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Lexicon :: Strong's H6256 - ʿēṯ

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עֵת
Transliteration
ʿēṯ
Pronunciation
ayth
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1650b

Strong’s Definitions

עֵת ʻêth, ayth; from H5703; time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.:— after, (al-) ways, × certain, continually, evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 296x

The KJV translates Strong's H6256 in the following manner: time (257x), season (16x), when (7x), always (4x), eveningtide (with H6153) (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 296x
The KJV translates Strong's H6256 in the following manner: time (257x), season (16x), when (7x), always (4x), eveningtide (with H6153) (2x), miscellaneous (10x).

  1. time

    1. time (of an event)

    2. time (usual)

    3. experiences, fortunes

    4. occurrence, occasion

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עֵת ʻêth, ayth; from H5703; time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.:— after, (al-) ways, × certain, continually, evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-) tide, (meal-), what) time, when.
STRONGS H6256: Abbreviations
עֵת 297 noun feminineAmos 5:13 and (seldom, mostly late) masculineEzra 10:14 time (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician עת; Assyrian inu, ittu, time; Talmud עַנְתָּא; clearly from a √ ענה, but doubtful whether I. ע׳); — absolute ע׳ Hosea 10:12 +, construct ע׳ Genesis 24:12 + עֶתֿ Leviticus 15:25 + 5 times; suffix עִתּוֺ Hosea 2:11 +, etc.; plural, late, עִתִּים 1 Chronicles 12:32 +, suffix עִתֶּיךָ, Isaiah 33:6; עִתּוֺת Psalm 9:10; Psalm 10:1, suffix עִתֹּתָ֑י Psalm 31:16; — ע׳ only twice P, once H; —
1. time of an event, etc.:
a. usually (213 times) with preposition: with בְּ (142 times), especially הַהִוא בָּע׳ Genesis 21:22 (E) in that time, Genesis 38:1 (J), Numbers 22:4 (E), Deuteronomy 1:9 + 14 times Deuteronomy; הַהִיא בָּע׳ Joshua 5:2; Amos 5:13; Daniel 12:1 (twice in verse). + (69 times, not in P); הַזּאֹת בָּע׳ Esther 4:14, בָּעִתִּים הָהֵם 2 Chronicles 15:5; Daniel 11:14; בְּכָלעֵֿת at all times Exodus 18:22, 26 (E), Leviticus 16:2 (P) Psalm 34:2 +; = continually Proverbs 8:30, בְּכָלעֵֿת אֲשֶׁר Esther 5:13 as long as I see Mordecai; with לְ (31 times; compare ל 6 above), 2 Samuel 11:1 + at the time, but Ezekiel 12:27 for distant times, compare לְעֵת כָּזֹאת Esther 4:14, etc.; with כְּ (21 times; compare כ 1a above), הַזּאֹת מָחָר כָּע׳ Joshua 11:6 (JE) tomorrow about this time, usually מָחָר כָּע׳ (KöSynt. 401 o) Exodus 9:18 (J), 1 Samuel 9:16 (compare Dr), 1 Samuel 20:12; 1 Kings 19:2; 1 Kings 20:6; 2 Kings 7:1, 18; 2 Kings 10:6†; כָּעֵת חַיָה; † כָּעֵת הָרִאשׁוֺן Isaiah 8:23 at the former time; כָּעֵת alone Numbers 23:23 (JE) at this time = now (probably, compare Di), Judges 13:23; Judges 21:22†, etc.; with מִן (8 times), מִן הָעֵת הַהִא Nehemiah 13:21, etc.; with עַד (12 times), הַהִיא עַדהָֿע׳ Nehemiah 6:1 up to that time, מֵעֵת עַדעֵֿת Ezekiel 4:10, 11 etc. (5 times Daniel); with אלֿ, מֵעֵת אֶלעֵֿת 1 Chronicles 9:25.
b. often construct defined by noun following: בְּעֵת צָהֳרָ֑יִם Jeremiah 20:16, לְעֵת (הָ)עֶרֶב 2 Samuel 11:12; Genesis 8:11; Genesis 24:11 (both J), Isaiah 17:14; Zechariah 14:7; עַדעֵֿת הָעָ֑רֶב Joshua 8:29 (JE), כְּעֵת מִנְחַת עֶרֶב Daniel 9:21, redundantly לְעֶתיֿוֺם בְּיוֺם 1 Chronicles 12:22, (ה)קָצִיר ע׳ Jeremiah 50:16; Jeremiah 51:33, הַוָּמִיר ע׳ Songs 2:12, וִקְנָה ע׳ 1 Kings 11:4; 1 Kings 15:23; Psalm 71:9, אַפְּךָ בְּע׳ Jeremiah 18:23 = פָּנֶיךָ לְע׳ Psalm 21:10 (of anger), לְעִתּוֺת בַּצָּרָה Psalm 9:10; Psalm 10:1 at time destitution (see בַּצָּרָה), etc.
c. followed by infinitive בּוֺא הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ לְע׳ Joshua 10:27 (JE), 2 Chronicles 18:34, קָרְאָם בְּע׳ Jeremiah 11:14a (read בְּעֵת also Jeremiah 11:14b, Gie), etc.
d. followed by clause with finite verb (in poetry or late) Deuteronomy 32:35; Job 6:17; 2 Chronicles 20:22; 24:11; 29:27 + (compare 2c).
2.
a. = usual time: צֵאת לְע׳ 2 Samuel 11:1 at time of kings' going forth = 1 Chronicles 20:1; בְּעֵת יַחֵם Genesis 31:10; עֵת לֶדֶת Job 39:1, 2.
b. proper, suitable time: rain בְּעִתּוֺ Deuteronomy 11:14 Jeremiah 5:24 +, compare Leviticus 26:4 (H), also Psalm 1:3; Psalm 104:27; Psalm 145:15; Proverbs 15:23; Isaiah 60:22; Ecclesiastes 3:11 עֵת מִלְחָמָה Ecclesiastes 3:8; שָׁלוֺם ע׳ Ecclesiastes 3:8; followed by infinitive Hosea 10:12, הַעֵת לָקַחַת 2 Kings 5:26 is it a time to take money? Haggai 1:4, עֶתבֵּֿית לְהִבָּנוֺת י׳ Haggai 1:2 (Haggai 1:2a read עַתָּ בָּא Hi We Now and others); עֵת לַעֲשׂוֺת Psalm 119:126, compare Ecclesiastes 3:2-8 (26 times); absolute כִּי עֵת Hosea 13:13 (Hi We and others; GuKau gives עַתָּ; > Now כָּעֵת); absolute with negative Job 22:16; Ecclesiastes 7:17; hence (late) יוֺדְעֵי בִינָה לָעִתִּים 1 Chronicles 12:32, יִדְעֵי הָעִתִּים Esther 1:13 i.e. astrologers, etc.
c. appointed time, בְּעֵת תֵּת וגו׳ 1 Samuel 18:19 at the appointed time of giving, Ezekiel 7:7, 12; Isaiah 13:22, פְּקֻדָּתָם ע׳ Jeremiah 8:12; Jeremiah 10:15 = Jeremiah 51:18; Jeremiah 46:21; Jeremiah 50:27 compare (with finite verb) Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 49:8; Jeremiah 50:31, אַרְצוֺ ע׳ Jeremiah 27:7, גּוֺיִם ע׳ Ezekiel 30:3,לְעִתִּים מְזֻמָּנִים Ezra 10:14; Nehemiah 10:35 compareNehemiah 13:31; מוֺעֵד עַדעֿ׳ 2 Samuel 24:15; Psalm 103:14 (|| מוֺעֵד), etc.; compare וּמִשְׁפָּט עֵת Ecclesiastes 8:5, 6 (for time of judgment),עִתּוֺ Ecclesiastes 9:12; especially לְעֵת קֵץ Daniel 8:7; compare Daniel 11:35, 40; Daniel 12:4, 9, עֲוֺן קֵץ כְּע׳ Ezekiel 21:30; Ezekiel 21:34; compare Ezekiel 35:5; לְקֵץ הָעִתִּים Daniel 11:13.
d. as uncertain עֵת וָפֶגַע Ecclesiastes 9:11.
3. = experiences, fortunes, plural אֱמוּנַת עִתֶּיךָ Isaiah 33:6; Psalm 31:16; הָעִתִּים אֲשֶׁר עָֽבְרוּ עָלָיו 1 Chronicles 29:30
† 4. occurrence, occasions (= פַּעַם), רַבּוֺת עִתִּים Nehemiah 9:28 great numbers of times (= very often).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

8:11; 21:22; 24:11; 24:12; 31:10; 38:1

Exodus

9:18; 18:22; 18:26

Leviticus

15:25; 16:2; 26:4

Numbers

22:4; 23:23

Deuteronomy

1:9; 11:14; 32:35

Joshua

5:2; 8:29; 10:27; 11:6

Judges

13:23; 21:22

1 Samuel

9:16; 18:19; 20:12

2 Samuel

11:1; 11:1; 11:12; 24:15

1 Kings

11:4; 15:23; 19:2; 20:6

2 Kings

5:26; 7:1; 7:18; 10:6

1 Chronicles

9:25; 12:22; 12:32; 12:32; 20:1; 29:30

2 Chronicles

15:5; 18:34; 20:22; 24:11; 29:27

Ezra

10:14; 10:14

Nehemiah

6:1; 9:28; 10:35; 13:21

Esther

1:13; 4:14; 4:14; 5:13

Job

6:17; 22:16; 39:1; 39:2

Psalms

1:3; 9:10; 9:10; 10:1; 10:1; 21:10; 31:16; 31:16; 34:2; 71:9; 103:14; 104:27; 119:126; 145:15

Proverbs

8:30; 15:23

Ecclesiastes

3:2; 3:3; 3:4; 3:5; 3:6; 3:7; 3:8; 3:8; 3:8; 3:11; 7:17; 8:5; 8:6; 9:11; 9:12

Song of Songs

2:12

Isaiah

13:22; 17:14; 33:6; 33:6; 60:22

Jeremiah

5:24; 6:15; 8:12; 10:15; 11:14; 11:14; 18:23; 20:16; 27:7; 46:21; 49:8; 50:16; 50:27; 50:31; 51:18; 51:33

Ezekiel

4:10; 4:11; 7:7; 7:12; 12:27; 21:30; 30:3; 35:5

Daniel

8:7; 9:21; 11:13; 11:14; 11:35; 11:40; 12:1; 12:4; 12:9

Hosea

2:11; 10:12; 10:12; 13:13

Amos

5:13; 5:13

Haggai

1:2; 1:2; 1:4

Zechariah

14:7

H6256

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Strong's Number H6256 matches the Hebrew עֵת (ʿēṯ),
which occurs 296 times in 258 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 4 / 6 (Pro 15:23–Jer 18:23)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 15:23 - A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, H6256 how good is it!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 17:17 - A friend loveth at all times, H6256 and a brother is born for adversity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:1 - To every thing there is a season, and a time H6256 to every purpose under the heaven:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:2 - A time H6256 to be born, and a time H6256 to die; a time H6256 to plant, and a time H6256 to pluck up that which is planted;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:3 - A time H6256 to kill, and a time H6256 to heal; a time H6256 to break down, and a time H6256 to build up;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:4 - A time H6256 to weep, and a time H6256 to laugh; a time H6256 to mourn, and a time H6256 to dance;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:5 - A time H6256 to cast away stones, and a time H6256 to gather stones together; a time H6256 to embrace, and a time H6256 to refrain from embracing;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:6 - A time H6256 to get, and a time H6256 to lose; a time H6256 to keep, and a time H6256 to cast away;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:7 - A time H6256 to rend, and a time H6256 to sew; a time H6256 to keep silence, and a time H6256 to speak;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:8 - A time H6256 to love, and a time H6256 to hate; a time H6256 of war, and a time H6256 of peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:11 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: H6256 also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:17 - I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time H6256 there for every purpose and for every work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 7:17 - Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? H6256

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:5 - Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time H6256 and judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:6 - Because to every purpose there is time H6256 and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 8:9 - All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time H6256 wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:8 - Let thy garments be always H6256 white; and let thy head lack no ointment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11 - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time H6256 and chance happeneth to them all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:12 - For man also knoweth not his time: H6256 as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, H6256 when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:17 - Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, H6256 for strength, and not for drunkenness!

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:12 - The flowers appear on the earth; the time H6256 of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1 - Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when H6256 at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:22 - And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time H6256 is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:14 - And behold at eveningtide H6256 trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:7 - In that time H6256 shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:2 - At the same time H6256 spake the LORD by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:2 - O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time H6256 of trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:6 - And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, H6256 and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:1 - At that time H6256 Merodachbaladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:16 - Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time H6256 that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:8 - Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time H6256 have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:22 - A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time. H6256

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:17 - Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when H6256 he led thee by the way?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:27 - Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time H6256 of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:28 - But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time H6256 of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17 - At that time H6256 they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:11 - At that time H6256 shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:24 - Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: H6256 he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15 - Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time H6256 that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:1 - At that time, H6256 saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:7 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time H6256 of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:12 - Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time H6256 of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:15 - We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time H6256 of health, and behold trouble!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15 - They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time H6256 of their visitation they shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time H6256 of their trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:14 - Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time H6256 that they cry unto me for their trouble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 - O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time H6256 of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:19 - Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time H6256 of healing, and behold trouble!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:11 - The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time H6256 of evil and in the time H6256 of affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:23 - Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time H6256 of thine anger.

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