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Lexicon :: Strong's H3201 - yāḵōl

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יָכֹל
Transliteration
yāḵōl
Pronunciation
yaw-kole'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 866

Strong’s Definitions

יָכֹל yâkôl, yaw-kole'; or (fuller) יָכוֹל yâkôwl; a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might):—be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 195x

The KJV translates Strong's H3201 in the following manner: could (46x), able (43x), cannot (34x), prevail (22x), may (16x), can (12x), canst (5x), endure (2x), might (2x), miscellaneous (13x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 195x
The KJV translates Strong's H3201 in the following manner: could (46x), able (43x), cannot (34x), prevail (22x), may (16x), can (12x), canst (5x), endure (2x), might (2x), miscellaneous (13x).

  1. to prevail, overcome, endure, have power, be able

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be able, be able to gain or accomplish, be able to endure, be able to reach

      2. to prevail, prevail over or against, overcome, be victor

      3. to have ability, have strength

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָכֹל yâkôl, yaw-kole'; or (fuller) יָכוֹל yâkôwl; a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might):—be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
STRONGS H3201: Abbreviations
יָכֹל, יָכוֺל 193 verb be able, have power prevail, endure (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יְכִיל; Assyrian akâlu, Hpt in KAT2 Gloss i,) —
Qal Perfect יָכֹל Genesis 32:26 + 8 times; יָכוֺל 1 Samuel 4:15 + 2 times; 3rd person feminine singular יָֽֽֽכְלָה Genesis 36:7; Exodus 2:3; 2nd person masculine singular וְיָכָלְתָּ֫ Exodus 18:23; 1st person singular יָכֹלְתִּי Genesis 30:8 + 2 times; suffix יְכָלְתִּיו Psalm 13:5; 3rd person plural יָכְ֑לוּ Genesis 13:6 + 27 times + Joshua 15:63 Qr; יָכֹ֑לוּ Exodus 8:14 + 2 times; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יוּכָל Genesis 13:16 + 34 times; יוּכָ֑ל Job 4:2 + 4 times; וַיֻּכָ֑ל Hosea 12:5; 3rd person feminine singular תּוּכַל Amos 7:10 + 2 times; 2nd person masculine singular תּוּכַל Genesis 15:5 + 16 times; 1st person singular אוּכַל Genesis 19:19 + 30 times, etc. (on these Imperfect forms as irregular Qal, see Ges§ 2, R. 3 Köi. 407 WSG 237; others.
Hoph.); Infinitive construct יְכֹ֫לֶת Numbers 14:16; Deuteronomy 9:28; Infinitive absolute יָכוֺל Numbers 13:20; 2 Chronicles 32:13; יָכֹל Numbers 22:38; 1 Samuel 26:25; P + 8 times (not Leviticus), Ezekiel + 3 times; often J E D Jeremiah, Isaiah 2, not seldom in Samuel Kings Chronicles; —
1. be able, to do a thing, whether ability be physical, moral, constitutional, or dependent on external authority; usually of man Genesis 13:16 (J) +, but also of gods 2 Chronicles 32:13, 15, and of י׳ Numbers 14:16 (JE), Deuteronomy 9:28; Jeremiah 44:22; occasionally of inanimate things Amos 7:10; Genesis 36:7 (P), Songs 8:7; Ecclesiastes 1:15 (twice in verse), etc.:
a. usually followed by infinitive with לְ (122 times), Genesis 31:35 I am not able to rise up; Genesis 45:1 Joseph was not able to restrain himself, Genesis 45:3; Genesis 48:10; Exodus 7:21, 24 were not able to drink, Exodus 12:39; Joshua 24:19 (all E); Genesis 13:16 if a man can number the dust, Genesis 19:19, 22; Genesis 43:32; Genesis 44:22, 26 (twice in verse); Exodus 10:5; Exodus 19:23 (all J), Genesis 15:5; Exodus 15:23; Numbers 11:14 (all J E) + 10 times J E; Deuteronomy 7:17 + 10 times D; Genesis 13:6 they could not dwell together, Genesis 34:14; Genesis 36:7; Exodus 9:11; Exodus 40:35; Numbers 9:6; Joshua 9:19 (all P); 1 Samuel 3:2; 1 Samuel 6:20; 1 Kings 9:21 (on || 2 Chronicles 8:8 and text of Judges 1:19 see BuRS 8), Amos 7:10; Hosea 5:13; Zephaniah 1:18; Jeremiah 6:10; Jeremiah 11:11; Jeremiah 13:23; Jeremiah 18:6; Jeremiah 19:11 +.
† b. followed by infinitive without לְ (27 times; not P): Genesis 37:4; Exodus 2:3; Exodus 18:18, 23 (all E), Genesis 24:50; Genesis 44:1 (J), Numbers 22:37, 38 (JE), Deuteronomy 1:9; Deuteronomy 7:22; Deuteronomy 14:24; Deuteronomy 22:29; Judges 8:3; Jeremiah 49:10, 23; Habakkuk 1:13; Isaiah 46:2; Isaiah 47:11, 12; Isaiah 57:20; Lamentations 1:14; Psalm 18:39; Psalm 36:13; Psalm 78:20; Proverbs 30:21; Job 4:2; Job 33:5.
† c. with infinitive implicit, always negative, Genesis 29:8 go and feed them; and they said, We are not able, cannot (J), Exodus 8:14 (P), Isaiah 29:11; Jeremiah 20:9; Psalm 21:12; Jonah 1:13.
d. with negative = may not (of moral inability): Genesis 43:32 (J) the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; Judges 21:18 we may not give them wives; especially D, Deuteronomy 7:22; Deuteronomy 12:17; Deuteronomy 14:24; Deuteronomy 16:5; Deuteronomy 17:15; Deuteronomy 22:3; Deuteronomy 28:27, 35.
e. be able, followed by imperfect: אוּלַי אוּכַל נַכֶּה Numbers 22:6 (JE) perchance I am able (so that) we smite (see Di; read perhaps נוּכַל for אוּכַל Ges§ 120, 1 b); לֹא יוּכְלוּ יִגְּעוּ Lamentations 4:14 they are unable, they touch = are unable to touch (Dr§ 163, Obs.)
† f. be able, followed by perfect consecutive, only very late, אוּכַל וְרָאִיתִי Esther 8:6 (twice in verse), literally how shall I be able and see? — Also in various combinations where English idiom would make it an auxiliary to another verb:
† g. able to gain, accomplish: followed by accusative לֹא יוּכְלוּ נִקָּיוֺן Hosea 8:5 how long will they be unable (to gain) innocence? יָדַעְתִּ֯ כִּיכֹֿל תּוּכָ֑ל Job 42:2 I know that thou art able (to do) all things; אֵין הַמֶּלֶךְ יוּכַל אֶתְכֶם דָּבָר Jeremiah 38:5 the king is not (one who is) able (to do) anything with (אֶתְכם for אִתְּכֶם see Gf, i.e. against) you.
† h. able to endure: לֹא אוּכַל אָוֶן וַעֲצָרָה Isaiah 1:13 I cannot endure iniquity and (with) a solemn assembly, Psalm 101:5.
† i. able to reach, followed by לְ, Psalm 139:6 it is high, לֹא אוּכַל לָהּ I cannot (reach) to it.
† 2. prevail:
a. absolute prevail, overcome, be victor Genesis 30:8 (E), Genesis 32:29 (J), Hosea 12:5; 1 Samuel 26:25; 1 Kings 22:22 2 Chronicles 18:21; Jeremiah 20:7, 11; of waves Jeremiah 5:22; succeed Isaiah 16:12; Jeremiah 3:5 (VB hast had they way).
b. followed by לְ person, prevail against, over Genesis 32:26 (J), Numbers 13:30 (JE), Judges 16:5; 1 Samuel 17:9; Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 15:20; Jeremiah 20:10; Jeremiah 38:22; Obadiah 7; Psalm 129:2; Esther 6:13.
c. once with suffix, יְכָלְתִּיו Psalm 13:5 I have prevailed over him, + Zechariah 9:15 (where read וְיָֽֽֽכְלוּם for וְאָֽכְלוּ with Greek Version of the LXX Targum KloTh LZ 1879. 564 StaZAW 1881, 18).
† 3. absolute have ability, strength, only negative מִשְּׂאֵתוֺ לֹא אוּכָ֑ל Job 31:23 because of his loftiness I have no ability, am inadequate (to anything).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3202.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

13:6; 13:6; 13:16; 13:16; 13:16; 15:5; 15:5; 19:19; 19:19; 19:22; 24:50; 29:8; 30:8; 30:8; 31:35; 32:26; 32:26; 32:29; 34:14; 36:7; 36:7; 36:7; 37:4; 43:32; 43:32; 44:1; 44:22; 44:26; 45:1; 45:3; 48:10

Exodus

2:3; 2:3; 7:21; 7:24; 8:14; 8:14; 9:11; 10:5; 12:39; 15:23; 18:18; 18:23; 18:23; 19:23; 40:35

Numbers

9:6; 11:14; 13:20; 13:30; 14:16; 14:16; 22:6; 22:37; 22:38; 22:38

Deuteronomy

1:9; 7:17; 7:22; 7:22; 9:28; 9:28; 12:17; 14:24; 14:24; 16:5; 17:15; 22:3; 22:29; 28:27; 28:35

Joshua

9:19; 15:63; 24:19

Judges

1:19; 8:3; 16:5; 21:18

1 Samuel

3:2; 4:15; 6:20; 17:9; 26:25; 26:25

1 Kings

9:21; 22:22

2 Chronicles

8:8; 18:21; 32:13; 32:13; 32:15

Esther

6:13; 8:6

Job

4:2; 4:2; 31:23; 33:5; 42:2

Psalms

13:5; 13:5; 18:39; 21:12; 78:20; 101:5; 129:2; 139:6

Proverbs

30:21

Ecclesiastes

1:15

Song of Songs

8:7

Isaiah

1:13; 16:12; 29:11; 46:2; 47:11; 47:12; 57:20

Jeremiah

1:19; 3:5; 5:22; 6:10; 11:11; 13:23; 15:20; 18:6; 19:11; 20:7; 20:9; 20:10; 20:11; 38:5; 38:22; 44:22; 49:10; 49:23

Lamentations

1:14; 4:14

Hosea

5:13; 8:5; 12:5; 12:5

Amos

7:10; 7:10; 7:10

Obadiah

1:7

Jonah

1:13

Habakkuk

1:13

Zephaniah

1:18

Zechariah

9:15

H3201

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Strong's Number H3201 matches the Hebrew יָכֹל (yāḵōl),
which occurs 194 times in 182 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Gen 13:6–Deu 12:17)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:6 - But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:16 - I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:5 - He took him outside and said, “Look up at the sky and count the stars—if indeed you can count them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring[fn] be.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:19 - Your[fn] servant has found favor in your[fn] eyes, and you[fn] have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:22 - But flee there quickly, because I cannot do anything until you reach it.” (That is why the town was called Zoar.[fn])

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:8 - “We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:8 - Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I’m having my period.” So he searched but could not find the household gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:25 - When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:28 - Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[fn] because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:14 - They said to them, “We can’t do such a thing; we can’t give our sister to a man who is not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:7 - Their possessions were too great for them to remain together; the land where they were staying could not support them both because of their livestock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:4 - When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:32 - They served him by himself, the brothers by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, because Egyptians could not eat with Hebrews, for that is detestable to Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:1 - Now Joseph gave these instructions to the steward of his house: “Fill the men’s sacks with as much food as they can carry, and put each man’s silver in the mouth of his sack.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:22 - And we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father; if he leaves him, his father will die.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:26 - But we said, ‘We cannot go down. Only if our youngest brother is with us will we go. We cannot see the man’s face unless our youngest brother is with us.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:1 - Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, “Have everyone leave my presence!” So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:3 - Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But his brothers were not able to answer him, because they were terrified at his presence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:10 - Now Israel’s eyes were failing because of old age, and he could hardly see. So Joseph brought his sons close to him, and his father kissed them and embraced them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket[fn] for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:21 - The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. Blood was everywhere in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:24 - And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 8:18 - But when the magicians tried to produce gnats by their secret arts, they could not. Since the gnats were on people and animals everywhere,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:11 - The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils that were on them and on all the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:5 - They will cover the face of the ground so that it cannot be seen. They will devour what little you have left after the hail, including every tree that is growing in your fields.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:39 - With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:23 - When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.[fn])

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:18 - You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:23 - If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will go home satisfied.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:23 - Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, because you yourself warned us, ‘Put limits around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:20 - But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:35 - Moses could not enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:6 - But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:14 - I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:30 - Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:31 - But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:16 - ‘The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:6 - Now come and put a curse on these people, because they are too powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse is cursed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:11 - ‘A people that has come out of Egypt covers the face of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. Perhaps then I will be able to fight them and drive them away.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - But Balaam answered them, “Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything great or small to go beyond the command of the LORD my God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:37 - Balak said to Balaam, “Did I not send you an urgent summons? Why didn’t you come to me? Am I really not able to reward you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:38 - “Well, I have come to you now,” Balaam replied. “But I can’t say whatever I please. I must speak only what God puts in my mouth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:13 - ‘Even if Balak gave me all the silver and gold in his palace, I could not do anything of my own accord, good or bad, to go beyond the command of the LORD—and I must say only what the LORD says’?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:9 - At that time I said to you, “You are too heavy a burden for me to carry alone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 - You may say to yourselves, “These nations are stronger than we are. How can we drive them out?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:28 - Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:17 - You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts.

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