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Lexicon :: Strong's H120 - 'āḏām

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אָדָם
Transliteration
'āḏām
Pronunciation
aw-dam'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 25a

Strong’s Definitions

אָדַם ʼâdam, aw-dam'; from H119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.):—× another, hypocrite, common sort, × low, man (mean, of low degree), person.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 552x

The KJV translates Strong's H120 in the following manner: man (408x), men (121x), Adam (13x), person(s) (8x), common sort (with H7230) (1x), hypocrite (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 552x
The KJV translates Strong's H120 in the following manner: man (408x), men (121x), Adam (13x), person(s) (8x), common sort (with H7230) (1x), hypocrite (1x).

  1. man, mankind

    1. man, human being

    2. man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT)

    3. Adam, first man

    4. city in Jordan valley

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אָדַם ʼâdam, aw-dam'; from H119; ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.):—× another, hypocrite, common sort, × low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
STRONGS H120: Abbreviations
אָדָם 560 noun masculine Genesis 1:27 man, mankind (Phoenician אדם, Sabean id., CISiv. 1, l. 4 and others; compare Assyrian admu, young (of bird) DlW, but NöZMG 1886, 722 identification with Arabic اٌَنَام collective creatures) — Singular absolute except construct Proverbs 6:12 compare Thes; (בְּנֵי (הָ)א׳ often = plural of א׳ Genesis 11:5 + 39 times, compare בְּנוֺת הָא׳ Genesis 6:2, 4) —
1. a man (= German Mensch) = human being Genesis 2:5, 7 (twice in verse); Genesis 2:8, 15, 16, 18 +, Genesis 16:12 (27 times J) Leviticus 5:4 || נֶמֶּשׁ Leviticus 13:2, 9 (19 times P) Nehemiah 2:10; Isaiah 13:12 (|| אֱנוֺשׁ); הַגָּדוֺל הָאָ׳ Joshua 14:15 (E); בְּלִיַּעַל אָ׳ Proverbs 6:12 (|| אִישׁ אָוֶן compare 1 Samuel 25:25 & see H1000 בליעל); = any one Leviticus 1:2; Numbers 9:6, 7; Job 20:29; Job 27:13; Proverbs 15:20; Proverbs 21:16, 20; Proverbs 24:30; Ecclesiastes 7:20 + often Wisdom Literature, Jeremiah 2:6; Jeremiah 4:25; Nehemiah 2:12, compare נֶמֶּשׁ א׳ Numbers 19:11, 13 +; seldom man opposed to woman Genesis 2:22 (twice in verse); Genesis 2:23, 25; Genesis 3:8, 12, 17, 20, 21; Ecclesiastes 7:28.
2. collective man, mankind Genesis 1:26; Genesis 9:5, 6 (3 times in verse) + (P + 28 times) Genesis 6:1, 5, 6, 7 (J E + 24 times) Deuteronomy 4:32 (D + 6 times) (on 2 Samuel 7:19 compare 1 Chronicles 17:17 see DrSm); distinctly = men + women Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:1; Numbers 5:6; given as name Genesis 5:2; but = warriors Isaiah 22:6 רֶכֶב א׳ || (פּרשׁים ); || beasts (41 times) בְּהֵמָה Genesis 6:7; Genesis 7:23 (J ?) Exodus 8:13; Exodus 8:14; Exodus 9:9, 10 (P) Exodus 9:19, 22, 25; Exodus 12:12; Exodus 13:2, 13, 15 (all J) +; late prophets Jeremiah 21:6; Jeremiah 31:27; Jeremiah 50:3; Jeremiah 51:62; Ezekiel 14:13, 17, 19, 21; Ezekiel 25:13; Ezekiel 29:8, 11; Ezekiel 32:13 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 36:11; Jonah 3:8; Zephaniah 1:3; Haggai 1:11; Zechariah 2:8; Zechariah 8:10; || בָּקָר Ezekiel 4:15; || צֹאן, חֲמֹרִים ב׳ Numbers 31:28; || id. + מִכָּל־הַבְּהֵמָה Numbers 31:30 compare Jonah 3:7; || חַיָּה Genesis 9:5 (P) compare Ezekiel 1:5, 8, 10, 26, & description of כְּרוּבִים Ezekiel 10:8, 14, 21; compare Ezekiel 41:19; || trees Deuteronomy 20:19 (read הֶאָדָם see Di); opposed to God 1 Samuel 15:29; 1 Samuel 16:7 (twice in verse); Isaiah 31:3; Ezekiel 28:2, 9; 1 Chronicles 21:13; 1 Chronicles 29:1; 2 Chronicles 6:18; Malachi 3:8 compare Exodus 33:20; Deuteronomy 5:21; so בֶּן־א׳ Numbers 23:19 (|| אישׁ) Ezekiel 2:1, 3, 6, 8 (87 times Ezekiel, always addressed to prophet); בְּנֵי הָא׳ 1 Samuel 26:19; made in God's image Genesis 1:26, 27; Genesis 9:6 compare Ecclesiastes 7:29; as feeble, earthly, mortal Numbers 16:29 (twice in verse); Psalm 82:7; Psalm 144:3; Psalm 144:4; Job 5:7; Job 14:1, 10; compare Job 25:6 (בֶּן־א׳) Ecclesiastes 12:5; as sinful 1 Kings 8:46; 2 Chronicles 6:36; Jeremiah 10:14 compare Numbers 5:6; Job 31:33; Hosea 6:7; of men in general, other men (opposed to particular ones) Judges 16:17 (compare אַחַד הָא׳ Judges 16:7; Judges 16:11) Judges 18:7, 28; Psalm 73:5; Jeremiah 32:20 +; || אִישׁ Isaiah 2:9, 11, 17; Isaiah 5:15 compare Ezekiel 23:42 (strike out Co Vrss); בְּנֵי א׳ 2 Samuel 7:14 (|| אֲנָשִׁים) Proverbs 8:4 (|| אִישִׁים); Psalm 49:3; Psalm 62:10 (both || בְּנֵי אִישׁ) = men of low opposed to men of high degree — so often Phoenician and = vassal Sabean DHMZMG 1875, 680 compare 686; נֶפֶשׁ א׳ collective Numbers 31:35, 40, 46; 1 Chronicles 5:21; Ezekiel 27:13.
†3. proper name, masculine Adam, first man (without article, compare שָׂטָן 1 Chronicles 21:1 over ag. הַשּׂ׳ Job 1:6 etc.) Genesis 4:25 (J) [H121 Genesis 5:1, 3, 4, 5 (P) 1 Chronicles 1:1]. (Genesis 2:20; 1 Chronicles 3:17, 21 read לָא׳ see Di.)
†4. proper name, of a location city in Jordan valley (as built ?) [H121 Joshua 3:16].
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:26; 1:26; 1:27; 1:27; 1:27; 2:5; 2:7; 2:8; 2:15; 2:16; 2:18; 2:20; 2:22; 2:23; 2:25; 3:8; 3:12; 3:17; 3:20; 3:21; 4:25; 5:1; 5:2; 6:1; 6:2; 6:4; 6:5; 6:6; 6:7; 6:7; 7:23; 9:5; 9:5; 9:6; 9:6; 11:5; 16:12

Exodus

8:13; 8:14; 9:9; 9:10; 9:19; 9:22; 9:25; 12:12; 13:2; 13:13; 13:15; 33:20

Leviticus

1:2; 5:4; 13:2; 13:9

Numbers

5:6; 5:6; 9:6; 9:7; 16:29; 19:11; 19:13; 23:19; 31:28; 31:30; 31:35; 31:40; 31:46

Deuteronomy

4:32; 5:21; 20:19

Joshua

14:15

Judges

16:7; 16:11; 16:17; 18:7; 18:28

1 Samuel

15:29; 16:7; 25:25; 26:19

2 Samuel

7:14; 7:19

1 Kings

8:46

1 Chronicles

3:17; 3:21; 5:21; 17:17; 21:1; 21:13; 29:1

2 Chronicles

6:18; 6:36

Nehemiah

2:10; 2:12

Job

1:6; 5:7; 14:1; 14:10; 20:29; 25:6; 27:13; 31:33

Psalms

49:3; 62:10; 73:5; 82:7; 144:3; 144:4

Proverbs

6:12; 6:12; 8:4; 15:20; 21:16; 21:20; 24:30

Ecclesiastes

7:20; 7:28; 7:29; 12:5

Isaiah

2:9; 2:11; 2:17; 5:15; 13:12; 22:6; 31:3

Jeremiah

2:6; 4:25; 10:14; 21:6; 31:27; 32:20; 50:3; 51:62

Ezekiel

1:5; 1:8; 1:10; 1:26; 2:1; 2:3; 2:6; 2:8; 4:15; 10:8; 10:14; 10:21; 14:13; 14:17; 14:19; 14:21; 23:42; 25:13; 27:13; 28:2; 28:9; 29:8; 29:11; 32:13; 36:11; 41:19

Hosea

6:7

Jonah

3:7; 3:8

Zephaniah

1:3

Haggai

1:11

Zechariah

2:8; 8:10

Malachi

3:8

H120

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Strong's Number H120 matches the Hebrew אָדָם ('āḏām),
which occurs 552 times in 526 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 7 / 11 (Ecc 9:1–Jer 32:43)

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:1 - For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man H120 knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3 - This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men H120 is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - For man H120 also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men H120 snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:15 - Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man H120 remembered that same poor man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:14 - A fool also is full of words: a man H120 cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:8 - But if a man H120 live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:5 - Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man H120 goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:13 - Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. H120

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:9 - And the mean man H120 boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:11 - The lofty looks of man H120 shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:17 - And the loftiness of man H120 shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:20 - In that day a man H120 shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:22 - Cease ye from man, H120 whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:15 - And the mean man H120 shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, H120 and the land be utterly desolate,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:12 - And the LORD have removed men H120 far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:12 - I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man H120 than the golden wedge of Ophir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:7 - At that day shall a man H120 look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:6 - And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men H120 and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:19 - The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men H120 shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 - That make a man H120 an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:3 - Now the Egyptians are men, H120 and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the LORD shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, H120 shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's H120 hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:11 - I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man H120 no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:4 - Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men H120 for thee, and people for thy life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:11 - Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are of men: H120 let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:13 - The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; H120 that it may remain in the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:15 - Then shall it be for a man H120 to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:12 - I have made the earth, and created man H120 upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:3 - Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. H120

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:12 - I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man H120 which shall be made as grass;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:14 - As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: H120

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 56:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:2 - Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man H120 that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man H120 to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - Neither said they, Where is the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man H120 dwelt?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:25 - I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, H120 and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, H120 and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men H120 shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:14 - Every man H120 is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:23 - O LORD, I know that the way of man H120 is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:20 - Shall a man H120 make gods unto himself, and they are no gods?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:5 - Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, H120 and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man H120 and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:5 - I have made the earth, the man H120 and the beast that are upon the ground, by my great power and by my outstretched arm, and have given it unto whom it seemed meet unto me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 - Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, H120 and with the seed of beast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:30 - But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man H120 that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:19 - Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: H120 to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:20 - Which hast set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, and in Israel, and among other men; H120 and hast made thee a name, as at this day;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43 - And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man H120 or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

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