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Lexicon :: Strong's H5060 - nāḡaʿ

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נָגַע
Transliteration
nāḡaʿ
Pronunciation
naw-gah'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1293

Strong’s Definitions

נָגַע nâgaʻ, naw-gah'; a primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.):—beat, (× be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 150x

The KJV translates Strong's H5060 in the following manner: touch (92x), came (18x), reach (11x), bring (4x), near (4x), smite (4x), nigh (3x), plagued (3x), happeneth (2x), strike (2x), beaten (1x), cast (1x), reach up (1x), brought down (1x), join (1x), laid (1x), get up.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 150x
The KJV translates Strong's H5060 in the following manner: touch (92x), came (18x), reach (11x), bring (4x), near (4x), smite (4x), nigh (3x), plagued (3x), happeneth (2x), strike (2x), beaten (1x), cast (1x), reach up (1x), brought down (1x), join (1x), laid (1x), get up.

  1. to touch, reach, strike

    1. (Qal)

      1. to touch

      2. to strike

      3. to reach, extend to

      4. to be stricken

        1. stricken (participle)

    2. (Niphal) to be stricken, be defeated

    3. (Piel) to strike

    4. (Pual) to be stricken (by disease)

    5. (Hiphil) to cause to touch, reach, approach, arrive

      1. to cause to touch, apply

      2. to reach, extend, attain, arrive, come

      3. to approach (of time)

      4. to befall (of fate)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נָגַע nâgaʻ, naw-gah'; a primitive root; properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.):—beat, (× be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
STRONGS H5060: Abbreviations
נָגַע 150 verb touch, reach, strike (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic bdb061901 is agree with one (of food), produce effect; Aramaic נְגַע Ithpa. be struck (that is, with leprosy), compare Pi. below); —
Qal Perfect נ׳ Genesis 32:33 +; נָֽגְעָה Judges 20:41 +; 1st person plural suffix נְנַעֲנוּךָ Genesis 26:29; Imperfect יִגַּע Leviticus 5:3 +; וַיִּגַּע Genesis 32:26 +, etc.; Imperative גַּע Psalm 144:5 + 2 times; Infinitive construct נְגֹעַ, לִנְגּוֺעַ Genesis 20:6 + 3 times; גַּ֫עַת 2 Samuel 14:10; Ezekiel 17:10; suffix נָגְעֵךְ Ruth 2:9 etc.; Participle active נֹגֵעַ 1 Kings 19:5 +; נֹגְעִים Jeremiah 12:14; feminine נֹגַ֫עַת Numbers 19:22 + 2 times; plural נֹגְעֹת 1 Kings 6:27; passive נָגוּעַ Psalm 73:14; Isaiah 53:4; —
1.
a. touch, usually followed by בְּ Genesis 3:3 (J), Genesis 32:25; Genesis 32:33; Exodus 19:12 (twice in verse); Exodus 19:13 (all E), Exodus 29:37; Exodus 30:20 (P), Leviticus 5:2, 3 + 25 times Leviticus; Numbers 16:26 + 7 times Numbers (P) + Numbers 19:22 (no בְּ or object), Deuteronomy 14:8; Judges 6:21; 2 Samuel 23:7; 1 Kings 6:27 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 19:5, 7; 2 Kings 13:21; Esther 5:2; Daniel 8:5, 18; Lamentations 4:14; followed by אֶלֿ Haggai 2:12; Numbers 4:15; 1 Kings 6:27; Daniel 9:21, compare Hosea 4:2; followed by עַל־פֶּה Isaiah 6:7; עַלשָֿׂפָה Daniel 10:16; compare accusative Isaiah 52:11; absolute (no object expressed) Job 6:7; Lamentations 4:15.
b. of י׳ touching earth, mountains, etc., followed by בְּ Amos 9:5; Psalm 104:32; Psalm 144:5; figurative of י׳ touching the heart, followed by בְּ 1 Samuel 10:26.
2. nearly = strike, passive stricken, Psalm 73:14; Isaiah 53:4 || מֻכֶּה), of wind Job 1:19; Ezekiel 17:10; of divine chastisement 1 Samuel 6:9; Job 1:11; Job 19:21; followed by אֶל Job 2:5.
3. touch = harm, followed by. בְּ, Genesis 26:11 (J), Joshua 9:19; 2 Samuel 14:10; 1 Chronicles 16:22 || הָרֵעַ) = Psalm 105:15; Jeremiah 12:14; Zechariah 2:12 (twice in verse); followed by. אֶלֿ Genesis 20:6 (touch a woman), so Proverbs 6:29 (followed by בְּ); followed by. accusative Genesis 26:29 (J, suffix), so Ruth 2:9; see also Job 5:19 (subject רַע, followed by בְּ), Judges 20:34, 41 (both subject רָעָה, followed by עַלֿ).
4. reach, extend to, 2 Samuel 5:8, followed by בְּ (but corrupt see Dr HPS); in metaphor, followed by עַד, of vine Isaiah 16:8; Jeremiah 48:32; of sword Jeremiah 4:10, compare Jeremiah 4:18; of chastisement Micah 1:9, compare Job 4:5 (|| בּוֺא אֶלֿ); also (followed by אֶל) Jeremiah 51:9; = come, followed by אֶלֿ Jonah 3:6; arrive (of time), absolute Ezra 3:1; Nehemiah 7:73.
† Niph. Imperfect וַיִּנָֽגְעוּ Joshua 8:15 be stricken, defeated (in battle), i.e. feign to be so, but read probably וַיִֹנָּֽגְפוּ, see נגף Niph..
† Pi. Perfect suffix נִגְּעוֺ 2 Chronicles 26:20 strike (with leprosy, 2 accusative), subject י׳; so Imperfect וַיְנַגַּע 2 Kings 15:5; Genesis 12:17 (subject י׳; accusative of person + accusative of cognate meaning).
† Pu. Imperfect יְנֻגָּע֑וּ be sticken by diseases (?; compare Pi. and נֶגַע 2. 3. especially 2 Samuel 7:14) Psalm 73:5.
† Hiph. Perfect הִגִּיעַ Isaiah 25:12 + 6 times; 2nd person feminine singular הִגַּ֫עַתְּ Esther 4:14; 1st person singular suffix וְהִגַּעְתִּ֫יהוּ Ezekiel 13:14, etc.; Imperfect יַגִּיעַ Isaiah 8:8 + 3 times; וַיַּגַּע Isaiah 6:7; Jeremiah 1:9, etc.; Infinitive construct הַגִּיעַ Esther 2:12, 15; Participle מַגִּיעַ Genesis 28:12 +; feminine מַגַּ֫עַת 2 Chronicles 3:11; — cause to touch; reach, approach, arrive:
1. cause to touch, apply, Exodus 12:22) (J E; מִדָּם, אֶלֿ); cause to touch (compare עַד עָפָר, לָאָרֶץ), i.e. bring to ground, Isaiah 25:5, 12, compare Lamentations 2:2; Ezekiel 13:14 (followed by אֶלֿ), Exodus 4:25 (J; followed by לְרַגְלָיו); followed by עַל־פֶּה Isaiah 6:7; Jeremiah 1:9; followed by בְּ Isaiah 5:8.
2. intransitive reach, extend, Genesis 28:12 (followed by ָ  ה locative); followed by אֶלֿ Zechariah 14:5, followed by עַד Isaiah 8:8; compare תַּגּ׳ יָדוֺ דֵּי שֶׂה Leviticus 5:7 if his hand do not reach enough for a lamb (i.e. he be not able to furnish a lamb); followed by לְ Job 20:6 (hyperbole) 2 Chronicles 3:11 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 3:12; followed by עַד לְ 2 Chronicles 28:9; attain, followed by לְ Esther 4:14, arrive, come, followed by accusative of location Isaiah 30:4; Esther 4:3; Esther 8:17, followed by לְ (of time) Daniel 12:12, followed by אֶלֿ 1 Samuel 14:9, followed by עַדֿ Psalm 107:18, absolute Esther 6:14; followed by אֵצֶל Daniel 8:7.
3. approach, of time, absolute Ecclesiastes 12:1; Songs 2:12; Ezekiel 7:12 (|| בּוֺא); see also Esther 9:1 (followed by Infinitive), compare Esther 2:12, 15; Psalm 88:4 (followed by לְ).
4. of fate or lot, = befal, followed by אֶלֿ Esther 9:26; Ecclesiastes 8:14 (twice in verse); Psalm 32:6.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:3; 12:17; 20:6; 20:6; 26:11; 26:29; 26:29; 28:12; 28:12; 32:25; 32:26

Exodus

4:25; 12:22; 19:12; 19:13; 29:37; 30:20

Leviticus

5:2; 5:3; 5:3; 5:7

Numbers

4:15; 16:26; 19:22; 19:22

Deuteronomy

14:8

Joshua

8:15; 9:19

Judges

6:21; 20:34; 20:41; 20:41

Ruth

2:9; 2:9

1 Samuel

6:9; 10:26; 14:9

2 Samuel

5:8; 7:14; 14:10; 14:10; 23:7

1 Kings

6:27; 6:27; 6:27; 19:5; 19:5; 19:7

2 Kings

13:21; 15:5

1 Chronicles

16:22

2 Chronicles

3:11; 3:11; 3:12; 26:20; 28:9

Ezra

3:1

Nehemiah

7:73

Esther

2:12; 2:12; 2:15; 2:15; 4:3; 4:14; 4:14; 5:2; 6:14; 8:17; 9:1; 9:26

Job

1:11; 1:19; 2:5; 4:5; 5:19; 6:7; 19:21; 20:6

Psalms

32:6; 73:5; 73:14; 73:14; 88:4; 104:32; 105:15; 107:18; 144:5; 144:5

Proverbs

6:29

Ecclesiastes

8:14; 12:1

Song of Songs

2:12

Isaiah

5:8; 6:7; 6:7; 6:7; 8:8; 8:8; 16:8; 25:5; 25:12; 25:12; 30:4; 52:11; 53:4; 53:4

Jeremiah

1:9; 1:9; 4:10; 4:18; 12:14; 12:14; 48:32; 51:9

Lamentations

2:2; 4:14; 4:15

Ezekiel

7:12; 13:14; 13:14; 17:10; 17:10

Daniel

8:5; 8:7; 8:18; 9:21; 10:16; 12:12

Hosea

4:2

Amos

9:5

Jonah

3:6

Micah

1:9

Haggai

2:12

Zechariah

2:12; 14:5

H5060

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Strong's Number H5060 matches the Hebrew נָגַע (nāḡaʿ),
which occurs 150 times in 142 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Num 31:19–Psa 107:18)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:19 - Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:8 - And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:15 - And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:19 - But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - And there came against Gibeah 10,000 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:41 - Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:9 - Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:9 - and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:26 - Saul also went to his home at Gibeah, and with him went men of valor whose hearts God had touched.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:9 - If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:8 - And David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack ‘the lame and the blind,’ who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore it is said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:10 - The king said, “If anyone says anything to you, bring him to me, and he shall never touch you again.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 23:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:7 - but the man who touches them
arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear,
and they are utterly consumed with fire.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:27 - He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house. And the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one touched the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; their other wings touched each other in the middle of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:5 - And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, “Arise and eat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 19:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:7 - And the angel of the LORD came again a second time and touched him and said, “Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:21 - And as a man was being buried, behold, a marauding band was seen and the man was thrown into the grave of Elisha, and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:5 - And the LORD touched the king, so that he was a leper[fn] to the day of his death, and he lived in a separate house.[fn] And Jotham the king’s son was over the household, governing the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:22 - saying, “Touch not my anointed ones,
do my prophets no harm!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:11 - The wings of the cherubim together extended twenty cubits: one wing of the one, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and its other wing, of five cubits, touched the wing of the other cherub;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 3:12 - and of this cherub, one wing, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house, and the other wing, also of five cubits, was joined to the wing of the first cherub.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 26:20 - And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and behold, he was leprous in his forehead! And they rushed him out quickly, and he himself hurried to go out, because the LORD had struck him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:9 - But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded, and he went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the LORD, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand, but you have killed them in a rage that has reached up to heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 3:1 - When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:73 - So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel, lived in their towns. And when the seventh month had come, the people of Israel were in their towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 - Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 - When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:2 - And when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she won favor in his sight, and he held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:14 - While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:17 - And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1 - Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:26 - Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:11 - But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 1:19 - and behold, a great wind came across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young people, and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 2:5 - But stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:5 - But now it has come to you, and you are impatient;
it touches you, and you are dismayed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:19 - He will deliver you from six troubles;
in seven no evil[fn] shall touch you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:7 - My appetite refuses to touch them;
they are as food that is loathsome to me.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:21 - Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
for the hand of God has touched me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:6 - Though his height mount up to the heavens,
and his head reach to the clouds,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 32:6 - Therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
they shall not reach him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5 - They are not in trouble as others are;
they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:14 - For all the day long I have been stricken
and rebuked every morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 88:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:3 - For my soul is full of troubles,
and my life draws near to Sheol.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:32 - who looks on the earth and it trembles,
who touches the mountains and they smoke!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:15 - saying, “Touch not my anointed ones,
do my prophets no harm!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:18 - they loathed any kind of food,
and they drew near to the gates of death.

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