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Lexicon :: Strong's H259 - 'eḥāḏ

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אֶחָד
Transliteration
'eḥāḏ
Pronunciation
ekh-awd'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
A numeral from אָחַד (H258)
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TWOT Reference: 61

Strong’s Definitions

אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x

The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x
The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

  1. one (number)

    1. one (number)

    2. each, every

    3. a certain

    4. an (indefinite article)

    5. only, once, once for all

    6. one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one

    7. first

    8. eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
STRONGS H259: Abbreviations
אֶחָד 962 adjective number one (Phoenician אחד, Sabean id., compare DHMZMG 1876, 707, Arabic أَحَدً, Ethiopic አሐዱ፡ Aramaic חַד, dfo; on Assyrian edu, aḫadu, compare DlW No. 139) — absoluteא׳ Genesis 1:5 —אַחַ֫ד Genesis 21:15 +; so even before preposition 1 Samuel 9:3 and elsewhere see Dr; feminine absolute אַחַ֫ת Genesis 2:21 +; אֶחָ֑ת † Genesis 11:1 +; construct אַחַ֫ת Deuteronomy 13:13 +; plural masculine אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 + 4:t.; חַד Ezekiel 33:30 strike out Co compare Greek Version of the LXX; —
1. one Genesis 1:9; Genesis 27:38, 45; Exodus 12:49; Joshua 23:10; 1 Samuel 1:24; 2 Samuel 12:3 +, Zechariah 14:9; Malachi 2:10; Job 31:15 +, so also (emphatic) 2 Samuel 17:3 for MT אֲשֶׁר Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one or two לֹא לְיוֺם אֶחָד וְלֹא לִשְׁנַיִם Ezra 10:13; as substantive followed by מִן Genesis 2:21; Leviticus 4:2, 13; Isaiah 34:16 +; הָא׳ Genesis 19:9; Genesis 42:13, 32; 2 Kings 6:3, 5 +; one and the same Genesis 40:5; Job 31:15; plural דְּבָרִים אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 compare Ezekiel 37:17 (absolute), but see Co;＝few, a few יָמִים א׳ ‴ Genesis 27:44; Genesis 29:20; Daniel 11:20; כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד as one man, together Judges 20:8; 1 Samuel 11:7; also כְּאֶחָד late＝Aramaic כַּחֲדָא † Ezra 2:64 (= Nehemiah 7:66) Ezra 3:9; Ezra 6:20; Ecclesiastes 11:6; see especially Isaiah 65:25 (|| earlier יַחְדֶּו Isaiah 11:6, 7).
2.＝each, every Exodus 36:30; Numbers 7:3, 85; Numbers 28:21; 1 Kings 4:7; 2 Kings 15:20 +; also repeated, distributive sense Numbers 7:11; Numbers 13:2; Numbers 17:21; Joshua 3:12; Joshua 4:2, 4.
3.＝a certain 1 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 18:10; 2 Kings 4:1; Esther 3:8 — 2 Samuel 17:9 see Dr 1 Samuel 1:1; hence
4.＝indefinite article 1 Samuel 6:7; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 26:20 (but strike out Greek Version of the LXX We Dr) 1 Kings 19:4, 5 +.
5. only 1 Kings 4:19; & (feminine) once 2 Kings 6:10; Psalm 62:12; Psalm 89:36 (once for all); אַחַת לְשָׁלוֺשׁ שָׁנִים 2 Chronicles 9:21, בַּשָּׁנָה א׳ Leviticus 16:34 compare Job 40:5, אֶחָ֑ת אֶחָ֑ת Joshua 6:3, 11 compare Joshua 6:14, בְּאַחַת Numbers 10:4; Job 33:14; at once בְּאֶחָ֑ת Proverbs 28:18 compare וְאִנָּקְמֶה נְקַם־אַחַת Judges 16:28. **Num 10:4 בְּאַחַת is rather 'in one (of the trumpets)'; Job 33:14 it＝in one way; Proverbs 28:18 read probably with Syriac Version Lag Dy Bi בַּשָּׁ֑חַת; Judges 16:28 is rather 'vengeance for one of my two eyes' (see GFM). Jeremiah 10:8 בְּאַחַת probably＝in one, altogether. אחד.
6. one... another, the one... the other א׳⬩⬩⬩א׳ Exodus 17:12; Exodus 18:3, 4; Amos 4:7; 2 Samuel 12:1; Jeremiah 24:2; 2 Chronicles 3:17; Nehemiah 4:11 +; 2 Samuel 14:6 read הָאֶחָד אֶת־אָחִיו for האחד את־האחד Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one after another, one by one, לְאַחַד אֶחָד Isaiah 27:12 compare Ecclesiastes 7:27.
7. as ordinal, first (mostly P & late) Genesis 1:5 (P) Genesis 2:11 (J) Exodus 39:10 (P); absolute Job 42:14, Ezekiel 10:14 especially of first day of month Exodus 40:2 (P) Ezra 3:6; Ezra 10:16, 17; Nehemiah 8:2; Haggai 1:1; first year, שְׁנַת אַחַת 2 Chronicles 36:22; Ezra 1:1; Daniel 1:21; Daniel 9:1, 2; Daniel 11:1 compare first (day, יוֺם omitted) Genesis 8:5, 13 בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ; so Exodus 40:17; Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 1:18; Numbers 29:1; Numbers 33:38 (all P) Deuteronomy 1:3; 2 Chronicles 29:17; Ezra 7:9 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1; Ezekiel 45:18.
8. in combination,
a. אַחַד עָשָׂר eleven (compare עָשָׂר, עַשְׁתֵּי) Genesis 32:23; Genesis 37:9 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:2; so אַחַת־עֶשְׂרֵה Joshua 15:51 (P) 2 Kings 23:36; 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Chronicles 36:5, 11; Jeremiah 52:1 (precedes noun, except Joshua 15:51; as ordinal, eleventh אַחַת עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1 compare 1 Kings 6:38; 2 Kings 9:29;
b. with other numerals, as cardinal אֶחָד וְאַרְבָּעִים אֶלֶף וַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֺת Numbers 1:41; compare Numbers 2:16, 28; Numbers 31:34, 39 (all P; א׳ precedes other numeral); but אַרְבָּיִם וְאַחַת שָׁנָה (א׳ following) 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Chronicles 12:13 compare 2 Kings 22:1 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Kings 24:18＝Jeremiah 52:1 2 Chronicles 36:11; Joshua 12:24 (D) Isaiah 30:17; Ezra 2:26＝Nehemiah 7:30 compare Nehemiah 7:37; Daniel 10:13; as ordinal בְּאַחַת וְשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֺת שָׁנָה Genesis 8:13 (P) Exodus 12:18 (P), 1 Chronicles 24:17; 1 Chronicles 25:28; 2 Chronicles 16:13 (א׳ preceding); but 1 Kings 16:23; Haggai 2:1 (א׳ following).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:5; 1:5; 1:9; 2:11; 2:21; 2:21; 8:5; 8:13; 8:13; 11:1; 11:1; 11:1; 19:9; 21:15; 27:38; 27:44; 27:45; 29:20; 32:23; 37:9; 40:5; 42:13; 42:32

Exodus

12:18; 12:49; 17:12; 18:3; 18:4; 36:30; 39:10; 40:2; 40:17

Leviticus

4:2; 4:13; 16:34; 23:24

Numbers

1:18; 1:41; 2:16; 2:28; 7:3; 7:11; 7:85; 10:4; 10:4; 13:2; 28:21; 29:1; 31:34; 31:39; 33:38

Deuteronomy

1:2; 1:3; 13:13

Joshua

3:12; 4:2; 4:4; 6:3; 6:11; 6:14; 12:24; 15:51; 15:51; 23:10

Judges

16:28; 16:28; 20:8

1 Samuel

1:1; 1:1; 1:24; 6:7; 9:3; 11:7; 24:15; 26:20

2 Samuel

12:1; 12:3; 14:6; 17:3; 17:9; 18:10

1 Kings

4:7; 4:19; 6:38; 14:21; 15:10; 16:23; 19:4; 19:5

2 Kings

4:1; 6:3; 6:5; 6:10; 9:29; 14:23; 15:20; 22:1; 23:36; 24:18; 24:18

1 Chronicles

24:17; 25:28

2 Chronicles

3:17; 9:21; 12:13; 16:13; 29:17; 34:1; 36:5; 36:11; 36:11; 36:22

Ezra

1:1; 2:26; 2:64; 3:6; 3:9; 6:20; 7:9; 10:13; 10:16; 10:17

Nehemiah

4:11; 7:30; 7:37; 7:66; 8:2

Esther

3:8

Job

31:15; 31:15; 33:14; 33:14; 40:5; 42:14

Psalms

62:12; 89:36

Proverbs

28:18; 28:18

Ecclesiastes

7:27; 11:6

Isaiah

11:6; 11:7; 27:12; 30:17; 34:16; 65:25

Jeremiah

10:8; 24:2; 52:1; 52:1

Ezekiel

10:14; 26:1; 29:17; 30:20; 31:1; 31:1; 32:1; 33:30; 37:17; 45:18

Daniel

1:21; 9:1; 9:2; 10:13; 11:1; 11:20

Amos

4:7

Haggai

1:1; 2:1

Zechariah

14:9

Malachi

2:10

H259

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Strong's Number H259 matches the Hebrew אֶחָד ('eḥāḏ),
which occurs 970 times in 739 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 13 / 15 (Ecc 12:11–Eze 21:19)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:11 - The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one H259 shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 4:9 - Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one H259 of thine eyes, with one H259 chain of thy neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 6:9 - My dove, my undefiled is but one; H259 she is the only one H259 of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:1 - And in that day seven women shall take hold of one H259 man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:10 - Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one H259 bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2 - Above it stood the seraphims: each one H259 had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6 - Then flew one H259 of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:14 - Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one H259 day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one H259 day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:18 - In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one H259 shall be called, The city of destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:15 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one H259 king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one H259 by one, H259 O ye children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:17 - One H259 thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; H259 at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:16 - Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one H259 of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:9 - How then wilt thou turn away the face of one H259 captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:9 - But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one H259 day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:2 - Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, H259 and blessed him, and increased him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, H259 and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:8 - Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one H259 day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:17 - They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one H259 tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:14 - Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one H259 of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:8 - But they are altogether H259 brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One H259 basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other H259 basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:39

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 32:39 - And I will give them one H259 heart, and one H259 way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:2 - Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of the LORD, into one H259 of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:60

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:60 - So Jeremiah wrote in a H259 book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:1 - Zedekiah was one H259 and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven H259 years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:20 - The two pillars, one H259 sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house of the LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:21 - And concerning the pillars, the height of one H259 pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:22 - And a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one H259 chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:25 - He took also out of the city an H259 eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war; and seven men of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:6 - And every one H259 had four faces, and every one H259 had four wings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:15 - Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one H259 wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 1:16 - The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one H259 likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:9 - Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one H259 vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:5 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; An evil, an only H259 evil, behold, is come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:7 - And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a H259 hole in the wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:8 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a H259 door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:2 - And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one H259 man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:9 - And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one H259 wheel by one H259 cherub, and another H259 wheel by another H259 cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:10 - And as for their appearances, they four had one H259 likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:14 - And every one H259 had four faces: the first H259 face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:21 - Every one H259 had four faces apiece, H259 and every one H259 four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:19 - And I will give them one H259 heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:5 - None eye pitied thee, to do any H259 of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 17:7 - There was also another H259 great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:10 - If he beget a son that is a robber, a shedder of blood, and that doeth the like to any one H259 of these things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:3 - And she brought up one H259 of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:5 - Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another H259 of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:19 - Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come: both twain shall come forth out of one H259 land: and choose thou a place, choose it at the head of the way to the city.

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