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Lexicon :: Strong's H5892 - ʿîr

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עִיר
Transliteration
ʿîr
Pronunciation
eer
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From עוּר (H5782) a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1587a,1615

Strong’s Definitions

עִיר ʻîyr, eer; or (in the plural) עָר ʻâr; or עָיַר ʻâyar; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):—Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,089x

The KJV translates Strong's H5892 in the following manner: city (1,074x), town (7x), every one (2x), variant (6x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1,089x
The KJV translates Strong's H5892 in the following manner: city (1,074x), town (7x), every one (2x), variant (6x).

  1. excitement, anguish

    1. of terror

  2. city, town (a place of waking, guarded)

    1. city, town

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עִיר ʻîyr, eer; or (in the plural) עָר ʻâr; or עָיַר ʻâyar; (Judges 10:4), from H5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post):—Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
STRONGS H5892: Abbreviations
† I. עִיר noun [masculine] excitement; — of terror, וּבֶהָלוֺת ע׳ Jeremiah 15:9; of rage (si vera lectio), לֹא אָבוֺא בְּעִיר Hosea 11:9, but St proposes לְבָעֵר compare We Oort Now GASm. — בָּעִיר Psalm 73:20 see עור Hiph. — see II, III. עִיר.

II. עִיר 1092 noun feminineGenesis 10:12 (AlbrZAW xvi.40 f.) city, town (√ unknown; Late Hebrew id.; ? Phoenician ער Lzb345; Sabean ער fortified height (compare 3) PräZMG xxvi (1872), 437, ערן, עהרן city CISiv. pp. 94, 95, 173); — ע׳ absolute Genesis 4:17 +, construct Genesis 24:10 +; הָעִ֫ירָה 1 Kings 14:12 + 7 times; suffix עִירִי 2 Samuel 19:38 2 times, etc.; plural עָרִים Isaiah 6:11 +, עֲיָרִים Judges 10:4 (text error, or word-play, compare GFM); construct עָרֵי Genesis 19:29 +; suffix עָרַי Zechariah 1:17, עָרֵיכֶם Isaiah 1:7 +, etc.; —
1. city, town, abode of men Genesis 4:17 (J) and often; גְּדֹלָה Genesis 10:12 (J), +, or קְטַנָּה Ecclesiastes 9:14 (compare Genesis 19:20); especially
a. fortified: עָרִים בְּצֻרוֺת 2 Samuel 20:6 +, etc., see בָּצַר, מִבְצָר; עִיר מִבְצַרצֹֿר Joshua 19:29 (P) fortified city (of) Tyre, מָצוֺר ע׳ Psalm 31:22 +, etc., see מָצוֺר, מְצוּרָה below צוּר (Micah 7:12 see מָצוֺר); עָזלָֿנוּ ע׳ Isaiah 26:1, עָרֵי מָעוּזּוֺ Isaiah 17:9; וּבְרִיחַ דְּלָתַיִם ע׳ 1 Samuel 23:7; חוֺמָה ע׳ Leviticus 25:29, compare Leviticus 25:30 (P), 1 Kings 4:13; on Hosea 10:14 see I. עַם 2b (1 Samuel 9:14 read הַשֵּׁעַר Greek Version of the LXX We Dr and others).
b. opposed to הַפְּרָזִי כֹּפֶר 1 Samuel 6:18, הַפּ׳ עָרֵי Deuteronomy 3:5, הַפְּרָזוֹת ע׳ Esther 9:19; distinguished from dependencies חֲצֵרִים Joshua 13:23 + often P.
c. עָרֶיה are dependent towns Joshua 13:17 (P), Jeremiah 19:15.
†d. עָרֵי הַמַּמְלָכָה Joshua 10:2 (JE) royal cities (i.e. with a king, compare Tel Amarna al šarri), so singular 1 Samuel 27:5, opposed to הַשָּׁדֶה עָרֵי 1 Samuel 27:5 rural towns; הַמְּלוּכָה ע׳ 2 Samuel 12:26 (but read הַמַּיִם ע׳ We Bu Kit Löhr HPS, see 2 below).
†e. עֶרֵי מִסְכְּנוֺת Exodus 1:11 storage-cities, so 1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6, 4; 17:12; for נַפְתָּלִי ע׳ מ׳ 2 Chronicles 16:4 read probably כִּנְרוֺת עֵלוֿגו׳ (as 1 Kings 15:20; Be Kit Buhl); compare הֶרֶכֶב ע׳ 1 Kings 9:19; 1 Kings 10:26 2 Chronicles 8:6; 9:25; 2 Chronicles 1:14; הַפָּרָשִׁים ע׳ 1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6.
†f. (הַ)מִקְלָט ע׳ (P) asylum-cities Numbers 35:11, 13, 14; Joshua 20:2, compare Numbers 35:25, 26, 27, 28, 32, לְמִקְלָט ע׳ Numbers 35:12; מִקְלַט הָרֹצֵחַ ע׳ Joshua 21:13 + 4 times in Joshua 21.
g. (הָ)אֱלֹהִים ע׳ = Jerusalem: Psalm 46:5; Psalm 87:3, compare Psalm 48:2; Psalm 48:9; י׳ ע׳ Isaiah 60:14; Psalm 101:8; צְבָאוֺת י׳ ע׳ Psalm 48:9.
h. city = inhabitants 1 Samuel 4:13; 1 Samuel 5:12; Isaiah 22:2; Ruth 1:19, so 2 Samuel 20:22 (reading הָעִיר for MT הָעָם) Greek Version of the LXX We Dr and others (compare also following).
i. combinations are: רֹכְלִים ע׳ Ezekiel 17:4 city of merchants; מוֺשָׁב ע׳ Psalm 107:4; Psalm 107:7; Psalm 107:36 city for dwelling; especially of character or condition: † הַצֶּדֶק ע׳ Isaiah 1:26, † ע׳ הָאֱמֶת Zechariah 8:3; † הַקּדֶשׁ ע׳ Isaiah 48:2; Isaiah 52:1; Nehemiah 11:1, 18, compare Daniel 9:24, all of Jerusalem; עָרֵי קָדְשֶׁ֑ךָ Jeremiah 5:17 of Judaean cities; of foreign cities, תְּהִלָּךְ ע׳ Jeremiah 49:25, הָע׳ הַהֻלָּלה Ezekiel 26:17, הָעַלִּיזָה הָע׳ Zephaniah 2:15; of Jerusalem also הַיּוֺנָה הָע׳ Zephaniah 3:1 oppressive city, (הַ)דָּמִים ע׳ bloody city Ezekiel 22:2; Ezekiel 24:6, 9 and (of Nineveh) Nahum 3:1.
2. of fortress in a city especially עִיר דָּוִד 2 Samuel 5:7, 9; 2 Samuel 6:10 + often (see דָּוִד); כֵית הַבָּ֑עַל ע׳ 2 Kings 10:25 (crpt; Klo proposes דְּבִיר for ע׳, compare Kmp Benz Kit); הַמַּיִם ע׳ 2 Samuel 12:27 (so read also 2 Samuel 12:26, see 1d).
3. apparently fortified place, of any size, עִיר מִבְצָר בְּכָלעָֿרֵיהֶם מִמִּגְּדַּל נוֺצְרִים עַדֿ 2 Kings 17:9 2 Kings 18:8; compare Numbers 13:9 (P; but on compare of ver. see Di); perhaps also עֲמָלֵק ע׳ 1 Samuel 15:5 (HPS). — Hosea 7:4 see I. עור Hiph.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:17; 4:17; 10:12; 10:12; 19:20; 19:29; 24:10

Exodus

1:11

Leviticus

25:29; 25:30

Numbers

13:9; 35:11; 35:12; 35:13; 35:14; 35:25; 35:26; 35:27; 35:28; 35:32

Deuteronomy

3:5

Joshua

10:2; 13:17; 13:23; 19:29; 20:2; 21:13

Judges

10:4

Ruth

1:19

1 Samuel

4:13; 5:12; 6:18; 9:14; 15:5; 23:7; 27:5; 27:5

2 Samuel

5:7; 5:9; 6:10; 12:26; 12:26; 12:27; 19:38; 20:6; 20:22

1 Kings

4:13; 9:19; 9:19; 9:19; 10:26; 14:12; 15:20

2 Kings

10:25; 17:9; 18:8

2 Chronicles

1:14; 8:4; 8:6; 8:6; 8:6; 9:25; 16:4; 17:12

Nehemiah

11:1; 11:18

Esther

9:19

Psalms

31:22; 46:5; 48:2; 48:9; 48:9; 73:20; 87:3; 101:8; 107:4; 107:7; 107:36

Ecclesiastes

9:14

Isaiah

1:7; 1:26; 6:11; 17:9; 22:2; 26:1; 48:2; 52:1; 60:14

Jeremiah

5:17; 15:9; 19:15; 49:25

Ezekiel

17:4; 22:2; 24:6; 24:9; 26:17

Daniel

9:24

Hosea

7:4; 10:14; 11:9

Micah

7:12

Nahum

3:1

Zephaniah

2:15; 3:1

Zechariah

1:17; 8:3

H5892

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Strong's Number H5892 matches the Hebrew עִיר (ʿîr),
which occurs 1,095 times in 936 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 19 (Gen 4:17–Lev 25:29)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - cognovit autem Cain uxorem suam quae concepit et peperit Enoch et aedificavit civitatem vocavitque nomen eius ex nomine filii sui Enoch

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:11 - de terra illa egressus est Assur et aedificavit Nineven et plateas civitatis et Chale

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:12 - Resen quoque inter Nineven et Chale haec est civitas magna

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - et dixerunt venite faciamus nobis civitatem et turrem cuius culmen pertingat ad caelum et celebremus nomen nostrum antequam dividamur in universas terras

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:5 - descendit autem Dominus ut videret civitatem et turrem quam aedificabant filii Adam

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:8 - atque ita divisit eos Dominus ex illo loco in universas terras et cessaverunt aedificare civitatem

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:12 - Abram habitavit in terra Chanaan Loth moratus est in oppidis quae erant circa Iordanem et habitavit in Sodomis

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:24 - si fuerint quinquaginta iusti in civitate peribunt simul et non parces loco illi propter quinquaginta iustos si fuerint in eo

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:26 - dixitque Dominus ad eum si invenero Sodomis quinquaginta iustos in medio civitatis dimittam omni loco propter eos

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:28 - quid si minus quinquaginta iustis quinque fuerint delebis propter quinque universam urbem et ait non delebo si invenero ibi quadraginta quinque

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:4 - prius autem quam irent cubitum viri civitatis vallaverunt domum a puero usque ad senem omnis populus simul

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:12 - dixerunt autem ad Loth habes hic tuorum quempiam generum aut filios aut filias omnes qui tui sunt educ de urbe hac

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:14 - egressus itaque Loth locutus est ad generos suos qui accepturi erant filias eius et dixit surgite egredimini de loco isto quia delebit Dominus civitatem hanc et visus est eis quasi ludens loqui

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - cumque esset mane cogebant eum angeli dicentes surge et tolle uxorem tuam et duas filias quas habes ne et tu pariter pereas in scelere civitatis

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - dissimulante illo adprehenderunt manum eius et manum uxoris ac duarum filiarum eius eo quod parceret Dominus illi

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:20 - est civitas haec iuxta ad quam possum fugere parva et salvabor in ea numquid non modica est et vivet anima mea

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:21 - dixitque ad eum ecce etiam in hoc suscepi preces tuas ut non subvertam urbem pro qua locutus es

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - festina et salvare ibi quia non potero facere quicquam donec ingrediaris illuc idcirco vocatum est nomen urbis illius Segor

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:25 - et subvertit civitates has et omnem circa regionem universos habitatores urbium et cuncta terrae virentia

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:29 - cum enim subverteret Deus civitates regionis illius recordatus est Abrahae et liberavit Loth de subversione urbium in quibus habitaverat

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:10 - habitabat autem Ephron in medio filiorum Heth responditque ad Abraham cunctis audientibus qui ingrediebantur portam civitatis illius dicens

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:18 - Abrahae in possessionem videntibus filiis Heth et cunctis qui intrabant portam civitatis illius

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - tulitque decem camelos de grege domini sui et abiit ex omnibus bonis eius portans secum profectusque perrexit Mesopotamiam ad urbem Nahor

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - cumque camelos fecisset accumbere extra oppidum iuxta puteum aquae vespere eo tempore quo solent mulieres egredi ad hauriendam aquam dixit

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - ecce ego sto propter fontem aquae et filiae habitatorum huius civitatis egredientur ad hauriendam aquam

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:33 - unde appellavit eum Abundantiam et nomen urbi inpositum est Bersabee usque in praesentem diem

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:19 - appellavitque nomen urbis Bethel quae prius Luza vocabatur

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:18 - transivitque in Salem urbem Sycimorum quae est in terra Chanaan postquam regressus est de Mesopotamiam Syriae et habitavit iuxta oppidum

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:20 - ingressique portam urbis locuti sunt populo

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - adsensi sunt omnes circumcisis cunctis maribus

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - et ecce die tertio quando gravissimus vulnerum dolor est arreptis duo Iacob filii Symeon et Levi fratres Dinae gladiis ingressi sunt urbem confidenter interfectisque omnibus masculis

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:27 - quibus egressis inruerunt super occisos ceteri filii Iacob et depopulati sunt urbem in ultionem stupri

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:28 - oves eorum et armenta et asinos cunctaque vastantes quae in domibus et in agris erant

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - cumque profecti essent terror Dei invasit omnes per circuitum civitates et non sunt ausi persequi recedentes

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:32 - Bale filius Beor nomenque urbis eius Denaba

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:35 - hoc quoque mortuo regnavit pro eo Adad filius Badadi qui percussit Madian in regione Moab et nomen urbis eius Ahuith

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 36:39

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:39 - isto quoque mortuo regnavit pro eo Adad nomenque urbis eius Phau et appellabatur uxor illius Meezabel filia Matred filiae Mizaab

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:35 - qui iam nunc futuri sunt congreget in horrea et omne frumentum sub Pharaonis potestate condatur serveturque in urbibus

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:48

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:48 - omnis etiam frugum abundantia in singulis urbibus condita est

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:4 - iamque urbem exierant et processerant paululum tum Ioseph arcessito dispensatore domus surge inquit persequere viros et adprehensis dicito quare reddidistis malum pro bono

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:13 - at illi scissis vestibus oneratisque rursum asinis reversi sunt in oppidum

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:21 - et cunctos populos eius a novissimis terminis Aegypti usque ad extremos fines eius

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:11 - praeposuit itaque eis magistros operum ut adfligerent eos oneribus aedificaveruntque urbes tabernaculorum Pharaoni Phiton et Ramesses

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:29 - ait Moses cum egressus fuero de urbe extendam palmas meas ad Dominum et cessabunt tonitrua et grando non erit ut scias quia Domini est terra

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:33

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:33 - egressusque Moses a Pharaone et ex urbe tetendit manus ad Dominum et cessaverunt tonitrua et grando nec ultra stillavit pluvia super terram

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:40 - iubebit erui lapides in quibus lepra est et proici eos extra civitatem in loco inmundo

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:41 - domum autem ipsam radi intrinsecus per circuitum et spargi pulverem rasurae extra urbem in loco inmundo

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:45 - quam statim destruent et lapides eius ac ligna atque universum pulverem proicient extra oppidum in loco inmundo

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:53

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:53 - cumque dimiserit passerem avolare in agrum libere orabit pro domo et iure mundabitur

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:29 - qui vendiderit domum intra urbis muros habebit licentiam redimendi donec unus impleatur annus

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