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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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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 - And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, he made woman, and brought her to the man.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:23 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall 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 shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 2:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 2:25 - And 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 subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made: and he said to the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:2 - And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:4 - And the serpent said to the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:6

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:12 - And the man said, The woman, whom thou gavest 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 - And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15 - And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt 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 thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children: and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:17 - And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:20 - And Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 3:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:1 - And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:17 - And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived, and bore Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son Enoch.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:19 - And Lamech took to him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - And Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, hearken to my speech: for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:25 - And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:2 - That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all whom they chose.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 6:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:18 - But with thee will I establish my covenant: and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:2 - Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:7 - And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, 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 entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:16 - Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:18

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran, and dwelt there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:5

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - And it came to pass, when he had come near to enter into Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that thou art a fair woman to look upon:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:12 - Therefore it will come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee, that they will say, This is his wife: and they will kill me, but they will save thee alive.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:14 - And it came to pass, that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:15 - The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17 - And the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:18 - And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done to me? why didst thou not tell me that she is thy wife?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:19 - Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me for a wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:20 - And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - And Abram returned from Egypt, he, and his wife, and 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 - And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, Abram's wife, bore him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 - And they said to him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - And he said, I will certainly return to thee according to the time of life; and lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - Now Abraham and Sarah were old and far advanced in age; and it 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 - And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters who are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:16 - And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters: the LORD being merciful to him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

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