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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 plead with the LORD your God, that He would only remove this death from me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:11 - “Now H6258 I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods; indeed, [fn]it was proven when they acted insolently against [fn]the people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:5 - ‘Now H6258 then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My [fn]own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10 - “So now H6258 leave Me alone, that My anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:30 -

And on the next day Moses said to the people, “You yourselves have [fn]committed a great sin; and now H6258 I am going up to the LORD; 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, very well; but if not, please wipe 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 go now H6258, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless on the day when I [fn]punish, I will [fn]punish them for their sin.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:5 - For the LORD had said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are [fn]an obstinate people; if I [fn]were to go up in your midst for just one moment, I would destroy you. So now H6258, take off your [fn]jewelry that I may know what I shall do to you.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:13 - “Now H6258 then, if I have found favor in Your sight in any way, please let me know Your ways so that I may know You, in order that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:23 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Is the LORD’S [fn]power too little? Now H6258 you shall see whether My word will [fn]come true for you or not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:17 - “So now H6258, please, let the power of the Lord be great, just as You have declared, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:4 - Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now H6258 this [fn]horde will eat up all that is around us, as the ox eats 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 - “Now H6258, therefore, please come, curse this people for me since they are too [fn]mighty for me; perhaps I will be able to [fn]defeat them 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 Box Num 22:11

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 will 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 - “Now H6258 please, you also stay here tonight, and I will find out what else the LORD will say to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:29

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:33 - “But the donkey saw me and turned away from me these three times. If she had not turned away from me, I certainly would have killed you just now H6258, and let her live.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:34

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:38

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:11 - “So [fn]flee to your place now H6258. I said I would honor you greatly, but behold, the LORD 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 of what this people will do to your people in the [fn]days to come.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 -

I see him, but not now H6258;

I look at him, but not near;

A star shall appear from Jacob,

A scepter shall rise from Israel,

And shall smash the [fn]forehead of Moab,

And overcome all the sons of Sheth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:17 - “Now H6258 therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a 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]Wadi Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the [fn]Wadi Zered.

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“Now H6258, Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you will live and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:25

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:12

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“And now H6258, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to [fn]fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the LORD 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 the LORD 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 the LORD your God is giving you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:10

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:19

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“Now H6258 then, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it [fn]on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:39 -

‘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 save anyone 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 Box Jos 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:12 - “Now H6258 then, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s household, and give me a pledge of [fn]truth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:14 - He said, “No; rather I have come now H6258 as captain of the army of the LORD.” And Joshua fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:11

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, make a covenant with us.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:12 - “This bread of ours was hot when we took it for our provisions from 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 Box Jos 9:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:23 - “Now H6258 therefore, you are cursed, and [fn]you will never cease to be slaves, both gatherers of firewood and [fn]labor to draw water for the house of my God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 9:25

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 13:7

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - “And now H6258 behold, the LORD has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and 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 on 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 Box Jos 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - “Now H6258 then, give me this hill country about which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps the LORD will be with me, and I will [fn]drive them out just as the LORD has spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 22:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 24:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14 -

“Now H6258, therefore, [fn]fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and [fn]truth; and do away with the gods which your fathers served beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.


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