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Lexicon :: Strong's H4399 - mᵊlā'ḵâ

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מְלָאכָה
Transliteration
mᵊlā'ḵâ
Pronunciation
mel-aw-kaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as מַלְאָךְ (H4397)
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TWOT Reference: 1068b

Strong’s Definitions

מְלָאכָה mᵉlâʼkâh, mel-aw-kaw'; from the same as H4397; properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor):—business, cattle, industrious, occupation, ( -pied), officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 167x

The KJV translates Strong's H4399 in the following manner: work (129x), business (12x), workmen (with H6213) (7x), workmanship (5x), goods (2x), cattle (1x), stuff (1x), thing (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 167x
The KJV translates Strong's H4399 in the following manner: work (129x), business (12x), workmen (with H6213) (7x), workmanship (5x), goods (2x), cattle (1x), stuff (1x), thing (1x), miscellaneous (9x).

  1. occupation, work, business

    1. occupation, business

    2. property

    3. work (something done or made)

    4. workmanship

    5. service, use

    6. public business

      1. political

      2. religious

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מְלָאכָה mᵉlâʼkâh, mel-aw-kaw'; from the same as H4397; properly, deputyship, i.e. ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor):—business, cattle, industrious, occupation, ( -pied), officer, thing (made), use, (manner of) work((-man), -manship).
STRONGS H4399: Abbreviations
מְלָאכָה 167 noun feminine occupation, work (for *מַלְאָכָה; compare Phoenician מלאכת labour) — מ׳ Exodus 12:16 102 times; מְלָ֑אכֶת 2 Chronicles 13:10; construct מְלֶאכֶת Exodus 35:24 + 42 times; suffix מְלַאכְתְּךָ Jonah 1:8; מְלַאכְתֶּ֑ךָ Exodus 20:9 + 2 times; מְלַאכְתּוֺ Genesis 2:2 + 13 times; plural construct מַלְאֲכוֺת 1 Chronicles 28:19; suffix מַלְאֲכוֺתֶיךָ Psalm 73:28; —
1. occupation, business, מַה מְּלַאכְתְּךָ what is thy occupation Jonah 1:8; business of a steward Genesis 39:11 (J); diligent in business Proverbs 22:29; slack in business Proverbs 18:9.
2. property in which one is occupied, רעהוּ מ׳ his neighbour's property Exodus 22:7; Exodus 22:10 (E); possessions of herds and flocks Genesis 33:14 (J), 1 Samuel 15:9 (compare מִקְנֶה); רבה מ׳ great property 2 Chronicles 17:13.
3. work as something done or made:
a. of God in creation Genesis 2:2 (twice in verse); Genesis 2:3 (P), in judgment Jeremiah 50:25, in general Psalm 73:28.
b. of men, עור מ׳ leather-work Leviticus 13:48, 51 (P), השׂדה מ׳ work in the field 1 Chronicles 27:26; in building Proverbs 24:27 +, the walls of Jerusalem Nehemiah 4:5 +, making the tabernacle and its furniture Exodus 36:2 +, the temple 1 Kings 5:30 +; work of the potter Jeremiah 18:3, of the seaman Psalm 107:23, of the Levites 1 Chronicles 26:29, of priests in the sacrifices 2 Chronicles 29:34; † מְלָאכֶת (ה)עֲבֹדָה phrase of P, Exodus 35:24; Exodus 36:1, 3; Leviticus 23:7, 8, 21, 25, 35, 36; Numbers 28:18, 25, 26; Numbers 29:1, 12, 35 also 1 Chronicles 9:13; 1 Chronicles 9:19; 1 Chronicles 28:13; 1 Chronicles 28:20; 2 Chronicles 24:12; לעבדה המ׳ 1 Chronicles 23:24; עבדה למ׳ Exodus 36:5 (P); compare the phrase עֹשֵׂה המ׳ workmen Ezra 3:9; Nehemiah 2:16; עֹשִׂים במ׳ 1 Kings 5:30; 1 Kings 9:23 +; כל מ׳ any work forbidden on the Sabbath Exodus 20:9, 10; Leviticus 23:3 (P) Deuteronomy 5:13, 14; Jeremiah 17:22, 24; on holy convocations Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 16:29; Leviticus 23:28, 30, 31; Numbers 29:7 (P).
† 4. workmanship, כל מלאכה in every kind of workmanship, phrase of P: Exodus 31:3, 5; Exodus 35:29, 31, 33, 35; and Chronicles: 1 Chronicles 22:15; 1 Chronicles 28:21; 1 Chronicles 29:5; 1 Kings 7:14.
† 5. service, use Leviticus 7:24; Leviticus 11:32; Judges 16:11; Ezekiel 28:13.
† 6. public business:
a. political 1 Kings 11:28; 1 Chronicles 29:6; Daniel 8:27; Esther 3:9; Esther 9:3.
b. religious, putting away foreign wives Ezra 10:13; יהוה מ׳ 1 Chronicles 26:30; הַקֹּדֶשׁ מ׳ Exodus 36:4; Exodus 38:24 (P), קדשׁ הקדשׁים מ׳ 1 Chronicles 6:34; אהל מ׳ מועד Exodus 35:21 (P), בית י׳ מ׳ 1 Chronicles 23:4; Ezra 3:8; Ezra 6:22; Nehemiah 10:34; Nehemiah 11:22.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:2; 2:2; 2:3; 33:14; 39:11

Exodus

12:1; 12:16; 12:16; 20:9; 20:9; 20:10; 22:7; 22:10; 31:3; 31:5; 35:21; 35:24; 35:24; 35:29; 35:31; 35:33; 35:35; 36:1; 36:2; 36:3; 36:4; 36:5; 38:24

Leviticus

7:24; 11:32; 13:48; 13:51; 16:29; 23:3; 23:7; 23:8; 23:21; 23:25; 23:28; 23:30; 23:31; 23:35; 23:36

Numbers

28:18; 28:25; 28:26; 29:1; 29:7; 29:12; 29:35

Deuteronomy

5:13; 5:14

Judges

16:11

1 Samuel

15:9

1 Kings

7:14; 9:23; 11:28

1 Chronicles

6:34; 9:13; 9:19; 22:15; 23:4; 23:24; 26:29; 26:30; 27:26; 28:13; 28:19; 28:20; 28:21; 29:5; 29:6

2 Chronicles

13:10; 17:13; 24:12; 29:34

Ezra

3:8; 3:9; 6:22; 10:13

Nehemiah

2:16; 4:5; 10:34; 11:22

Esther

3:9; 9:3

Psalms

73:28; 73:28; 107:23

Proverbs

18:9; 22:29; 24:27

Jeremiah

17:22; 17:24; 18:3; 50:25

Ezekiel

28:13

Daniel

8:27

Jonah

1:8; 1:8

H4399

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Strong's Number H4399 matches the Hebrew מְלָאכָה (mᵊlā'ḵâ),
which occurs 167 times in 149 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 3 (Num 29:1–2Ch 24:13)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:1 - ‘Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. H4399 It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:7 - ‘Then on the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble yourselves; you shall not do any work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:12 - ‘Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, H4399 and you shall observe a feast to the LORD for seven days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:35

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:35 - ‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:13 - ‘Six days you shall labor and do all your work, H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, H4399 you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who [fn]stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:8 - “Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you shall do no work H4399 on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:11 - He said to her, “If they bind me tightly with new ropes [fn]which have not been used, H4399 then I will become weak and be like any other man.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:16 - “He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and [fn]use them for his work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything H4399 despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:16 - besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were over the [fn]project H4399 and who ruled over the people who were doing the work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:14 - He was a widow’s son from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill for doing any work H4399 in bronze. So he came to King Solomon and performed all his work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:22 - On the top of the pillars was lily design. So the work H4399 of the pillars was finished.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:40

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:40 - Now Hiram made the basins and the shovels and the bowls. So Hiram finished doing all the work H4399 which he performed for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 7:51

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:51 - Thus all the work H4399 that King Solomon performed in the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the things dedicated by his father David, the silver and the gold and the utensils, and he put them in the treasuries of the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 9:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:23 - These were the [fn]chief officers who were over Solomon’s work, H4399 five hundred and fifty, who ruled over the people doing the work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:28 - Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when Solomon saw that the young man was [fn]industrious, H4399 he appointed him over all the [fn]forced labor of the house of Joseph.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:11 - They gave the money which was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, H4399 who had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and they [fn]paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the LORD;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:14 - for they gave that to those who did the work, H4399 and with it they repaired the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:15 - Moreover, they did not require an accounting from the men into whose hand they gave the money to pay to those who did the work, H4399 for they dealt faithfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:5 - “Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen H4399 who have the oversight of the house of the LORD, and let them give it to the workmen H4399 who are in the house of the LORD to repair the [fn]damages of the house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 22:9 - Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to the king and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen H4399 who have the oversight of the house of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 4:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 4:23 - These were the potters and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 6:49

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 6:49 - But Aaron and his sons [fn]offered on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, for all the work H4399 of the most holy place, and to make atonement for Israel, according to all that Moses the servant of God had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:13 - and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760 very able men for the work H4399 of the service of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:19 - Shallum the son of Kore, the son of [fn]Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his relatives of his father’s house, the Korahites, were over the work H4399 of the service, keepers of the thresholds of the tent; and their fathers had been over the camp of the LORD, keepers of the entrance.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 9:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 9:33 - Now these are the singers, heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, who lived in the chambers of the temple free from other service; for they were [fn]engaged in their work H4399 day and night.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 22:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:15 - “Moreover, there are many workmen H4399 with you, stonecutters and masons of stone and carpenters, and all men who are skillful in every kind of work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:4 - Of these, 24,000 were to oversee the work H4399 of the house of the LORD; and 6,000 were officers and judges,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:24 - These were the sons of Levi according to their fathers’ households, even the heads of the fathers’ households of those of them who were [fn]counted, in the number of names by their [fn]census, doing the work H4399 for the service of the house of the LORD, from twenty years old and upward.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 25:1 - Moreover, David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service some of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with lyres, harps and cymbals; and the number of [fn]those who performed H4399 their service was:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:29 - As for the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were assigned to outside duties H4399 for Israel, as officers and judges.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 26:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 26:30 - As for the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his relatives, 1,700 capable men, had charge of the affairs of Israel [fn]west of the Jordan, for all the work H4399 of the LORD and the service of the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 27:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 27:26 - Ezri the son of Chelub had charge of the [fn]agricultural workers H4399 who tilled the soil.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:13 - also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites and for all the work H4399 of the service of the house of the LORD and for all the utensils of service in the house of the LORD;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:19 - “All this,” said David, “the LORD made me understand in writing by His hand upon me, all the [fn]details H4399 of this pattern.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:20 - Then David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and courageous, and act; do not fear nor be dismayed, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you until all the work H4399 for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 28:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 28:21 - “Now behold, there are the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God, and every willing man of any skill will be with you in all the work H4399 for all kinds of service. The officials also and all the people will be entirely at your command.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:1 - Then King David said to the entire assembly, “My son Solomon, whom alone God has chosen, is still young and inexperienced and the work H4399 is great; for the [fn]temple is not for man, but for the LORD God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:5 - of gold for the things of gold and of silver for the things of silver, that is, for all the work H4399 [fn]done by the craftsmen. Who then is willing [fn]to consecrate himself this day to the LORD?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:6 - Then the rulers of the fathers’ households, and the princes of the tribes of Israel, and the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, with the overseers over the king’s work, H4399 offered willingly;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 4:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 4:11 - Huram also made the pails, the shovels and the bowls. So Huram finished doing the work H4399 which he performed for King Solomon in the house of God:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 5:1

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:1 - Thus all the work H4399 that Solomon performed for the house of the LORD was finished. And Solomon brought in the [fn]things that David his father had dedicated, even the silver and the gold and all the utensils, and put them in the treasuries of the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:9 - But Solomon did not make slaves for his work H4399 from the sons of Israel; they were men of war, his chief captains and commanders of his chariots and his horsemen.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:16 - Thus all the work H4399 of Solomon was carried out [fn]from the day of the foundation of the house of the LORD, and until it was finished. So the house of the LORD was completed.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 13:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 13:10 - “But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken Him; and the sons of Aaron are ministering to the LORD as priests, and the Levites [fn]attend to their work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 16:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 16:5 - When Baasha heard of it, he ceased [fn]fortifying Ramah and stopped his work. H4399

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:13 - He had large supplies H4399 in the cities of Judah, and warriors, valiant men, in Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:12 - The king and Jehoiada gave it to those who did the work H4399 of the service of the house of the LORD; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of the LORD, and also workers in iron and bronze to [fn]repair the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:13 - So the workmen H4399 labored, and the repair work H4399 progressed in their hands, and they [fn]restored the house of God [fn]according to its specifications and strengthened it.

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