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Lexicon :: Strong's H996 - bayin

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בַּיִן
Transliteration
bayin
Pronunciation
bane
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Part of Speech
masculine substantive (always used as a preposition)
Root Word (Etymology)
(sometimes in the pl. masc. or fem.) properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from בִּין (H995)
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TWOT Reference: 239a

Strong’s Definitions

בֵּין bêyn, bane; (sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from H995; a distinction; but used only as a preposition, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or:—among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), × in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H996 in the following manner: between, betwixt, asunder, within, between, out of, from.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H996 in the following manner: between, betwixt, asunder, within, between, out of, from.

  1. between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֵּין bêyn, bane; (sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from H995; a distinction; but used only as a preposition, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or:—among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), × in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.
STRONGS H996: Abbreviations
[בַּ֫יִן] substantive properly interval, space between (bdb010701 id.) — construct בֵּין onceIsaiah 44:4 (Baer) בֵּן, בֵּינִי, בֵּֽינְךָ, בֵינֵךְ, בֵּינוֺ (בֵּינָיו † Joshua 3:4; Joshua 8:11 Qr); with plural suffix in plural form בֵּינֵינוּ (בֵּנֵינוּ), etc.; also בֵּינוֺת † Ezekiel 10:2 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 10:6 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 10:7 (twice in verse) (+ Ezekiel 1:13 Greek Version of the LXX Hi Ew etc. for דְּמוּת), בֵּינוֺתֵינוּ † Genesis 26:28; Joshua 22:34; Judges 11:10, בֵּינוֺתָם † Genesis 42:23; 2 Samuel 21:7; Jeremiah 25:16; dual בֵּנַיִם (see below); —
1. always (except dual) as preposition in the interval of, between (so Aramaic בֵּין, & plural בֵּינֵי, bdb010702, bdb010703; bdb010704), as Genesis 15:17 בֵּין הַגְּזָרִים between the pieces, Exodus 13:9 and elsewhere בֵּין עֵינֶיךָ between thy eyes (see עַיִן), Isaiah 22:11 and elsewhere between the two walls (see חוֺמָה), Job 24:11; Job 30:7; Job 40:30 [Job 41:6] part him between merchants; rather more generally among Hosea 13:15; Songs 2:2, 3; Ezekiel 19:2; Ezekiel 31:3; Job 34:37; less exactly within Proverbs 26:13 a lion is בֵּין הָֽרְחֹבוֺת within the board places (compare Proverbs 23:13 בְּתוֺךְ): once with a singular (unusual) Daniel 8:16 בֵּין אוּלַי between the Ulai, i.e. between its banks. When the space separating two distinct objects is to be indicated, this is done...
a. most commonly by repeating בין, as Genesis 13:3 בֵּין בֵּיתְאֵל וּבֵין הָעָ֑י literally in the interval of Bethel, and in the interval of `Ai, i.e. between Bethel and `Ai, Genesis 16:14; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 31:50, 51 —
b. more rarely by בֵּין ֗֗֗ לְ, Genesis 1:6 dividing בֵּין מַיִם לָמָ֑יִם literally in the interval of waters with reference to waters, i.e. between the waters and the waters,Leviticus 20:25; Leviticus 27:33; Deuteronomy 17:8 (3 times in verse); 2 Samuel 19:36; 1 Kings 3:9; Ezekiel 41:18; Ezekiel 42:20; Ezekiel 44:23 (twice in verse); Jonah 4:11; Malachi 3:18 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 14:10.
c. by בֵּין ֗֗֗ וּלְ † Joel 2:17.
d. by בֵּין ֗֗֗ לְבֵין † Isaiah 59:2. בֵּין is used not only of actual locality, but also with verbs of dividing (figurative) Genesis 1:14; Leviticus 10:10, and of judging, knowing, teaching, etc., if the idea of distinguishing be involved, as Genesis 16:5; 2 Samuel 19:36 הַאֵדַע בֵּין טוֺב לְרָע can I discern between good and evil? 1 Kings 3:9; Jonah 4:11; Genesis 31:49 (watch between), Judges 11:10 (hear), Joshua 22:27 (witness), Isaiah 2:4 and he shall judge (arbitrate) between the nations, Isaiah 5:3; Leviticus 27:33; Ezekiel 44:23; Malachi 3:18; 2 Chronicles 14:10 (see RV); and in other metaphoric applications, as of a covenant or sign between two contracting parties, Genesis 9:12, 15; Exodus 31:13 +; or an oath Genesis 26:28; 2 Samuel 21:7; enmity or strife Genesis 3:15; Genesis 13:7; Deuteronomy 25:1; Proverbs 6:19; peace 1 Kings 5:26 [1 Kings 5:12]; good-will Proverbs 14:9. — It is used of time in the phrase of P בֵּין הָעַרְבַּיִם (see below עֶרֶב), & Nehemiah 5:18 בֵּין עֲשֶׂרֶת יָמִים during the interval of ten days, i.e. every ten days (unusual).
With other prepositions: —
a. † אֶלבֵּֿין, after a verb implying motion, in between, in among Ezekiel 31:10, 14. So אֶלבֵּֿינוֺת לְ † ib. Ezekiel 10:2.
b. † בְּבֵן Isaiah 44:4 in the midst of, amongst (Greek Version of the LXX Ew Di Che כְּבֵין מַיִם חָצִיר).
c. † עַלבֵּֿין nearly as אֶלבֵּֿין Ezekiel 19:11
d. † מִבֵּין from between: Genesis 49:10 nor the ruler's staff מִבֵּין רַגְלָיו from between his feet (where, as the king sits in state, he holds it), Exodus 25:22 from between the cherubim (so Numbers 7:89), Hosea 2:4; Zechariah 6:1; Zechariah 9:7; Deuteronomy 28:57 the after-birth הַיּוֺצֵת מִבֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ that cometh forth from between her feet, i.e. from her womb (compare Il. 19. 10 πεσεῖν μετὰ ποσσὶ γυναικός) Repeated 2 Kings 16:14 to specify the two objects from between which a thing is moved. Ezekiel 47:18 is difficult and uncertain: see Commentaries. Less precisely from, the midst of: Numbers 17:2 מִבֵּין הַשְּׂרֵפָה out of the midst of the burning, Psalm 104:12 מִבֵּין עֳפָאִים from amongst the branches they utter their song, Jeremiah 48:45 and a flame מִבֵּין סִיחוֺן from the midst of Sihon (Sihon representing his people: but expression is singular; read perhaps מִבֵּית ס׳, compare Numbers 21:28 מִקִּרְיַת ס׳ : || in both passages מֵחֶשְׁבּוֺן), Ezekiel 37:21.
e. † מִבֵּינוֺת לְ from between Ezekiel 10:2, 6 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 10:7.
†2. Dual בֵּנַ֫יִם space between two armies (= Greek μεταίχμιον), [H1143 1 Samuel 17:4, 23] אִישׁ הַבֵּנַיִם man of the μεταίχμιον, i.e. champion (of Goliath).

בֵּית feminine of בַּיִן, בֵּין (NöM 194 f.; Syriac bdb010801 often, PS470) preposition between Ezekiel 41:9b (to be joined with Ezekiel 41:10; see RVm), unless indeed a mere error for בֵּין (which Ezekiel often uses); also Proverbs 8:2 accusative to Greek Version of the LXX (ἀνὰ μέσον) Targum Vulgate Hi Ew§217 g; and Job 8:17 according to Greek Version of the LXX Ew Di1 (Di2undecided).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H997.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:6; 1:14; 3:15; 9:12; 9:15; 13:3; 13:7; 15:17; 16:5; 16:14; 17:7; 26:28; 26:28; 31:49; 31:50; 31:51; 42:23; 49:10

Exodus

13:9; 25:22; 31:13

Leviticus

10:10; 20:25; 27:33; 27:33

Numbers

7:89; 17:2; 21:28

Deuteronomy

17:8; 25:1; 28:57

Joshua

3:4; 8:11; 22:27; 22:34

Judges

11:10; 11:10

2 Samuel

19:36; 19:36; 21:7; 21:7

1 Kings

3:9; 3:9; 5:12

2 Kings

16:14

2 Chronicles

14:10; 14:10

Nehemiah

5:18

Job

8:17; 24:11; 30:7; 34:37; 41:6

Psalms

104:12

Proverbs

6:19; 8:2; 14:9; 23:13; 26:13

Song of Songs

2:2; 2:3

Isaiah

2:4; 5:3; 22:11; 44:4; 44:4; 59:2

Jeremiah

25:16; 48:45

Ezekiel

1:13; 10:2; 10:2; 10:2; 10:6; 10:6; 10:7; 10:7; 19:2; 19:11; 31:3; 31:10; 31:14; 37:21; 41:9; 41:10; 41:18; 42:20; 44:23; 44:23; 47:18

Daniel

8:16

Hosea

2:4; 13:15

Joel

2:17

Jonah

4:11; 4:11

Zechariah

6:1; 9:7

Malachi

3:18; 3:18

H996

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Strong's Number H996 matches the Hebrew בַּיִן (bayin),
which occurs 410 times in 248 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 5 (Eze 8:16–Mal 3:18)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:16 - And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:2 - And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between H996 the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between H996 the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:6 - And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:7 - And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:8 - He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:2 - And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:11 - And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:12 - Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:20 - And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:26 - Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:3 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:10 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:14 - To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:17 - And as for you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:20 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 34:22 - Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:21 - And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among H996 the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:7 - And every little chamber was one reed long, and one reed broad; and between the little chambers were five cubits; and the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate within was one reed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:10 - And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:18 - And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:20 - He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:8 - In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:23 - And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:16 - Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon, which is by the coast of Hauran.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:18 - And the east side ye shall measure from H996 Hauran, and from H996 Damascus, and from H996 Gilead, and from H996 the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 48:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 48:22 - Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, shall be for the prince.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:5 - And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:16 - And I heard a man's voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 8:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:21 - And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 11:45

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:45 - And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 2:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:2 - Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:15 - Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 - Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:4 - Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 4:11 - And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mic 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:8 - I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:10 - And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:11 - And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:7 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:9 - Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:1 - And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 6:13 - Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:7 - And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 11:14 - Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 13:6

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 13:6 - And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:14 - Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mal 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:18 - Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

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