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Lexicon :: Strong's H3709 - kap̄

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כַּף
Transliteration
kap̄
Pronunciation
kaf
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1022a

Strong’s Definitions

כַּף kaph, kaf; from H3721; the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power:—branch, foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 192x

The KJV translates Strong's H3709 in the following manner: hand (128x), spoon (24x), sole (19x), palm (5x), hollow (3x), handful (2x), apiece (1x), branches (1x), breadth (with H4096) (1x), clouds (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 192x
The KJV translates Strong's H3709 in the following manner: hand (128x), spoon (24x), sole (19x), palm (5x), hollow (3x), handful (2x), apiece (1x), branches (1x), breadth (with H4096) (1x), clouds (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

  1. palm, hand, sole, palm of the hand, hollow or flat of the hand

    1. palm, hollow or flat of the hand

    2. power

    3. sole (of the foot)

    4. hollow, objects, bending objects, bent objects

      1. of thigh-joint

      2. pan, vessel (as hollow)

      3. hollow (of sling)

      4. hand-shaped branches or fronds (of palm trees)

      5. handles (as bent)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כַּף kaph, kaf; from H3721; the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power:—branch, foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
STRONGS H3709: Abbreviations
כַּף 192 noun feminine 1 Kings 8:54 hollow, or flat of the hand, palm, sole of foot, pan (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic id., bdb049605 Assyrian kappu, hand, pan, kippatu, hollow; Arabic bdb049606 palm, hand) — absolute כ׳ Job 29:9 +, so read probably also Ezekiel 29:7b for MT כָּתֵף (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Sm Co, compare Ezekiel 29:7a); כָּ֑ף 2 Kings 11:12 +; more often construct כַּף Genesis 40:11 +; suffix כַּפִּי Judges 12:3, כַּפְּךָ Job 13:31, etc.; in Ezekiel 29:7 read כַּף Qr for כפך Kt (so Ew Hi Sm Co Da); dual כַּפַּיִס Isaiah 49:16 +; construct כַּפֵּי Exodus 29:24 (twice in verse) + 3 times; suffix כַּפַּי Genesis 20:5 +, כַּפָּיו Numbers 24:10 +, כַּפֵּיהֶס Isaiah 59:6 + 2 times, כַּפֵּימוֹ Job 27:23, etc.; plural כַּפּוֹת (especially of soles, and in metaphor senses) absolute Numbers 4:7 +; construct 2 Kings 9:35 +, suffix כַּפֹתָיו Exodus 25:29; Exodus 37:16; —
1.
a. of human beings, hollow or flat of hand, palm, (approximately + 116 times) 2 Kings 4:34 (twice in verse); נָתַן אֵת הַכּוס עַלכּכַּף פ׳ Genesis 40:11, 21 (E), set the cup upon the palm of Pharaoh (compare Genesis 40:11a בְּיָדִי פַּרְעֹה וְכוֹס), similarly Leviticus 8:27 (twice in verse) (P) +; עַל־כַּפּוֹ אֲשֶׁר הַשֶּׁמֶן Leviticus 14:16, 17, 18, 27, 28; as distinguished from wrist and arm, Deuteronomy 25:12; rarely with ידים (always כַּכּוֺת), ידיו כַּפּוֹת שְׁתֵּי1 Samuel 5:4 (of Dagon), הַיָּדַיִם כ׳ 2 Kings 9:35, compare Daniel 10:10; כַּף הַשְּׂמָאלִית Leviticus 14:15, 26; note especially קֶמַח מְלֹא כ׳ 1 Kings 17:12 a handful of meal (literally palmful), compare Ecclesiastes 4:6 (where distinguished from מלא חָפְנַיִם a double fistful; in both these passages of a very small quantity); compare מִן כַּפּוֹ וַיְמַלֵּא Leviticus 9:17 (reference to מְלֹא קֻמְצוֺ Leviticus 2:2; Leviticus 5:12; compare Leviticus 6:8). In Exodus 4:4 (JE), Proverbs 31:19; Ezekiel 21:16; Psalm 129:7, etc., the thought is that of grasping.
b. anthropomorph. of י׳ covering Moses over with his palm, עָלֶיך כַפִּי וְשַׂכֹּתִי Exodus 33:22 (J), and so figurative (with שׁית) Psalm 139:5; withdrawing )הֵסִירׅ his hand Exodus 33:23 (J); removing )הִרְהִּיק ׅ his afficting hand Job 13:21; אוֺר כִּסָּה עַל־כַּפַּיִס Job 36:32, i.e. he (God) hath filled his palms with light.
c. once of animals, עַל־כַּפָּיו הוֹלֵךְ Leviticus 11:27 going upon their palms, i.e. paws (cats, dogs, etc.).
d. phrases are: —
†(1) (הִכָּה כַּף = clap the hands, in applause 2 Kings 11:12 so תָּקַע כ׳ Psalm 47:2, מָחָא כ׳ Isaiah 55:12 (figurative of trees), Psalm 98:8 (figurative of rivers); but especially in scorn, contempt, etc., אֶת־כַּפָּיו סָפַק Numbers 24:10 (J), כַפֵּ֑ימוֹ עָלֵימוֺ יִשְׂפֹּק Job 27:23; so תָּקַע כַּף עלֿ Nahum 3:19, אֶל־ כַפִּי הִכָּה Ezekiel 22:13 (of י׳); absolute, הִכָּה בְכַפְּךָ Ezekiel 6:11 (as מחא יד Ezekiel 25:6), הִכָּה כַּף אֶלכַּֿף Ezekiel 21:19, אֶל־כַּפִּי כַפִּי אַכֶּה Ezekiel 21:22 (of י׳).
†(2) תָּפַשׂ בַּכַּף grasp, seize with the hand Ezekiel 29:7 compare Ezekiel 29:7 (on text see above)
†(3) of hand-grasp as pledge תָּקַעְתָּ כַּפֶּיךָ לַזָּר Proverbs 6:1 (if) thou hast smitten thy palms (given a double hand-grasp), for another (so De; || עָרַבְתָּ לְרֵעֶ֑ךָ); so absolute תקע כף Proverbs 17:18; Proverbs 22:26 (compare תקע ליד Job 17:3).
(4) often of hand spread out in prayer, as sign of longing to receive, with אֶל־ פָּרַשׂ Exodus 9:29, 33 (J), 1 Kings 8:38 = 2 Chronicles 6:29, etc. (see יד Psalm 143:6; Lamentations 1:17 and יָד 1d, above; also פרשׂ, נשׂא, שׁטח).
†(5) שׂים כַּף לְפֶה, in respectful silence, Job 29:9.
†(6) figurative נַפְשִׁי וָאָשִׂימָה בְכַפִּי Judges 12:3 = I have taken my life in my hand (i.e. hazarded it), so 1 Samuel 19:5; 1 Samuel 28:21; Job 13:14 and (without verb) Psalm 119:109.
†(7) נִקְיֹן כ׳ Genesis 20:5 cleanness of palms is figurative for purity of act, compare Psalm 26:6, also Job 9:30; Job 22:30; Psalm 24:4; Psalm 73:13; conversely, בְּכַפָּ֑י (לֹא)חָמָס Job 16:17; 1 Chronicles 12:18; Isaiah 59:6; Jonah 3:8, compare Isaiah 59:3 (so ידים Isaiah 1:15), Job 31:7; Psalm 7:4. — In many cases כַּף is not to be distinguished from יָד; so in phrase יְגִיעַ כ׳ toil of the hands Genesis 31:42; Haggai 1:11; Job 10:3; Psalm 128:2; כ׳ פֹּצַל Psalm 9:17, חֵפֶץ כ׳ Proverbs 31:13; תְּבוּנוֺת כ׳ Psalm 78:72, כ׳ פְּרִי Proverbs 31:16†; compare Micah 7:3.
†2. = power (i.e. grasp) of any one, נתן בכף Judges 6:13 = deliver into the power of, so Jeremiah 12:7, compare בּוֺא בכף Proverbs 6:3; usually הוֺשִׁיעַ, פָּדָה, הִצִּיל etc., with מִכַּף = out of the power of Judges 6:14; 1 Samuel 4:3; 2 Samuel 14:16; 2 Samuel 19:10 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 22:1 (twice in verse) = Psalm 18:1 (title), 2 Kings 16:7 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 20:6 = Isaiah 38:6; Micah 4:10; Jeremiah 15:21; 2 Chronicles 30:6; 32:11; Ezra 8:31; Psalm 71:4 (compare יָד 5g above).
†3. כַּף רַגְלָהּ, etc., = sole of foot, Genesis 8:9 (J), Joshua 3:13; Joshua 4:18 (both J E), 1 Kings 5:17; 2 Kings 19:24 = Isaiah 37:25; Deuteronomy 11:24; Deuteronomy 28:56, 65; Joshua 1:3 (D) Ezekiel 43:7; Malachi 3:21; קָדְקֳדוֺמִכַּף רַגְלוֺ וְעַד 2 Samuel 14:25; Job 2:7, compare Isaiah 1:6 (figurative); ר׳ מִדְרַךְ כ׳ Deuteronomy 2:5 treading-place for the sole of a foot; of the cherubim Ezekiel 1:7, of a calf, (in simile) Ezekiel 1:7., (according to MT; compare however Co).
4. of various hollow, bending or bent objects: —
†a. hollow (i.e. socket), of the thigh-joint, יָרֵךְ כ׳ Genesis 32:26 (twice in verse); Genesis 32:33 (twice in verse).
b. pan, vessel (as hollow), used in ritual, Exodus 25:29; Exodus 37:16; Numbers 5:7; Numbers 7:14 + 15 times Numbers 7; 1 Kings 7:50 2 Chronicles 4:22; 2 Kings 25:14 = Jeremiah 52:18, 19; 2 Chronicles 24:14.
†c. hollow of sling, 1 Samuel 25:29.
†d. תְּמָרִיס כַּפּוֹת Leviticus 23:40 —hand-shaped branches (or fronds) of palm-trees.
e. הַמַּנְעוּל כַּפּוֹת Songs 5:5 the (bent) handles of the bolt.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:9; 20:5; 20:5; 31:42; 32:26; 40:11; 40:11; 40:11; 40:21

Exodus

4:4; 9:29; 9:33; 25:29; 25:29; 29:24; 33:22; 33:23; 37:16; 37:16

Leviticus

2:2; 5:12; 6:8; 8:27; 9:17; 11:27; 14:15; 14:16; 14:17; 14:18; 14:26; 14:27; 14:28; 23:40

Numbers

4:7; 5:7; 7; 7:14; 24:10; 24:10

Deuteronomy

2:5; 11:24; 25:12; 28:56; 28:65

Joshua

1:3; 3:13; 4:18

Judges

6:13; 6:14; 12:3; 12:3

1 Samuel

4:3; 5:4; 19:5; 25:29; 28:21

2 Samuel

14:16; 14:25; 19:10; 22:1

1 Kings

5:17; 7:50; 8:38; 8:54; 17:12

2 Kings

4:34; 9:35; 9:35; 11:12; 11:12; 16:7; 19:24; 20:6; 25:14

1 Chronicles

12:18

2 Chronicles

4:22; 6:29; 24:14; 30:6; 32:11

Ezra

8:31

Job

2:7; 9:30; 10:3; 13:14; 13:21; 16:17; 17:3; 22:30; 27:23; 27:23; 29:9; 29:9; 31:7; 36:32

Psalms

7:4; 9:17; 18:1; 24:4; 26:6; 47:2; 71:4; 73:13; 78:72; 98:8; 119:109; 128:2; 129:7; 139:5; 143:6

Proverbs

6:1; 6:3; 17:18; 22:26; 31:13; 31:16; 31:19

Ecclesiastes

4:6

Song of Songs

5:5

Isaiah

1:6; 1:15; 37:25; 38:6; 49:16; 55:12; 59:3; 59:6; 59:6

Jeremiah

12:7; 15:21; 52:18; 52:19

Lamentations

1:17

Ezekiel

1:7; 1:7; 6:11; 21:16; 21:19; 21:22; 22:13; 25:6; 29:7; 29:7; 29:7; 29:7; 29:7; 43:7

Daniel

10:10

Jonah

3:8

Micah

4:10; 7:3

Nahum

3:19

Haggai

1:11

H3709

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3709 matches the Hebrew כַּף (kap̄),
which occurs 195 times in 180 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 4 (Job 11:13–Isa 49:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:13 - “If you prepare your heart,
you will stretch out your hands toward him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:14 - Why should I take my flesh in my teeth
and put my life in my hand?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:21 - withdraw your hand far from me,
and let not dread of you terrify me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:17 - although there is no violence in my hands,
and my prayer is pure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:30 - He delivers even the one who is not innocent,
who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:23 - It claps its hands at him
and hisses at him from its place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 - the princes refrained from talking
and laid their hand on their mouth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:7 - if my step has turned aside from the way
and my heart has gone after my eyes,
and if any spot has stuck to my hands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:32 - He covers his hands with the lightning
and commands it to strike the mark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:8 - Lay your hands on him;
remember the battle—you will not do it again!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:3

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 Box Psa 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:16 - The LORD has made himself known; he has executed judgment;
the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.[fn] Selah

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:1 - To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who addressed the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said:
I love you, O LORD, my strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 - He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
who does not lift up his soul to what is false
and does not swear deceitfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:6 - I wash my hands in innocence
and go around your altar, O LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:20 - If we had forgotten the name of our God
or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:1 - To the choirmaster. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
Clap your hands, all peoples!
Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 63:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:4 - So I will bless you as long as I live;
in your name I will lift up my hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:4 - Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13 - All in vain have I kept my heart clean
and washed my hands in innocence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:72

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:72 - With upright heart he shepherded them
and guided them with his skillful hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:6 - “I relieved your[fn] shoulder of the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 - my eye grows dim through sorrow.
Every day I call upon you, O LORD;
I spread out my hands to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:12 - On their hands they will bear you up,
lest you strike your foot against a stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 98:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:8 - Let the rivers clap their hands;
let the hills sing for joy together

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:48

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:48 - I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love,
and I will meditate on your statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:109

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:109 - I hold my life in my hand continually,
but I do not forget your law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 128:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:2 - You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands;
you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:7 - with which the reaper does not fill his hand
nor the binder of sheaves his arms,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:5 - You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:2 - Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,
and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:1 - My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor,
have given your pledge for a stranger,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 - then do this, my son, and save yourself,
for you have come into the hand of your neighbor:
go, hasten,[fn] and plead urgently with your neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:4 - A slack hand causes poverty,
but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:18 - One who lacks sense gives a pledge
and puts up security in the presence of his neighbor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:26 - Be not one of those who give pledges,
who put up security for debts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:13 - She seeks wool and flax,
and works with willing hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:16 - She considers a field and buys it;
with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:19 - She puts her hands to the distaff,
and her hands hold the spindle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:20 - She opens her hand to the poor
and reaches out her hands to the needy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:5 - I arose to open to my beloved,
and my hands dripped with myrrh,
my fingers with liquid myrrh,
on the handles of the bolt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 - From the sole of the foot even to the head,
there is no soundness in it,
but bruises and sores
and raw wounds;
they are not pressed out or bound up
or softened with oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:15 - When you spread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
your hands are full of blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - and the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
which is on the head of the rich valley,
will be like a first-ripe fig[fn] before the summer:
when someone sees it, he swallows it
as soon as it is in his hand.

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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 BoxIsa 36:6 - Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all the streams of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:16 - Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.

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