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Lexicon :: Strong's H6996 - qāṭān

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קָטָן
Transliteration
qāṭān
Pronunciation
kaw-tawn'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2009a,2009b

Strong’s Definitions

קָטָן qâṭân, kaw-tawn'; or קָטֹן qâṭôn; from H6962; abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance):—least, less(-er), little (one), small(-est, one, quantity, thing), young(-er, -est).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 101x

The KJV translates Strong's H6996 in the following manner: small (33x), little (19x), youngest (15x), younger (14x), least (10x), less (3x), lesser (2x), little one (2x), smallest (1x), small things (1x), young (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 101x
The KJV translates Strong's H6996 in the following manner: small (33x), little (19x), youngest (15x), younger (14x), least (10x), less (3x), lesser (2x), little one (2x), smallest (1x), small things (1x), young (1x).

  1. young, small, insignificant, unimportant

    1. small

    2. insignificant

    3. young

    4. unimportant

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קָטָן qâṭân, kaw-tawn'; or קָטֹן qâṭôn; from H6962; abbreviated, i.e. diminutive, literally (in quantity, size or number) or figuratively (in age or importance):—least, less(-er), little (one), small(-est, one, quantity, thing), young(-er, -est).
STRONGS H6996: Abbreviations
† I. קָטָן adjective small, young, unimportant; — absolute ק׳ Genesis 9:24 +; suffix קְטַנָּם (Köii. l, 74) Jeremiah 6:13 +; feminine singular קְטַנָּה Genesis 29:16 +; masculine plural קְטַנִּים 2 Kings 18:24 +; construct קְטַנֵּי 1 Samuel 9:21 (see Dr; We conjectures נִּי-, old construct, cf, HPS), Proverbs 30:24; feminine plural קְטַנּוֺת Ezekiel 16:61 +; —
1. small; especially
a. of children, youth = young, Genesis 44:20 (J) 2 Samuel 9:12; 1 Kings 11:17; 2 Kings 2:23; 2 Kings 5:2, of sister Songs 8:8; = younger, of two children (often opposed to גדול), Genesis 9:24; Genesis 27:15, 42 (all J), Genesis 29:16, 18 (E), 1 Samuel 14:49 (feminine; opposed to הַבְּכִירָה); of younger sister Judges 15:2, so (figurative) Ezekiel 16:46 and (+ מִן compare) Ezekiel 16:61; brother 1 Chronicles 24:31; הַקּ׳ youngest son (of several) 1 Samuel 16:11; 1 Samuel 17:14; גָּדוֺל = young and old (see קָטֹן 1) Jeremiah 16:6 compare 2 Chronicles 31:15; 34:30.
b. of things : utterance Numbers 22:18 (E), weight Deuteronomy 25:13, 14, vessels 2 Chronicles 36:18, animals Psalm 104:25 (all opposed to גדול); compare also 2 Samuel 12:3; 1 Kings 2:20; 1 Kings 17:13; 1 Kings 18:44; 2 Kings 4:10; Ezekiel 43:14 (opposed to גדול), Proverbs 30:24; Songs 2:15, + probably Ezekiel 46:22 (see II. [קָטַר]); כְּלֵי הַקָּטָן Isaiah 22:24 the vessels of small size (figurative).
2. small;
a. with added idea of weakness, person 2 Kings 18:24 = Isaiah 36:9, city Ecclesiastes 9:14.
b. = insignificant,
(1) tribe 1 Samuel 9:21;
(2) person (+גדול; = all persons) Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 31:34; Jonah 3:5; Psalm 115:13; Esther 1:5, 20, cf. 1 Chronicles 12:14 (van d. H. 1 Chronicles 12:13);
(3) in general, יוֺם קְטַנּוֺת Zechariah 4:10 day of small things. — See also קָטֹן.

קָטֹן 54 adjective small, insignificant; — absolute ק׳ 1 Samuel 2:19 +; construct קְטֹן 2 Chronicles 21:17; — feminine, plural and suffix supplied by קָטָן; —
1. small: especially
a. of youth = young, נַעַר קּ׳ 1 Samuel 20:35; 1 Kings 3:7; 2 Kings 5:14; Isaiah 11:6; = younger of two brothers, Genesis 48:19 (E) Judges 1:13; Judges 3:9 (+ מִן compare); הַקּ׳ youngest brother Genesis 42:13 + 10 times Genesis (JE), son Judges 9:5; 2 Chronicles 22:1, so קְטֹן בָּנָיו 2 Chronicles 21:17; + גדול = young and old (see קָטָן 1), i.e. everybody Genesis 19:11 (J), 1 Samuel 5:9; 1 Samuel 30:2 — 1 Samuel 30:19.
b. of things 1 Samuel 2:19; 1 Kings 8:64 (+ מִן compare), Amos 6:11; Isaiah 54:7; opposed to גָּדוֺל 1 Samuel 22:15; 1 Samuel 25:36; Genesis 1:16 (P).
2. = unimportant, things, Exodus 18:22, 26 (E), 1 Samuel 20:2 (all opposed to גדול); person,=feeble Amos 7:2, 5; = insignificant Jeremiah 49:15; Obadiah 2 (both || בָּזוּי), Isaiah 60:22 (|| צָעִיר); בְּעֵינֶיךָ ק׳ 1 Samuel 15:17; especially + גָּדוֺל = low and high, + everybody, Deuteronomy 1:17; 1 Kings 22:31 2 Chronicles 18:30; Jeremiah 8:10; Job 3:19, +8 times — See also קָטָן above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:16; 9:24; 9:24; 19:11; 27:15; 27:42; 29:16; 29:16; 29:18; 42:13; 44:20; 48:19

Exodus

18:22; 18:26

Numbers

22:18

Deuteronomy

1:17; 25:13; 25:14

Judges

1:13; 3:9; 9:5; 15:2

1 Samuel

2:19; 2:19; 5:9; 9:21; 9:21; 14:49; 15:17; 16:11; 17:14; 20:2; 20:35; 22:15; 25:36; 30:2; 30:19

2 Samuel

9:12; 12:3

1 Kings

2:20; 3:7; 8:64; 11:17; 17:13; 18:44; 22:31

2 Kings

2:23; 4:10; 5:2; 5:14; 18:24; 18:24

1 Chronicles

12:13; 12:14; 24:31

2 Chronicles

18:30; 21:17; 21:17; 22:1; 31:15; 34:30; 36:18

Esther

1:5; 1:20

Job

3:19

Psalms

104:25; 115:13

Proverbs

30:24; 30:24

Ecclesiastes

9:14

Song of Songs

2:15; 8:8

Isaiah

11:6; 22:24; 36:9; 54:7; 60:22

Jeremiah

6:13; 6:13; 8:10; 16:6; 31:34; 49:15

Ezekiel

16:46; 16:61; 16:61; 43:14; 46:22

Amos

6:11; 7:2; 7:5

Obadiah

1:2

Jonah

3:5

Zechariah

4:10

H6996

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6996 matches the Hebrew קָטָן (qāṭān),
which occurs 101 times in 100 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 1:16–1Ki 18:44)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:16 - God made the two great lights, the greater light [fn]to govern the day, and the lesser H6996 light [fn]to govern the night; He made the stars also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:24 - When Noah awoke from his wine, he knew what his youngest H6996 son had done to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:11 - Then they struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, from the small H6996 to the great, so that they became weary of trying to find the doorway.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:15 - Then Rebekah took the [fn]best garments of her elder son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them on her younger H6996 son Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:42 - Now when the words of her elder son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she sent word and called her younger H6996 son Jacob, and said to him, “Behold your brother Esau is consoling himself concerning you by planning to kill you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:16 - Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger H6996 was Rachel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:18 - Now Jacob loved Rachel, so he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger H6996 daughter Rachel.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:13 - But they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers in all, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and behold, the youngest H6996 is with our father today, and one is no longer alive.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:15 - by this you will be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not leave this place unless your youngest H6996 brother comes here!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:20 - and bring your youngest H6996 brother to me, so that your words may be verified, and you will not die.” And they did so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:32 - ‘We are twelve brothers, sons of our father; one is no longer alive, and the youngest H6996 is with our father today in the land of Canaan.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:34 - ‘But bring your youngest H6996 brother to me so that I may know that you are not spies, but [fn]honest men. I will give your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 43:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:29 - And as he raised his eyes and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he said, “Is this your youngest H6996 brother, of whom you spoke to me?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:2 - “And put my cup, the silver cup, in the opening of the sack of the youngest H6996, and his money for the grain.” And he did [fn]as Joseph had told him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:12 - And he searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest H6996; and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - “And we said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a little H6996 boy born in our father’s old age. Now his brother is dead, so he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:23 - “You said to your servants, however, ‘Unless your youngest H6996 brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - “But we said, ‘We cannot go down. If our youngest H6996 brother is with us, then we will go down; for we cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest H6996 brother is with us.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:19 - But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his younger H6996 brother shall be greater than he, and his [fn]descendants shall become [fn]a multitude of nations.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:22 - “Let them judge the people at all times; and let it be that they will bring to you every major matter, but they will judge every minor H6996 matter themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will carry the burden with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:26 - Then they judged the people at all times; they would bring the difficult matter to Moses, but they would judge every minor H6996 matter themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - But Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Even if Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, either small H6996 or great, contrary to the [fn]command of the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - ‘You are not to [fn]show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small H6996 and the great alike. You are not to be afraid of any person, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:13 -

“You shall not have in your bag [fn]differing weights, a large and a small H6996.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:14 - “You shall not have in your house [fn]differing measures, a large and a small H6996.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:13 - Now Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger H6996 brother, captured it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah as a wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - But the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to set them free, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger H6996 brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5 - Then he went to his father’s house in Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, [fn]on one stone. But Jotham the youngest H6996 son of Jerubbaal was left, because he hid himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:2 - Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is her younger H6996 sister not [fn]more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours [fn]instead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:19 - And his mother would make for him a little H6996 robe and bring it up to him from year to year when she would come up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 5:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:9 - After they had taken it away, the hand of the LORD was against the city, creating a very great panic; and He struck the people of the city, from the young H6996 to the old, so that tumors broke out on them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 9:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjaminite, of the smallest H6996 of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the [fn]tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:49

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Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua; and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was Merab, and the name of the younger H6996, Michal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 15:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17 -

So Samuel said, “[fn]Is it not true, though you were [fn]insignificant H6996 in your own eyes, that you became the head of the tribes of Israel? For the LORD anointed you as king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 16:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:11 - Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are these all the boys?” And he said, “The youngest H6996 is still left, but behold, he is tending the sheep.” So Samuel said to Jesse, “Send word and bring him; for we will not take our places at the table until he comes here.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 17:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:14 - So David was the youngest H6996. Now the three oldest followed Saul,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:2 - He said to him, “Far from it, you shall not die! Behold, my father does nothing either great or small H6996 [fn]without informing me. So why would my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:35

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:35 -

Now it came about in the morning that Jonathan went out to the field at the time agreed upon with David, and a little H6996 boy was with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 22:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 22:15 - “Did I just begin to inquire of God for him today? Far be it from me! Do not let the king impute anything against his servant or against any of the household of my father, because your servant knows nothing [fn]at all H6996 of this whole affair.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:36 -

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was having a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was cheerful within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything [fn]at all H6996 until the morning light.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:2 - and they took captive the women and all who were in it, from the small H6996 to the great, [fn]without killing anyone, and drove them off and went their way.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 30:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:19 - And nothing of theirs was missing, whether small H6996 or great, sons or daughters, plunder, or anything that they had taken for themselves; David brought it all back.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 9:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 9:12 - Mephibosheth had a young H6996 son whose name was Mica. And all who lived in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.

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“But the poor man had nothing at all except one little H6996 ewe lamb

Which he bought and nurtured;

And it grew up together with him and his children.

It would eat [fn]scraps from him and drink from his cup and lie [fn]in his lap,

And was like a daughter to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 2:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:20 - Then she said, “I am making one small H6996 request of you; do not [fn]refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not [fn]refuse you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7 - “And now, LORD my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am like a little H6996 boy; I do not know how to [fn]go out or come in.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:64

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:64 - On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the house of the LORD, because there he [fn]offered the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar that was before the LORD was too small H6996 to hold the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:17 - that Hadad fled [fn]to Egypt, he and certain Edomites of his father’s servants with him, while Hadad was a young H6996 boy.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:13 - However, Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said. Just make me a little H6996 bread loaf from [fn]it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:44

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:44 - And when he returned the seventh time, he said, “Behold, a cloud as small H6996 as a person’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And Elijah said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Harness your chariot horses and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.’”

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