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Lexicon :: Strong's H241 - 'ōzen

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אֹזֶן
Transliteration
'ōzen
Pronunciation
o'-zen
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 57a

Strong’s Definitions

אֹזֶן ʼôzen, o'-zen; from H238; broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man):— advertise, audience, displease, ear, hearing, show.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 187x

The KJV translates Strong's H241 in the following manner: ear(s) (163x), audience (7x), hearing (5x), show (with H1540) (6x), advertise (with H1540) (1x), displeased the LORD (1x), hear (1x), hear (with H8088) (1x), reveal (with H1540) (1x), tell (with H1540) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 187x
The KJV translates Strong's H241 in the following manner: ear(s) (163x), audience (7x), hearing (5x), show (with H1540) (6x), advertise (with H1540) (1x), displeased the LORD (1x), hear (1x), hear (with H8088) (1x), reveal (with H1540) (1x), tell (with H1540) (1x).

  1. ear, as part of the body

  2. ear, as organ of hearing

  3. (subjective) to uncover the ear to reveal; the receiver of divine revelation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֹזֶן ʼôzen, o'-zen; from H238; broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man):— advertise, audience, displease, ear, hearing, show.
STRONGS H241: Abbreviations
אֹ֫זֶן 188 noun feminine: Exodus 29:20 ear (Arabic أُذْن, Aramaic axnDAe  , אוּדְנָא, Assyrian uznu, Ethiopic እዝን፡) — absolute 2 Samuel 22:45 +; construct Exodus 29:20 +; suffix אָזְנִי 1 Samuel 20:2 +, etc.; dual אָזְנַיִם (נָ֑יִם) Deuteronomy 29:3 +; construct אָזְנֵי Genesis 23:10 +; suffix אָזְנַי (־נָ֑י) Numbers 14:28 +; (never with article). —
1. ear, as part of body; of human being, as bearing earring Genesis 35:4; Exodus 32:2,3(all J E) Ezekiel 16:12; pierced by a master Exodus 21:6 (E) Deuteronomy 15:17; touched with blood in consecration (תְּנוּךְ א׳ tip of ear) Leviticus 8:23,24; Leviticus 14:14,17,25,28; cut off by enemy Ezekiel 23:25 (of אָהֳלִיבָה which see); ear of dog Proverbs 26:17 מַחֲזִיק בְּאָזְנֵי־כָּ֑לֶב; of sheep Amos 3:12 (fragment rescued from lion).
2. especially as organ of hearing,
a. of man Deuteronomy 29:3; 2 Samuel 22:45 = Psalm 18:45; Job 42:5; Isaiah 30:21; implanted (נטע) by י׳ Psalm 94:9; of idols (do not hear) Psalm 115:6; Psalm 135:17; שָׁמַע בא׳ 2 Samuel 7:22 8 times; especially בְּא׳ after verb of saying = in the ears, in the hearing of Genesis 20:8 (E) Genesis 23:10,13,16 (P) Genesis 44:18; Genesis 50:4 (J) Deuteronomy 5:1; Deuteronomy 31:11,28,30 44 times; compare Isaiah 5:9 (verb omitted); after noun of utterance, sound 1 Samuel 15:14; Job 13:17; Job 15:21; compare א׳ after verbal noun Ezekiel 24:26 (לְהַשְׁמָעוּת א׳) compare Isaiah 11:3; הִטָּה א׳ incline the ear = give attention Psalm 45:11; Proverbs 22:17 9 times; followed by ל Psalm 49:5 4 times; so הִקְשִׁיב א׳ Isaiah 32:3; Proverbs 2:2 (followed by ל); ל׳ הֵבִיא א׳ Proverbs 23:2; as receiving words תָּקַּח א׳ Job 4:12 compare Jeremiah 9:19; as tingling (צלל) at dreadful news 1 Samuel 3:11; 2 Kings 21:12; Jeremiah 19:3; as hearing with satisfaction, triumph Psalm 92:12 תִּשְׁמַעְנָה אָזְנָי֑ (|| וַתַּבֵּט עֵינִי בְּ׳ but Che strike out; as intelligent (involving mental process) וַתָּבֶן לָהּ שָֽׁמְעָה א׳ Job 13:1; מִלִּין תִּבְחָ֑ן א׳ Job 12:11; compare Job 34:3; as unsatisfied Ecclesiastes 1:8 מִשְּׁמֹעַ לֹא תִמָּלֵא א׳; as seeking (בקשׁ) know-ledge Proverbs 18:15; as hearing & blessing Job 29:11; compare שֹׁמַעַת א׳ Proverbs 20:12; Proverbs 25:12 a hearing (responsive, obedient) ear; compare Proverbs 15:31; Isaiah 43:8; opposed to stopping the ears (wilful ignorance) מִן־ אֹטֵם א׳ Proverbs 21:13 cf Isaiah 33:15; also of adder in simile of wicked Psalm 58:5 כְּמוֺ פֶתֶן חֵרֵשׁ יַאְטֵם אָזְנוֺ; מִן־ מֵסִיר א׳ Proverbs 28:9 so עֲרֵלָה א׳ their ear is uncircumcised Jeremiah 6:10; הִכְּבִּיד א׳ Zechariah 7:11 compare Isaiah 48:8; Jeremiah 5:21; Ezekiel 12:2; compare also Isaiah 42:20.
b. of Yahweh, י׳ בְּא׳ after verb of utterance Numbers 11:18 (J) Numbers 14:28 (P) 1 Samuel 8:21; Ezekiel 8:18; after עָלָה 2 Kings 19:28 = Isaiah 37:29; after בּוֺא Psalm 18:7 compare 2 Samuel 22:7 where verb omitted; so also (after noun without verb) Numbers 11:1 (J) י׳ בְּא׳ 1 Chronicles 28:8 nearly = in presence of; incline the ear הִטָּה א׳ 2 Kings 19:16 = Isaiah 37:17; Daniel 9:18; Psalm 86:1; followed by לְ Psalm 17:6; Psalm 88:3; Psalm 116:2; followed by אֶל־ Psalm 31:3; Psalm 71:2; Psalm 102:3; הִקְשִׁיב א׳ Psalm 10:17; קַשֻּׁבוֺת לְ א׳ 2 Chronicles 6:40; 7:15; compare Psalm 130:2; id. followed by אֶל־ Nehemiah 1:6,11; verb omitted אֶל־ א׳ Psalm 34:16; compare Isaiah 59:1 לֹא כָֽבְדָה א׳; Lamentations 3:56 ל׳ אַל־תַּעְלֵם א׳.
†3. גָּלָה א׳ open ears of, reveal to, subject man 1 Samuel 20:2,12,13; 1 Samuel 22:8 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 22:17; Ruth 4:4; subject י׳ 1 Samuel 9:15; 2 Samuel 7:27; 1 Chronicles 17:25; לְמוּסָר א׳ גּ׳ Job 36:10, compare Job 36:15; כָּרָה א׳ Psalm 40:7; לִשְׁמֹעַ יָעִירלִי א׳ Isaiah 50:4; א׳ פָּתַח־לִי Isaiah 50:5; compare תִּפָּתַחְנָה חֵרְשִׁים וְא׳ Isaiah 35:5 opposed to judicial deafness Micah 7:16; Isaiah 6:10.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:8; 23:10; 23:10; 23:13; 23:16; 35:4; 44:18; 50:4

Exodus

21:6; 29:20; 29:20; 32:2; 32:3

Leviticus

8:23; 8:24; 14:14; 14:17; 14:25; 14:28

Numbers

11:1; 11:18; 14:28; 14:28

Deuteronomy

5:1; 15:17; 29:3; 29:3; 31:11; 31:28; 31:30

Ruth

4:4

1 Samuel

3:11; 8:21; 9:15; 15:14; 20:2; 20:2; 20:12; 20:13; 22:8; 22:17

2 Samuel

7:22; 7:27; 22:7; 22:45; 22:45

2 Kings

19:16; 19:28; 21:12

1 Chronicles

17:25; 28:8

2 Chronicles

6:40; 7:15

Nehemiah

1:6; 1:11

Job

4:12; 12:11; 13:1; 13:17; 15:21; 29:11; 34:3; 36:10; 36:15; 42:5

Psalms

10:17; 17:6; 18:7; 18:45; 31:3; 34:16; 40:7; 45:11; 49:5; 58:5; 71:2; 86:1; 88:3; 92:12; 94:9; 102:3; 115:6; 116:2; 130:2; 135:17

Proverbs

2:2; 15:31; 18:15; 20:12; 21:13; 22:17; 23:2; 25:12; 26:17; 28:9

Ecclesiastes

1:8

Isaiah

5:9; 6:10; 11:3; 30:21; 32:3; 33:15; 35:5; 37:17; 37:29; 42:20; 43:8; 48:8; 50:4; 50:5; 59:1

Jeremiah

5:21; 6:10; 9:19; 19:3

Lamentations

3:56

Ezekiel

8:18; 12:2; 16:12; 23:25; 24:26

Daniel

9:18

Amos

3:12

Micah

7:16

Zechariah

7:11

H241

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Strong's Number H241 matches the Hebrew אֹזֶן ('ōzen),
which occurs 188 times in 179 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (Psa 102:2–Jer 26:11)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 102:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:2 - Do not hide your face from me
in the day of my distress!
Incline your ear to me;
answer me speedily in the day when I call!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:6 - They have ears, but do not hear;
noses, but do not smell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 116:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 116:2 - Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 130:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 130:2 - O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:17 - they have ears, but do not hear,
nor is there any breath in their mouths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:2 - making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 4:20 - My son, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:1 - My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:13 - I did not listen to the voice of my teachers
or incline my ear to my instructors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 15:31

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:31 - The ear that listens to life-giving reproof
will dwell among the wise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:15 - An intelligent heart acquires knowledge,
and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:12 - The hearing ear and the seeing eye,
the LORD has made them both.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 21:13 - Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor
will himself call out and not be answered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:17 - Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise,
and apply your heart to my knowledge,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:9 - Do not speak in the hearing of a fool,
for he will despise the good sense of your words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:12 - Apply your heart to instruction
and your ear to words of knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 25:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 25:12 - Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold
is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 26:17 - Whoever meddles in a quarrel not his own
is like one who takes a passing dog by the ears.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 28:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 28:9 - If one turns away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayer is an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 1:8 - All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:9 - The LORD of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:10 - Make the heart of this people dull,[fn]
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:3 - And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD.
He shall not judge by what his eyes see,
or decide disputes by what his ears hear,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:14 - The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,”
says the Lord GOD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:21 - And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:3 - Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed,
and the ears of those who hear will give attention.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:15 - He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 35:5 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:11 - Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:17 - Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:29 - Because you have raged against me
and your complacency has come to my ears,
I will put my hook in your nose
and my bit in your mouth,
and I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:20 - He sees many things, but does not observe them;
his ears are open, but he does not hear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:8 - Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes,
who are deaf, yet have ears!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:8 - You have never heard, you have never known,
from of old your ear has not been opened.
For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously,
and that from before birth you were called a rebel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:20 - The children of your bereavement
will yet say in your ears:
‘The place is too narrow for me;
make room for me to dwell in.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:4 - The Lord GOD has given me
the tongue of those who are taught,
that I may know how to sustain with a word
him who is weary.
Morning by morning he awakens;
he awakens my ear
to hear as those who are taught.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:5 - The Lord GOD has opened my ear,
and I was not rebellious;
I turned not backward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 55:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:3 - Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 59:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:1 - Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,
or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:2 - “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD,
“I remember the devotion of your youth,
your love as a bride,
how you followed me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:21 - “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes, but see not,
who have ears, but hear not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 6:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:10 - To whom shall I speak and give warning,
that they may hear?
Behold, their ears are uncircumcised,
they cannot listen;
behold, the word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn;
they take no pleasure in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:24 - But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:26 - Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did worse than their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:20 - Hear, O women, the word of the LORD,
and let your ear receive the word of his mouth;
teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:8 - Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:23 - Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck, that they might not hear and receive instruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:3 - You shall say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am bringing such disaster upon this place that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:4 - You have neither listened nor inclined your ears to hear, although the LORD persistently sent to you all his servants the prophets,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:11 - Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, “This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”

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