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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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Strong's Number H802 matches the Hebrew אִשָּׁה ('iššâ),
which occurs 69 times in 55 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Jdg 1:12–Jdg 21:14)

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:12 - Then Caleb said, “Whoever attacks Kirjath Sepher and takes it, to him I will give my daughter Achsah as wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13 - And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah as wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:6 - And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons; and they served their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4 - Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - So she said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless there will be no glory for you in the journey you are taking, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - However, Sisera had fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:21 - Then Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent peg and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:24 - “Most blessed among women is Jael,
The wife of Heber the Kenite;
Blessed is she among women in tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 8:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:30 - Gideon had seventy sons who were his own offspring, for he had many wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - So each of the people likewise cut down his own bough and followed Abimelech, put them against the stronghold, and set the stronghold on fire above them, so that all the people of the tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:51

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:51 - But there was a strong tower in the city, and all the men and women—all the people of the city—fled there and shut themselves in; then they went up to the top of the tower.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:53

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:53 - But a certain woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head and crushed his skull.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:54

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:54 - Then he called quickly to the young man, his armorbearer, and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’ ” So his young man thrust him through, and he died.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:1 - Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, but he was the son of a harlot; and Gilead begot Jephthah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:2 - Gilead’s wife bore sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:2 - Now there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:3 - And the Angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:6 - So the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A Man of God came to me, and His countenance was like the countenance of the Angel of God, very awesome; but I did not ask Him where He was from, and He did not tell me His name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:9 - And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the Angel of God came to the woman again as she was sitting in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:10 - Then the woman ran in haste and told her husband, and said to him, “Look, the Man who came to me the other day has just now appeared to me!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:11 - So Manoah arose and followed his wife. When he came to the Man, he said to Him, “Are You the Man who spoke to this woman?” And He said, “I am.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:13 - So the Angel of the LORD said to Manoah, “Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:19 - So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it upon the rock to the LORD. And He did a wondrous thing while Manoah and his wife looked on—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:20 - it happened as the flame went up toward heaven from the altar—the Angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar! When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:21 - When the Angel of the LORD appeared no more to Manoah and his wife, then Manoah knew that He was the Angel of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:22 - And Manoah said to his wife, “We shall surely die, because we have seen God!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:23 - But his wife said to him, “If the LORD had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have told us such things as these at this time.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:24 - So the woman bore a son and called his name Samson; and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:1 - Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:2 - So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:3 - Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:7 - Then he went down and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:10 - So his father went down to the woman. And Samson gave a feast there, for young men used to do so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 - But it came to pass on the seventh[fn] day that they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, that he may explain the riddle to us, or else we will burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us in order to take what is ours? Is that not so?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:16 - Then Samson’s wife wept on him, and said, “You only hate me! You do not love me! You have posed a riddle to the sons of my people, but you have not explained it to me.” And he said to her, “Look, I have not explained it to my father or my mother; so should I explain it to you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:20 - And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:1 - After a while, in the time of wheat harvest, it happened that Samson visited his wife with a young goat. And he said, “Let me go in to my wife, into her room.” But her father would not permit him to go in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they answered, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:1 - Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:4 - Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:27 - Now the temple was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there—about three thousand men and women on the roof watching while Samson performed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 - And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:26 - Then the woman came as the day was dawning, and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, till it was light.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:27 - When her master arose in the morning, and opened the doors of the house and went out to go his way, there was his concubine, fallen at the door of the house with her hands on the threshold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “My concubine and I went into Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, to spend the night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:1 - Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:7 - “What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daughters as wives?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:10 - So the congregation sent out there twelve thousand of their most valiant men, and commanded them, saying, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, including the women and children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:11 - “And this is the thing that you shall do: You shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman who has known a man intimately.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:14 - So Benjamin came back at that time, and they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh Gilead; and yet they had not found enough for them.

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