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Lexicon :: Strong's H1242 - bōqer

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בֹּקֶר
Transliteration
bōqer
Pronunciation
bo'-ker
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 274c

Strong’s Definitions

בֹּקֶר bôqer, bo'-ker; from H1239; properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning:—(+) day, early, morning, morrow.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 205x

The KJV translates Strong's H1242 in the following manner: morning (191x), morrow (7x), day (3x), days (with H6153) (1x), early (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 205x
The KJV translates Strong's H1242 in the following manner: morning (191x), morrow (7x), day (3x), days (with H6153) (1x), early (3x).

  1. morning, break of day

    1. morning

      1. of end of night

      2. of coming of daylight

      3. of coming of sunrise

      4. of beginning of day

      5. of bright joy after night of distress (fig.)

    2. morrow, next day, next morning

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֹּקֶר bôqer, bo'-ker; from H1239; properly, dawn (as the break of day); generally, morning:—(+) day, early, morning, morrow.
STRONGS H1242: Abbreviations
בֹּ֫קֶר 214 noun masculineExodus 10:13 morning (Late Hebrew id.; from split, penetrate, as the dawn the darkness, light through cloud-rifts, etc.) — ב׳ Genesis 1:5 + (always absolute); plural בְּקָרִים Job 7:18 + 4 times; —
1. morning (of point of time, time at which, never during which, English morning = forenoon): —
a. of end of night (opposed to לַיְלָה) Exodus 10:13 (J) Leviticus 6:2 (P) Judges 19:25; Ruth 3:13 (twice in verse); Isaiah 21:12 compare 1 Samuel 19:11 (|| מחר, opposed to לילה); opposed to לֵילוֺת Psalm 92:3; also (opposed to לוּן) Exodus 23:18; Exodus 34:25 (both J E) Leviticus 19:13 (H) Deuteronomy 16:4; opposed to צלמות Amos 5:8; compare further Genesis 40:6; Genesis 41:8 (both E) Exodus 12:22; Exodus 34:2 (twice in verse) (both J E) 1 Samuel 3:15 +,
b. implying the coming of dawn, and even daylight Genesis 29:25 (E) Genesis 44:3 (J) 1 Kings 3:21 (but Klo here for 2nd בַּבֹּקֶר, reads לְבַקֵּר by looking at it see H1239 בָּקַר) Job 24:17; Job 38:12 (|| שַׁחַר); לִפְנוֺת הַבּ׳ Exodus 14:27 (JE) at the turn of the morning, so Judges 19:26 (|| בַּעֲלוֺת הַשָּׁ֑חַר Judges 19:25; followed by עַד־הָאוֺר, as something later, Judges 19:26); see Ruth 3:14 (|| בטרו֯ם יכיר אישׁ את רעהו before men could recognise each other); compare כּוֺכְבֵי בֹקֶר Job 38:7 stars of morning; but also with אוֺר verb Genesis 44:3 (J) הבקר אור; with אור noun, באור הבקר Micah 2:1; & especially עד אור הבקר Judges 16:2 (opposed to לילה) so 1 Samuel 14:36; also 1 Samuel 25:22, 34, 36; 2 Samuel 17:22; 2 Kings 7:9; compare 1 Samuel 29:10 (|| וְאוֺר לָכֶם).
c. of coming of sunrise Judges 9:33; 2 Samuel 23:4 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 3:22 compare וערב מוֺצָּאֵי ב׳ Psalm 65:9 i.e. places of sunrise and sunset (|| קְצוֺת i.e. ends of earth).
d. of beginning of day, וְעַד־עַתָּה מֵאָז הַבּ׳ Ruth 2:7 (compare Ruth 2:14) see 2 Samuel 24:15 (but strike out We Dr); time of prayer, & praise Psalm 5:4 (twice in verse) (see Hu) Psalm 59:17; Psalm 88:14; Psalm 92:3; || צהרים noon 1 Kings 18:26; Jeremiah 20:16; of three hours of prayer, ערב ובקר וצהרים Psalm 55:18 (compare Daniel 6:10; Daniel 6:13); compare also with עֶרֶב below.
e. opposed to עֶרֶב Genesis 49:27 (poem in J) Exodus 16:7, 8, 12, 13; Leviticus 6:13; Numbers 9:21 (all P) Deuteronomy 28:67 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 11:14; 1 Kings 17:6; Isaiah 17:14; Zephaniah 3:3; Ezekiel 24:18 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 33:22; Daniel 8:26; Psalm 30:6; Psalm 90:5; Psalm 90:6; Ecclesiastes 11:6; 1 Chronicles 16:40; 2 Chronicles 2:3; 2 Chronicles 13:11; 31:3; Ezra 3:3; Esther 2:14; opposed to בֵּין הערבים Exodus 29:39, 41; Numbers 28:4, 8 (all P); especially מן־הבקר עד־הערב = all day Exodus 18:13 & (without article) Exodus 18:14 (both E); מבקר לָעֶרֶב Job 4:20 = between morning and evening; also מֵעֶרֶב עַד־בֹּקֶר = all night, Exodus 27:21 (P) Leviticus 24:3 (H) Numbers 9:21 & בָּעֶרֶב עַד־בּ׳ Numbers 9:15 (both P); note also the formula וַיְהִי ערב ויהי בקר and evening came and then morning Genesis 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31 (all P), i.e. the day ended with evening, and the night with morning; peculiar is Daniel 8:14 of omission of daily sacrifice עַד עֶרֶב בֹּקֶר אַלְמַּיִם וּשְׁלשׁ מֵאוֺת, until 2300 evening-mornings, probably = 2300 half-days (Ew Hi Meinh Bev DrIntr. 464, compare Daniel 8:26 & 3 1/2 times (years) Daniel 7:25; Daniel 12:11; Daniel 12:17).
f. often (above & elsewhere) with preposition (+ article except Job 7:18); in the morning, בַּבֹּקֶר Genesis 19:27 110 times, compare also בִּהְיֹת הַבּ׳ Exodus 19:16; in (or at) the morning, לַבּ׳ Amos 4:4 + 7 times; for (against or by) the morning, לַבּ׳ Exodus 34:2 compare Psalm 130:6 (compare Checritical note); nearly = until (עַד־) Exodus 34:25; Deuteronomy 16:4; Zephaniah 3:3; further בַּבּ׳ בַּבּ׳ morning by morning, every morning Exodus 16:21; Exodus 30:7; Exodus 36:3; Leviticus 6:5 (all P) 2 Samuel 13:4; 1 Chronicles 23:30; 2 Chronicles 13:11; Isaiah 28:19; Isaiah 50:4; Ezekiel 46:13, 14, 15; Zephaniah 3:5 also לַבּ׳ לַבּ׳, same sense, 1 Chronicles 9:27; plural לַבְּקָרִים every morning afresh Psalm 73:14; Isaiah 33:2 compare Lamentations 3:23; almost = continually Psalm 101:8 (compare Jeremiah 21:12); see לִבְקָרִים Job 7:18 (|| לִרְגָעִים every moment); also without preposition or article in the morning Hosea 7:6 compare Psalm 5:4 (twice in verse); Psalm 55:18, d. above, & below 2.
g. figurative of bright joy after night of distress (poetry) Job 11:17; compare Psalm 30:6; Psalm 46:6 (לִפְנוֺת בּ׳) Psalm 49:15; Psalm 59:17; Psalm 90:14; Psalm 143:8.
h. in phrases, הִשְׁכִּים בַּבּ׳ (וַיַּשְׁכֵּם etc.) he rose early in the morning Genesis 19:27; Genesis 20:8; Genesis 21:14; Genesis 22:3; Genesis 26:31; Genesis 28:18; Genesis 32:1 Genesis 31:55; Exodus 8:16; Exodus 9:13; Exodus 24:4; Exodus 34:4; Numbers 14:40; Joshua 3:1; Joshua 6:12; Joshua 7:16; Joshua 8:10 (all J E) Judges 6:28; Judges 19:5, 8; 1 Samuel 1:19; 1 Samuel 5:4; compare 1 Samuel 15:12; 1 Samuel 17:20; 1 Samuel 29:10 (twice in verse) compare 1 Samuel 29:11, 2 Kings 3:22; 2 Kings 19:35 = Isaiah 37:36; 2 Chronicles 20:20; Job 1:5; Proverbs 27:14; Isaiah 5:11; (ויקומו etc.) ויקם בַּבּ׳ Genesis 24:54; Numbers 22:13, 21 (all J E) Judges 19:27; Judges 20:19; 2 Samuel 24:11; 1 Kings 3:21; אַשְׁמֹרֶת הַבּ׳ morning watch Exodus 14:24; 1 Samuel 11:11.
2. morrow, next day (compare German Morgen, morgen) without article Exodus 16:19, 20; Leviticus 7:15; Leviticus 22:30 (opposed to הַיּוֺם הַהוּא) Numbers 16:5 (|| מָחָר Numbers 16:7; Numbers 16:16) compare Exodus 12:10 (twice in verse); Numbers 9:12; with article Exodus 16:23, 24; Exodus 29:34; לַבּ׳ Exodus 34:25; Numbers 22:41; Zephaniah 3:3; בַּבּ׳ 1 Samuel 9:19 (opposed to הַיּוֺם to-day) compare 1 Samuel 20:35; to-morrow morning הַבּ׳ Judges 6:31 (Stu); בַּבּ׳ Exodus 7:15; Joshua 7:14; Esther 5:14; definitely מִמָּֽחֳרָת בַּבּ׳ 1 Samuel 5:4; מֵהַבּ׳ 2 Samuel 2:27; adverb. use in this sense (without preposition or article) Exodus 16:7; Numbers 16:5.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:5; 1:5; 1:8; 1:13; 1:19; 1:23; 1:31; 19:1; 19:27; 19:27; 20:8; 21:14; 22:3; 24:54; 26:31; 28:18; 29:25; 32:1; 40:6; 41:8; 44:3; 44:3; 49:27

Exodus

7:15; 8:16; 9:13; 10:13; 10:13; 12:10; 12:22; 14:24; 14:27; 16:7; 16:7; 16:8; 16:12; 16:13; 16:19; 16:20; 16:21; 16:23; 16:24; 18:13; 18:14; 19:16; 23:18; 24:4; 27:21; 29:34; 29:39; 29:41; 30:7; 34:2; 34:2; 34:4; 34:25; 34:25; 34:25; 36:3

Leviticus

6:2; 6:5; 6:13; 7:15; 19:13; 22:30; 24:3

Numbers

9:12; 9:15; 9:21; 9:21; 14:40; 16:5; 16:5; 16:7; 16:16; 22:13; 22:21; 22:41; 28:4; 28:8

Deuteronomy

16:4; 16:4; 28:67

Joshua

3:1; 6:12; 7:14; 7:16; 8:10

Judges

6:28; 6:31; 9:33; 16:2; 19:5; 19:8; 19:25; 19:25; 19:26; 19:26; 19:27; 20:19

Ruth

2:7; 2:14; 3:13; 3:14

1 Samuel

1:19; 3:15; 5:4; 5:4; 9:19; 11:11; 14:36; 15:12; 17:20; 19:11; 20:35; 25:22; 25:34; 25:36; 29:10; 29:10; 29:11

2 Samuel

2:27; 11:14; 13:4; 17:22; 23:4; 24:11; 24:15

1 Kings

3:21; 3:21; 17:6; 18:26

2 Kings

3:22; 3:22; 7:9; 19:35

1 Chronicles

9:27; 16:40; 23:30

2 Chronicles

2:3; 13:11; 13:11; 20:20; 31:3

Ezra

3:3

Esther

2:14; 5:14

Job

1:5; 4:20; 7:18; 7:18; 7:18; 11:17; 24:17; 38:7; 38:12

Psalms

5:4; 5:4; 30:6; 30:6; 46:6; 49:15; 55:18; 55:18; 59:17; 59:17; 65:9; 73:14; 88:14; 90:5; 90:6; 90:14; 92:3; 92:3; 101:8; 130:6; 143:8

Proverbs

27:14

Ecclesiastes

11:6

Isaiah

5:11; 17:14; 21:12; 28:19; 33:2; 37:36; 50:4

Jeremiah

20:16; 21:12

Lamentations

3:23

Ezekiel

24:18; 33:22; 46:13; 46:14; 46:15

Daniel

6:10; 6:13; 7:25; 8:14; 8:26; 8:26; 12:11

Hosea

7:6

Amos

4:4; 5:8

Micah

2:1

Zephaniah

3:3; 3:3; 3:3; 3:5

H1242

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Strong's Number H1242 matches the Hebrew בֹּקֶר (bōqer),
which occurs 214 times in 189 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 4 (Psa 90:5–Zep 3:5)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:5 - Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning H1242 they are like grass which groweth up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:6 - In the morning H1242 it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:14 - O satisfy us early H1242 with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 92:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 92:2 - To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, H1242 and thy faithfulness every night,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 101:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 101:8 - I will early H1242 destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 130:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 130:6 - My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: H1242 I say, more than they that watch for the morning. H1242

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 143:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 143:8 - Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; H1242 for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:18 - Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: H1242 let us solace ourselves with loves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:14 - He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, H1242 it shall be counted a curse to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:16 - Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! H1242

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 11:6 - In the morning H1242 sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:11 - Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, H1242 that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:11 - In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning H1242 shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 - And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning H1242 he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:12 - The watchman said, The morning H1242 cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:19 - From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning H1242 by morning H1242 shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 - O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, H1242 our salvation also in the time of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:36 - Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, H1242 behold, they were all dead corpses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:13 - I reckoned till morning, H1242 that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 50:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 50:4 - The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning H1242 by morning, H1242 he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:16 - And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, H1242 and the shouting at noontide;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:12 - O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, H1242 and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:23 - They are new every morning: H1242 great is thy faithfulness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:8 - And in the morning H1242 came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 24:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:18 - So I spake unto the people in the morning: H1242 and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning H1242 as I was commanded.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:22 - Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; H1242 and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:13 - Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every H1242 morning. H1242

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:14 - And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, H1242 the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 46:15 - Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning H1242 for a continual burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:14 - And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; H1242 then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:26 - And the vision of the evening and the morning H1242 which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 6:4 - O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning H1242 cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:6 - For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning H1242 it burneth as a flaming fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:3 - Therefore they shall be as the morning H1242 cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 4:4 - Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, H1242 and your tithes after three years:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:8 - Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, H1242 and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 - Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning H1242 is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:3 - Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. H1242

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:5 - The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every H1242 morning H1242 doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

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