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Lexicon :: Strong's H259 - 'eḥāḏ

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אֶחָד
Transliteration
'eḥāḏ
Pronunciation
ekh-awd'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
A numeral from אָחַד (H258)
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TWOT Reference: 61

Strong’s Definitions

אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x

The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x
The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

  1. one (number)

    1. one (number)

    2. each, every

    3. a certain

    4. an (indefinite article)

    5. only, once, once for all

    6. one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one

    7. first

    8. eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
STRONGS H259: Abbreviations
אֶחָד 962 adjective number one (Phoenician אחד, Sabean id., compare DHMZMG 1876, 707, Arabic أَحَدً, Ethiopic አሐዱ፡ Aramaic חַד, dfo; on Assyrian edu, aḫadu, compare DlW No. 139) — absoluteא׳ Genesis 1:5 —אַחַ֫ד Genesis 21:15 +; so even before preposition 1 Samuel 9:3 and elsewhere see Dr; feminine absolute אַחַ֫ת Genesis 2:21 +; אֶחָ֑ת † Genesis 11:1 +; construct אַחַ֫ת Deuteronomy 13:13 +; plural masculine אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 + 4:t.; חַד Ezekiel 33:30 strike out Co compare Greek Version of the LXX; —
1. one Genesis 1:9; Genesis 27:38, 45; Exodus 12:49; Joshua 23:10; 1 Samuel 1:24; 2 Samuel 12:3 +, Zechariah 14:9; Malachi 2:10; Job 31:15 +, so also (emphatic) 2 Samuel 17:3 for MT אֲשֶׁר Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one or two לֹא לְיוֺם אֶחָד וְלֹא לִשְׁנַיִם Ezra 10:13; as substantive followed by מִן Genesis 2:21; Leviticus 4:2, 13; Isaiah 34:16 +; הָא׳ Genesis 19:9; Genesis 42:13, 32; 2 Kings 6:3, 5 +; one and the same Genesis 40:5; Job 31:15; plural דְּבָרִים אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 compare Ezekiel 37:17 (absolute), but see Co;＝few, a few יָמִים א׳ ‴ Genesis 27:44; Genesis 29:20; Daniel 11:20; כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד as one man, together Judges 20:8; 1 Samuel 11:7; also כְּאֶחָד late＝Aramaic כַּחֲדָא † Ezra 2:64 (= Nehemiah 7:66) Ezra 3:9; Ezra 6:20; Ecclesiastes 11:6; see especially Isaiah 65:25 (|| earlier יַחְדֶּו Isaiah 11:6, 7).
2.＝each, every Exodus 36:30; Numbers 7:3, 85; Numbers 28:21; 1 Kings 4:7; 2 Kings 15:20 +; also repeated, distributive sense Numbers 7:11; Numbers 13:2; Numbers 17:21; Joshua 3:12; Joshua 4:2, 4.
3.＝a certain 1 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 18:10; 2 Kings 4:1; Esther 3:8 — 2 Samuel 17:9 see Dr 1 Samuel 1:1; hence
4.＝indefinite article 1 Samuel 6:7; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 26:20 (but strike out Greek Version of the LXX We Dr) 1 Kings 19:4, 5 +.
5. only 1 Kings 4:19; & (feminine) once 2 Kings 6:10; Psalm 62:12; Psalm 89:36 (once for all); אַחַת לְשָׁלוֺשׁ שָׁנִים 2 Chronicles 9:21, בַּשָּׁנָה א׳ Leviticus 16:34 compare Job 40:5, אֶחָ֑ת אֶחָ֑ת Joshua 6:3, 11 compare Joshua 6:14, בְּאַחַת Numbers 10:4; Job 33:14; at once בְּאֶחָ֑ת Proverbs 28:18 compare וְאִנָּקְמֶה נְקַם־אַחַת Judges 16:28. **Num 10:4 בְּאַחַת is rather 'in one (of the trumpets)'; Job 33:14 it＝in one way; Proverbs 28:18 read probably with Syriac Version Lag Dy Bi בַּשָּׁ֑חַת; Judges 16:28 is rather 'vengeance for one of my two eyes' (see GFM). Jeremiah 10:8 בְּאַחַת probably＝in one, altogether. אחד.
6. one... another, the one... the other א׳⬩⬩⬩א׳ Exodus 17:12; Exodus 18:3, 4; Amos 4:7; 2 Samuel 12:1; Jeremiah 24:2; 2 Chronicles 3:17; Nehemiah 4:11 +; 2 Samuel 14:6 read הָאֶחָד אֶת־אָחִיו for האחד את־האחד Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one after another, one by one, לְאַחַד אֶחָד Isaiah 27:12 compare Ecclesiastes 7:27.
7. as ordinal, first (mostly P & late) Genesis 1:5 (P) Genesis 2:11 (J) Exodus 39:10 (P); absolute Job 42:14, Ezekiel 10:14 especially of first day of month Exodus 40:2 (P) Ezra 3:6; Ezra 10:16, 17; Nehemiah 8:2; Haggai 1:1; first year, שְׁנַת אַחַת 2 Chronicles 36:22; Ezra 1:1; Daniel 1:21; Daniel 9:1, 2; Daniel 11:1 compare first (day, יוֺם omitted) Genesis 8:5, 13 בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ; so Exodus 40:17; Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 1:18; Numbers 29:1; Numbers 33:38 (all P) Deuteronomy 1:3; 2 Chronicles 29:17; Ezra 7:9 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1; Ezekiel 45:18.
8. in combination,
a. אַחַד עָשָׂר eleven (compare עָשָׂר, עַשְׁתֵּי) Genesis 32:23; Genesis 37:9 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:2; so אַחַת־עֶשְׂרֵה Joshua 15:51 (P) 2 Kings 23:36; 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Chronicles 36:5, 11; Jeremiah 52:1 (precedes noun, except Joshua 15:51; as ordinal, eleventh אַחַת עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1 compare 1 Kings 6:38; 2 Kings 9:29;
b. with other numerals, as cardinal אֶחָד וְאַרְבָּעִים אֶלֶף וַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֺת Numbers 1:41; compare Numbers 2:16, 28; Numbers 31:34, 39 (all P; א׳ precedes other numeral); but אַרְבָּיִם וְאַחַת שָׁנָה (א׳ following) 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Chronicles 12:13 compare 2 Kings 22:1 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Kings 24:18＝Jeremiah 52:1 2 Chronicles 36:11; Joshua 12:24 (D) Isaiah 30:17; Ezra 2:26＝Nehemiah 7:30 compare Nehemiah 7:37; Daniel 10:13; as ordinal בְּאַחַת וְשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֺת שָׁנָה Genesis 8:13 (P) Exodus 12:18 (P), 1 Chronicles 24:17; 1 Chronicles 25:28; 2 Chronicles 16:13 (א׳ preceding); but 1 Kings 16:23; Haggai 2:1 (א׳ following).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:5; 1:5; 1:9; 2:11; 2:21; 2:21; 8:5; 8:13; 8:13; 11:1; 11:1; 11:1; 19:9; 21:15; 27:38; 27:44; 27:45; 29:20; 32:23; 37:9; 40:5; 42:13; 42:32

Exodus

12:18; 12:49; 17:12; 18:3; 18:4; 36:30; 39:10; 40:2; 40:17

Leviticus

4:2; 4:13; 16:34; 23:24

Numbers

1:18; 1:41; 2:16; 2:28; 7:3; 7:11; 7:85; 10:4; 10:4; 13:2; 28:21; 29:1; 31:34; 31:39; 33:38

Deuteronomy

1:2; 1:3; 13:13

Joshua

3:12; 4:2; 4:4; 6:3; 6:11; 6:14; 12:24; 15:51; 15:51; 23:10

Judges

16:28; 16:28; 20:8

1 Samuel

1:1; 1:1; 1:24; 6:7; 9:3; 11:7; 24:15; 26:20

2 Samuel

12:1; 12:3; 14:6; 17:3; 17:9; 18:10

1 Kings

4:7; 4:19; 6:38; 14:21; 15:10; 16:23; 19:4; 19:5

2 Kings

4:1; 6:3; 6:5; 6:10; 9:29; 14:23; 15:20; 22:1; 23:36; 24:18; 24:18

1 Chronicles

24:17; 25:28

2 Chronicles

3:17; 9:21; 12:13; 16:13; 29:17; 34:1; 36:5; 36:11; 36:11; 36:22

Ezra

1:1; 2:26; 2:64; 3:6; 3:9; 6:20; 7:9; 10:13; 10:16; 10:17

Nehemiah

4:11; 7:30; 7:37; 7:66; 8:2

Esther

3:8

Job

31:15; 31:15; 33:14; 33:14; 40:5; 42:14

Psalms

62:12; 89:36

Proverbs

28:18; 28:18

Ecclesiastes

7:27; 11:6

Isaiah

11:6; 11:7; 27:12; 30:17; 34:16; 65:25

Jeremiah

10:8; 24:2; 52:1; 52:1

Ezekiel

10:14; 26:1; 29:17; 30:20; 31:1; 31:1; 32:1; 33:30; 37:17; 45:18

Daniel

1:21; 9:1; 9:2; 10:13; 11:1; 11:20

Amos

4:7

Haggai

1:1; 2:1

Zechariah

14:9

Malachi

2:10

H259

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Strong's Number H259 matches the Hebrew אֶחָד ('eḥāḏ),
which occurs 976 times in 739 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 15 (Gen 1:5–Exo 12:18)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:5 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening, and there was morning -- the first day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:9 - And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:11 - The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:21 - And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man; and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:22 - And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, Man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he stretch out his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever ...!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:19 - And Lemech took two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the second, Zillah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - And the waters abated continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:13 - And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:25 - And to Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:1 - And the whole earth had one language, and the same words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:6 - And Jehovah said, Behold, the people is one, and have all one language; and this have they begun to do. And now will they be hindered in nothing that they meditate doing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - And they said, Back there! And they said again, This one came to sojourn, and he must be a judge? Now we will deal worse with thee than with them. And they pressed hard on the man -- on Lot; and drew near to break the door.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:15 - And the water was exhausted from the flask; and she cast the child under one of the shrubs,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:2 - And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and there offer him up for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:10 - And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done to us? But a little and one of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought a trespass on us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:38 - And Esau said to his father, Hast thou then but one blessing, my father? bless me -- me also, my father! And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:44 - and abide with him some days, until thy brother's fury turn away --

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:45 - until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget what thou hast done to him; then I will send and fetch thee thence. Why should I be bereaved even of you both in one day?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:20 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:8 - And he said, If Esau come to the one troop and smite it, then the other troop which is left shall escape.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13 - And he said to him, My lord knows that the children are tender, and the suckling sheep and kine are with me; and if they should overdrive them only one day, all the flock would die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:16 - then will we give our daughters to you, and take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and be one people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - But only in this will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to be one people -- if every male among us be circumcised, just as they are circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20 - And now come and let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, An evil beast has devoured him; and we will see what becomes of his dreams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - And they dreamed a dream, both of them in one night, each his dream, each according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup-bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were imprisoned in the tower-house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 - And he slept and dreamed the second time; and behold, seven ears of corn grew up on one stalk, fat and good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:11 - And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each according to the interpretation of his dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - And I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears came up on one stalk, full and good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:25 - And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God will do he has made known to Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26 - The seven fine kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:11 - We are all one man's sons; we are honest: thy servants are not spies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - And they said, Thy servants were twelve brethren, sons of one man, in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:16 - Send one of you, that he may fetch your brother, but ye shall be imprisoned, and your words shall be put to the proof, whether the truth is in you; and if not, as Pharaoh lives, ye are spies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:19 - If ye are honest, let one of your brethren remain bound in the house of your prison, but go ye, carry grain for the hunger of your households;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:27 - And one of them opened his sack to give his ass food in the inn, and saw his money, and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - we are twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:33 - And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Hereby shall I know that ye are honest: leave one of your brethren with me, and take for the hunger of your households, and go,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:28 - and the one went out from me, and I said, He must certainly have been torn in pieces; and I have not seen him again hitherto.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:22 - And *I* have given to thee one tract of land above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 - Dan will judge his people, As another of the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:15 - And the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives -- of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other was Puah --

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:31 - And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the dog-flies from Pharaoh, from his bondmen, and from his people; there remained not one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:6 - And Jehovah did this thing on the following day, and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:7 - And Pharaoh sent, and behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And Jehovah turned a very powerful west wind, which took away the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea: there remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:1 - And Jehovah said to Moses, Yet one plague will I bring upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go altogether, he shall utterly drive you out hence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening.

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