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Lexicon :: Strong's H802 - 'iššâ

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אִשָּׁה
Transliteration
'iššâ
Pronunciation
ish-shaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 137a

Strong’s Definitions

אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'; feminine of H376 or H582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym;(used in the same wide sense as H582) a woman:—(adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 780x

The KJV translates Strong's H802 in the following manner: wife (425x), woman (324x), one (10x), married (5x), female (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 780x
The KJV translates Strong's H802 in the following manner: wife (425x), woman (324x), one (10x), married (5x), female (2x), miscellaneous (14x).

  1. woman, wife, female

    1. woman (opposite of man)

    2. wife (woman married to a man)

    3. female (of animals)

    4. each, every (pronoun)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אִשָּׁה ʼishshâh, ish-shaw'; feminine of H376 or H582; irregular plural, נָשִׁים nâshîym;(used in the same wide sense as H582) a woman:—(adulter) ess, each, every, female, × many, none, one, together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
STRONGS H802: Abbreviations
אִשָּׁה 775 noun feminine woman, wife, female (Arabic bdb006102, Sabean אנתֿת etc. DHMZK 1884, 360, Aramaic אִתְּתָא, אִנְתְּתָא, אִתָּא, bdb006103, Palmyrene, Nabataean אנתתא, Ethiopic bdb006104 Phoenician אשת, Assyrian aššatu COTGloss) — א׳ absolute Genesis 2:33 +; construct אֵשֶׁת Genesis 11:29 + (apparently absolute Deuteronomy 21:11; 1 Samuel 28:7; Psalm 58:9 but compare Bö§ 728 Ges§ 130. 5); suffix אִשְׁתִּי Genesis 20:11 +; אִשְׁתְּךָ Genesis 12:18 + (אֶשְׁתְּךָ Psalm 128:3), etc.; Plural אִשֹּׁת Ezekiel 23:44 (Co לעשׂות); נָשִׁים Genesis 4:19 +; construct נְשֵׁי Genesis 4:23 +; suffix נָשַׁי Genesis 30:26; 1 Kings 20:7; נְשֵׁיכֶם Exodus 22:23 +, etc.; —
1. woman Genesis 3:1, 2; Genesis 12:11 +; opposed to man Genesis 2:22, 23; Exodus 35:29; Exodus 36:6; Deuteronomy 7:2, 5; Deuteronomy 22:22; 1 Samuel 21:5 +; א׳ emphatic a Genuine (or ideal) woman Ecclesiastes 7:28 (|| אדם); simile of men as feeble, timid Jeremiah 50:37; Jeremiah 51:30; note especially הַטַּף בַּנָּשִׁים the children among the women, female children Numbers 31:18 (P); as conceiving Exodus 2:2; Leviticus 12:2; 2 Samuel 11:5 +; travailing Jeremiah 13:21; bearing children Judges 13:24; 1 Kings 3:18; compare Job 14:1; Job 15:14; Job 25:4 +, etc.; suckling Isaiah 49:15; אֹרַח כַּנָּשִׁים Genesis 18:11; דֶּרֶח נָשִׁים Genesis 31:35; with adjective, or app., מֵינֶקֶת א׳ nursing woman, nurse Exodus 2:7; זוֺנָה א׳ harlot Joshua 2:1; Joshua 6:22; Judges 11:1; Judges 16:1; 1 Kings 3:16; Proverbs 6:26; Jeremiah 3:3; Ezekiel 16:30; Ezekiel 23:44; so זָרָה א׳ Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 7:5; compare also Ezekiel 23:44 above; מְנָאָ֑פֶת א׳ adulteress Proverbs 30:20 (compare אֵשֶׁת אִישׁ Proverbs 6:26), אֵשֶׁת זְנוּנִים Hosea 1:2; נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֺת foreign women 1 Kings 11:1, 8; Ezra 10:2, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 44; Nehemiah 13:26, 27 (compare Nehemiah 13:23); חֲכָמָה א׳ wise woman, one known as clever, shrewd 2 Samuel 14:2; 2 Samuel 20:16, etc.; also מִּילֶגֶשׁ א׳ concubine Judges 19:1, 27: אַלְמָנָה א׳ widow 2 Samuel 14:5; 1 Kings 11:26; 1 Kings 17:9, 10; נְבִיאָה א׳ prophetess Judges 4:4; also construct before noun of quality אֵשֶׁת רָ֑ע Proverbs 6:24; בְּסִילוּת א׳ Proverbs 9:13; חֵן א׳ Proverbs 11:16; חַיִל א׳ Proverbs 12:4; Proverbs 31:10; Ruth 3:11; מִדְיָנִים א׳ Proverbs 21:9; Proverbs 25:24; Proverbs 27:15; וָכָ֑עַס מ׳ א׳ Proverbs 21:19.
2. Wife (woman belonging to a man, usually construct or suffix) Genesis 2:24, 25; Genesis 3:8, 17; Genesis 4:1, 17 + often; of one betrothed (ארשׂ) Deuteronomy 20:7; Deuteronomy 28:30; בַּעַל (הָ)אִשָּׁה Exodus 21:3, 22; אִישׁ הָאִשָּׁה Judges 20:4; לְאִשָּׁה to wife Genesis 2:22; Genesis 12:19; Genesis 16:3; Genesis 34:21 + often (after לָקַח, נָתַן husband or father subject); for wife (after הָֽיְתָה, woman subject) Genesis 20:12; Numbers 36:3, 6 (twice in verse); Numbers 36:11, 12; Deuteronomy 22:19, 29 +; for unfaithful wife compare 1; construct in phrase אֵשֶׁת חֵיקֶ֑ךָ Deuteronomy 13:7; compare Deuteronomy 28:54; נְעוּרֶיךָ א׳ Proverbs 5:18; Malachi 2:14, 15; בְּרִיתֶ֑ךָ א׳ Malachi 2:14; אֵשֶׁת אָב = step-mother Leviticus 18:8, 11; Leviticus 20:11.
3. Female of animals Genesis 7:2 (twice in verse); see also below 4
†4. With distributive & reciprocal sense, מֵאֵת א׳ רְעוּתָהּ each woman from her neighbour Exodus 11:2 (E); compare Ruth 1:8, 9; Jeremiah 9:19; each one, of birds of prey Isaiah 34:15 compare Isaiah 34:16 (strike out Bi Che); of cows (figurative of heartless women of Israel) Amos 4:3; of sheep (figurative of Israel) Zechariah 11:9; & of inanimate things (P, & late) אֶל אֲחֹתָהּ א׳ Exodus 26:3 (twice in verse); Exodus 26:5, 6, 17 (P) Ezekiel 1:9 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 1:23; Ezekiel 3:13.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:22; 2:22; 2:23; 2:24; 2:25; 3:1; 3:2; 3:8; 3:17; 4:1; 4:17; 4:19; 4:23; 7:2; 11:29; 12:11; 12:18; 12:19; 16:3; 18:11; 20:11; 20:12; 30:26; 31:35; 34:21

Exodus

2:2; 2:7; 11:2; 21:3; 21:22; 22:23; 26:3; 26:5; 26:6; 26:17; 35:29; 36:6

Leviticus

12:2; 18:8; 18:11; 20:11

Numbers

31:18; 36:3; 36:6; 36:11; 36:12

Deuteronomy

7:2; 7:5; 13:7; 20:7; 21:11; 22:19; 22:22; 22:29; 28:30; 28:54

Joshua

2:1; 6:22

Judges

4:4; 11:1; 13:24; 16:1; 19:1; 19:27; 20:4

Ruth

1:8; 1:9; 3:11

1 Samuel

21:5; 28:7

2 Samuel

11:5; 14:2; 14:5; 20:16

1 Kings

3:16; 3:18; 11:1; 11:8; 11:26; 17:9; 17:10; 20:7

Ezra

10:2; 10:10; 10:11; 10:14; 10:17; 10:18; 10:44

Nehemiah

13:23; 13:26; 13:27

Job

14:1; 15:14; 25:4

Psalms

58:9; 128:3

Proverbs

2:16; 5:18; 6:24; 6:26; 6:26; 7:5; 9:13; 11:16; 12:4; 21:9; 21:19; 25:24; 27:15; 30:20; 31:10

Ecclesiastes

7:28

Isaiah

34:15; 34:16; 49:15

Jeremiah

3:3; 9:19; 13:21; 50:37; 51:30

Ezekiel

1:9; 1:23; 3:13; 16:30; 23:44; 23:44; 23:44

Hosea

1:2

Amos

4:3

Zechariah

11:9

Malachi

2:14; 2:14; 2:15

H802

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H802 matches the Hebrew אִשָּׁה ('iššâ),
which occurs 781 times in 686 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 14 (Gen 2:22–Gen 19:16)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:22 - He made the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:24 - Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:25 - They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:1 - Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4 - The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:6 - When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - They heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12 - The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:13 - The LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15 - I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:20 - The man called his wife Havah, because she was the mother of all living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:21 - The LORD God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - The man knew Havah his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Kayin, and said, "I have gotten a man with the LORD's help."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - Kayin knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Hanokh. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Hanokh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:19 - Lamekh took two wives: the name of the one was `Adah, and the name of the other Tzillah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Lamekh said to his wives, "`Adah and Tzillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamekh, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:25 - Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Shet. For, she said, "God has appointed me another child instead of Hevel, for Kayin killed him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:2 - that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18 - But I will establish my covenant with you. You shall come into the teivah, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - You shall take seven pairs of every clean animal with you, the male and his female. Of the animals that are not clean, take two, the male and his female.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - Noach went into the teivah with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives, because of the waters of the flood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:13 - In the same day Noach, and Shem, Ham, and Yefet, the sons of Noach, and Noach's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, entered into the teivah;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - "Go forth from the teivah, you, and your wife, and your sons, and your sons' wives with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:18 - Noach went forth, with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - Avram and Nachor took wives. The name of Avram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nachor's wife, Milkah, the daughter of Haran who was also the father of Yiskah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terach took Avram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's wife. They went forth from Ur of the Kasdim, to go into the land of Kana`an. They came to Haran, and lived there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Avram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls who they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Kana`an. Into the land of Kana`an they came.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - It happened, when he was come near to enter into Mitzrayim, that he said to Sarai his wife, "See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look on.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:12 - It will happen, when the Mitzrim will see you, that they will say, 'This is his wife.' They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - It happened that when Avram had come into Mitzrayim, the Mitzrim saw that the woman was very beautiful.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:15 - The princes of Par`oh saw her, and praised her to Par`oh; and the woman was taken into Par`oh's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17 - The LORD plagued Par`oh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Avram's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - Par`oh called Avram, and said, "What is this that you have done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19 - Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:20 - Par`oh gave men charge concerning him: and they brought him on the way, and his wife, and all that he had.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - Avram went up out of Mitzrayim: he, his wife, all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:16 - He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Avram's wife, bore him no children. She had a handmaid, a Mitzrian, whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - Sarai, Avram's wife, took Hagar the Mitzrian, her handmaid, after Avram had lived ten years in the land of Kana`an, and gave her to Avram her husband to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - God said to Avraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Yitzchak. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 - They said to him, "Where is Sarah, your wife? He said, "See, in the tent."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - He said, "I will certainly return to you when the season comes round. Behold, Sarah your wife will have a son." Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - Now Avraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. It had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:15 - When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, the LORD being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city.

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