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Lexicon :: Strong's G4487 - rēma

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ῥῆμα
Transliteration
rēma (Key)
Pronunciation
hray'-mah
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:69,505

Strong’s Definitions

ῥῆμα rhēma, hray'-mah; from G4483; an utterance (individually, collectively or specially),; by implication, a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever:—+ evil, + nothing, saying, word.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 70x

The KJV translates Strong's G4487 in the following manner: word (56x), saying (9x), thing (3x), no thing (with G3756) (1x), not translated (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 70x
The KJV translates Strong's G4487 in the following manner: word (56x), saying (9x), thing (3x), no thing (with G3756) (1x), not translated (1x).

  1. that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word

    1. any sound produced by the voice and having definite meaning

    2. speech, discourse

      1. what one has said

    3. a series of words joined together into a sentence (a declaration of one's mind made in words)

      1. an utterance

      2. a saying of any sort as a message, a narrative

        1. concerning some occurrence

  2. subject matter of speech, thing spoken of

    1. so far forth as it is a matter of narration

    2. so far as it is a matter of command

    3. a matter of dispute, case at law

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ῥῆμα rhēma, hray'-mah; from G4483; an utterance (individually, collectively or specially),; by implication, a matter or topic (especially of narration, command or dispute); with a negative naught whatever:—+ evil, + nothing, saying, word.
STRONGS G4487:
ῤῆμα, ῤήματος, τό (from Ρ᾽ΑΩ, perfect passive ἐίρημαι), from Theognis, Herodotus, Pindar down; the Sept. chiefly for דָּבָר; also for אֹמֶר, מִלָּה, פֶּה, אִמְרָה, etc.;
1. properly, that which is or has been uttered by the living voice, thing spoken, word (cf. ἔπος, also λόγος, I. 1); i. e.
a. any sound produced by the voice and having a definite meaning: Matthew 27:14; ῤῆμα γλώσσης, Sir. 4:24; φωνή ῤημάτων, a sound of words, Hebrews 12:19; ῤήματα ἄρρητα (unspeakable words), 2 Corinthians 12:4.
b. Plural, τά ῤήματα, speech, discourse (because it consists of words either few or many (cf. Philo, leg. alleg. 3, 61 τό δέ ῤῆμα μέρος λόγου)): Luke 7:1; Acts 2:14; words, sayings, John 8:20; John 10:21; Acts (Acts 10:44); Acts 16:38; τῶν ῤημάτων τίνος, what one has said, Luke 24:8, 11, or taught, Romans 10:18; τοῖς ἐμοῖς ῥηματοις, my teachings, John 5:47; John 12:47; John 15:7; τά ῥημαψα ἅ ἐγώ λελάληκα, John 6:63; John 14:10; (ἀληθείας καί σωφροσύνης ῤήματα ἀποφθέγγομαι, Acts 26:25); ῤήματα ζωῆς αἰωνίου ἔχεις, thy teaching begets eternal life, John 6:68; τά ῤήματα τοῦ Θεοῦ, utterances in which God through someone declares his mind, John 8:47; λαλεῖ τίς τά ῤήματα τοῦ Θεοῦ, speaks what God bids him, John 3:34; λαλεῖν πάντα τά ῤήματα τῆς ζωῆς ταύτης, to deliver the whole doctrine concerning this life, i. e. the life eternal, Acts 5:20; τά ῤήματα ἅ ἔδωκας μοι, what thou hast bidden me to speak, John 17:8; ῤήματα λαλεῖν πρός τινα, ἐν οἷς etc. to teach one the things by which etc. Acts 11:14; τά ῤήματα τά προειρημενα ὑπό τίνος, what one has foretold, 2 Peter 3:2; Jude 1:17; λαλεῖν ῤήματα βλάσφημα εἰς τινα, to speak abusively in reference to one (see εἰς, B. II. 2 c. β.), Acts 6:11; κατά τίνος, against a thing, Acts 6:13 (G L T Tr WH omit βλάσφημα).
c. a series of words joined together into a sentence (a declaration of one's mind made in words);
α. universally, an utterance, declaration (German eine Aeusserung).: Matthew 26:75; Mark 9:32; Mark 14:72; Luke 2:50; Luke 9:45; Luke 18:34; Luke 20:26; Acts 11:16; Acts 28:25; with adjectives, ῤῆμα ἀργόν, Matthew 12:36; εἰπεῖν πονηρόν ῤῆμα κατά τίνος, to assail one with abuse, Matthew 5:11 (R G; others omit ῤῆμα).
β. a saying of any sort, as a message, a narrative: concerning some occurrence, λαλεῖν τό ῤῆμα περί τίνος, Luke 2:17; ῤῆμα τῆς πίστεως, the word of faith, i. e. concerning the necessity of putting faith in Christ, Romans 10:8; a promise, Luke 1:38; Luke 2:29; καλόν Θεοῦ ῤῆμα, God's gracious, comforting promise (of salvation), Hebrews 6:5 (see καλός, c.); καθαρίσας... ἐν ῤήματι, according to promise (properly, on the ground of his word of promise, viz. the promise of the pardon of sins; cf. Mark 16:16), Ephesians 5:26 (others take ῤήματι here as equivalent to 'the gospel,' cf. Ephesians 6:17, Romans 10:8; (see Meyer at the passage)); the word by which something is commanded, directed, enjoined: Matthew 4:4 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 389 (364) n.); Luke 4:4 R G L Tr in brackets; Hebrews 11:3; a command, Luke 5:5; ἐγένετο ῤῆμα Θεοῦ ἐπί τινα, Luke 3:2 (Jeremiah 1:1; πρός τινα, Genesis 15:1; 1 Kings 18:1); plural ῤήματα παρά σου, words from thee, i. e. to be spoken by time, Acts 10:22; ῤῆμα τῆς δυνάμεως αὐτοῦ, his omnipotent command, Hebrews 1:3. doctrine, instruction (cf. Winer's Grammar, 123 (117)): (τό) ῤῆμα (τοῦ) Θεοῦ, divine instruction by the preachers of the gospel, Romans 10:17 (R G; but L T Tr WH ῤήματος Χριστοῦ; others give ῤήματος here the sense of command, commission; (cf. Meyer)); saving truth which has God for its author, Ephesians 6:17; also τοῦ κυρίου, 1 Peter 1:25; words of prophecy, prophetic announcement, τά ῤήματα τοῦ Θεοῦ, Revelation 17:17, Rec. (others, οἱ λόγοι τοῦ Θεοῦ).
2. In imitation of the Hebrew דָּבָר, the subject matter of speech, thing spoken of, thing; and that
a. so far forth as it is a matter of narration: Luke 2:15; Acts 10:37; plural, Luke 1:65; Luke 2:19, 51; Acts 5:32; Acts 13:42.
b. in so far as it is matter of command: Luke 1:37 (see ἀδυνατέω, b.) (Genesis 18:14; Deuteronomy 17:8).
c. a matter of dispute, case at law: Matthew 18:16; 2 Corinthians 13:1 (A. V. retains 'word' here and in the preceding passage) (Deuteronomy 19:15).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
15:1; 18:14
Deuteronomy
17:8; 19:15
1 Kings
18:1
Jeremiah
1:1
Matthew
4:4; 5:11; 12:36; 18:16; 26:75; 27:14
Mark
9:32; 14:72; 16:16
Luke
1:37; 1:38; 1:65; 2:15; 2:17; 2:19; 2:29; 2:50; 2:51; 3:2; 4:4; 5:5; 7:1; 9:45; 18:34; 20:26; 24:8; 24:11
John
3:34; 5:47; 6:63; 6:68; 8:20; 8:47; 10:21; 12:47; 14:10; 15:7; 17:8
Acts
2:14; 5:20; 5:32; 6:11; 6:13; 10:22; 10:37; 10:44; 11:14; 11:16; 13:42; 16:38; 26:25; 28:25
Romans
10:8; 10:8; 10:17; 10:18
2 Corinthians
12:4; 13:1
Ephesians
5:26; 6:17; 6:17
Hebrews
1:3; 6:5; 11:3; 12:19
1 Peter
1:25
2 Peter
3:2
Jude
1:17
Revelation
17:17

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4487 matches the Greek ῥῆμα (rēma),
which occurs 54 times in 52 verses in 'Deu' in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Deu 1:14–Deu 32:2)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:14 - “You answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have said to do is good.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - ‘You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear [fn]man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23 - “The thing pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one man for each tribe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:26

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:26 - “Yet you were not willing to go up, but rebelled against the [fn]command of the LORD your God;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:43 - “So I spoke to you, but you would not listen. Instead you rebelled against the [fn]command of the LORD, and acted presumptuously and went up into the hill country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - “For the LORD your God has blessed you in all [fn]that you have done; He has known your [fn]wanderings through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:2 - “You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:10 - “Remember the day you stood before the LORD your God at Horeb, when the LORD said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words so they may learn to [fn]fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:12 - “Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form—only a voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:13 - “So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is, the Ten [fn]Commandments; and He wrote them on two tablets of stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 - “Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created [fn]man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great thing, or has anything been heard like it?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - “Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:5 - while I was standing between the LORD and you at that time, to declare to you the word of the LORD; for you were afraid because of the fire and did not go up the mountain. [fn]He said,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 - “These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the thick gloom, with a great voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:6 - “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:3 - “He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you [fn]understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:23 - “When the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the [fn]command of the LORD your God; you neither believed Him nor listened to His voice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:2 - ‘I will write on the tablets the words that were on the former tablets which you shattered, and you shall put them in the ark.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:18 - “You shall therefore [fn]impress these words of mine on your heart and on your soul; and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as [fn]frontals [fn]on your forehead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:32 - “[fn]Whatever I command you, you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to nor take away from it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:11 - “Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:9 - “Beware that there is no base [fn]thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the LORD against you, and it will be a sin in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:10 - “You shall generously give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because for this thing the LORD your God will bless you in all your work and in all [fn]your undertakings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:11 - “For the poor will never cease to be [fn]in the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:15 - “You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you [fn]this today.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:1 - “You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep which has a blemish or any [fn]defect, for that is a detestable thing to the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4 - and if it is told you and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. Behold, if it is true and the thing certain that this detestable thing has been done in Israel,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:8 - “If any case is too difficult for you to decide, between [fn]one kind of homicide or another, between [fn]one kind of lawsuit or another, and between [fn]one kind of assault or another, being cases of dispute in your [fn]courts, then you shall arise and go up to the place which the LORD your God chooses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:11 - “According to the [fn]terms of the law which they teach you, and according to the verdict which they tell you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside from the word which they declare to you, to the right or the left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:18 - ‘I will raise up a prophet from among their [fn]countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:20 - ‘But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in My name which I have not commanded him to speak, or which he speaks in the name of other gods, [fn]that prophet shall die.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:21 - “[fn]You may say in your heart, ‘How will we know the word which the LORD has not spoken?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:22 - “When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the thing does not come about or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:7 - “Therefore, I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside three cities for yourself.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15 - “A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin [fn]which he has committed; on the [fn]evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:20 - “The rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:9 - “When you go out as [fn]an army against your enemies, you shall keep yourself from every evil thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:18 - “But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and that the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20 - “When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs [fn]again; it shall be for the alien, for the [fn]orphan, and for the widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:22 - “You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:58

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:58 - “If you are not careful to observe all the words of this law which are written in this book, to [fn]fear this honored and awesome name, [fn]the LORD your God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:19 - “It shall be when he hears the words of this curse, that he will [fn]boast, saying, ‘I have peace though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart in order [fn]to destroy the watered land with the dry.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:29 - “The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - “So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you [fn]call them to mind in all nations where the LORD your God has banished you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:14 - “But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:9 - So Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:19 - “Now therefore, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it [fn]on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:30 - Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were complete:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:1 - “Give ear, O heavens, and let me speak;
And let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:2 - “Let my teaching drop as the rain,
My speech distill as the dew,
As the droplets on the fresh grass
And as the showers on the herb.

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