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Lexicon :: Strong's H1481 - gûr

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גּוּר
Transliteration
gûr
Pronunciation
goor
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 330,332

Strong’s Definitions

גּוּר gûwr, goor; a primitive root; properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid):—abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, × surely.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 98x

The KJV translates Strong's H1481 in the following manner: sojourn (58x), dwell (12x), afraid (6x), stranger (6x), gather together (4x), fear (3x), abide (2x), assemble (1x), stand in awe (1x), gathered (1x), inhabitant (1x), remain (1x), sojourners (1x), surely (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 98x
The KJV translates Strong's H1481 in the following manner: sojourn (58x), dwell (12x), afraid (6x), stranger (6x), gather together (4x), fear (3x), abide (2x), assemble (1x), stand in awe (1x), gathered (1x), inhabitant (1x), remain (1x), sojourners (1x), surely (1x).

  1. to sojourn, abide, dwell in, dwell with, remain, inhabit, be a stranger, be continuing, surely

    1. (Qal)

      1. to sojourn, dwell for a time

      2. to abide, stay, temporarily dwell

    2. (Hithpolel)

      1. to seek hospitality with

      2. to assemble oneself

  2. to stir up trouble, strife, quarrel, gather together

    1. (Qal)

      1. to stir up strife

      2. to quarrel

    2. (Hithpolel) to excite oneself

  3. to dread, fear, stand in awe, be afraid

    1. (Qal)

      1. to fear, be afraid

      2. to be in awe, stand in awe

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גּוּר gûwr, goor; a primitive root; properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid):—abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, × surely.
STRONGS H1481: Abbreviations
† I. גּוּר verb sojourn (compare Arabic جَارَ turn aside tarry, see especially III. IV. VIII. X; Aramaic dxg Eth. in derivatives) —
Qal Perfect גָּר Genesis 35:27 + 3 times, וְגָר consecutive Isaiah 11:6; גַּרְתָּה Genesis 21:23; גַּרְתִּי Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4; Psalm 120:5; גָּרוּ Exodus 6:4; Imperfect יָגוּר Exodus 12:48 + 12 times, וַיָּ֫גָר Genesis 20:1 + 2 times; suffix יְגֻרְךָ Psalm 5:5; 3rd person feminine singular וַתָּ֫גָר 2 Kings 8:2; 2nd person feminine singular תָּגוּרִי 2 Kings 8:1; cohortative אָגוּ֑רָה Psalm 61:5 יָגוּרוּ Isaiah 16:4; Imperative גּוּר Genesis 26:3, גּוּ֫רִי 2 Kings 8:1; Infinitive construct גּוּר Genesis 12:10 + 17 times; Participle גָּר Deuteronomy 18:6; Judges 17:7 + 17 times; feminine construct גָּרַת Exodus 3:22; plural גָּרִים Leviticus 25:6 + 8 times; construct גָּרֵי Job 19:15; —
1. sojourn, dwell for a (definite or indefinite) time, dwell as a new-comer (compare גֵּר) without original rights, see especially Genesis 19:9 (J) Deuteronomy 18:6 & compare Judges 17:7, 8, 9; Judges 19:1; also Genesis 12:10; Genesis 20:1; Genesis 21:23, 34; Gen 32:5 [Genesis 32:4]; Genesis 47:4 (all J E); of partriarchs in Canaan Genesis 26:3 (J) Genesis 35:27; Exodus 6:4 (both P) compare Psalm 105:12 = 1 Chronicles 16:19; Judges 19:16; 2 Samuel 4:3; 2 Kings 8:1 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 8:2 (seven years) Isaiah 16:4; Ruth 1:1; Ezra 1:4 (in exile); compare further Exodus 3:22 (E) גָּרַת בַּיִת of a woman in another's house as lodger or guest (see Di), גָּרֵי בַיִת Job 19:15; so (poetry) of worshipper in Yahweh's house Psalm 15:1; Psalm 61:5 compare Isaiah 33:14 (twice in verse); figurative of evil לֹא יְגָֻֽרְךָ רָ֑ע Psalm 5:5 evil cannot be a guest of thine (Che; followed by accusative, as in Arabic جاوره III); particulary of the גֵּר (which see) in Israel Exodus 12:48, 49; Leviticus 16:29 (all P) 17: 8; Leviticus 17:10, 12, 13; Leviticus 18:26; Leviticus 19:33, 34; Leviticus 20:2; Leviticus 25:6, 45 (all H) Numbers 9:14; Numbers 15:14, 15, 16, 26, 29; Numbers 19:10; Joshua 20:9 (all P) Ezekiel 14:7; Ezekiel 47:22, 23; of Ephraim and Manasseh sojourning with Judah and Benjamin 2 Chronicles 15:9; of Rechabites sojourning in Judah Jeremiah 35:7; of Israelites sojourning in Egypt Deuteronomy 26:5; Isaiah 52:4; Psalm 105:23; so of Judah, to escape from under Babylonian power Jeremiah 42:15, 17, 22; Jeremiah 43:2; Jeremiah 44:8, 12, 14, 28.
2. abide, nearly or quite = dwell Jeremiah 43:5 compare Lamentations 4:15; Jeremiah 49:18, 33; Jeremiah 50:40, also Job 28:4; of wolf dwelling with lamb Isaiah 11:6; stay (inactive) Judges 5:17; — in Isaiah 5:17 read perhaps, for גָּרִים, גְּדָיִם or כָּרִים compare Greek Version of the LXX Lo Ew Di & Che critical note (> Stu גֵּרִים)
Hithpol. Participle מִתְגּוֺרֵר 1 Kings 17:20 seek hospitality with, followed by עִם (compareArabic x); יִתְגּוֺרָ֖רוּ Hosea 7:14 is dubious (compare II. גור below); AE Ki Thes Wü AV RV they assemble themselves, but text probably error, see גדד.

† II. [גּוּר] verb stir up strife, quarrel (compare H1624 גרה) — so Ew Che Di RVm (Isaiah 54:15); gather together Ges De Br compare Targum Vulgate, so AV RV; —
Qal. Perfect גָּר Isaiah 54:15; Imperfect יָגוּר Isaiah 54:15, יָגוּרוּ Psalm 56:7; Psalm 59:4; Psalm 140:3 (on all compare below); Infinitive absolute גּוֺר Isaiah 54:15; —
1. stir up strife, absolute גּוֺר יָגוּר Isaiah 54:14; compare Psalm 56:7 (but AE Che read יָגוֺדּוּ attack, see גדד); followed by עַל־ Psalm 59:4 (but Che id.; compare Psalm 94:21, which however Ol would emend by Psalm 56:7; Psalm 59:4); followed by accusative מִלְחָמוֺת Psalm 140:3 (Hup Che read יְגָרוּ Pi. Imperfect of גרה)
2. quarrel, followed by אֶת־ with Isaiah 54:15. Here also
Hithpol. Imperfect Hosea 7:14 יִתְגּוֺרָ֖רוּ (compare I. גור), according to Ew, they excite themselves, but unlikely; see גדד.

† III. [גּוּר] verb dread (compare יָגֹר) —
Qal Imperfect וַיָּגָר Numbers 22:3; 1 Samuel 18:15; 2nd person masculine singular תָּגוּר Deuteronomy 18:22; אָגוּר Deuteronomy 32:27; plural יָגוּרוּ Psalm 33:8; Job 41:17 + Hosea 10:5, תָּגוּרוּ Deuteronomy 1:17; Imperative גּוּרוּ Psalm 22:24; Job 19:29; —
1. be afraid of, followed by מִפְּנֵי Numbers 22:3; Deuteronomy 1:17; 1 Samuel 18:15, מִפְּנֵי לָכֶם גּוּרו Job 19:29; with מִן Job 41:17; Deuteronomy 18:22; with accusative Deuteronomy 32:27 (poetry) Hosea 10:5 read probably ינודו lament (|| אבל, used with לְ e.g. Nahum 3:7; Jeremiah 15:5 and elsewhere; compare Che).
2. stand in awe of, followed by מִן Psalm 22:24; Psalm 33:8 (יָרֵא).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:10; 12:10; 19:9; 20:1; 20:1; 21:23; 21:23; 21:34; 26:3; 26:3; 32:4; 32:4; 35:27; 35:27; 47:4

Exodus

3:22; 3:22; 6:4; 6:4; 12:48; 12:48; 12:49

Leviticus

16:29; 17:10; 17:12; 17:13; 18:26; 19:33; 19:34; 20:2; 25:6; 25:6; 25:45

Numbers

9:14; 15:14; 15:15; 15:16; 15:26; 15:29; 19:10; 22:3; 22:3

Deuteronomy

1:17; 1:17; 18:6; 18:6; 18:22; 18:22; 26:5; 32:27; 32:27

Joshua

20:9

Judges

5:17; 17:7; 17:7; 17:8; 17:9; 19:1; 19:16

Ruth

1:1

1 Samuel

18:15; 18:15

2 Samuel

4:3

1 Kings

17:20

2 Kings

8:1; 8:1; 8:1; 8:2; 8:2

1 Chronicles

16:19

2 Chronicles

15:9

Ezra

1:4

Job

19:15; 19:15; 19:29; 19:29; 28:4; 41:17; 41:17

Psalms

5:5; 5:5; 15:1; 22:24; 22:24; 33:8; 33:8; 56:7; 56:7; 56:7; 59:4; 59:4; 59:4; 61:5; 61:5; 94:21; 105:12; 105:23; 120:5; 140:3; 140:3

Isaiah

5:17; 11:6; 11:6; 16:4; 16:4; 33:14; 52:4; 54:14; 54:15; 54:15; 54:15; 54:15; 54:15

Jeremiah

15:5; 35:7; 42:15; 42:17; 42:22; 43:2; 43:5; 44:8; 44:12; 44:14; 44:28; 49:18; 49:33; 50:40

Lamentations

4:15

Ezekiel

14:7; 47:22; 47:23

Hosea

7:14; 7:14; 10:5; 10:5

Nahum

3:7

H1481

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Strong's Number H1481 matches the Hebrew גּוּר (gûr),
which occurs 98 times in 94 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 2 (1Ch 16:19–Hos 10:5)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:19 - When you were few in number,
of little account, and sojourners in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:9 - And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and those from Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who were residing with them, for great numbers had deserted to him from Israel when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 1:4 - And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger;
I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:29 - be afraid of the sword,
for wrath brings the punishment of the sword,
that you may know there is a judgment.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 28:4 - He opens shafts in a valley away from where anyone lives;
they are forgotten by travelers;
they hang in the air, far away from mankind; they swing to and fro.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:25 - When he raises himself up, the mighty[fn] are afraid;
at the crashing they are beside themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:4 - For you are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil may not dwell with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 15:1 - A Psalm of David.
O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent?
Who shall dwell on your holy hill?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:23 - You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him,
and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 33:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 33:8 - Let all the earth fear the LORD;
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 56:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 56:6 - They stir up strife, they lurk;
they watch my steps,
as they have waited for my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 59:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:3 - For behold, they lie in wait for my life;
fierce men stir up strife against me.
For no transgression or sin of mine, O LORD,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 61:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 61:4 - Let me dwell in your tent forever!
Let me take refuge under the shelter of your wings! Selah

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:12 - When they were few in number,
of little account, and sojourners in it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 105:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:23 - Then Israel came to Egypt;
Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 120:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 120:5 - Woe to me, that I sojourn in Meshech,
that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 140:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:2 - who plan evil things in their heart
and stir up wars continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:17 - Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture,
and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:6 - The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
and a little child shall lead them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:4 - let the outcasts of Moab
sojourn among you;
be a shelter to them[fn]
from the destroyer.
When the oppressor is no more,
and destruction has ceased,
and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:7 - Is this your exultant city
whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
to settle far away?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:14 - The sinners in Zion are afraid;
trembling has seized the godless:
“Who among us can dwell with the consuming fire?
Who among us can dwell with everlasting burnings?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 52:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:4 - For thus says the Lord GOD: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:15 - If anyone stirs up strife,
it is not from me;
whoever stirs up strife with you
shall fall because of you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 35:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 35:7 - You shall not build a house; you shall not sow seed; you shall not plant or have a vineyard; but you shall live in tents all your days, that you may live many days in the land where you sojourn.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:15 - then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah. Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: If you set your faces to enter Egypt and go to live there,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:17 - All the men who set their faces to go to Egypt to live there shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence. They shall have no remnant or survivor from the disaster that I will bring upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 42:22 - Now therefore know for a certainty that you shall die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence in the place where you desire to go to live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:2 - Azariah the son of Hoshaiah and Johanan the son of Kareah and all the insolent men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie. The LORD our God did not send you to say, ‘Do not go to Egypt to live there,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:5 - But Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned to live in the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been driven—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - Why do you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, making offerings to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to live, so that you may be cut off and become a curse and a taunt among all the nations of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:12 - I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to come to the land of Egypt to live, and they shall all be consumed. In the land of Egypt they shall fall; by the sword and by famine they shall be consumed. From the least to the greatest, they shall die by the sword and by famine, and they shall become an oath, a horror, a curse, and a taunt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:14 - so that none of the remnant of Judah who have come to live in the land of Egypt shall escape or survive or return to the land of Judah, to which they desire to return to dwell there. For they shall not return, except some fugitives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:28 - And those who escape the sword shall return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who came to the land of Egypt to live, shall know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:18 - As when Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities were overthrown, says the LORD, no man shall dwell there, no man shall sojourn in her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:33 - Hazor shall become a haunt of jackals,
an everlasting waste;
no man shall dwell there;
no man shall sojourn in her.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:40 - As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the LORD, so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - “Away! Unclean!” people cried at them.
“Away! Away! Do not touch!”
So they became fugitives and wanderers;
people said among the nations,
“They shall stay with us no longer.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, I the LORD will answer him myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the sojourners who reside among you and have had children among you. They shall be to you as native-born children of Israel. With you they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:23 - In whatever tribe the sojourner resides, there you shall assign him his inheritance, declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 7:14 - They do not cry to me from the heart,
but they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
they rebel against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 10:5 - The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
for the calf[fn] of Beth-aven.
Its people mourn for it, and so do its idolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and over its glory—
for it has departed[fn] from them.

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