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Lexicon :: Strong's H802 - 'iššâ

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אִשָּׁה
Transliteration
'iššâ
Pronunciation
ish-shaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 137a

Strong’s Definitions

אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'; feminine of H376 or H582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym;(used in the same wide sense as H582) a woman:—(adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 780x

The KJV translates Strong's H802 in the following manner: wife (425x), woman (324x), one (10x), married (5x), female (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 780x
The KJV translates Strong's H802 in the following manner: wife (425x), woman (324x), one (10x), married (5x), female (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

  1. woman, wife, female

    1. woman (opposite of man)

    2. wife (woman married to a man)

    3. female (of animals)

    4. each, every (pronoun)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'; feminine of H376 or H582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym;(used in the same wide sense as H582) a woman:—(adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
STRONGS H802: Abbreviations
אִשָּׁה 775 noun feminine woman, wife, female (Arabic bdb006102, Sabean אנתֿת etc. DHMZK 1884, 360, Aramaic אִתְּתָא, אִנְתְּתָא, אִתָּא, bdb006103, Palmyrene, Nabataean אנתתא, Ethiopic bdb006104 Phoenician אשת, Assyrian aššatu COTGloss) — א׳ absolute Genesis 2:33 +; construct אֵשֶׁת Genesis 11:29 + (apparently absolute Deuteronomy 21:11; 1 Samuel 28:7; Psalm 58:9 but compare Bö§ 728 Ges§ 130. 5); suffix אִשְׁתִּי Genesis 20:11 +; אִשְׁתְּךָ Genesis 12:18 + (אֶשְׁתְּךָ Psalm 128:3), etc.; Plural אִשֹּׁת Ezekiel 23:44 (Co לעשׂות); נָשִׁים Genesis 4:19 +; construct נְשֵׁי Genesis 4:23 +; suffix נָשַׁי Genesis 30:26; 1 Kings 20:7; נְשֵׁיכֶם Exodus 22:23 +, etc.; —
1. woman Genesis 3:1, 2; Genesis 12:11 +; opposed to man Genesis 2:22, 23; Exodus 35:29; Exodus 36:6; Deuteronomy 7:2, 5; Deuteronomy 22:22; 1 Samuel 21:5 +; א׳ emphatic a Genuine (or ideal) woman Ecclesiastes 7:28 (|| אדם); simile of men as feeble, timid Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 51:30; note especially הַטַּף בַּנָּשִׁים the children among the women, female children Numbers 31:18 (P); as conceiving Exodus 2:2; Leviticus 12:2; 2 Samuel 11:5 +; travailing Jeremiah 13:21; bearing children Judges 13:24; 1 Kings 3:18; compare Job 14:1; Job 15:14; Job 25:4 +, etc.; suckling Isaiah 49:15; אֹרַח כַּנָּשִׁים Genesis 18:11; דֶּרֶח נָשִׁים Genesis 31:35; with adjective, or app., מֵינֶקֶת א׳ nursing woman, nurse Exodus 2:7; זוֺנָה א׳ harlot Joshua 2:1; Joshua 6:22; Judges 11:1; Judges 16:1; 1 Kings 3:16; Proverbs 6:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Ezekiel 16:30; Ezekiel 23:44; so זָרָה א׳ Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 7:5; compare also Ezekiel 23:44 above; מְנָאָ֑פֶת א׳ adulteress Proverbs 30:20 (compare אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ Proverbs 6:26), אֵשֶׁת זְנוּנִים Hosea 1:2; נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֺת foreign women 1 Kings 11:1, 8; Ezra 10:2, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 44; Nehemiah 13:26, 27 (compare Nehemiah 13:23); חֲכָמָה א׳ wise woman, one known as clever, shrewd 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Samuel 20:16, etc.; also מִּילֶגֶשׁ א׳ concubine Judges 19:1, 27: אַלְמָנָה א׳ widow 2 Samuel 14:5; 1 Kings 11:26; 1 Kings 17:9, 10; נְבִיאָה א׳ prophetess Judges 4:4; also construct before noun of quality אֵשֶׁת רָ֑ע Proverbs 6:24; בְּסִילוּת א׳ Proverbs 9:13; חֵן א׳ Proverbs 11:16; חַיִל א׳ Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 31:10; Ruth 3:11; מִדְיָנִים א׳ Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 25:24; Proverbs 27:15; וָכָ֑עַס מ׳ א׳ Proverbs 21:19.
2. Wife (woman belonging to a man, usually construct or suffix) Genesis 2:24, 25; Genesis 3:8, 17; Genesis 4:1, 17 + often; of one betrothed (ארשׂ) Deuteronomy 20:7; Deuteronomy 28:30; בַּעַל (הָ)אִשָּׁה Exodus 21:3, 22; אִישׁ הָאִשָּׁה Judges 20:4; לְאִשָּׁה to wife Genesis 2:22; Genesis 12:19; Genesis 16:3; Genesis 34:21 + often (after לָקַח, נָתַן husband or father subject); for wife (after הָֽיְתָה, woman subject) Genesis 20:12; Numbers 36:3, 6 (twice in verse); Numbers 36:11, 12; Deuteronomy 22:19, 29 +; for unfaithful wife compare 1; construct in phrase אֵשֶׁת חֵיקֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 13:7; compare Deuteronomy 28:54; נְעוּרֶיךָ א׳ Proverbs 5:18; Malachi 2:14, 15; בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ א׳ Malachi 2:14; אֵשֶׁת אָב = step-mother Leviticus 18:8, 11; Leviticus 20:11.
3. Female of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse); see also below 4
†4. With distributive & reciprocal sense, מֵאֵת א׳ רְעוּתָהּ each woman from her neighbour Exodus 11:2 (E); compare Ruth 1:8, 9; Jeremiah 9:19; each one, of birds of prey Isaiah 34:15 compare Isaiah 34:16 (strike out Bi Che); of cows (figurative of heartless women of Israel) Amos 4:3; of sheep (figurative of Israel) Zechariah 11:9; & of inanimate things (P, & late) אֶל אֲחֹתָהּ א׳ Exodus 26:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 26:5, 6, 17 (P) Ezekiel 1:9 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 1:23; Ezekiel 3:13.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:22; 2:22; 2:23; 2:24; 2:25; 3:1; 3:2; 3:8; 3:17; 4:1; 4:17; 4:19; 4:23; 7:2; 11:29; 12:11; 12:18; 12:19; 16:3; 18:11; 20:11; 20:12; 30:26; 31:35; 34:21

Exodus

2:2; 2:7; 11:2; 21:3; 21:22; 22:23; 26:3; 26:5; 26:6; 26:17; 35:29; 36:6

Leviticus

12:2; 18:8; 18:11; 20:11

Numbers

31:18; 36:3; 36:6; 36:11; 36:12

Deuteronomy

7:2; 7:5; 13:7; 20:7; 21:11; 22:19; 22:22; 22:29; 28:30; 28:54

Joshua

2:1; 6:22

Judges

4:4; 11:1; 13:24; 16:1; 19:1; 19:27; 20:4

Ruth

1:8; 1:9; 3:11

1 Samuel

21:5; 28:7

2 Samuel

11:5; 14:2; 14:5; 20:16

1 Kings

3:16; 3:18; 11:1; 11:8; 11:26; 17:9; 17:10; 20:7

Ezra

10:2; 10:10; 10:11; 10:14; 10:17; 10:18; 10:44

Nehemiah

13:23; 13:26; 13:27

Job

14:1; 15:14; 25:4

Psalms

58:9; 128:3

Proverbs

2:16; 5:18; 6:24; 6:26; 6:26; 7:5; 9:13; 11:16; 12:4; 21:9; 21:19; 25:24; 27:15; 30:20; 31:10

Ecclesiastes

7:28

Isaiah

34:15; 34:16; 49:15

Jeremiah

3:3; 9:19; 13:21; 50:37; 51:30

Ezekiel

1:9; 1:23; 3:13; 16:30; 23:44; 23:44; 23:44

Hosea

1:2

Amos

4:3

Zechariah

11:9

Malachi

2:14; 2:14; 2:15

H802

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H802 matches the Hebrew אִשָּׁה ('iššâ),
which occurs 781 times in 686 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 14 (Gen 2:22–Gen 19:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:22 - And God [fn]formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - And Adam said, This now is bone [fn]of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called [fn]woman, because she was taken out [fn]of her husband.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall [fn]cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:25 - And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4 - And the serpent said to the woman, [fn]Ye shall not surely die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes to look upon and beautiful to contemplate, and having taken of its fruit she ate, and she gave to her husband also with her, and they ate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12 - And Adam said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me—she gave me of the tree and I ate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:13 - And the Lord God said to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me and I ate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15 - And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall [fn]watch against thy head, and thou shalt [fn]watch against his heel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission [fn]shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labours, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:20 - And Adam called the name of his wife [fn]Life, because she was the mother of all living.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:21 - And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - And Cain knew his wife, and having conceived she bore Enoch; and he [fn]built a city; and he named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:19 - And Lamech took to himself two wives; the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the second Sella.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - And Lamech said to his wives, Ada and Sella, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, consider my words, because I have slain a man to my [fn]sorrow and a youth to my [fn]grief.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:25 - And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore a son, and called his name Seth, saying, For God has raised up to me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:2 - that the [fn]sons of God having seen the daughters of men that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18 - And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - And of the clean cattle take in to thee sevens, male and female, and of the unclean cattle pairs male and female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - And then went in Noe and his sons and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the water of the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13 - On that very day entered Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth, the sons of Noe, and the wife of Noe, and the three wives of his sons with him into the ark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - Come out from the ark, thou and thy wife and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:18 - And Noe came forth, and his wife and his sons, and his sons' wives with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - And Abram and Nachor took to themselves wives, the name of the wife of Abram was Sara, [fn]and the name of the wife of Nachor, Malcha, daughter of Arrhan, and he was the father of Malcha, the father of Jescha.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - And Tharrha took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Arrhan, the son of his son, and Sara his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and led them forth out of the land of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan, and they came as far as Charrhan, and he dwelt there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - And Abram took Sara his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions, as many as they had got, and every soul which they had got in Charrhan, and they went forth to go into the land of Chanaan.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - And it came to pass when Abram drew nigh to enter into Egypt, Abram said to Sara his wife, I know that thou art a fair woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:12 - It shall come to pass then that when the Egyptians shall see thee, they shall say, This is his wife, and they shall slay me, but they shall save thee alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - And it came to pass when Abram entered into Egypt—the Egyptians having seen his wife that she was very beautiful—

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:15 - that the princes of Pharao saw her, and praised her to Pharao and brought her into the house of Pharao.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17 - And God afflicted Pharao with great and severe afflictions, and his house, because of Sara, Abram's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - And Pharao having called Abram, said, What is this thou hast done to me, that thou didst not tell me that she was thy wife?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19 - Wherefore didst thou say, She is my sister? and I took her for a wife to myself; and now, behold, thy wife is before thee, take her and go quickly away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:20 - And Pharao gave charge to men concerning Abram, to join in sending him forward, and his wife, and all that he had.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - And Abram went up out of Egypt, he and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:16 - And he recovered all the cavalry of Sodom, and he recovered Lot his nephew, and all his possessions, and the women and the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - And Sara the wife of Abram bore him no children; and she had an Egyptian maid, whose name was Agar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - So Sara the wife of Abram having taken Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Chanaan, gave her to Abram her husband as a wife to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - And God said to Abraam, Sara thy wife—her name shall not be called Sara, Sarrha shall be her name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - And God said to Abraam, Yea, behold, Sarrha thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to him and to his seed after him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 - And he said to him, Where is Sarrha thy wife? And he answered and said, Behold! in the tent.

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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 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - And Abraam and Sarrha were old, advanced in days, and the custom of women ceased with Sarrha.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - But when it was morning, the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise and take thy wife, and thy two daughters whom thou hast, and go forth; lest thou also be destroyed with the iniquities of the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - And they were troubled, and the angels laid hold on his hand, and the hand of his wife, and the hands of his two daughters, in that the Lord spared him.

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