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Lexicon :: Strong's H2351 - ḥûṣ

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חוּץ
Transliteration
ḥûṣ
Pronunciation
khoots
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
(both forms fem. in the pl.) from an unused root meaning to sever
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 627a

Strong’s Definitions

חוּץ chûwts, khoots; or (shortened) חֻץ chuts; (both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors:—abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x

The KJV translates Strong's H2351 in the following manner: without (70x), street (44x), abroad (21x), out (17x), outside (2x), fields (2x), forth (2x), highways (1x), Kirjathhuzoth (with H7155) (1x), more (1x), out of (1x), outward (1x), utter (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x
The KJV translates Strong's H2351 in the following manner: without (70x), street (44x), abroad (21x), out (17x), outside (2x), fields (2x), forth (2x), highways (1x), Kirjathhuzoth (with H7155) (1x), more (1x), out of (1x), outward (1x), utter (1x).

  1. outside, outward, street, the outside

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חוּץ chûwts, khoots; or (shortened) חֻץ chuts; (both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors:—abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
STRONGS H2351: Abbreviations
חוּץ noun [masculine] the outside, sometimes, especially in plural, specifically a street, never with suffix in singular, with ָ  ה locative ח֫וּצָה, חֻ֫צָה, plural חוּצוֺת, חֻצוֺת, with suffix חוּצֹתָיו etc., Isaiah 15:3 etc.; —
1. the outside, of a house, tent, city, camp, etc., often used, especially with prepositions, to express the adverb idea of outside, abroad (Aramaic synonym, except in sense 2a, is בַּר, rfb):
a. as accusative after verb of motion Deuteronomy 23:13 יָצָא חוּץ to go forth outside (that is, a camp), Deuteronomy 23:14 (as adverb accusative) בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ חוּץ outside, הוֺצִיא הַחוּץ to bring forth outside (a house or chamber) Judges 19:25; 2 Samuel 13:18 compare Nehemiah 13:8; Judges 12:9b בָּנוֺת הֵבִיא לְבָנָיו מִןהַֿחוּץ from outside, from abroad, 2 Kings 4:3 שַׁאֲלִילָֿךְ כֵּלִים מִןהַֿחוּץ from outside (opposed to בַּבַּיִת 2 Kings 4:2); as genitive Leviticus 18:9 מוֺלֶדֶת חוּץ one born abroad (i.e. by another father or mother, of a half-sister: opposed to מוֺלֶדֶת בַּיִת) Ezekiel 47:2 (twice in verse). With ָ  ה locative חוּצָה, after a verb of motion Exodus 12:46 מִןהַֿבַּיִת ֗֗֗ חוּצָה, Proverbs 5:16; 2 Chronicles 29:16, 33:15 חוּצָה לָעִיר outside of the city, Numbers 35:4 מִקִּיר הָעִיר וָחוּצָה from the wall of the city and outwards; = on the outside, without 1 Kings 6:6; Isaiah 33:7 צָֽעֲקוּ חוּצָה cry without, 2 Chronicles 24:8: so הַחוּצָה Genesis 15:5 וַיּוֺצֵא אֹתוֺ הח׳ and brought him outside, Genesis 19:17; Genesis 24:29; Joshua 2:19 +, 1 Kings 8:8 לֹא יֵרָאוּ הַחוּצָה were not seen towards the outside, Deuteronomy 25:5 לֹא תִהְיֶה אֵשֶׁת הַמֵּת הַחוּצָה לְאִישׁ זָר i.e. shall not be married into another family, compare Judges 12:9a.
b. with prepositions:
a. † אלהֿחוץ towards the outside Ezekiel 41:9, † Ezekiel 34:21 pleonastic אלהֿחוצה.
b. בחוץ Genesis 9:22 outside (opposed to בְּתוֺךְ אָהֳלֹה Genesis 9:21), Genesis 24:31 לָמָּה תַעֲמֹד בַּחוץ, Deuteronomy 24:11; Exodus 21:19 אם יקום והתהלך בחוץ (after leaving a sick couch), 2 Kings 10:24; Psalm 31:12; Ezekiel 7:15 (opposed to מִבַּיִת), Hosea 7:1 +.
c. † לחוץ Psalm 41:7 יצא לחוץ; = on the outside Ezekiel 41:17; Ezekiel 42:7, לַחוּצָה 2 Chronicles 32:5 towards the outside.
d. מִחוּץ on (מִן 3c) the outside Ezekiel 40:19; Ezekiel 46:2, מִבַיִת וּמִחוּץ within and without (of an ark, building, etc.) Genesis 6:14; Exodus 25:11 = Exodus 37:2; 1 Kings 7:9; Deuteronomy 32:25 מחוץ תְּשַׁכֶּלחֶֿרֶב (opposed to יּמֵחֲדָרִים אֵימָה), Lamentations 1:20 (compare Ezekiel 7:15 above b); so מֵהַחוּץ † Ezekiel 41:25. מִחוּץ לְ on the outside of, Genesis 19:16 וַיַּנִּיחֵהוּ מִחוּץ לָעִיר, Genesis 24:11; Exodus 26:35; Exodus 37:7 (twice in verse); Leviticus 8:17; Leviticus 14:8; Numbers 35:5; Joshua 6:23; Jeremiah 21:4 +, even after a verb of motion 1 Kings 21:13 וַיּוֺצִיאוּהוּ מִחוּץ לְעִיר, 2 Kings 23:6, though in this case אל מחוץל is more common, Leviticus 4:12, 21 אל מחוץ למחנה, Leviticus 6:4; Leviticus 10:4; Leviticus 14:40, 41 + often P, Deuteronomy 23:11.
e. † מִחוּצָה Ezekiel 40:40 on the outside, מִחוּצָה לְ Ezekiel 40:44.
f. (late) † חוּץ מִן outside of, Ecclesiastes 2:25 who can eat, and who enjoy, חוּץ מִמֶּנִּיִ outside of me, i.e. except me? (but read rather, with Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version De Now and others, חוּץ מִמֶּנּוּ apart from, without him, i.e. God). (So Late Hebrew חוּץ מִן except, without, see DeEcclesiastes 2:25. compare The Aramaic synonym בַּר מִן except Exodus 20:3 Targum; apart from, without Isaiah 36:10 Targum; Syriac Nem rfbl id.)
2. Of a definite locality, namely
a. that which is outside the houses of a town, i.e. a street Isaiah 51:23 כַּחוּץ לַעֹבְרִים, Jeremiah 37:21 חוּץ הָאֹפִים the Bakers' street, Proverbs 1:20 כַּחוּץ, (|| כָּֽרְחֹבוֺת : so Proverbs 7:12; Proverbs 22:13; Jeremiah 9:20); often in plural, as חוּצֹת אַשְׁקְלוֹן the streets of Ashkelon 2 Samuel 1:20, ירושׁלם ח׳ Jeremiah 5:1; Jeremiah 7:17, 34 — Jeremiah; 1 Kings 20:34 וְחֻצוֺת תָּשִׂיםלְֿךָ בְּדַמֶּשֶׂק and streets (i.e. bazaars) shalt thou make thee in D., as my father made in Samaria (a concession involving the right of trading), Amos 5:16; Isaiah 15:3; Isaiah 24:11 (as scene of mourning), Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 51:4; Ezekiel 11:6; Ezekiel 28:23 (as filled with corpses of slain), בְּראֹשׁ כָּלחֿוּצוֺת i.e. in conspicuous places, Nahum 3:10; Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 4:1; Isaiah 51:20, טִיט חוּצוֺת mire of streets Zechariah 10:5 (trampled on by warriors), in simile, of foes trodden under foot, Psalm 18:43; Micah 7:10 (so כְּחֹמֶר ח׳ Isaiah 10:6), metaphor of cheapness and abundance Zechariah 9:3.
b. more generally, that which is outside enclosed cities, the open country, Job 18:17 וְלאֹ עַל־פְּנֵי־חוּץ לוֹ שֵׁם (see De), compare Proverbs 24:27; in the plural Job 5:10 חוּצוֺת פְּנֵי עַל מַיִם וְשֹׁלֵח, Proverbs 8:26; Psalm 144:13 (as place where flocks abound).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:14; 9:21; 9:22; 15:5; 19:16; 19:17; 24:11; 24:29; 24:31

Exodus

12:46; 20:3; 21:19; 25:11; 26:35; 37:2; 37:7

Leviticus

4:12; 4:21; 6:4; 8:17; 10:4; 14:8; 14:40; 14:41; 18:9

Numbers

35:4; 35:5

Deuteronomy

23:11; 23:13; 23:14; 24:11; 25:5; 32:25

Joshua

2:19; 6:23

Judges

12:9; 12:9; 19:25

2 Samuel

1:20; 13:18

1 Kings

6:6; 7:9; 8:8; 20:34; 21:13

2 Kings

4:2; 4:3; 10:24; 23:6

2 Chronicles

24:8; 29:16; 32:5; 33:15

Nehemiah

13:8

Job

5:10; 18:17

Psalms

18:43; 31:12; 41:7; 144:13

Proverbs

1:20; 5:16; 7:12; 8:26; 22:13; 24:27

Ecclesiastes

2:25; 2:25

Isaiah

5:25; 10:6; 15:3; 15:3; 24:11; 33:7; 36:10; 51:20; 51:23

Jeremiah

5:1; 7:17; 7:34; 9:20; 21:4; 37:21; 51:4

Lamentations

1:20; 2:19; 4:1

Ezekiel

7:15; 7:15; 11:6; 28:23; 34:21; 40:19; 40:40; 40:44; 41:9; 41:17; 41:25; 42:7; 46:2; 47:2

Hosea

7:1

Amos

5:16

Micah

7:10

Nahum

3:10

Zechariah

9:3; 10:5

H2351

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Strong's Number H2351 matches the Hebrew חוּץ (ḥûṣ),
which occurs 164 times in 158 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Num 31:19–Pro 24:27)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 - Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:4 - The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits[fn] all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And you shall measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall belong to them as pastureland for their cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:27 - and the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:10 - “If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he shall go outside the camp. He shall not come inside the camp,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:12 - “You shall have a place outside the camp, and you shall go out to it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:13 - And you shall have a trowel with your tools, and when you sit down outside, you shall dig a hole with it and turn back and cover up your excrement.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:11 - You shall stand outside, and the man to whom you make the loan shall bring the pledge out to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 - “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - Outdoors the sword shall bereave,
and indoors terror,
for young man and woman alike,
the nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:19 - Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:9 - He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:25 - But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:26 - Then at the break of dawn[fn] Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Up, that I may send you on your way.” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:20 - Tell it not in Gath,
publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon,
lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice,
lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:17 - He called the young man who served him and said, “Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 13:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 13:18 - Now she was wearing a long robe with sleeves,[fn] for thus were the virgin daughters of the king dressed. So his servant put her out and bolted the door after her.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 22:43

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:43 - I beat them fine as the dust of the earth;
I crushed them and stamped them down like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:6 - The lowest story[fn] was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:9 - All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great court.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:8 - And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary; but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 20:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 20:34 - And Ben-hadad said to him, “The cities that my father took from your father I will restore, and you may establish bazaars for yourself in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria.” And Ahab said, “I will let you go on these terms.” So he made a covenant with him and let him go.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:13 - And the two worthless men came in and sat opposite him. And the worthless men brought a charge against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death with stones.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:3 - Then he said, “Go outside, borrow vessels from all your neighbors, empty vessels and not too few.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 10:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:24 - Then they[fn] went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings. Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside and said, “The man who allows any of those whom I give into your hands to escape shall forfeit his life.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:4 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the keepers of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven. He burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:6 - And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron and beat it to dust and cast the dust of it upon the graves of the common people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:9 - And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are[fn] there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:8 - So the king commanded, and they made a chest and set it outside the gate of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16 - The priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it and carried it out to the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:3 - he planned with his officers and his mighty men to stop the water of the springs that were outside the city; and they helped him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 32:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 32:5 - He set to work resolutely and built up all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it,[fn] and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15 - And he took away the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:13 - But the people are many, and it is a time of heavy rain; we cannot stand in the open. Nor is this a task for one day or for two, for we have greatly transgressed in this matter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:8 - And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:20 - Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:10 - he gives rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 18:17 - His memory perishes from the earth,
and he has no name in the street.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:32 - (the sojourner has not lodged in the street;
I have opened my doors to the traveler),

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:42

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:42 - I beat them fine as dust before the wind;
I cast them out like the mire of the streets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:11 - Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach,
especially to my neighbors,
and an object of dread to my acquaintances;
those who see me in the street flee from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 41:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 41:6 - And when one comes to see me, he utters empty words,
while his heart gathers iniquity;
when he goes out, he tells it abroad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 144:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:13 - may our granaries be full,
providing all kinds of produce;
may our sheep bring forth thousands
and ten thousands in our fields;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:20 - Wisdom cries aloud in the street,
in the markets she raises her voice;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:16 - Should your springs be scattered abroad,
streams of water in the streets?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12 - now in the street, now in the market,
and at every corner she lies in wait.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:26 - before he had made the earth with its fields,
or the first of the dust of the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:13 - The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside!
I shall be killed in the streets!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 24:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:27 - Prepare your work outside;
get everything ready for yourself in the field,
and after that build your house.

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