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Lexicon :: Strong's H6258 - ʿatâ

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עַתָּה
Transliteration
ʿatâ
Pronunciation
at-taw'
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1650c

Strong’s Definitions

עַתָּה ʻattâh, at-taw'; from H6256; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive:—henceforth, now, straightway, this time, whereas.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's H6258 in the following manner: now, whereas, henceforth, this time forth, straightway.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's H6258 in the following manner: now, whereas, henceforth, this time forth, straightway.

  1. now

    1. now

    2. in phrases

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עַתָּה ʻattâh, at-taw'; from H6256; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive:—henceforth, now, straightway, this time, whereas.
STRONGS H6258: Abbreviations
עַתָּ֫ה 435 (also Ezekiel 23:43; Psalm 74:6 עת Kt, Qr עַתָּה), עָ֑֫תָּה Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4] +, adverb of time, now (properly accusative of [`int], עֵת (Köii. 260), at the time, in particular of the present time, i.e. now; compare German zur Zeit, Arabic bdb077401at the time, i.e. now); — now:
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a. Genesis 12:19 ועתה הנה אשׁתך and now, behold thy wife, Genesis 22:12 ידעתי עתה ידעתי now, I know (so Exodus 18:11; Judges 17:13; H20881 Kings 17:24 [עַתָּה זֶה], Psalm 20:7 [Psalm 20:6]), Genesis 26:22, Genesis 26:29; H2088Genesis 27:36; Genesis 31:13, Genesis 31:28, etc., Exodus 5:5 הך רבים עתה עם הארץ; whether in opposed to past time, as Genesis 32:11 [Genesis 32:10]; Joshua 14:11 כְּכֹחִי אָז וּכְכֹחִי עָ֑תָּה, Judges 11:8; 1 Kings 12:4; Isaiah 1:21 ועתה מרצחים, Isaiah 16:14; Hosea 2:9 [Hosea 2:7] כִּי טוֺב לִי אָז מַעָ֑תָּה, Hosea 13:2, Job 30:1 +, or to future, as Numbers 24:17 אֶרְאֶנּוּ ולא עתה, Judges 8:6 חֲכַף עַתָּה־בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ זֶבַח וצ׳, 1 Samuel 2:16 כִּי עַתָּה תִּתֵּן; = after all Numbers 22:38; Judges 8:2; = now at last 2 Samuel 24:16; 1 Kings 19:4; 2 Kings 19:25; Hosea 7:2; Jeremiah 4:12; and in the phrase מעתה ועד עולם Isaiah 9:6 [Isaiah 9:7]; Isaiah 59:21; Micah 4:7 (see below), Psalm 113:2; Psalm 115:18; Psalm 121:8; Psalm 125:2; Psalm 131:3.
b. of the imminent or impending future: Genesis 19:9 מֵהֶם לְךָ נָרַע עַתָּה. Genesis 29:32 כי עתה יאהבני אישׁי, Genesis 29:34; Exodus 6:1 עתה תראה, Numbers 11:23; Numbers 22:4; 2 Samuel 20:6; Isaiah 33:10 (Psalm 12:6 [Psalm 12:5]), Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 49:19; Amos 6:7 לכן עתה יִגְלוּ, Isaiah 49:19; Micah 7:4, Micah 7:10; Daniel 10:20; and especially ἀσυνδέτως in Hosea, introducing a punishment, Hosea 4:16 וגו׳ עתה יִרְעֵם י׳ Hosea 5:7; Hosea 8:8, Hosea 8:13 (Jeremiah 14:10), Jeremiah 10:2.
c. of a time ideally present (= then, from our point of view): Isaiah 29:22 לא עתה יבושׁ יעקב, Isaiah 29:22b Hosea 10:3; Micah 4:9, Micah 4:10, Micah 4:11; Micah 4:14 [Micah 5:1]; Micah 5:3 [Micah 5:4].
d. describing a present state = as things are: 1 Samuel 8:5 thou art old, etc., עתה שִׂימָה לנו מלך, 1 Samuel 9:6; 1 Samuel 13:12; 1 Samuel 14:30; 1 Samuel 25:7b; 1 Samuel 27:1 now I shall be swept away one day, etc., 2 Kings 18:20, 2 Kings 18:25; Job 6:21; Job 14:16; Job 16:7.
e. with an Imperative, as an encouragement, implying that the time has come for the exhortation or advice to be followed, Genesis 31:13 צא קום עתה, Exodus 18:19 עתה שְׁמַע בקולי, Numbers 22:11; Deuteronomy 2:13; Isaiah 30:8.
2. Phrases:
a. עַתָּה זֶה (זֶה 4h) H2088 1 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 5:22.
b. ועתה and, now, or now, therefore (וְ 4), drawing a conclusion, especially (compare 1e) a practical one, from what has been stated: Genesis 3:22 and now (since man has once been disobedient), lest he put forth his hand, etc., Genesis 20:7; Genesis 20:23 וְעַתָּה הִשָּֽׁבְעָה לִי הֵ֫נָּה, Genesis 27:3, Genesis 27:8 ועתה בני שְׁמַע בקולי, Genesis 30:30; Genesis 31:16, Genesis 31:44; Genesis 37:20 + often, Isaiah 5:3, Isaiah 5:5; Psalm 2:10; Genesis 11:6 וגו׳ מֵהֶם לֹא־יִבָּצֵר ועתה, Genesis 31:30; Genesis 45:8; 2 Samuel 19:11 [2 Samuel 19:10]; Psalm 39:8 [Psalm 39:7] אֲדֹנָי מַה־קִּוִּיתִי ועתה , Isaiah 52:5.
c. וְעַתָּה הִנֵּה stating the ground on which some conclusion or action is to be based, Exodus 3:9; Joshua 14:10 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 12:2; 1 Samuel 24:21 [1 Samuel 24:20]; 1 Kings 1:18; Jeremiah 40:4 (with ועתה usually repeated afer the הנה-clause).
†d. גם עתה Genesis 44:10; 1 Samuel 12:16; 1 Kings 14:14; Joel 2:12; Job 16:19.
†e. מֵעַתָּה from now, henceforth, Jeremiah 3:4; Isaiah 48:6; Daniel 10:17 (according to some, here = from just now), 2 Chronicles 16:9; מעתה עולם ועד , see above 1a end.
f. עַדעַֿתָּה until now, Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4], עד־ע׳ וָאֵחַר, Deuteronomy 12:9 אל הנחלה לא באתם עד ע׳ (opposed to the future), H57042 Kings 13:23; especially after clause with מִן, 2Ki 46:34 מִנְּעוּרֵינוּ וְעַדעֿ׳ (2 Samuel 19:8 [2 Samuel 19:7]; Ezekiel 4:14), Exodus 9:18; 2 Kings 8:6; Ruth 2:7.
g. כִּי עַתָּה for in this case, in our idiom, for then (עתה pointing to a condition assumed as a possible contingency: compare Dr§ 141, 142);
† (a) Exodus 9:15 כי עתה שׁלחתי וגו׳ for then (if the intention expressed in Exodus 9:14 had not existed) I should have put forth my hand, etc., Numbers 22:29 כי עתה הֲרַגְתִּיךְ, 1 Samuel 13:13; Job 3:13; followed by imperfect Job 6:3 for then (if it were weighed, Job 6:2) it would be heavier, etc., Job 13:19 for then would I be silent and die;
(b) after a protasis, surely then Genesis 31:42 + (see כִּי 1d b, p. 472).
—Note. Read כְּמוֺ עַתָּ) (Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate) as now, for כְּמוֺ עֵת Ezekiel 16:57, עַתָּ נִשְׁבַּרְתְּ (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate) now art thou broken ! for עֵת נִשְׁבֶּרֶת Ezekiel 27:34, and probably עַתָּ בָּא (Hi We Kö Now, compare Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version) for עֶתבּֿאֹ Haggai 1:2; also עַתָּה for אַתָּה 1 Kings 1:20, and אַתָּה for עַתָּה 1 Kings 1:18b 2 Samuel 18:3.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:22; 11:6; 12:19; 19:9; 20:7; 22:12; 26:22; 26:29; 27:3; 27:8; 27:36; 29:32; 29:34; 30:30; 31:13; 31:13; 31:16; 31:28; 31:30; 31:42; 31:44; 32:4; 32:4; 32:10; 37:20; 44:10; 45:8

Exodus

3:9; 5:5; 6:1; 9:14; 9:15; 9:18; 18:11; 18:19

Numbers

11:23; 22:4; 22:11; 22:29; 22:38; 24:17

Deuteronomy

2:13; 12:9

Joshua

14:10; 14:11

Judges

8:2; 8:6; 11:8; 17:13

Ruth

2:7

1 Samuel

2:16; 8:5; 9:6; 12:2; 12:16; 13:12; 13:13; 14:30; 24:20; 25:7; 27:1

2 Samuel

18:3; 19:7; 19:10; 20:6; 24:16

1 Kings

1:18; 1:18; 1:20; 12:4; 14:14; 17:24; 17:24; 19:4

2 Kings

5:22; 8:6; 13:23; 18:20; 18:25; 19:25

2 Chronicles

16:9

Job

3:13; 6:2; 6:3; 6:21; 13:19; 14:16; 16:7; 16:19; 30:1

Psalms

2:10; 12:5; 20:6; 39:7; 74:6; 113:2; 115:18; 121:8; 125:2; 131:3

Isaiah

1:21; 5:3; 5:5; 9:7; 16:14; 29:22; 29:22; 30:8; 33:10; 43:19; 48:6; 49:19; 49:19; 52:5; 59:21

Jeremiah

3:4; 4:12; 10:2; 14:10; 40:4

Ezekiel

4:14; 16:57; 23:43; 27:34

Daniel

10:17; 10:20

Hosea

2:7; 4:16; 5:7; 7:2; 8:8; 8:13; 10:3; 13:2

Joel

2:12

Amos

6:7

Micah

4:7; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 5:1; 5:4; 7:4; 7:10

Haggai

1:2

H6258

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6258 matches the Hebrew עַתָּה (ʿatâ),
which occurs 435 times in 422 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 9 (Exo 10:17–Jos 24:14)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17 - “So now H6258, please forgive my sin only this once and entreat Yahweh your God, that He would only cause this death to depart from me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:11 - “Now H6258 I know that Yahweh is greater than all the gods; [fn]for in this matter they acted presumptuously against [fn]the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:19 - “Now H6258 listen to my voice: I will give you counsel, and God be with you. [fn]You be the people’s representative before God, and you bring the matters to God;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:5 - ‘So now H6258 then, if you will indeed listen to My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10 - “Now H6258 then let Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may consume them; and I will make you a great nation.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 -

Now it happened on the next day, that Moses said to the people, “You yourselves have [fn]committed a great sin; but now H6258 I am going up to Yahweh, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:32 - “But now H6258, if You will forgive their sin—but if not, please blot me out from Your book which You have written!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:34 - “But now H6258 go, guide the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I [fn]punish, I will [fn]punish them for their sin.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:5 - So Yahweh said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would consume you. So now H6258, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:13 - “So now H6258, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. See also, that this nation is Your people.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:6 - but now H6258 our [fn]appetite is dried up. There is nothing at all [fn]to look at except this manna.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:23 - And Yahweh said to Moses, “Is Yahweh’s [fn]power limited? Now H6258 you shall see whether My word will happen for you or not.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:17 - “So now H6258, I pray, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have [fn]declared,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - Then Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now H6258 this assembly will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - “So now H6258, please come, curse this people for me since they are too [fn]mighty for me; perhaps I may be able to strike them down and drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11 - ‘Behold, there is a people who came out of Egypt, and they cover the surface of the land; now H6258 come, curse them for me; perhaps I may be able to fight against them and drive them out.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:19 - “So now H6258, please, you also stay here tonight, and I will know what else Yahweh will speak to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:29 - Then Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have made a mockery of me! If there had been a sword in my hand, I would have killed you by now H6258.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - “And the donkey saw me and turned aside from me these three times. If it had not turned aside from me, I would surely have killed you just now H6258, and let it live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - And Balaam said to the angel of Yahweh, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the way against me. So now H6258, if it is evil in your sight, I will turn back.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:38 - So Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come now H6258 to you! Am I able to speak anything at all? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I shall speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:11 - “So now H6258, [fn]flee to your place. I said I would honor you greatly, but behold, Yahweh has held you back from honor.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:14 - “So now H6258, behold, I am going to my people; come, and I will advise you what this people will do to your people in the last days.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 -

“I see him, but not now H6258;

I behold him, but not near;

A star shall come forth from Jacob,

A scepter shall rise from Israel,

And shall crush through the [fn]forehead of Moab,

And [fn]tear down all the sons of [fn]Sheth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17 - “So now H6258, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man [fn]intimately.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:13 - ‘Now H6258 arise and cross over the [fn]brook Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the [fn]brook Zered.

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“So now H6258, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:25 - ‘So now H6258 then why should we die? For this great fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, then we will die.

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“So now H6258, Israel, what does Yahweh your God ask from you, but to [fn]fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:22 - “Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now H6258 Yahweh your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:9 - for you have not as yet H6258 come to the resting place and the inheritance which Yahweh your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:10 - ‘So now H6258 behold, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground which You, O Yahweh, have given me.’ And you shall set it down before Yahweh your God and worship before Yahweh your God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:19 -

“So now H6258, write this song for yourselves and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

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‘See now H6258 that I, I am He,

And there is no god besides Me;

It is I who put to death and give life.

I have wounded, and it is I who heal,

And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:2 - “Moses My servant is dead; so now H6258 arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:12 - “So now H6258, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have shown lovingkindness to you, that you also will show lovingkindness to my father’s household and give me a pledge of [fn]truth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:12 - “So now H6258, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:14 - He said, “No! Rather I indeed come now H6258 as commander of the host of Yahweh.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and bowed down and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his slave?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:6 - And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a far country; so now H6258, cut a covenant with us.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:11 - “So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take provisions in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them and say to them, “We are your servants; now H6258 then, cut a covenant with us.”’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:12 - “This bread of ours was warm when we took it for our provisions out of our houses on the day that we left to come to you; but now H6258 behold, it is dry and has become crumbled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:19 - Then all the leaders said to the whole congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel, so now H6258 we cannot touch them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:23 - “So now H6258, you are cursed, and [fn]you shall never be cut loose from being slaves, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:25 - “So now H6258, behold, we are in your hands; do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:7 - “So now H6258, apportion this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - “So now H6258 behold, Yahweh has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; so now H6258 behold, I am eighty-five years old today.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - “I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now H6258, for war and for going out and coming in.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “So now H6258, give me this hill country about which Yahweh spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps Yahweh will be with me, and I will dispossess them as Yahweh has spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 22:4 - “And now H6258 Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them; so now H6258 turn and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.

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“So now H6258, [fn]fear Yahweh and serve Him in integrity and [fn]truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the [fn]River and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh.


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