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Lexicon :: Strong's H3426 - yēš

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יֵשׁ
Transliteration
yēš
Pronunciation
yaysh
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Part of Speech
substantive
Root Word (Etymology)
Perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist
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TWOT Reference: 921

Strong’s Definitions

יֵשׁ yêsh, yaysh; perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (H1961); there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection):—(there) are, (he, it, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should) be, thou do, had, hast, (which) hath, (I, shalt, that) have, (he, it, there) is, substance, it (there) was, (there) were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 133x

The KJV translates Strong's H3426 in the following manner: is (54x), be (28x), have (22x), there (13x), miscellaneous (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 133x
The KJV translates Strong's H3426 in the following manner: is (54x), be (28x), have (22x), there (13x), miscellaneous (16x).

  1. being, existence, substance, there is or are

    1. substance

    2. existence

    3. there is or are

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יֵשׁ yêsh, yaysh; perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (H1961); there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection):—(there) are, (he, it, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should) be, thou do, had, hast, (which) hath, (I, shalt, that) have, (he, it, there) is, substance, it (there) was, (there) were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest.
STRONGS H3426: Abbreviations
יֵשׁ 187 substantive being, substance, existence (on etymology see 2) — יֵשׁ Genesis 18:24 etc.; יֶשֿׁ Genesis 31:29 + often; הֲיֵשׁ Genesis 24:23 + 18 times (so אִשׁ 2 Samuel 14:19, הַאִשׁ Micah 6:10), with suffix יֶשְׁךָ Genesis 24:42 + 2 times; יֶשְׁכֶם Genesis 24:49; הֲיִשְׁכֶם Deuteronomy 13:4; יֶשְׁנוֺ (Ol§ 97 b Sta§ 370 b) Deuteronomy 29:14; 1 Samuel 14:39 (+ 1 Samuel 14:41 Greek Version of the LXX We Dr), 1 Samuel 23:23; Esther 3:8; —
1. substance, only Proverbs 8:21 לְהַנְחִיל אֹהֲבַי יֵשׁ to cause them that love me to inherit substance (so Sir 42:3).
2. elsewhere (properly as a substantive in the stative construct), it asserts existence, and so corresponds to the verb substantive, is (are, was, were, will be), literally the being, presence of... (so Biblical Aramaic H383 אִתַי; Aramaic איתא, אית, bdb044101 [whence bdb044102 (self-) existent, bdb044103 essence, substance], with לָא contracted לַיִת, לֵית, bdb044104; Mandean עת, עית, לאיית; Arabic [with irregular bdb044105] bdb044106 (inflected as a verb, bdb044107, bdb044108, etc.; WAG i. § 182, ii. § 42) is not (bdb044109 is known only in two proverbial sayings, as a secondary form FlKl. Schr. i. 146 f.); Assyrian išû, be, have DlHWB 310; with affix 1st person singular la-a i-ša-a-ku, I have not, TPi. 57 f.. On this word, see especially NöM. § 213, who exemplifies its different constructions in Semitic, and shews how it tends to pass into a verb; —
(1) in Biblical Aramaic, Syriac, Babylonian Targum, with possessive suffix;
(2) in later Palestinian dialects, Jerusalem Targum, Jerusalem Talmud, sometimes also in Babylonian Targum and Syriac, with independent personal pronoun (as לית אנא, לית הוא);
(3) in Mandean, Babylonian Talmud, sometimes in Syriac and Arabic, and in Hebrew יֶשְׁנוֺ, with object. (verbal) suffix;
(4) in Arabic, as a true verb. In Ethiopic bdb044110 literally therein, German es gibt, is similar in use (DiGr. § 167, l), though not of course in origin. In Hebrew the corresponding negative is אַיִן, which see, the construction of which is quite similar) — is, are, was, were, etc., not, however, as a mere copula, but implying existence with emphasis (hence in English to be often represented by the substantive verb in italics):
a. with a predicate following, Genesis 28:16 במקום הזה אכן ישׁ י׳ surely Yahweh is (emphatic) in this place! Genesis 44:26 אִם יֵשׁ אָחִינוּ אִתְּכֶם; Exodus 17:7 הֲיֵשׁ יהוה בְּקִרְבֵּנוּ אִם אַיִן, Numbers 22:29 לו ישׁ חרב בידי Oh, that there were a sword in my hand! Deuteronomy 13:4 הֲיִשְׁכֶם אֹהֲבִים whether you do love, Deuteronomy 29:17 פן ישׁ בכם אישׁ, Deuteronomy 29:18; 1 Samuel 9:11f. and they said, Is the seer here? and they said יֵשׁ He is, 1 Samuel 20:8; 1 Samuel 23:23; Jeremiah 27:18. Alone, in answer to a question (asked with יֵשׁ), He (it) is: † 1 Samuel 9:12; 2 Kings 10:15; Jeremiah 37:17. But Jeremiah 23:26 (where ישׁ has no substantive or suffix) text must be corrupt: compare Gie.
b. absolutely, there is (es. gibt, il y a), Genesis 18:24 אולי ישׁ חמשׁים צדיקים בעיר perhaps there are fifty righteous in the city, Genesis 24:23 הישׁ בית אביך מקום לנו ללון, Genesis 42:1 כי ישׁ שׁבר במצ׳ that there was corn in Egypt, Judges 4:20 הישׁ פה אישׁ, 2 Samuel 9:1; 2 Kings 5:8 he shall know that there is (emphatic) a prophet in Israel, Ruth 3:12 there is a kinsman nearer than I, Psalm 58:12 [Psalm 58:11]surely there are gods judging on the earth: so in aphorisms, asserting the existence of a particular character, quality, etc., Proverbs 11:24 ישׁ מפזר ונוסף עוד, Proverbs 12:18; Proverbs 13:7, 23; Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 16:25; Proverbs 18:24; Proverbs 20:15; Ecclesiastes 2:21; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 5:12; Ecclesiastes 6:1, 11; Ecclesiastes 7:15 (twice in verse); Ecclesiastes 8:14 (3 times in verse); Ecclesiastes 10:5. In questions, or protestations, יֵשׁ often implies a doubt whether what is asked about is to be found or exists: 1 Kings 18:10; Jeremiah 5:1 and see אם ישׁ אישׁ if there is (emphatic) a man doing justice, etc. (compare Psalm 14:2), Psalm 14:22; Isaiah 44:8 הישׁ אלהים is there a god beside me? Psalm 7:4 אם ישׁ עול בכפי if there is iniquity in my hands! Psalm 73:11 is there knowledge in the Most High? Job 5:1; Job 6:30; Lamentations 1:2.
c. special phrases: —
(a) after אִם and a participle, where an abiding intention is to be emphasized, Genesis 24:42 אםיֿשׁךנֿא מצליח דרכי if thou art (really), prospering my way, Genesis 24:49; Genesis 43:4; Judges 6:36 (compare II. אין 2 b).
(b) יֵשׁ לְ = has (had), especially with pronouns יֵשׁ לִי, יֵשׁ לְךָ; etc., Genesis 33:9 יֶשׁלִֿי רָב I have plenty, Genesis 33:11; Genesis 43:7 הישׁ לכם אח, Genesis 44:20 ישׁ לנו אב זקן, 1 Samuel 17:40 that they may know כי ישׁ אלהים לישׂראל that Israel has (emphatic) a god, 2 Kings 4:2 מַהיֶּֿשׁלָֿכְי what hast thou ? Job 14:7 for a tree has (emphatic) hope (compare Ruth 1:12), Ruth 25:3; Ruth 28:1; Ruth 38:28 ׃הישׁ למטר אב Genesis 39:5 (twice in verse); Genesis 39:8, * F f כל אשׁר יֶשׁלֿו all that had (Genesis 39:4 without אשׁר, probably error).
(c) with infinitive and לְ, is it possible to... ? 2 Kings 4:13; הישׁ לדברלֿך can-1speak for thee to the king? 2 Chronicles 25:9; so אִשׁ לְ 2 Samuel 14:19 (compare אֵין לְ, below II. אַיִן 5).
(d)... יֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר (if) it was that... Numbers 9:20, 21; there were some who... (with participle) Nehemiah 5:2, 3, 4 (compare Syriac bdb044201 for ὃ μὲν... ὃ δὲ... Matthew 13:8; bdb044202 PS172). (e) יֶשׁלְֿאֵל יָדִי Genesis 31:29 and elsewhere; see II. אֵל 7.
(f) 2 Kings 10:15 וָיֵשׁ and (if) it be... (compare וָלֹא 2 Kings 5:17; 2 Samuel 13:26); so Judges 6:13 אִתָּנוּ וְיֵשׁ י׳.
(g) pleonastic אֵין יֵשׁ Psalm 135:17.
(h) לֹא יֵשׁ Job 9:33 (compare bdb044203, bdb044204: but Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Me and others לֻא). — As a rule, יֵשׁ precedes its substantive (from which, however, like אין, it may be separated: Genesis 24:23; Genesis 43:7 הֲיֵשׁ לָכֶם אָח, Genesis 44:19, 20; 1 Samuel 20:8 etc.); but occasionally, for greater emphasis, this is prefixed: 1 Samuel 21:5 כי אם לחם קדשׁ ישׁ but holy bread there is! Isaiah 43:8 the blind people, ועינים ישׁ though it has eyes, Judges 19:19 לחם ויין ישׁ לי (compare אַיִן 2 c).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H383.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

18:24; 18:24; 24:23; 24:23; 24:23; 24:42; 24:42; 24:49; 24:49; 28:16; 31:29; 31:29; 33:9; 33:11; 39:4; 39:5; 39:8; 42:1; 43:4; 43:7; 43:7; 44:19; 44:20; 44:20; 44:26

Exodus

17:7

Numbers

9:20; 9:21; 22:29

Deuteronomy

13:4; 13:4; 29:14; 29:17; 29:18

Judges

4:20; 6:13; 6:36; 19:19

Ruth

1:12; 3:12

1 Samuel

9:11; 9:12; 14:39; 14:41; 17:40; 20:8; 20:8; 21:5; 23:23; 23:23

2 Samuel

9:1; 13:26; 14:19; 14:19

1 Kings

18:10

2 Kings

4:2; 4:13; 5:8; 5:17; 10:15; 10:15

2 Chronicles

25:9

Nehemiah

5:2; 5:3; 5:4

Esther

3:8

Job

5:1; 6:30; 9:33; 14:7

Psalms

7:4; 14:2; 58:11; 73:11; 135:17

Proverbs

8:21; 11:24; 12:18; 13:7; 13:23; 14:12; 16:25; 18:24; 20:15

Ecclesiastes

2:21; 4:8; 5:12; 6:1; 6:11; 7:15; 8:14; 10:5

Isaiah

43:8; 44:8

Jeremiah

5:1; 23:26; 27:18; 37:17

Lamentations

1:2

Micah

6:10

Matthew

13:8

H3426

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Strong's Number H3426 matches the Hebrew יֵשׁ (yēš),
which occurs 138 times in 129 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (2Ki 3:12–Pro 24:14)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:12 - And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the LORD is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:2 - And Elisha said to her, “What shall I do for you? Tell me; what have you in the house?” And she said, “Your servant has nothing in the house except a jar of oil.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:13 - And he said to him, “Say now to her, ‘See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?’” She answered, “I dwell among my own people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:8 - But when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come now to me, that he may know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:15 - but King Joram had returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds that the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) So Jehu said, “If this is your decision, then let no one slip out of the city to go and tell the news in Jezreel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:15 - And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said,[fn] “If it is, give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:23 - Then Jehu went into the house of Baal with Jehonadab the son of Rechab, and he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that there is no servant of the LORD here among you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:3 - Moreover, in addition to all that I have provided for the holy house, I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, and because of my devotion to the house of my God I give it to the house of my God:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:7 - But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:9 - For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless[fn] toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:8 - But go, act, be strong for the battle. Why should you suppose that God will cast you down before the enemy? For God has power to help or to cast down.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 25:9 - And Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do about the hundred talents that I have given to the army of Israel?” The man of God answered, “The LORD is able to give you much more than this.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:44 - All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:2 - For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:3 - There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:4 - And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:5 - Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8 - Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:1 - “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:6 - Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,
or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:30 - Is there any injustice on my tongue?
Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 9:33 - There is no[fn] arbiter between us,
who might lay his hand on us both.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:18 - And you will feel secure, because there is hope;
you will look around and take your rest in security.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:7 - “For there is hope for a tree,
if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots will not cease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:4 - I also could speak as you do,
if you were in my place;
I could join words together against you
and shake my head at you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 25:3 - Is there any number to his armies?
Upon whom does his light not arise?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:1 - “Surely there is a mine for silver,
and a place for gold that they refine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:23 - If there be for him an angel,
a mediator, one of the thousand,
to declare to man what is right for him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:32 - If you have any words, answer me;
speak, for I desire to justify you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:28 - “Has the rain a father,
or who has begotten the drops of dew?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:3 - O LORD my God, if I have done this,
if there is wrong in my hands,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 14:2 - The LORD looks down from heaven on the children of man,
to see if there are any who understand,[fn]
who seek after God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 53:2 - God looks down from heaven
on the children of man
to see if there are any who understand,[fn]
who seek after God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:11 - Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous;
surely there is a God who judges on earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:11 - And they say, “How can God know?
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

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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 BoxPro 3:28 - Do not say to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,
tomorrow I will give it”—when you have it with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:21 - granting an inheritance to those who love me,
and filling their treasuries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 11:24 - One gives freely, yet grows all the richer;
another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 12:18 - There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,
but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:7 - One pretends to be rich,[fn] yet has nothing;
another pretends to be poor,[fn] yet has great wealth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:23 - The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food,
but it is swept away through injustice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:12 - There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 16:25 - There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 18:24 - A man of many companions may come to ruin,
but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 19:18 - Discipline your son, for there is hope;
do not set your heart on putting him to death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:15 - There is gold and abundance of costly stones,
but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:18 - Surely there is a future,
and your hope will not be cut off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:14 - Know that wisdom is such to your soul;
if you find it, there will be a future,
and your hope will not be cut off.

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