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Lexicon :: Strong's H410 - 'ēl

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אֵל
Transliteration
'ēl
Pronunciation
ale
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Shortened from אַיִל (H352)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 93a

Strong’s Definitions

אֵל ʼêl, ale; shortened from H352; strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity):—God (god), × goodly, × great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in '-el.'

KJV Translation Count — Total: 245x

The KJV translates Strong's H410 in the following manner: God (213x), god (16x), power (4x), mighty (5x), goodly (1x), great (1x), idols (1x), Immanuel (with H6005) (2x), might (1x), strong (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 245x
The KJV translates Strong's H410 in the following manner: God (213x), god (16x), power (4x), mighty (5x), goodly (1x), great (1x), idols (1x), Immanuel (with H6005) (2x), might (1x), strong (1x).

  1. god, god-like one, mighty one

    1. mighty men, men of rank, mighty heroes

    2. angels

    3. god, false god, (demons, imaginations)

    4. God, the one true God, Jehovah

  2. mighty things in nature

  3. strength, power

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵל ʼêl, ale; shortened from H352; strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity):—God (god), × goodly, × great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in '-el.'
STRONGS H410: Abbreviations
II. אֵל noun masculine (also, in proper name אֶל, אֱלִי; Samaritan אל, Phoenician אל, אלן (i.e. probably אֵלֹן), Sabean אל, DHMOr. Congr. Leiden, 1883, Assyrian ilu, Dlw; perhaps also Arabic, Aramaic compare Nöon the passage; on goddess אלת Phoenician, Palmyrene, Nabataean, Sabean (also אלהת) DHMl.c.; Arabic إِلَاهَهَ (plural إِلَاهَات) FlKl. Schr. i. 154, Assyrian Allatu Jr66, Syriac aXTXhXlAF  , compare also BaeRel 58, 90, 97, 271, 207) god, but with various subordinate applications to express idea of might; — hardly ever in prose except with defining word (adjective or genitive); its only suffix is יִ֯; —
† 1. applied to men of might and rank, אֵל גוים mighty one of the nations Ezekiel 31:11 (of Nebuchadnezzar; Greek Version of the LXX ἄρχων ἔθνων, איל some MSS. Co); אֵלִים mighty men Job 41:17 (אילים, many MSS. Di); אֵלֵי גִבּוֺרִים mighty heroes Ezekiel 32:21 (אֵילֵי MSS. Co); אֵילֵי הָאֶרֶץ Ezekiel 17:13; 2 Kings 24:15 (Kt אולי); אֵילִים Exodus 15:15 (probably plural of III. אַיִל, which see) These readings are uncertain because of an effort to distinguish these forms from the divine name. אֵל גִּבּוֺר mighty hero (as above) ordivine hero (as reflecting the divine majesty) Isaiah 9:6.
†2. angels, בְּנֵי אֵלִים Psalm 29:1; Psalm 89:7 = בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים.
†3. gods of the nations, אֵל אֵלִים God of gods, supreme God Daniel 11:36; מִי כָמֹכָה בָּאֵלִם who is like thee among the gods Exodus 15:11; idols Isaiah 43:10; Isaiah 44:10, 15, 17; Isaiah 46:6; מי אל בשמים what God in heaven Deuteronomy 3:24; אֵל אחר another god Exodus 34:14 (J); אֵל זר foreign god Psalm 44:21; Psalm 81:10; אל נכר Deuteronomy 32:12; Malachi 2:11; Psalm 81:10.
†4. H1286 El proper name אל ברית El Berith Judges 9:46 (= בעל ברית Judges 8:33; Judges 9:4) compare also 6 (f) below.
†5. as characterizing mighty things in nature, חררי אל mighty mountains Psalm 36:7 (literally mountains of El); also Psalm 50:10 Ol Bi Che see below II. אלף; ארזי אל mighty cedars Psalm 80:11; כוכבי אל lofty stars Isaiah 14:13.
6. God217, the one only and true God of Israel:
(a) הָאֵל the God, the true God Genesis 31:13; Genesis 35:1, 3; Genesis 46:3 (E) 2 Samuel 22:31, 33, 48 (= Psalm 18:31; Psalm 18:33; Psalm 18:48) Psalm 68:20; Psalm 68:21; Psalm 77:15; הָאֵל הַנֶּאֱמָן the faithful God Deuteronomy 7:9; האל הגדול the great God Deuteronomy 10:17 = Jeremiah 32:18; Daniel 9:4; Nehemiah 1:5; Nehemiah 9:32; האל הקדשׁ the holy God Isaiah 5:17; האל יהוה the God Yahweh Isaiah 42:5; Psalm 85:9.
(b) אֵלִי my God Exodus 15:2 (poetry) Psalm 18:3; Psalm 22:2 (twice in verse); Psalm 22:11; Psalm 63:2; Psalm 68:25; Psalm 89:27; Psalm 102:25; Psalm 118:28; Psalm 140:7; Isaiah 44:17.
(c) construct אל בית אל the God of Bethel, who had his seat there [H416 Genesis 35:7] (E); אל אביך God of thy fathers Genesis 49:25 (poetry); אל ישראל Psalm 68:36; אל יעקב Psalm 146:5; אל השמים the God of heaven Psalm 136:26; אל סלעי the God who is my rock Psalm 42:10; אל שמחת גילי the God who is the joy of my exultation Psalm 43:4; אֵל רֳאִי the God who lets himself be seen Genesis 16:13 (J); אל הכבוד the God of glory Psalm 29:3; אל דעות the all-knowing God 1 Samuel 2:3 (poetry); אֵל עוֺלָם the everlasting God Genesis 21:33 (J); אל ישועתי Isaiah 12:2; אל חַיָּ֑י Psalm 42:9; אל אמת Psalm 31:6 = אל אֱמוּנָה Deuteronomy 32:4 (poetry); אל נקמות Psalm 94:1 (twice in verse); אל גְּמֻלוֺת Jeremiah 51:56.
(d) אל אֶחָד one God Malachi 2:10; אל גדול a great God Deuteronomy 7:21; Psalm 77:14; Psalm 95:3; אל מסתתר a God hiding himself Isaiah 45:15; אל רחום a compassionate God Exodus 34:6 (J) Deuteronomy 4:31; Psalm 86:15; אל נשא a forgiving God Psalm 99:8; אל חַנּוּן a gracious God Nehemiah 9:31; Jonah 4:2; אל קנא a jealous God Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:14 (J) Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 5:9; Deuteronomy 6:15; Joshua 24:19 (D) = אל קנוא Nahum 1:2; אֵל חי a living God Joshua 3:10 (J) Hosea 2:1; Psalm 42:3; Psalm 84:3; אל צדיק Isaiah 45:21; לא אֵל חפץ רשע Psalm 5:5; לא אֵל Deuteronomy 32:21 (poetry) Isaiah 31:3; Ezekiel 28:2 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 28:9; מי אל כמוךָ Micah 7:18 (compare Exodus 15:11).
(e) God (the only true God, needing no article or predicate to define him) Numbers 12:13 (E read אַל Di) always in poetry, Job 5:8 + (55 times Job), Psalm 7:12; Psalm 10:11, 12; Psalm 16:1; Psalm 17:6; Psalm 19:1; Psalm 52:3, 7; Psalm 55:20; Psalm 57:3; Psalm 73:11, 17; Psalm 74:8; Psalm 77:10; Psalm 78:7, 8, 18, 19, 34, 41; Psalm 82:1; Psalm 83:2; Psalm 90:2; Psalm 104:21; Psalm 106:14, 21; Psalm 107:11; Psalm 118:27; Psalm 139:17, 23; Psalm 149:6; Psalm 150:1; Isaiah 40:18; Isaiah 43:12; Isaiah 45:14, 20; Isaiah 46:9; Lamentations 3:41; Hosea 11:9; Hosea 12:1; Malachi 1:9; עִמָּנוּאל God is with us, as name of child in prediction Isaiah 7:14; compare Isaiah 8:8, 10.
(f) El, a divine name אל אלהי ישראל [H415 Genesis 33:20] (E); אל אלהי הרוחות Numbers 16:22 (P = יהוה אלהי הרוחות Numbers 27:16); אל אלהים יהוה Joshua 22:22 (P) Psalm 50:1. This is probable also in the ancient poems, Numbers 23:8, 19, 22, 23; Numbers 24:4, 8, 16, 23 (poetry Balaam || שדּי & עליון) Deuteronomy 32:18; Deuteronomy 33:26 (poetry Moses || צוּר & אֱלֹהֵי קֶדֶם) 2 Samuel 22:32; 2 Samuel 23:5 (poetry David || צוּר) and in the combinations אל עליון (5 times; see עליון) & אל שדּי (10 times; see שַׁדַּי).
†7. אֵל strength, power (on connection with I. אָלָה compare Di Genesis 1:1; Genesis 31:29) in יֶשׁ־לְאֵל יָדִי it is according to the power of my hand = it is in my power, etc. Genesis 31:29 (E; followed by לְ + Infinitive); בִּהְיוֺת לְאֵל יָדְ֯יךָ Proverbs 3:27 (followed by id.); יֶשׁ־לְאֵל יָדָם Micah 2:1; (absolute); negative וְאֵין לְאֵל יָדֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 28:32 (absolute) = thou shalt be powerless, so Nehemiah 5:5. **See also BrockZAW xxvi (1906). 29 ff. (meaning 'might' very dubious: renders belongs to the god of (my) hand, supposing phrase a survival, with original meaning forgotten, of ancient idea, found also among other nations, of spirits conferring powers upon particular members of body).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:1; 16:13; 21:33; 31:13; 31:29; 31:29; 35:1; 35:3; 46:3; 49:25

Exodus

15:2; 15:11; 15:11; 15:15; 20:5; 34:6; 34:14; 34:14

Numbers

12:13; 16:22; 23:8; 23:19; 23:22; 23:23; 24:4; 24:8; 24:16; 24:23; 27:16

Deuteronomy

3:24; 4:24; 4:31; 5:9; 6:15; 7:9; 7:21; 10:17; 28:32; 32:4; 32:12; 32:18; 32:21; 33:26

Joshua

3:10; 22:22; 24:19

Judges

8:33; 9:4; 9:46

1 Samuel

2:3

2 Samuel

22:31; 22:32; 22:33; 22:48; 23:5

2 Kings

24:15

Nehemiah

1:5; 5:5; 9:31; 9:32

Job

5:8; 41:17

Psalms

5:5; 7:12; 10:11; 10:12; 16:1; 17:6; 18:3; 18:31; 18:33; 18:48; 19:1; 22:2; 22:11; 29:1; 29:3; 31:6; 36:7; 42:3; 42:9; 42:10; 43:4; 44:21; 50:1; 50:10; 52:3; 52:7; 55:20; 57:3; 63:2; 68:20; 68:21; 68:25; 73:11; 73:17; 74:8; 77:10; 77:14; 77:15; 78:7; 78:8; 78:18; 78:19; 78:34; 78:41; 80:11; 81:10; 81:10; 82:1; 83:2; 84:3; 85:9; 86:15; 89:7; 89:27; 90:2; 94:1; 95:3; 99:8; 102:25; 104:21; 106:14; 106:21; 107:11; 118:27; 118:28; 136:26; 139:17; 139:23; 140:7; 146:5; 149:6; 150:1

Proverbs

3:27

Isaiah

5:17; 7:14; 8:8; 8:10; 9:6; 12:2; 14:13; 31:3; 40:18; 42:5; 43:10; 43:12; 44:10; 44:15; 44:17; 44:17; 45:14; 45:15; 45:20; 45:21; 46:6; 46:9

Jeremiah

32:18; 51:56

Lamentations

3:41

Ezekiel

17:13; 28:2; 28:9; 31:11; 32:21

Daniel

9:4; 11:36

Hosea

2:1; 11:9; 12:1

Jonah

4:2

Micah

2:1; 7:18

Nahum

1:2

Malachi

1:9; 2:10; 2:11

H410

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Strong's Number H410 matches the Hebrew אֵל ('ēl),
which occurs 77 times in 73 verses in 'Psa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Psa 5:4–Psa 84:2)

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 5:4 - For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:11 - God is a righteous judge, and a God who is indignant all the day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:11 - He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:12 - Arise, Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: forget not the afflicted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:1 - {Michtam of David.} Preserve me, O God: for I trust in thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:6 - I have called upon thee, for thou answerest me, O God. Incline thine ear unto me, hear my speech.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I will trust; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:30 - As for God, his way is perfect; the word of Jehovah is tried: he is a shield to all that trust in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:32 - The God who girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:47 - The God who hath avenged me, and hath subjected the peoples to me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:1 - {To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} The heavens declare the glory of God; and the expanse sheweth the work of his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1 - {To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - I was cast upon thee from the womb; thou art my God from my mother's belly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:1 - {A Psalm of David.} Give unto Jehovah, ye sons of the mighty ones, give unto Jehovah glory and strength;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:3 - The voice of Jehovah is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth, -- Jehovah upon great waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:5 - Into thy hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, Jehovah, thou God of truth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6 - Thy righteousness is like the high mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: thou, Jehovah, preservest man and beast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:2 - My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:8 - In the day-time will Jehovah command his loving-kindness, and in the night his song shall be with me, a prayer unto the God of my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9 - I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 43:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:4 - Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto the God of the gladness of my joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 44:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:20 - If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:1 - {A Psalm. Of Asaph.} God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:1 - {To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God abideth continually.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:5 - God shall likewise destroy thee for ever; he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy tent, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:19 - God will hear, and afflict them: he that is seated of old, (Selah) ... because there is no change in them, and they fear not God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 57:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:2 - I will call unto God, the Most High; unto God that performeth all for me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 63:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - {A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:19 - Blessed be the Lord: day by day doth he load us with good, the God who is our salvation. Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:20 - Our God is the God of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth even from death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:24 - They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:35 - Terrible art thou, O God, out of thy sanctuaries, -- the God of Israel! He it is that giveth strength and might unto the people. Blessed be God!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:11 - And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:17 - Until I went into the sanctuaries of God; then understood I their end.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:8 - They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all God's places of assembly in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:9 - Hath God forgotten to be gracious? or hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:13 - O God, thy way is in the sanctuary: who is so great a god as God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:14 - Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast declared thy strength among the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:7 - And that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but observe his commandments;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that prepared not their heart, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:18 - And they tempted God in their heart, by asking meat for their lust;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:19 - And they spoke against God: they said, Is God able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:34 - When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 - And they remembered that God was their rock, and God, the Most High, their redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:41 - And they turned again and tempted God, and grieved the Holy One of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 80:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:10 - The mountains were covered with its shadow, and the branches thereof were like cedars of God;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:9 - There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 82:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:1 - {A Psalm of Asaph.} God standeth in the assembly of God, he judgeth among the gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 83:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:1 - {A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.} O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 84:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:2 - My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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