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Lexicon :: Strong's H6258 - ʿatâ

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עַתָּה
Transliteration
ʿatâ
Pronunciation
at-taw'
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1650c

Strong’s Definitions

עַתָּה ʻattâh, at-taw'; from H6256; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive:—henceforth, now, straightway, this time, whereas.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's H6258 in the following manner: now, whereas, henceforth, this time forth, straightway.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's H6258 in the following manner: now, whereas, henceforth, this time forth, straightway.

  1. now

    1. now

    2. in phrases

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עַתָּה ʻattâh, at-taw'; from H6256; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive:—henceforth, now, straightway, this time, whereas.
STRONGS H6258: Abbreviations
עַתָּ֫ה 435 (also Ezekiel 23:43; Psalm 74:6 עת Kt, Qr עַתָּה), עָ֑֫תָּה Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4] +, adverb of time, now (properly accusative of [`int], עֵת (Köii. 260), at the time, in particular of the present time, i.e. now; compare German zur Zeit, Arabic bdb077401at the time, i.e. now); — now:
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a. Genesis 12:19 ועתה הנה אשׁתך and now, behold thy wife, Genesis 22:12 ידעתי עתה ידעתי now, I know (so Exodus 18:11; Judges 17:13; H20881 Kings 17:24 [עַתָּה זֶה], Psalm 20:7 [Psalm 20:6]), Genesis 26:22, Genesis 26:29; H2088Genesis 27:36; Genesis 31:13, Genesis 31:28, etc., Exodus 5:5 הך רבים עתה עם הארץ; whether in opposed to past time, as Genesis 32:11 [Genesis 32:10]; Joshua 14:11 כְּכֹחִי אָז וּכְכֹחִי עָ֑תָּה, Judges 11:8; 1 Kings 12:4; Isaiah 1:21 ועתה מרצחים, Isaiah 16:14; Hosea 2:9 [Hosea 2:7] כִּי טוֺב לִי אָז מַעָ֑תָּה, Hosea 13:2, Job 30:1 +, or to future, as Numbers 24:17 אֶרְאֶנּוּ ולא עתה, Judges 8:6 חֲכַף עַתָּה־בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ זֶבַח וצ׳, 1 Samuel 2:16 כִּי עַתָּה תִּתֵּן; = after all Numbers 22:38; Judges 8:2; = now at last 2 Samuel 24:16; 1 Kings 19:4; 2 Kings 19:25; Hosea 7:2; Jeremiah 4:12; and in the phrase מעתה ועד עולם Isaiah 9:6 [Isaiah 9:7]; Isaiah 59:21; Micah 4:7 (see below), Psalm 113:2; Psalm 115:18; Psalm 121:8; Psalm 125:2; Psalm 131:3.
b. of the imminent or impending future: Genesis 19:9 מֵהֶם לְךָ נָרַע עַתָּה. Genesis 29:32 כי עתה יאהבני אישׁי, Genesis 29:34; Exodus 6:1 עתה תראה, Numbers 11:23; Numbers 22:4; 2 Samuel 20:6; Isaiah 33:10 (Psalm 12:6 [Psalm 12:5]), Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 49:19; Amos 6:7 לכן עתה יִגְלוּ, Isaiah 49:19; Micah 7:4, Micah 7:10; Daniel 10:20; and especially ἀσυνδέτως in Hosea, introducing a punishment, Hosea 4:16 וגו׳ עתה יִרְעֵם י׳ Hosea 5:7; Hosea 8:8, Hosea 8:13 (Jeremiah 14:10), Jeremiah 10:2.
c. of a time ideally present (= then, from our point of view): Isaiah 29:22 לא עתה יבושׁ יעקב, Isaiah 29:22b Hosea 10:3; Micah 4:9, Micah 4:10, Micah 4:11; Micah 4:14 [Micah 5:1]; Micah 5:3 [Micah 5:4].
d. describing a present state = as things are: 1 Samuel 8:5 thou art old, etc., עתה שִׂימָה לנו מלך, 1 Samuel 9:6; 1 Samuel 13:12; 1 Samuel 14:30; 1 Samuel 25:7b; 1 Samuel 27:1 now I shall be swept away one day, etc., 2 Kings 18:20, 2 Kings 18:25; Job 6:21; Job 14:16; Job 16:7.
e. with an Imperative, as an encouragement, implying that the time has come for the exhortation or advice to be followed, Genesis 31:13 צא קום עתה, Exodus 18:19 עתה שְׁמַע בקולי, Numbers 22:11; Deuteronomy 2:13; Isaiah 30:8.
2. Phrases:
a. עַתָּה זֶה (זֶה 4h) H2088 1 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 5:22.
b. ועתה and, now, or now, therefore (וְ 4), drawing a conclusion, especially (compare 1e) a practical one, from what has been stated: Genesis 3:22 and now (since man has once been disobedient), lest he put forth his hand, etc., Genesis 20:7; Genesis 20:23 וְעַתָּה הִשָּֽׁבְעָה לִי הֵ֫נָּה, Genesis 27:3, Genesis 27:8 ועתה בני שְׁמַע בקולי, Genesis 30:30; Genesis 31:16, Genesis 31:44; Genesis 37:20 + often, Isaiah 5:3, Isaiah 5:5; Psalm 2:10; Genesis 11:6 וגו׳ מֵהֶם לֹא־יִבָּצֵר ועתה, Genesis 31:30; Genesis 45:8; 2 Samuel 19:11 [2 Samuel 19:10]; Psalm 39:8 [Psalm 39:7] אֲדֹנָי מַה־קִּוִּיתִי ועתה , Isaiah 52:5.
c. וְעַתָּה הִנֵּה stating the ground on which some conclusion or action is to be based, Exodus 3:9; Joshua 14:10 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 12:2; 1 Samuel 24:21 [1 Samuel 24:20]; 1 Kings 1:18; Jeremiah 40:4 (with ועתה usually repeated afer the הנה-clause).
†d. גם עתה Genesis 44:10; 1 Samuel 12:16; 1 Kings 14:14; Joel 2:12; Job 16:19.
†e. מֵעַתָּה from now, henceforth, Jeremiah 3:4; Isaiah 48:6; Daniel 10:17 (according to some, here = from just now), 2 Chronicles 16:9; מעתה עולם ועד , see above 1a end.
f. עַדעַֿתָּה until now, Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4], עד־ע׳ וָאֵחַר, Deuteronomy 12:9 אל הנחלה לא באתם עד ע׳ (opposed to the future), H57042 Kings 13:23; especially after clause with מִן, 2Ki 46:34 מִנְּעוּרֵינוּ וְעַדעֿ׳ (2 Samuel 19:8 [2 Samuel 19:7]; Ezekiel 4:14), Exodus 9:18; 2 Kings 8:6; Ruth 2:7.
g. כִּי עַתָּה for in this case, in our idiom, for then (עתה pointing to a condition assumed as a possible contingency: compare Dr§ 141, 142);
† (a) Exodus 9:15 כי עתה שׁלחתי וגו׳ for then (if the intention expressed in Exodus 9:14 had not existed) I should have put forth my hand, etc., Numbers 22:29 כי עתה הֲרַגְתִּיךְ, 1 Samuel 13:13; Job 3:13; followed by imperfect Job 6:3 for then (if it were weighed, Job 6:2) it would be heavier, etc., Job 13:19 for then would I be silent and die;
(b) after a protasis, surely then Genesis 31:42 + (see כִּי 1d b, p. 472).
—Note. Read כְּמוֺ עַתָּ) (Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate) as now, for כְּמוֺ עֵת Ezekiel 16:57, עַתָּ נִשְׁבַּרְתְּ (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate) now art thou broken ! for עֵת נִשְׁבֶּרֶת Ezekiel 27:34, and probably עַתָּ בָּא (Hi We Kö Now, compare Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version) for עֶתבּֿאֹ Haggai 1:2; also עַתָּה for אַתָּה 1 Kings 1:20, and אַתָּה for עַתָּה 1 Kings 1:18b 2 Samuel 18:3.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:22; 11:6; 12:19; 19:9; 20:7; 22:12; 26:22; 26:29; 27:3; 27:8; 27:36; 29:32; 29:34; 30:30; 31:13; 31:13; 31:16; 31:28; 31:30; 31:42; 31:44; 32:4; 32:4; 32:10; 37:20; 44:10; 45:8

Exodus

3:9; 5:5; 6:1; 9:14; 9:15; 9:18; 18:11; 18:19

Numbers

11:23; 22:4; 22:11; 22:29; 22:38; 24:17

Deuteronomy

2:13; 12:9

Joshua

14:10; 14:11

Judges

8:2; 8:6; 11:8; 17:13

Ruth

2:7

1 Samuel

2:16; 8:5; 9:6; 12:2; 12:16; 13:12; 13:13; 14:30; 24:20; 25:7; 27:1

2 Samuel

18:3; 19:7; 19:10; 20:6; 24:16

1 Kings

1:18; 1:18; 1:20; 12:4; 14:14; 17:24; 17:24; 19:4

2 Kings

5:22; 8:6; 13:23; 18:20; 18:25; 19:25

2 Chronicles

16:9

Job

3:13; 6:2; 6:3; 6:21; 13:19; 14:16; 16:7; 16:19; 30:1

Psalms

2:10; 12:5; 20:6; 39:7; 74:6; 113:2; 115:18; 121:8; 125:2; 131:3

Isaiah

1:21; 5:3; 5:5; 9:7; 16:14; 29:22; 29:22; 30:8; 33:10; 43:19; 48:6; 49:19; 49:19; 52:5; 59:21

Jeremiah

3:4; 4:12; 10:2; 14:10; 40:4

Ezekiel

4:14; 16:57; 23:43; 27:34

Daniel

10:17; 10:20

Hosea

2:7; 4:16; 5:7; 7:2; 8:8; 8:13; 10:3; 13:2

Joel

2:12

Amos

6:7

Micah

4:7; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 5:1; 5:4; 7:4; 7:10

Haggai

1:2

H6258

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6258 matches the Hebrew עַתָּה (ʿatâ),
which occurs 435 times in 422 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 7 / 9 (Job 6:21–Isa 48:6)

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:21 - For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:28 - Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:21 - And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 8:6 - If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 13:19 - Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:16 - For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:7 - But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 16:19 - Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:1 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:9 - And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:16 - And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 35:15 - But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 37:21 - And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:5 - I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 42:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 42:8 - Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:10 - Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 12:5 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:11 - They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 20:6 - Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 27:6 - And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:7 - And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:6 - But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 113:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:2 - Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth H6258 and for evermore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:18 - But we will bless the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. Praise the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:67

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:67 - Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 121:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 121:8 - The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 125:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 125:2 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 131:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 131:3 - Let Israel hope in the LORD from henceforth and for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:7 - Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:24 - Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 8:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 8:32 - Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:21 - How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:3 - And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:5 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:7 - Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:14 - But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:22 - Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:22 - Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:8 - Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:10 - Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:5 - I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:8 - Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 36:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:10 - And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:20 - Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:26

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:1 - But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 43:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:19 - Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:1 - Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 47:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 47:8 - Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:6 - Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, H6258 even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.

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