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Lexicon :: Strong's H2691 - ḥāṣēr

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חָצֵר
Transliteration
ḥāṣēr
Pronunciation
khaw-tsare'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From חָצַר (H2690) in its original sense
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 722a,723a

Strong’s Definitions

חָצֵר châtsêr, khaw-tsare'; (masculine and feminine); from H2690 in its original sense; a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls):—court, tower, village.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 189x

The KJV translates Strong's H2691 in the following manner: court (141x), villages (47x), towns (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 189x
The KJV translates Strong's H2691 in the following manner: court (141x), villages (47x), towns (1x).

  1. court, enclosure

    1. enclosures

    2. court

  2. settled abode, settlement, village, town

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָצֵר châtsêr, khaw-tsare'; (masculine and feminine); from H2690 in its original sense; a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls):—court, tower, village.
STRONGS H2691: Abbreviations
I. חָצֵר 145 noun masculine Ezekiel 40:23 and (oftener) feminine 1 Kings 6:36 enclosure, court — absolute ח׳ 1 Kings 7:8 +, חָצֵרָה Jeremiah 36:20; construct חֲצַר Exodus 27:9 +; suffix חֲצֵרוֺ 2 Samuel 17:18; חֲצֵרוֺת Exodus 8:9 + 4 times; construct חַצְרֵי Nehemiah 13:7, הַצְרוֺת 2 Kings 21:5 + 10 times; suffix חֲצֵרָ֑י Isaiah 1:12; Zechariah 3:7; חֲצֵרֶיךָ Psalm 65:5; Psalm 84:11; חֲצֵרוֺתָ֑י 1 Chronicles 28:6; חֲצֵרֹתָיו Psalm 100:4, לְחַצְרוֺתָ֑יו Psalm 96:8, וּבְחַצְרֹתֵיהֶם Nehemiah 8:16; —
1. enclosures (in Egypt), perhaps court-yards, or cattle-yards, distinct from houses and from fields Exodus 8:9 (J).
2. court of private house 2 Samuel 17:18 (containing well), compare Nehemiah 8:16; of a palace, חָצֵר הָאַחֶרֶת 1 Kings 7:8 the other court, immediately surrounding palace, so called in distinct. from הַגְּדוֺלָה (הֶ)ח׳ 1 Kings 7:9; 1 Kings 7:12 the great court, including הא׳ ח׳ and הַמְּנִימִית הֶח׳ of temple (see 3b) in one great enclosure (see StaSalomos Bauten, ZAW 1883. 152 f.); 2 Kings 20:4 (Qr Vrss The Kmp Klo and others; Kt Ke and others הָעִיר), Jeremiah 36:20; Esther 1:5; Esther 2:11; Esther 4:11; Esther 5:1, 2; Esther 6:4 (twice in verse); Esther 6:5; מַטָּרָה ח׳ court of guard, place of (honourable) confinement Jeremiah 32:2 (in king's house), Jeremiah 32:8; Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 33:1; Jeremiah 37:21 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 38:6, 13, 28; Jeremiah 39:14, 15. Especially
3. a. court of tabernacle חֲצַר הַמִּשְׁכָּן Exodus 27:9, compare Exodus 27:9; Exodus 27:12; Exodus 27:13 + 24 times Exodus (all P; שַׁעַר הֶח׳ gate of the court Exodus 35:17; Exodus 38:15, 18, 31; Exodus 39:40; Exodus 40:8, 33); Leviticus 6:9; Leviticus 6:19; Numbers 3:26 (twice in verse) (פֶּתַח הֶח׳), Numbers 3:37; Numbers 4:26 (twice in verse) (הֶח׳ שַׁעַר פֶּתַח), Numbers 4:32; courts of house of י׳ 1 Chronicles 23:28.
b. court(s) of Solomon's temple, inner with הַפְּנִימִית הֶח׳ 1 Kings 6:36; 1 Kings 7:12 (but on text see Stal.c.) Ezekiel 8:16; Ezekiel 10:3 compare Ezekiel 10:4;＝upper with הָעֶלְיוֺן הֶח׳ Jeremiah 36:10 (see Gf), and הַכֹּהֲנִים ח׳ 2 Chronicles 4:9 (where also הָעֲזָרָה הַגְּדוֺלָה, as often Ezek., also דְּלָתוֺת לָעֲזָרָה); outer court הֶח׳ הַחִיצֹנָה Ezekiel 10:5＝הַחֲדָשָׁה הֶח׳ 2 Chronicles 20:5; see further 1 Kings 8:64 2 Chronicles 7:7; 24:21; 29:16; Jeremiah 19:14; Jeremiah 26:2; Ezekiel 8:7; two courts 2 Kings 21:5 2 Chronicles 33:5; 2 Kings 23:12; courts Ezekiel 9:7; 1 Chronicles 28:12; 2 Chronicles 23:5; Nehemiah 8:1, 6; Nehemiah 13:7; often in poetry, courts of י׳ Isaiah 1:12; Isaiah 62:9 (קדשׁי ח׳), Zechariah 3:7; Psalm 65:5; Psalm 84:3; Psalm 84:11; Psalm 96:8; Psalm 100:4; Psalm 116:19; Psalm 135:2
c. courts of Ezekiel's temple Ezekiel 40:14 + 38 times Ezekiel 40-46 (of these read הַשַּׁעַר for החצר Ezekiel 40:19, 32 with Greek Version of the LXX Hi Co; and החיצון for החצר Ezekiel 41:15 with Greek Version of the LXX Ew Co). **Ezekiel 42:6 הַחִיצֹנוֺת for הַחֲצֵרוֺת.

II. [חָצֵר] 46 noun masculineNehemiah 11:25 settled abode, settlement, village (Lagl.c.) — always plural, absolute חֲצֵרִים Joshua 19:8 + 5 times; construct חַצְרֵי 1 Chronicles 9:16; Nehemiah 12:28; suffix חֲצֵרֶיהָ Joshua 21:12 + 4 times; חַצְרֵיהֶם 1 Chronicles 4:33 + 6 times; חַצְרֵיהֶן Joshua 13:23 + 24 times Joshua; —
a. settlements of Ishmaelites Genesis 25:16 (P; || טִירוֺת circles of tents); of עַוִּים [H2699 Deuteronomy 2:23]; of Kedar Isaiah 42:11 (|| עָרִים); בָּתֵּי הַחֲצֵרִים אֲשֶׁר אֵיןלָֿהֶם חֹמָה סָבִיב Leviticus 25:31 (H), houses of the villages which have no wall about them; מַאֲרַב חֲצֵרִים Psalm 10:8 lurking-place(s) of villages (i.e. where oppressor, as a wild beast, watches his opportunity to attack the defenceless). Usually...
b. as dependencies of cities Joshua 15:46, with בְּנֹתֶיהָ (see above בַּת 4.) Joshua 15:45, 47 (twice in verse) (all J E ?); אֲשֶׁר סְבִיבוֺת הֶעָרִים וְכָלהַֿח׳ Joshua 19:8 (P), also Joshua 21:12 (P),＝1 Chronicles 6:41; Nehemiah 12:29; also Joshua 13:23, 28; Joshua 15:32 + 23 times Joshua (all P), Nehemiah 11:25, 30 (|| בָּנוֺת Nehemiah 11:25; Nehemiah 11:27 etc.), Nehemiah 12:28.
c. villages, not contrasted with cities (compare Isaiah 42:11 above) 1 Chronicles 9:16, 22, 25 (all of Levites).
d. ח׳ apparently including all settlements outside of Jerusalem הַח׳ בִּשְׂדֹתָם Nehemiah 11:25. — ח׳ in proper name, of a location see below (and see Bla on Joshua 15:20-32).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

25:16

Exodus

8:9; 8:9; 27:9; 27:9; 27:9; 27:12; 27:13; 35:17; 38:15; 38:18; 38:31; 39:40; 40:8; 40:33

Leviticus

6:9; 6:19; 25:31

Numbers

3:26; 3:37; 4:26; 4:32

Joshua

13:23; 13:23; 13:28; 15:32; 15:45; 15:46; 15:47; 19:8; 19:8; 21:12; 21:12

2 Samuel

17:18; 17:18

1 Kings

6:36; 6:36; 7:8; 7:8; 7:9; 7:12; 7:12; 8:64

2 Kings

20:4; 21:5; 21:5; 23:12

1 Chronicles

4:33; 6:41; 9:16; 9:16; 9:22; 9:25; 23:28; 28:6; 28:12

2 Chronicles

4:9; 7:7; 20:5; 23:5; 24:21; 29:16; 33:5

Nehemiah

8:1; 8:6; 8:16; 8:16; 11:25; 11:25; 11:25; 11:25; 11:27; 11:30; 12:28; 12:28; 12:29; 13:7; 13:7

Esther

1:5; 2:11; 4:11; 5:1; 5:2; 6:4; 6:5

Psalms

10:8; 65:5; 65:5; 84:3; 84:11; 84:11; 96:8; 96:8; 100:4; 100:4; 116:19; 135:2

Isaiah

1:12; 1:12; 42:11; 42:11; 62:9

Jeremiah

19:14; 26:2; 32:2; 32:8; 32:12; 33:1; 36:10; 36:20; 36:20; 37:21; 38:6; 38:13; 38:28; 39:14; 39:15

Ezekiel

8:7; 8:16; 9:7; 10:3; 10:4; 10:5; 40:14; 40:19; 40:23; 40:32; 41:15; 42:6

Zechariah

3:7; 3:7

H2691

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Strong's Number H2691 matches the Hebrew חָצֵר (ḥāṣēr),
which occurs 190 times in 163 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 4 (Jos 19:16–Psa 65:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:16 - This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages. H2691

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:22 - And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages. H2691

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:23 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages. H2691

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:30 - Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages. H2691

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:31 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages. H2691

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:38 - And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. H2691

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:39 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages. H2691

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:48 - This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages. H2691

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 21:12 - But the fields of the city, and the villages H2691 thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:18 - Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man's house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; H2691 whither they went down.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 6:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:36 - And he built the inner court H2691 with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:8 - And his house where he dwelt had another court H2691 within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:9 - All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. H2691

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:12 - And the great court H2691 round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court H2691 of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:64

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court H2691 that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 20:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:4 - And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, H2691 that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:5 - And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts H2691 of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:12 - And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts H2691 of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:32 - And their villages H2691 were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:33 - And all their villages H2691 that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:56

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:56 - But the fields of the city, and the villages H2691 thereof, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:16 - And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages H2691 of the Netophathites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:22 - All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, H2691 whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:25 - And their brethren, which were in their villages, H2691 were to come after seven days from time to time with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:28 - Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, H2691 and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:6 - And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: H2691 for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:12 - And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts H2691 of the house of the LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:9 - Furthermore he made the court H2691 of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:7 - Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court H2691 that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:5 - And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court, H2691

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:5 - And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts H2691 of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:21 - And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court H2691 of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 29:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 29:16 - And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court H2691 of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:5 - And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts H2691 of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:25 - Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king's high house, that was by the court H2691 of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 8:16 - So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, H2691 and in the courts H2691 of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:25 - And for the villages, H2691 with their fields, some of the children of Judah dwelt at Kirjatharba, and in the villages H2691 thereof, and at Dibon, and in the villages thereof, and at Jekabzeel, and in the villages thereof,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 11:30 - Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, H2691 at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and in the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:28 - And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages H2691 of Netophathi;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 12:29 - Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages H2691 round about Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:7 - And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts H2691 of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:5 - And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court H2691 of the garden of the king's palace;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:11 - And Mordecai walked every day before the court H2691 of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:11 - All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, H2691 who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:1 - Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court H2691 of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:2 - And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, H2691 that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the sceptre.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:4 - And the king said, Who is in the court? H2691 Now Haman was come into the outward court H2691 of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:5 - And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. H2691 And the king said, Let him come in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:8 - He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: H2691 in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:4 - Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: H2691 we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.

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