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Lexicon :: Strong's H6256 - ʿēṯ

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עֵת
Transliteration
ʿēṯ
Pronunciation
ayth
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1650b

Strong’s Definitions

עֵת ʻêth, ayth; from H5703; time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.:— after, (al-) ways, × certain, continually, evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 296x

The KJV translates Strong's H6256 in the following manner: time (257x), season (16x), when (7x), always (4x), eveningtide (with H6153) (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 296x
The KJV translates Strong's H6256 in the following manner: time (257x), season (16x), when (7x), always (4x), eveningtide (with H6153) (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

  1. time

    1. time (of an event)

    2. time (usual)

    3. experiences, fortunes

    4. occurrence, occasion

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵת ʻêth, ayth; from H5703; time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.:— after, (al-) ways, × certain, continually, evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.
STRONGS H6256: Abbreviations
עֵת 297 noun feminineAmos 5:13 and (seldom, mostly late) masculineEzra 10:14 time (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician עת; Assyrian inu, ittu, time; Talmud עַנְתָּא; clearly from a √ ענה, but doubtful whether I. ע׳); — absolute ע׳ Hosea 10:12 +, construct ע׳ Genesis 24:12 + עֶתֿ Leviticus 15:25 + 5 times; suffix עִתּוֺ Hosea 2:11 +, etc.; plural, late, עִתִּים 1 Chronicles 12:32 +, suffix עִתֶּיךָ, Isaiah 33:6; עִתּוֺת Psalm 9:10; Psalm 10:1, suffix עִתֹּתָ֑י Psalm 31:16; — ע׳ only twice P, once H; —
1. time of an event, etc.:
a. usually (213 times) with preposition: with בְּ (142 times), especially הַהִוא בָּע׳ Genesis 21:22 (E) in that time, Genesis 38:1 (J), Numbers 22:4 (E), Deuteronomy 1:9 + 14 times Deuteronomy; הַהִיא בָּע׳ Joshua 5:2; Amos 5:13; Daniel 12:1 (twice in verse). + (69 times, not in P); הַזּאֹת בָּע׳ Esther 4:14, בָּעִתִּים הָהֵם 2 Chronicles 15:5; Daniel 11:14; בְּכָלעֵֿת at all times Exodus 18:22, 26 (E), Leviticus 16:2 (P) Psalm 34:2 +; = continually Proverbs 8:30, בְּכָלעֵֿת אֲשֶׁר Esther 5:13 as long as I see Mordecai; with לְ (31 times; compare ל 6 above), 2 Samuel 11:1 + at the time, but Ezekiel 12:27 for distant times, compare לְעֵת כָּזֹאת Esther 4:14, etc.; with כְּ (21 times; compare כ 1a above), הַזּאֹת מָחָר כָּע׳ Joshua 11:6 (JE) tomorrow about this time, usually מָחָר כָּע׳ (KöSynt. 401 o) Exodus 9:18 (J), 1 Samuel 9:16 (compare Dr), 1 Samuel 20:12; 1 Kings 19:2; 1 Kings 20:6; 2 Kings 7:1, 18; 2 Kings 10:6†; כָּעֵת חַיָה; † כָּעֵת הָרִאשׁוֺן Isaiah 8:23 at the former time; כָּעֵת alone Numbers 23:23 (JE) at this time = now (probably, compare Di), Judges 13:23; Judges 21:22†, etc.; with מִן (8 times), מִן הָעֵת הַהִא Nehemiah 13:21, etc.; with עַד (12 times), הַהִיא עַדהָֿע׳ Nehemiah 6:1 up to that time, מֵעֵת עַדעֵֿת Ezekiel 4:10, 11 etc. (5 times Daniel); with אלֿ, מֵעֵת אֶלעֵֿת 1 Chronicles 9:25.
b. often construct defined by noun following: בְּעֵת צָהֳרָ֑יִם Jeremiah 20:16, לְעֵת (הָ)עֶרֶב 2 Samuel 11:12; Genesis 8:11; Genesis 24:11 (both J), Isaiah 17:14; Zechariah 14:7; עַדעֵֿת הָעָ֑רֶב Joshua 8:29 (JE), כְּעֵת מִנְחַת עֶרֶב Daniel 9:21, redundantly לְעֶתיֿוֺם בְּיוֺם 1 Chronicles 12:22, (ה)קָצִיר ע׳ Jeremiah 50:16; Jeremiah 51:33, הַוָּמִיר ע׳ Songs 2:12, וִקְנָה ע׳ 1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 15:23; Psalm 71:9, אַפְּךָ בְּע׳ Jeremiah 18:23 = פָּנֶיךָ לְע׳ Psalm 21:10 (of anger), לְעִתּוֺת בַּצָּרָה Psalm 9:10; Psalm 10:1 at time destitution (see בַּצָּרָה), etc.
c. followed by infinitive בּוֺא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ לְע׳ Joshua 10:27 (JE), 2 Chronicles 18:34, קָרְאָם בְּע׳ Jeremiah 11:14a (read בְּעֵת also Jeremiah 11:14b, Gie), etc.
d. followed by clause with finite verb (in poetry or late) Deuteronomy 32:35; Job 6:17; 2 Chronicles 20:22; 24:11; 29:27 + (compare 2c).
2.
a. = usual time: צֵאת לְע׳ 2 Samuel 11:1 at time of kings' going forth = 1 Chronicles 20:1; בְּעֵת יַחֵם Genesis 31:10; עֵת לֶדֶת Job 39:1, 2.
b. proper, suitable time: rain בְּעִתּוֺ Deuteronomy 11:14 Jeremiah 5:24 +, compare Leviticus 26:4 (H), also Psalm 1:3; Psalm 104:27; Psalm 145:15; Proverbs 15:23; Isaiah 60:22; Ecclesiastes 3:11 עֵת מִלְחָמָה Ecclesiastes 3:8; שָׁלוֺם ע׳ Ecclesiastes 3:8; followed by infinitive Hosea 10:12, הַעֵת לָקַחַת 2 Kings 5:26 is it a time to take money? Haggai 1:4, עֶתבֵּֿית לְהִבָּנוֺת י׳ Haggai 1:2 (Haggai 1:2a read עַתָּ בָּא Hi We Now and others); עֵת לַעֲשׂוֺת Psalm 119:126, compare Ecclesiastes 3:2-8 (26 times); absolute כִּי עֵת Hosea 13:13 (Hi We and others; GuKau gives עַתָּ; > Now כָּעֵת); absolute with negative Job 22:16; Ecclesiastes 7:17; hence (late) יוֺדְעֵי בִינָה לָעִתִּים 1 Chronicles 12:32, יִדְעֵי הָעִתִּים Esther 1:13 i.e. astrologers, etc.
c. appointed time, בְּעֵת תֵּת וגו׳ 1 Samuel 18:19 at the appointed time of giving, Ezekiel 7:7, 12; Isaiah 13:22, פְּקֻדָּתָם ע׳ Jeremiah 8:12; Jeremiah 10:15 = Jeremiah 51:18; Jeremiah 46:21; Jeremiah 50:27 compare (with finite verb) Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 49:8; Jeremiah 50:31, אַרְצוֺ ע׳ Jeremiah 27:7, גּוֺיִם ע׳ Ezekiel 30:3,לְעִתִּים מְזֻמָּנִים Ezra 10:14; Nehemiah 10:35 compareNehemiah 13:31; מוֺעֵד עַדעֿ׳ 2 Samuel 24:15; Psalm 103:14 (|| מוֺעֵד), etc.; compare וּמִשְׁפָּט עֵת Ecclesiastes 8:5, 6 (for time of judgment),עִתּוֺ Ecclesiastes 9:12; especially לְעֵת קֵץ Daniel 8:7; compare Daniel 11:35, 40; Daniel 12:4, 9, עֲוֺן קֵץ כְּע׳ Ezekiel 21:30; Ezekiel 21:34; compare Ezekiel 35:5; לְקֵץ הָעִתִּים Daniel 11:13.
d. as uncertain עֵת וָפֶגַע Ecclesiastes 9:11.
3. = experiences, fortunes, plural אֱמוּנַת עִתֶּיךָ Isaiah 33:6; Psalm 31:16; הָעִתִּים אֲשֶׁר עָֽבְרוּ עָלָיו 1 Chronicles 29:30
† 4. occurrence, occasions (= פַּעַם), רַבּוֺת עִתִּים Nehemiah 9:28 great numbers of times (= very often).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:11; 21:22; 24:11; 24:12; 31:10; 38:1

Exodus

9:18; 18:22; 18:26

Leviticus

15:25; 16:2; 26:4

Numbers

22:4; 23:23

Deuteronomy

1:9; 11:14; 32:35

Joshua

5:2; 8:29; 10:27; 11:6

Judges

13:23; 21:22

1 Samuel

9:16; 18:19; 20:12

2 Samuel

11:1; 11:1; 11:12; 24:15

1 Kings

11:4; 15:23; 19:2; 20:6

2 Kings

5:26; 7:1; 7:18; 10:6

1 Chronicles

9:25; 12:22; 12:32; 12:32; 20:1; 29:30

2 Chronicles

15:5; 18:34; 20:22; 24:11; 29:27

Ezra

10:14; 10:14

Nehemiah

6:1; 9:28; 10:35; 13:21

Esther

1:13; 4:14; 4:14; 5:13

Job

6:17; 22:16; 39:1; 39:2

Psalms

1:3; 9:10; 9:10; 10:1; 10:1; 21:10; 31:16; 31:16; 34:2; 71:9; 103:14; 104:27; 119:126; 145:15

Proverbs

8:30; 15:23

Ecclesiastes

3:2; 3:3; 3:4; 3:5; 3:6; 3:7; 3:8; 3:8; 3:8; 3:11; 7:17; 8:5; 8:6; 9:11; 9:12

Song of Songs

2:12

Isaiah

13:22; 17:14; 33:6; 33:6; 60:22

Jeremiah

5:24; 6:15; 8:12; 10:15; 11:14; 11:14; 18:23; 20:16; 27:7; 46:21; 49:8; 50:16; 50:27; 50:31; 51:18; 51:33

Ezekiel

4:10; 4:11; 7:7; 7:12; 12:27; 21:30; 30:3; 35:5

Daniel

8:7; 9:21; 11:13; 11:14; 11:35; 11:40; 12:1; 12:4; 12:9

Hosea

2:11; 10:12; 10:12; 13:13

Amos

5:13; 5:13

Haggai

1:2; 1:2; 1:4

Zechariah

14:7

H6256

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Strong's Number H6256 matches the Hebrew עֵת (ʿēṯ),
which occurs 296 times in 258 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 6 (Gen 8:11–Jdg 21:14)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:11 - And the dove returned to him in the evening, and had a leaf of olive, a sprig in her mouth; and Noe knew that the water had ceased from off the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - And he said, [fn] I will return and come to thee according to this period seasonably, and Sarrha thy wife shall have a son; and Sarrha heard at the door of the tent, being behind him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:14 - Shall anything be impossible with the Lord? At this time I will return to thee seasonably, and Sarrha shall have a son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:22 - And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech spoke, and Ochozath [fn]his friend, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, to Abraam, saying, God is with thee in all things, whatsoever thou mayest do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - And he [fn]rested his camels without the city by the well of water towards evening, when damsels go forth to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:7 - And Jacob said, It is yet high day, it is not yet time that the flocks be gathered together; water ye the flocks, and depart and feed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I beheld with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:1 - And it came to pass at that time that Judas went down from his brethren, and came as far as to a certain man of Odollam, whose name was Iras.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:27 - And it came to pass when she was in labour, that she also had twins in her womb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:18 - Behold, to-morrow at this hour I will rain a very great hail, such as has not been in Egypt, from the time it was created until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22 - And they shall judge the people at all times, and the too burdensome matter they shall bring to thee, but they shall judge the smaller cases; so they shall relieve thee and help thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:26 - And they judged the people at all times; and every too burdensome matter they brought to Moses, but every light matter they judged themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:25 - And if a woman have an issue of blood many days, not in the time of her separation; if the blood should also flow after her separation, all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:2 - And the Lord said to Moses, Speak to Aaron thy brother, and let him not come in at all times into the holy place within the veil before the propitiatory, which is upon the ark of the testimony, and he shall not die; for I will appear in a cloud on the propitiatory.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:4 - then will I give you the rain in its season, and the land shall produce its fruits, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - And Moab said to the elders of Madiam, Now shall this assembly lick up all that are round about us, as a calf would lick up the green herbs of the field:—and Balac son of Sepphor was king of Moab at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:23 - For there is no divination [fn]in Jacob, nor enchantment [fn]in Israel; in season it shall be told to Jacob and Israel [fn]what God shall perform.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:9 - And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 - And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear causes between your brethren, and judge rightly between a man and his brother, and the [fn]stranger that is with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:18 - And I charged upon you at that time all the commands which ye shall perform.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:34 - And we took possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city in succession, and their wives, and their children; we left no living prey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:4 - And we mastered all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; sixty cities, all the country round about Argob, belonging to king Og in Basan:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:8 - And we took at that time the land out of the hands of the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, extending from the brook of Arnon even unto Aermon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:12 - And we inherited that land at that time from Aroer, which is by the border of the torrent Arnon, and half the mount of Galaad; and I gave his cities to Ruben and to Gad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 - And I charged you at that time, saying, The Lord your God has given you this land by lot; arm yourselves, every one that is powerful, and go before your brethren the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:21 - And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all things, which the Lord our God did to these two kings: so shall the Lord our God do to all the kingdoms against which thou crossest over thither.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:23 - And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:14 - And the Lord commanded me at that time, to teach you ordinances and judgments, that ye should do them on the land, into which ye go to inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:5 - And I stood between the Lord and you at that time to report to you the words of the Lord, (because ye were afraid before the fire, and ye went not up to the mountain,) saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:20 - And he was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:1 - At that time the Lord said to me, Hew for thyself two stone tables as the first, and come up to me into the mountain, and thou shalt make for thyself an ark of wood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:8 - At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand near before the Lord, to minister and bless in his name to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:14 - then he shall give to thy land the early and latter rain in its season, and thou shalt bring in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - May the Lord open to thee his good treasure, the heaven, to give rain to thy land in season: may he bless all the works of thy hands: so shalt thou lend to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:35 - In the day of vengeance [fn] I will recompense, whensoever their foot shall be tripped up; for the day of their destruction is near to them, and the judgments at hand are close upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - And about this time the Lord said to Joshua, Make thee stone knives of sharp stone, and sit down and circumcise the children of Israel the second time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:26 - And Joshua adjured them on that day before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who shall build that city: he shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and he shall set up the gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Bæthel; he laid the foundation in Abiron his first-born, and set up the gates of it in his youngest [fn]surviving son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:29 - And he hanged the king of Gai on a [fn]gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into [fn]a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27 - And it came to pass toward the setting of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and cast them into the cave into which they had fled for refuge, and rolled stones to the cave, which remain till this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 - And the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for to-morrow at this time I will put them to flight before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:10 - And Joshua returned at that time, and took Asor and her king; now Asor in former time was the chief of these kingdoms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:21 - And Joshua came at that time, and utterly destroyed the Enakim out of the hill country, from Chebron and from Dabir, and from Anaboth, and from all the [fn]race of Israel, and from all the mountain of Juda with their cities; and Joshua utterly destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:29 - And they smote Moab on that day about ten thousand men, every lusty person and every mighty man; and not a man escaped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4 - And Debbora, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth,—she judged Israel at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:14 - Go, and cry to the gods whom ye have chosen to yourselves, and let them save you in the time of your affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:26 - when Israel dwelt in Esebon and in its coasts, and in the land of Aroer and in its coasts, and in all the cities by Jordan, three hundred years? and wherefore didst thou not [fn]recover them in that time?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:6 - Then they said to him, Say now [fn]Stachys; and he did not rightly pronounce it so: and they took him, and slew him at the fords of Jordan; and there fell at that time of Ephraim two and forty thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:23 - But his wife said to him, If the Lord were pleased to slay us, he would not have received of our hand a whole-burnt-offering and a meat-offering; and he would not have shewn us all these things, neither would he have caused us to hear all these things [fn]as at this time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:4 - And his father and his mother knew not that it [fn]was of the Lord, that he sought to be revenged on the Philistines: and at that time the Philistines lorded it over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - And Benjamin returned to the children of Israel at that time, and the children of Israel gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the daughters of Jabis Galaad; and [fn]they were content.

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