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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 you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 7:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 7:11 - God is a righteous judge, a God who displays his wrath every day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:11 - He says to himself, “God will never notice; he covers his face and never sees.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:12 - Arise, LORD! Lift up your hand, O God. Do not forget the helpless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 16:1 - A miktam[fn] of David. Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 17:6 - I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:2 - The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield[fn] and the horn[fn] of my salvation, my stronghold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:30 - As for God, his way is perfect: The LORD’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:32

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:32 - It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 18:47

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:47 - He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 19:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:1 - [fn]For the director of music. To the tune of “The Doe of the Morning.” A psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:10 - From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:1 - A psalm of David. Ascribe to the LORD, you heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 29:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 29:3 - The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 31:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 31:5 - Into your hands I commit my spirit; deliver me, LORD, my faithful God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 36:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 36:6 - Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:2 - My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:8 - By day the LORD directs his love, at night his song is with me— a prayer to the God of my life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 42:9 - I say to God my Rock, “Why have you forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning, oppressed by the enemy?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 43:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 43:4 - Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my joy and my delight. I will praise you with the lyre, 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 or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 50:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 50:1 - A psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:1 - [fn]For the director of music. A maskil[fn] of David. When Doeg the Edomite had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.” Why do you boast of evil, you mighty hero? Why do you boast all day long, you who are a disgrace in the eyes of God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 52:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 52:5 - Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin: He will snatch you up and pluck you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 55:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:19 - God, who is enthroned from of old, who does not change— he will hear them and humble them, because they have no fear of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 57:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 57:2 - I cry out to God Most High, to God, who vindicates me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 63:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 63:1 - [fn]A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:19 - Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:20 - Our God is a God who saves; from the Sovereign LORD comes escape from death.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:24 - Your procession, God, has come into view, the procession of my God and King into the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 68:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:35 - You, God, are awesome in your sanctuary; the God of Israel gives power and strength to his people. Praise be to God!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:11 - They say, “How would God know? Does the Most High know anything?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 73:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:17 - till I entered the sanctuary of God; then I understood their final destiny.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 74:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 74:8 - They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely!” They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:9 - Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:13 - Your ways, God, are holy. What god is as great as our God?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 77:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 77:14 - You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:7 - Then they would put their trust in God and would not forget his deeds but would keep his commands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:8 - They would not be like their ancestors— a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose hearts were not loyal to God, whose spirits were not faithful to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:18 - They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:19 - They spoke against God; they said, “Can God really spread a table in the wilderness?

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:34

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:34 - Whenever God slew them, they would seek him; they eagerly turned to him again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:35

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:35 - They remembered that God was their Rock, that God Most High was their Redeemer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 78:41

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:41 - Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed 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 shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 81:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:9 - You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not worship any god other than me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 82:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 82:1 - A psalm of Asaph. God presides in the great assembly; he renders judgment among the “gods”:

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 83:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:1 - [fn]A song. A psalm of Asaph. O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 84:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 84:2 - My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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