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Lexicon :: Strong's H8147 - šᵊnayim

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שְׁנַיִם
Transliteration
šᵊnayim
Pronunciation
shen-ah'-yim
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Part of Speech
adjective, dual masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2421a

Strong’s Definitions

שְׁנַיִם shᵉnayim, shen-ah'-yim; dual of H8145; feminine שְׁתַּיִם shᵉttayim; two; also (as ordinal) twofold:—both, couple, double, second, twain, twelfth, twelve, twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 768x

The KJV translates Strong's H8147 in the following manner: two (533x), twelve (with H6240) (105x), both (69x), twelfth (with H6240) (21x), second (10x), twain (7x), both of them (5x), twice (5x), double (5x), miscellaneous (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 768x
The KJV translates Strong's H8147 in the following manner: two (533x), twelve (with H6240) (105x), both (69x), twelfth (with H6240) (21x), second (10x), twain (7x), both of them (5x), twice (5x), double (5x), miscellaneous (8x).

  1. two

    1. two (the cardinal number)

      1. two, both, double, twice

    2. second (the ordinal number)

    3. in combination with other numbers

    4. both (a dual number)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שְׁנַיִם shᵉnayim, shen-ah'-yim; dual of H8145; feminine שְׁתַּיִם shᵉttayim; two; also (as ordinal) twofold:—both, couple, double, second, twain, twelfth, twelve, twenty (sixscore) thousand, twice, two.
STRONGS H8147: Abbreviations
שְׁנַ֫יִם, שְׁתַּיִם (PhilippiZMG xlix (1895), 202 Ges§ 97b note): 768 noun masculine and feminine dual two (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician אשנם (and שנ׳ second), Punic שנם Lzb380; Arabic bdb104101; Sabean תֿני HomChr 47, Aramaic תְּרֵין, bdb104102 (תִּנְיָנָא, bdb104103second); Nabataean תרין, Palmyrene feminine תרתן, תרתיא, Lzb388; Assyrian šinâ; on etymology see √, and especially PhilippiZMG xxxii (1878), 21-98); — masculine (with masculine noun) שְׁנַיִם Amos 3:3 +; construct שְׁנֵי Isaiah 7:16 +, suffix שְׁנֵיהֶם Genesis 2:25 +, etc.; feminine (with feminine noun) שְׁתַּיִם Amos 4:8 +; construct שְׁתֵּי Genesis 4:19, וּשְׁתֵּי Isaiah 7:21 +, etc., מִשְּׁתֵֿי Judges 16:28 (see GFM); suffixes see below (2+10= 12, see below); Hexateuch chiefly P; — two:
1. no other number:
a. usually construct before plural noun (צְמִידִים) שְׁנֵי Genesis 24:22 + 19 times + 2 Samuel 23:20 || 1 Chronicles 11:22 (insert בְּנֵי Greek Version of the LXX Th modern, otherwise RSSemitic i. 469, 2nd ed., 488); (נָשִׁים) שְׁתֵּי Genesis 4:19 132 times, 1 Samuel 10:4 insert כִּכְּרוֺת Klo HPS Bu Now; Leviticus 16:21 read dual יָדָיו Qr, + Judges 16:28 (see above) + שְׁתֵּיאֵֿלֶּה Isaiah 47:9 both these things; before singular noun, שְׁנֵי Exodus 16:22 (Ges§ 134e); suffix שְׁנֵיתֶם the two of them Genesis 2:25 + 62 times, + Proverbs 24:22 (> their years Syriac Version Targum De and others; probably corrupt, see Toy), שְׁנֵינוּ Genesis 31:37 + 2 times, שְׁנֵיכֶם † Genesis 27:45; שְׁתֵּיהֶם (masculine suffix! Ges§ 135 o) † Ruth 1:19; Ruth 4:11, יֵ֯הֶן † 1 Samuel 25:43; Ezekiel 23:13.
b. absolute
(1) שְׁנַ֫יִם (90 times), before plural noun Judges 11:37 + 26 times; after plural noun 2 Samuel 1:1; Exodus 29:1+ 21 times (usually P Chronicles), singular noun (collective) Genesis 46:27; Numbers 7:17 + 11 times Numbers 17; noun omitted Genesis 7:2; Genesis 44:27 + 26 times; שׁ׳ שׁ׳ distributive Genesis 7:9 +; לִשׁ׳ cut in two 2 Kings 3:25; Jeremiah 34:18; = double amount † Exodus 22:3; Exodus 22:6; Exodus 22:8 (E); שׁ׳ פִּי † Deuteronomy 21:17 double portion, + בְּרוּחֲךָ † 2 Kings 2:9 in (of) thy spirit, + בָּהּ †Zechariah 3:18;
(2) שְׁתַּ֫יִם (55 times) before plural noun 1 Kings 3:16 + 16 times; after plural noun (usually P and late) 2 Chronicles 24:3 + 9 times; noun omitted, = two things † Isaiah 51:19; Job 13:20; Proverbs 30:7; שְׁתַּיִם = twice † 2 Kings 6:10; Job 40:5; Psalm 62:12 (or as Proverbs 30:7), בִּשׁ׳ Job 33:14 either so, or in two ways RVm (see De); as ordinal בִּשְׁנַת שְׁתַּיִם לְ 1 Kings 15:25 + 9 times, etc.; (3) as round number, שְׁנַיִם עֵצִים 1 Kings 17:12 a few sticks (German 'ein paar'), compare 2 Kings 9:32; Isaiah 17:6; שְׁתַּיִם שָׁלשׁ Amos 4:8, וּשְׁתָּ֑יִם פַּעַם Nehemiah 13:20, compare Jeremiah 3:14 אֶחָד מֵעִיר וּשְׁנַיִם מִמִּשְׁפָּחָה = a small number; Ezra 10:13 not for one or two days (but for many), 2 Kings 6:10.
2. twelve: with noun masculine שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר Genesis 42:13 + 87 times, לִשְׁנֵי עָשָׂר Exodus 28:21 + 4 times; with noun feminine שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה Exodus 24:4 + 34 times, שְׁתֵּי עֶשְׂרֵה † Ezekiel 32:1, 17; Ezekiel 33:21; before plural noun Genesis 17:20; Exodus 15:27 +; after plural noun Numbers 7:84 (twice in verse) +; before singular noun Exodus 28:21 +, Genesis 14:4 (12 year) +, etc.; as ordinal, יוֺם בְּיוֺם שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר Numbers 7:78, בִּשְׁתֵּי עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה Ezekiel 32:1 +, etc.
3. with larger number: 10 (etc.) + 2, 2 Samuel 8:5; Judges 10:3 + 56 times; 2+10 (etc.) Numbers 1:35 (P), 2 Chronicles 22:2 + 18 times (Köii. 1. 215 ff. Ges§ 97 f.); 200+2+30, 1 Kings 20:15; 50+2 as ordinal 2 Kings 15:27 + 2 times; compare 2 + 20, 1 Chronicles 24:17.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

2:25; 2:25; 4:1; 4:19; 4:19; 7:2; 7:9; 14:4; 17:20; 24:22; 27:45; 31:37; 42:13; 44:27; 46:27

Exodus

15:27; 16:22; 22:3; 22:6; 22:8; 24:4; 28:21; 28:21; 29:1

Leviticus

16:21

Numbers

1:35; 7:17; 7:78; 7:84; 17

Deuteronomy

21:17

Judges

10:3; 11:37; 16:28; 16:28

Ruth

1:19; 4:11

1 Samuel

10:4; 25:43

2 Samuel

1:1; 8:5; 23:20

1 Kings

3:16; 15:25; 17:12; 20:15

2 Kings

2:9; 3:25; 6:10; 6:10; 9:32; 15:27

1 Chronicles

11:22; 24:17

2 Chronicles

22:2; 24:3

Ezra

10:13

Nehemiah

13:20

Job

13:20; 33:14; 40:5

Psalms

62:12

Proverbs

24:22; 30:7; 30:7

Isaiah

7:16; 7:21; 17:6; 47:9; 51:19

Jeremiah

3:14; 34:18

Ezekiel

23:13; 32:1; 32:1; 32:17; 33:21

Amos

3:3; 4:8; 4:8

H8147

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Strong's Number H8147 matches the Hebrew שְׁנַיִם (šᵊnayim),
which occurs 769 times in 646 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 13 (Exo 30:4–Lev 20:18)

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:4 - And two H8147 golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two H8147 corners thereof, upon the two H8147 sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:18 - And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two H8147 tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:15 - And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two H8147 tables of the testimony were in his hand: the tables were written on both H8147 their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:1 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two H8147 tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:4 - And he hewed two H8147 tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two H8147 tables of stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:29 - And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two H8147 tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:22 - One board had two H8147 tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:24 - And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two H8147 sockets under one board for his two H8147 tenons, and two H8147 sockets under another board for his two H8147 tenons.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:26 - And their forty sockets of silver; two H8147 sockets under one board, and two H8147 sockets under another board.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:28 - And two H8147 boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:29

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:29 - And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both H8147 of them in both H8147 the corners.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:30 - And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two H8147 H8147 sockets.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:3 - And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two H8147 rings upon the one side of it, and two H8147 rings upon the other side of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:7 - And he made two H8147 cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two H8147 ends of the mercy seat;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:8 - One cherub on the end on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two H8147 ends thereof.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:21 - And a knop under two H8147 branches of the same, and a knop under two H8147 branches of the same, and a knop under two H8147 branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 37:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 37:27 - And he made two H8147 rings of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two H8147 corners of it, upon the two H8147 sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it withal.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:4 - They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two H8147 edges was it coupled together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, H8147 according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve H8147 tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:16 - And they made two H8147 ouches of gold, and two H8147 gold rings; and put the two H8147 rings in the two H8147 ends of the breastplate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:17 - And they put the two H8147 wreathen chains of gold in the two H8147 rings on the ends of the breastplate.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:18 - And the two H8147 ends of the two H8147 wreathen chains they fastened in the two H8147 ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:19 - And they made two H8147 rings of gold, and put them on the two H8147 ends of the breastplate, upon the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:20 - And they made two H8147 other golden rings, and put them on the two H8147 sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:4 - And the two H8147 kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:10 - And the two H8147 kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:15 - And the two H8147 kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:9 - And the two H8147 kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:7 - And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two H8147 turtledoves, or two H8147 young pigeons, unto the LORD; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:11 - But if he be not able to bring two H8147 turtledoves, or two H8147 young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 7:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:4 - And the two H8147 kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:2 - Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two H8147 rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:16 - And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two H8147 kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:25 - And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two H8147 kidneys, and their fat, and the right shoulder:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:8 - And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two H8147 turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:4 - Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two H8147 birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:10 - And on the eighth day he shall take two H8147 he lambs without blemish, and one ewe lamb of the first year without blemish, and three tenth deals of fine flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and one log of oil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:22 - And two H8147 turtledoves, or two H8147 young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 14:49

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:49 - And he shall take to cleanse the house two H8147 birds, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:14 - And on the eighth day he shall take to him two H8147 turtledoves, or two H8147 young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and give them unto the priest:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:29 - And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two H8147 turtles, or two H8147 young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:1 - And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two H8147 sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:5 - And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two H8147 kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:7 - And he shall take the two H8147 goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:8 - And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two H8147 goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:21 - And Aaron shall lay both H8147 his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:11 - And the man that lieth with his father's wife hath uncovered his father's nakedness: both H8147 of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:12 - And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both H8147 of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both H8147 of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:18 - And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both H8147 of them shall be cut off from among their people.

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