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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:
1.
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 46 times in 44 verses in '1Sa' in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:16 - If the man said to him, “They must surely [fn]burn the fat [fn]first, and then take as much as [fn]you desire,” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; H6258 and if not, I will take it by force.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30 - “Therefore the LORD God of Israel declares, ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father should walk before Me forever’; but now H6258 the LORD declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be lightly esteemed.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:7 - “Now H6258 therefore, take and prepare a new cart and two milch cows on which there has never been a yoke; and hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves home, away from them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:5 - and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now H6258 appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:9 - “Now H6258 then, listen to their voice; however, you shall solemnly [fn]warn them and tell them of the [fn]procedure of the king who will reign over them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:6 - He said to him, “Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and the man is held in honor; all that he says surely comes true. Now H6258 let us go there, perhaps he can tell us about our journey on which we have set out.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:12 - They answered them and said, “He is; [fn]see, he is ahead of you. Hurry now, H6258 for he has come into the city today, for the people have a sacrifice on the high place today.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:13 - “As soon as you enter the city you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat, for the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now H6258 therefore, go up for you will find him at once.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:19 - “But you have today rejected your God, who delivers you from all your calamities and your distresses; yet you have [fn]said, ‘No, but set a king over us!’ Now H6258 therefore, present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:2 - “Now, H6258 here is the king walking before you, but I am old and gray, and behold my sons are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth even to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:7 - “So now, H6258 take your stand, that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous acts of the LORD which He did for you and your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:10 - “They cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now H6258 deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve You.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:13 - “Now H6258 therefore, here is the king whom you have chosen, whom you have asked for, and behold, the LORD has set a king over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:16 - “Even now, H6258 take your stand and see this great thing which the LORD will do before your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:12 - therefore I said, ‘Now H6258 the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the LORD.’ So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, for now H6258 the LORD would have established your kingdom [fn]over Israel forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:14 - “But now H6258 your kingdom shall not endure. The LORD has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him as ruler over His people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:30 - “How much more, if only the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found! For now H6258 the slaughter among the Philistines has not been great.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:1 - Then Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you as king over His people, over Israel; now H6258 therefore, listen to the [fn]words of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:3 - ‘Now H6258 go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:25 - “Now H6258 therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30 - Then he said, “I have sinned; but please honor me now H6258 before the elders of my people and before Israel, and go back with me, that I may worship the LORD your God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:29 - But David said, “What have I done now? H6258 Was it not just a [fn]question?”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:22 - Then Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David secretly, saying, ‘Behold, the king delights in you, and all his servants love you; now H6258 therefore, become the king’s son-in-law.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 - So Jonathan told David saying, “Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. Now H6258 therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:29 - for he said, ‘Please [fn]let me go, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. And now, H6258 if I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:31 - “For [fn]as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom will be established. Therefore now, H6258 send and bring him to me, for he [fn]must surely die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 21:3 - “Now H6258 therefore, what [fn]do you have on hand? Give [fn]me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:20 - “Now H6258 then, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to [fn]do so; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:20 - “Now, H6258 behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:21 - “So now H6258 swear to me by the LORD that you will not cut off my [fn]descendants after me and that you will not destroy my name from my father’s household.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:7 - ‘Now H6258 I have heard that you have shearers; now H6258 your shepherds have been with us and we have not insulted them, nor have they missed anything all the days they were in Carmel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:17 - “Now H6258 therefore, know and [fn]consider what you should do, for evil is plotted against our master and against all his household; and he is such a [fn]worthless man that no one can speak to him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:26 - “Now H6258 therefore, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, since the LORD has restrained you from [fn]shedding blood, and from [fn]avenging yourself by your own hand, now H6258 then let your enemies and those who seek evil against my lord, be as Nabal.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:27 - “Now H6258 let this [fn]gift which your maidservant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who [fn]accompany my lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:8 - Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand; now H6258 therefore, please let me strike him with the spear [fn]to the ground with one stroke, and I will not [fn]strike him the second time.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:11 - “The LORD forbid that I should stretch out my hand against the LORD’S anointed; but now H6258 please take the spear that is at his head and the jug of water, and let us go.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:16 - “This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, all of you [fn]must surely die, because you did not guard your lord, the LORD’S anointed. And now, H6258 see where the king’s spear is and the jug of water that was at his head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:19 - “Now H6258 therefore, please let my lord the king listen to the words of his servant. If the LORD has stirred you up against me, let Him [fn]accept an offering; but if it is [fn]men, cursed are they before the LORD, for they have driven me out today so that I would have no attachment with the inheritance of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:20 - “Now H6258 then, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel has come out to search for a single flea, just as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - Then David said [fn]to himself, “Now H6258 I will perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than [fn]to escape into the land of the Philistines. Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, and I will escape from his hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:22 - “So now H6258 also, please listen to the voice of your maidservant, and let me set a piece of bread before you that you may eat and have strength when you go on your way.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:7 - “Now H6258 therefore return and go in peace, that you may not displease the lords of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 29:10 - “Now H6258 then arise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who have come with you, and as soon as you have arisen early in the morning and have light, depart.”
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