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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
Root Word (Etymology)
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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].
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 I have taken all this to my heart and explain [fn]it that righteous men, wise men, and their deeds are in the hand of God. Man H120 does not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything [fn]awaits him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3 - This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one fate for all men. Furthermore, the hearts of the sons of men H120 are full of evil and insanity is in their hearts throughout their lives. Afterwards they go to the dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - Moreover, man H120 does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men H120 are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:15 - But there was found in it a poor wise man and he [fn]delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one H120 remembered that poor man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:14 - Yet the fool multiplies words. No man H120 knows what will happen, and who can tell him what will come after him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:8 - Indeed, if a man H120 should live many years, let him rejoice in them all, and let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. Everything that is to come will be futility.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:5 - Furthermore, [fn]men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags himself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man H120 goes to his eternal home while mourners go about in the street.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:13 - The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person. H120

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:9 - So the common man H120 has been humbled
And the man of importance has been abased,
But do not forgive them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:11 - The [fn]proud look of man H120 will be abased
And the loftiness of man will be humbled,
And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:17 - The pride of man H120 will be humbled
And the loftiness of men will be abased;
And the LORD alone will be exalted in that day,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:20 - In that day men H120 will cast away to the moles and the bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:22 - [fn]Stop regarding man, H120 whose breath of life is in his nostrils;
For [fn]why should he be esteemed?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:15 - So the common man H120 will be humbled and the man of importance abased,
The eyes of the proud also will be abased.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:11 - Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people H120
And the land is utterly desolate,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:12 - “The LORD has removed men H120 far away,
And the [fn]forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:12 - I will make mortal man [fn]scarcer than pure gold
And mankind H120 than the gold of Ophir.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:7 - In that day man H120 will have regard for his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:6 - Elam took up the quiver
With the chariots, [fn]infantry H120 and horsemen;
And Kir uncovered the shield.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:19 - The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the LORD,
And the needy of mankind H120 will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:21 - Who [fn]cause a person H120 to be indicted by a word,
And ensnare him who adjudicates at the gate,
And [fn]defraud the one in the right with [fn]meaningless arguments.

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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 are flesh and not spirit;
So the LORD will stretch out His hand,
And he who helps will stumble
And he who is helped will fall,
And all of them will come to an end together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 31:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:8 - And the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of man H120 will devour him.
So he will [fn]not escape the sword,
And his young men will become forced laborers.

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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 not gods but the work of men’s H120 hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:11 - I said, “I will not see the LORD,
The LORD in the land of the living;
I will look on man H120 no more among the inhabitants of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:4 - “Since you are precious in My sight,
Since you are honored and I love you,
I will give other men H120 in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:11 - Behold, all his companions will be put to shame, for the craftsmen themselves are mere men. H120 Let them all assemble themselves, let them stand up, let them tremble, let them together be put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:13 - Another shapes wood, he extends a measuring line; he outlines it with red chalk. He works it with planes and outlines it with a compass, and makes it like the form of a man, like the beauty of man, H120 so that it may sit in a house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:15 - Then it becomes something for a man H120 to burn, so he takes one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image and falls down before it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:12 - “It is I who made the earth, and created man H120 upon it.
I stretched out the heavens with My hands
And I [fn]ordained all their host.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:3 - “Your nakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame also will be exposed;
I will take vengeance and will not [fn]spare a man.” H120

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 51:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:12 - “I, even I, am He who comforts you.
Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies
And of the son of man H120 who is made like grass,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:14 - Just as many were astonished at you, My people,
So His appearance was 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 - “How blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man H120 who takes hold of it;
Who keeps from profaning the sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 58:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 58:5 - “Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man H120 to humble himself?
Is it for bowing [fn]one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the LORD?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:6 - “They did not say, ‘Where is the LORD
Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and of pits,
Through a land of drought and of [fn]deep darkness,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no man H120 dwelt?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:25 - I looked, and behold, there was no man, H120
And all the birds of the heavens had fled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:20 - Therefore thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man H120 and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:22 - Speak, “Thus says the LORD,
‘The corpses of men H120 will fall like dung on the open field,
And like the sheaf after the reaper,
But no one will gather them.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:14 - Every man H120 is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his [fn]idols;
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:23 - I know, O LORD, that a man’s H120 way is not in himself,
Nor is it in a man who walks to direct his steps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:20 - Can man H120 make gods for himself?
Yet they are not gods!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:5 - Thus says the LORD,
“Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind H120
And makes flesh his [fn]strength,
And whose heart turns away from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:6 - “I will also strike down the inhabitants of this city, both man H120 and beast; they will 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 men H120 and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is [fn]pleasing in My sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:27 - “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when 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 everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man H120 who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be [fn]set on edge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:19 - great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, H120 giving to everyone according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:20 - who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; H120 and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:43 - ‘Fields will be bought in this land of which you say, “It is a desolation, without man H120 or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

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