not open the doors of the roof chamber. So they took the key and opened them, and behold, their master had fallen to the [fn]floor dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - But Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one was left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - And behold, while Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael came out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he entered [fn]with her, and behold, Sisera was lying dead with the tent peg in his temple.

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“Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay;

Between her feet he bowed, he fell;

Where he bowed, there he fell [fn]dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating a dream to his friend. And he said, “Behold, I [fn]had a dream; [fn]a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it [fn]upside down so that the tent collapsed.”

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Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their [fn]armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of the entire [fn]army of the [fn]people of the east; for the fallen were 120,000 [fn]swordsmen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:40 - But Abimelech chased him, and he fled from him; and many fell wounded up to the entrance of the gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - then they would say to him, “Just say, ‘Shibboleth.’” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he was not [fn]prepared to [fn]pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the crossing places of the Jordan. So at that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:20 - For it came about when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:30 - And Samson said, “Let [fn]me die with the Philistines!” And he pushed outwards powerfully, so that the house fell on the governors and all the people who were in it. And the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he killed during his lifetime.

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In those days there was no king of Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day [fn]an inheritance had not [fn]been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26 - [fn]As the day began to dawn, the woman came and fell down at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was, until full daylight.

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When her master got up in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, then behold, his concubine was lying at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:44 - So eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell; all of these were valiant men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:46 - So all those of Benjamin who fell that day were twenty-five thousand men who drew the sword; all of these were valiant men.

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