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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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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 thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands H3709 toward him;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:14 - Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? H3709

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:21 - Withdraw thine hand H3709 far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:17 - Not for any injustice in mine hands: H3709 also my prayer is pure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 22:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 22:30 - He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. H3709

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 27:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 27:23 - Men shall clap their hands H3709 at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:9 - The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand H3709 on their mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:7 - If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands; H3709

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 36:32 - With clouds H3709 he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh betwixt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:8 - Lay thine hand H3709 upon him, remember the battle, do no more.

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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 be iniquity in my hands; H3709

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:16 - The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. H3709 Higgaion. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:1 - [[To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand H3709 of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,]] I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 24:4 - He that hath clean hands, H3709 and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 26:6 - I will wash mine hands H3709 in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:20 - If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands H3709 to a strange god;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 47:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:1 - [[To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.]] O clap your hands, H3709 all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 63:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:4 - Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands H3709 in thy name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 71:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 71:4 - Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand H3709 of the unrighteous and cruel man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:13 - Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands H3709 in innocency.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:72

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:72 - So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands. H3709

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:6 - I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands H3709 were delivered from the pots.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:9 - Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands H3709 unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 91:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 91:12 - They shall bear thee up in their hands, H3709 lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 98:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 98:8 - Let the floods clap their hands: H3709 let the hills be joyful together

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:48

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:48 - My hands H3709 also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:109

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:109 - My soul is continually in my hand: H3709 yet do I not forget thy law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 128:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 128:2 - For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: H3709 happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 129:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 129:7 - Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; H3709 nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 139:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 139:5 - Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand H3709 upon me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 141:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 141:2 - Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands H3709 as the evening sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:1 - My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand H3709 with a stranger,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:3 - Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand H3709 of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 10:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 10:4 - He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: H3709 but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:18 - A man void of understanding striketh hands, H3709 and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:26 - Be not thou one of them that strike hands, H3709 or of them that are sureties for debts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:13 - She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. H3709

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:16 - She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands H3709 she planteth a vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:19 - She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands H3709 hold the distaff.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:20 - She stretcheth out her hand H3709 to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 4:6 - Better is an handful H3709 with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 5:5 - I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles H3709 of the lock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:6 - From the sole H3709 of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:15 - And when ye spread forth your hands, H3709 I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand H3709 he eateth it up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:15 - He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands H3709 from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:6 - Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, H3709 and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:25 - I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole H3709 of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:6 - And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand H3709 of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:16 - Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; H3709 thy walls are continually before me.

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