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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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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 2 / 11 (Exo 30:32–Jdg 16:17)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:32 - ‘It shall not be poured on [fn]anyone’s H120 body, nor shall you make any like it in [fn]the same specifications; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:20 - But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man H120 can see Me and live!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When any H120 man H120 from among you brings an [fn]offering near to Yahweh, you shall bring your [fn]offering of animals from the herd or the flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:3 - ‘Or if he touches human H120 uncleanness, of whatever sort his uncleanness may be with which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:4 - ‘Or if a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter a man H120 may speak thoughtlessly with a sworn oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty in one of these.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:3 - or has found what was lost and dealt falsely about it and sworn falsely, so that he sins in regard to any one of the things a man H120 may do;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:21 - ‘When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human H120 uncleanness or an unclean animal or any unclean [fn]detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to Yahweh, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:2 - “When a man H120 has on the skin of his [fn]body a swelling or a scab or a bright spot, and it becomes [fn]an infection of leprosy on the skin of his [fn]body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:9 -

“When the infection of leprosy is on a man H120, then he shall be brought to the priest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:17 - “Now when he goes in to make atonement in the holy place, no one H120 shall be in the tent of meeting until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself and for his household and for all the assembly of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:5 - ‘So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, which if a man H120 does them, he shall live by them; I am Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:5 - or if a man touches any teeming things by which he is made unclean or any H120 man H120 by whom he is made unclean, whatever his uncleanness,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:17 -

‘If a man strikes down the life of any human H120 being, he shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:20 - fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has [fn]injured a man H120, so it shall be [fn]inflicted on him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:21 - ‘Thus the one who strikes down an animal shall make restitution for it, but the one who strikes down a man H120 shall be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:28 -

‘Nevertheless, anything which a man [fn]devotes to Yahweh out of all that he has, of man H120 or animal or of the fields of his own possession, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything [fn]devoted to destruction is most holy to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 27:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:29 - ‘No [fn]one who may have been [fn]devoted among men H120 shall be [fn]ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:13 - “For all the firstborn are Mine; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, from man H120 to beast. They shall be Mine; I am Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:6 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, ‘When a man or woman commits any of the sins of mankind H120, acting unfaithfully against Yahweh, and that person is guilty,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - “For every firstborn among the sons of Israel is Mine, among the men H120 and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - But there were some men who were unclean because of a [fn]dead person, so that they could not celebrate Passover on that day; so they came near before Moses and Aaron on that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - And those men said to him, “We are unclean because of a [fn]dead person. But why are we restrained from bringing near the offering of Yahweh at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:3 - (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than any man H120 who was on the face of the earth.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:29 - “If these men die [fn]the death of all men H120 or [fn]if they suffer the fate of all men H120, then Yahweh has not sent me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:32 - and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men H120 who belonged to Korah with their possessions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:15 - “[fn]Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, whether man H120 or animal, which they bring near to Yahweh, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man H120 you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:11 -

‘The one who touches the corpse of any [fn]person H120 shall be unclean for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:13 - ‘Anyone who touches a corpse, the [fn]body of a man H120 who has died, and does not purify himself, [fn]makes the [fn]tabernacle of Yahweh unclean; and that person shall be cut off from Israel. Because the water for impurity was not [fn]splashed on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is still on him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:14 -

‘This is the law when a man H120 dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - ‘Also, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human H120 bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:19 -

“God is not a man, that He should lie,

Nor a son of man H120, that He should repent;

Has He said, and will He not do it?

Or has He spoken, and will He not establish it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:11 - And they took all the spoil and all the loot, both of man H120 and of beast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:26 - “You and Eleazar the priest and the heads of the fathers’ households of the congregation take a count of the loot [fn]that was captured, both of man H120 and of animal;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:28 - “And you shall exact a levy for Yahweh from the men of war who went out to battle, one [fn]in five hundred of the persons H120 and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “And from the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one drawn out of every fifty of the persons H120, of the cattle, of the donkeys, and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:35 - and of human H120 beings, of the women who had not known man [fn]intimately, all the persons were 32,000.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:40 - and the human H120 beings were 16,000, from whom the levy of Yahweh was 32 persons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:46

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:46 - and the human H120 beings were 16,000—

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one drawn out of every fifty, both of man H120 and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept the responsibility of the tabernacle of Yahweh, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:28 - “And there you will serve gods, the work of man’s H120 hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 -

“Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created [fn]man H120 on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:24 - “And you said, ‘Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire; we have seen today that God speaks with man H120, yet he lives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - “And He humbled you and let you be hungry and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man H120 does not live by bread alone, but by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh.

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“If you besiege a city for many days, to make war against it in order to capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by swinging an axe against them; for you may eat from them, and you shall not cut them down. [fn]For is the tree of the field a man H120, that it should [fn]be besieged by you?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 -

“When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

When He separated the sons of [fn]man H120,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

According to the number of the [fn]sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:14 - Now all the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man H120 with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them. They left no one remaining who breathed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - Now the name of Hebron was formerly [fn]Kiriath-arba; for Arba was the greatest man H120 among the Anakim. Then the land was quiet from war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man H120.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - And he said to her, “If they bind me tightly with new ropes [fn]which have not been used for work, then I will become weak and be like any other man H120.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:17 - So he told her all that was in his heart and said to her, “A razor has never come on my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me and I will become weak and be like every other man H120.”

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