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Lexicon :: Strong's H6258 - ʿatâ

Aa
עַתָּה
Transliteration
ʿatâ
Pronunciation
at-taw'
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1650c

Strong’s Definitions

עַתָּה ʻattâh, at-taw'; from H6256; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive:—henceforth, now, straightway, this time, whereas.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's H6258 in the following manner: now, whereas, henceforth, this time forth, straightway.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's H6258 in the following manner: now, whereas, henceforth, this time forth, straightway.

  1. now

    1. now

    2. in phrases

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
עַתָּה ʻattâh, at-taw'; from H6256; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive:—henceforth, now, straightway, this time, whereas.
STRONGS H6258: Abbreviations
עַתָּ֫ה 435 (also Ezekiel 23:43; Psalm 74:6 עת Kt, Qr עַתָּה), עָ֑֫תָּה Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4] +, adverb of time, now (properly accusative of [`int], עֵת (Köii. 260), at the time, in particular of the present time, i.e. now; compare German zur Zeit, Arabic bdb077401at the time, i.e. now); — now:
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a. Genesis 12:19 ועתה הנה אשׁתך and now, behold thy wife, Genesis 22:12 ידעתי עתה ידעתי now, I know (so Exodus 18:11; Judges 17:13; H20881 Kings 17:24 [עַתָּה זֶה], Psalm 20:7 [Psalm 20:6]), Genesis 26:22, Genesis 26:29; H2088Genesis 27:36; Genesis 31:13, Genesis 31:28, etc., Exodus 5:5 הך רבים עתה עם הארץ; whether in opposed to past time, as Genesis 32:11 [Genesis 32:10]; Joshua 14:11 כְּכֹחִי אָז וּכְכֹחִי עָ֑תָּה, Judges 11:8; 1 Kings 12:4; Isaiah 1:21 ועתה מרצחים, Isaiah 16:14; Hosea 2:9 [Hosea 2:7] כִּי טוֺב לִי אָז מַעָ֑תָּה, Hosea 13:2, Job 30:1 +, or to future, as Numbers 24:17 אֶרְאֶנּוּ ולא עתה, Judges 8:6 חֲכַף עַתָּה־בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ זֶבַח וצ׳, 1 Samuel 2:16 כִּי עַתָּה תִּתֵּן; = after all Numbers 22:38; Judges 8:2; = now at last 2 Samuel 24:16; 1 Kings 19:4; 2 Kings 19:25; Hosea 7:2; Jeremiah 4:12; and in the phrase מעתה ועד עולם Isaiah 9:6 [Isaiah 9:7]; Isaiah 59:21; Micah 4:7 (see below), Psalm 113:2; Psalm 115:18; Psalm 121:8; Psalm 125:2; Psalm 131:3.
b. of the imminent or impending future: Genesis 19:9 מֵהֶם לְךָ נָרַע עַתָּה. Genesis 29:32 כי עתה יאהבני אישׁי, Genesis 29:34; Exodus 6:1 עתה תראה, Numbers 11:23; Numbers 22:4; 2 Samuel 20:6; Isaiah 33:10 (Psalm 12:6 [Psalm 12:5]), Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah 49:19; Amos 6:7 לכן עתה יִגְלוּ, Isaiah 49:19; Micah 7:4, Micah 7:10; Daniel 10:20; and especially ἀσυνδέτως in Hosea, introducing a punishment, Hosea 4:16 וגו׳ עתה יִרְעֵם י׳ Hosea 5:7; Hosea 8:8, Hosea 8:13 (Jeremiah 14:10), Jeremiah 10:2.
c. of a time ideally present (= then, from our point of view): Isaiah 29:22 לא עתה יבושׁ יעקב, Isaiah 29:22b Hosea 10:3; Micah 4:9, Micah 4:10, Micah 4:11; Micah 4:14 [Micah 5:1]; Micah 5:3 [Micah 5:4].
d. describing a present state = as things are: 1 Samuel 8:5 thou art old, etc., עתה שִׂימָה לנו מלך, 1 Samuel 9:6; 1 Samuel 13:12; 1 Samuel 14:30; 1 Samuel 25:7b; 1 Samuel 27:1 now I shall be swept away one day, etc., 2 Kings 18:20, 2 Kings 18:25; Job 6:21; Job 14:16; Job 16:7.
e. with an Imperative, as an encouragement, implying that the time has come for the exhortation or advice to be followed, Genesis 31:13 צא קום עתה, Exodus 18:19 עתה שְׁמַע בקולי, Numbers 22:11; Deuteronomy 2:13; Isaiah 30:8.
2. Phrases:
a. עַתָּה זֶה (זֶה 4h) H2088 1 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 5:22.
b. ועתה and, now, or now, therefore (וְ 4), drawing a conclusion, especially (compare 1e) a practical one, from what has been stated: Genesis 3:22 and now (since man has once been disobedient), lest he put forth his hand, etc., Genesis 20:7; Genesis 20:23 וְעַתָּה הִשָּֽׁבְעָה לִי הֵ֫נָּה, Genesis 27:3, Genesis 27:8 ועתה בני שְׁמַע בקולי, Genesis 30:30; Genesis 31:16, Genesis 31:44; Genesis 37:20 + often, Isaiah 5:3, Isaiah 5:5; Psalm 2:10; Genesis 11:6 וגו׳ מֵהֶם לֹא־יִבָּצֵר ועתה, Genesis 31:30; Genesis 45:8; 2 Samuel 19:11 [2 Samuel 19:10]; Psalm 39:8 [Psalm 39:7] אֲדֹנָי מַה־קִּוִּיתִי ועתה , Isaiah 52:5.
c. וְעַתָּה הִנֵּה stating the ground on which some conclusion or action is to be based, Exodus 3:9; Joshua 14:10 (twice in verse); 1 Samuel 12:2; 1 Samuel 24:21 [1 Samuel 24:20]; 1 Kings 1:18; Jeremiah 40:4 (with ועתה usually repeated afer the הנה-clause).
†d. גם עתה Genesis 44:10; 1 Samuel 12:16; 1 Kings 14:14; Joel 2:12; Job 16:19.
†e. מֵעַתָּה from now, henceforth, Jeremiah 3:4; Isaiah 48:6; Daniel 10:17 (according to some, here = from just now), 2 Chronicles 16:9; מעתה עולם ועד , see above 1a end.
f. עַדעַֿתָּה until now, Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4], עד־ע׳ וָאֵחַר, Deuteronomy 12:9 אל הנחלה לא באתם עד ע׳ (opposed to the future), H57042 Kings 13:23; especially after clause with מִן, 2Ki 46:34 מִנְּעוּרֵינוּ וְעַדעֿ׳ (2 Samuel 19:8 [2 Samuel 19:7]; Ezekiel 4:14), Exodus 9:18; 2 Kings 8:6; Ruth 2:7.
g. כִּי עַתָּה for in this case, in our idiom, for then (עתה pointing to a condition assumed as a possible contingency: compare Dr§ 141, 142);
† (a) Exodus 9:15 כי עתה שׁלחתי וגו׳ for then (if the intention expressed in Exodus 9:14 had not existed) I should have put forth my hand, etc., Numbers 22:29 כי עתה הֲרַגְתִּיךְ, 1 Samuel 13:13; Job 3:13; followed by imperfect Job 6:3 for then (if it were weighed, Job 6:2) it would be heavier, etc., Job 13:19 for then would I be silent and die;
(b) after a protasis, surely then Genesis 31:42 + (see כִּי 1d b, p. 472).
—Note. Read כְּמוֺ עַתָּ) (Greek Version of the LXX Vulgate) as now, for כְּמוֺ עֵת Ezekiel 16:57, עַתָּ נִשְׁבַּרְתְּ (Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate) now art thou broken ! for עֵת נִשְׁבֶּרֶת Ezekiel 27:34, and probably עַתָּ בָּא (Hi We Kö Now, compare Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version) for עֶתבּֿאֹ Haggai 1:2; also עַתָּה for אַתָּה 1 Kings 1:20, and אַתָּה for עַתָּה 1 Kings 1:18b 2 Samuel 18:3.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:22; 11:6; 12:19; 19:9; 20:7; 22:12; 26:22; 26:29; 27:3; 27:8; 27:36; 29:32; 29:34; 30:30; 31:13; 31:13; 31:16; 31:28; 31:30; 31:42; 31:44; 32:4; 32:4; 32:10; 37:20; 44:10; 45:8

Exodus

3:9; 5:5; 6:1; 9:14; 9:15; 9:18; 18:11; 18:19

Numbers

11:23; 22:4; 22:11; 22:29; 22:38; 24:17

Deuteronomy

2:13; 12:9

Joshua

14:10; 14:11

Judges

8:2; 8:6; 11:8; 17:13

Ruth

2:7

1 Samuel

2:16; 8:5; 9:6; 12:2; 12:16; 13:12; 13:13; 14:30; 24:20; 25:7; 27:1

2 Samuel

18:3; 19:7; 19:10; 20:6; 24:16

1 Kings

1:18; 1:18; 1:20; 12:4; 14:14; 17:24; 17:24; 19:4

2 Kings

5:22; 8:6; 13:23; 18:20; 18:25; 19:25

2 Chronicles

16:9

Job

3:13; 6:2; 6:3; 6:21; 13:19; 14:16; 16:7; 16:19; 30:1

Psalms

2:10; 12:5; 20:6; 39:7; 74:6; 113:2; 115:18; 121:8; 125:2; 131:3

Isaiah

1:21; 5:3; 5:5; 9:7; 16:14; 29:22; 29:22; 30:8; 33:10; 43:19; 48:6; 49:19; 49:19; 52:5; 59:21

Jeremiah

3:4; 4:12; 10:2; 14:10; 40:4

Ezekiel

4:14; 16:57; 23:43; 27:34

Daniel

10:17; 10:20

Hosea

2:7; 4:16; 5:7; 7:2; 8:8; 8:13; 10:3; 13:2

Joel

2:12

Amos

6:7

Micah

4:7; 4:9; 4:10; 4:11; 5:1; 5:4; 7:4; 7:10

Haggai

1:2

H6258

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6258 matches the Hebrew עַתָּה (ʿatâ),
which occurs 435 times in 422 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 5 / 9 (2Sa 24:16–1Ch 21:8)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 24:16 - Then the angel sent forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, and Yahweh [fn]relented of the calamity and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough! Now H6258 relax your hand!” And the angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:12 - “So now H6258 come, please let me give you counsel and provide escape for your life and the life of your son Solomon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:18 - “But now H6258, behold, Adonijah is king; and now H6258, my lord the king, you do not know it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:9 - “So now H6258, do not let him go unpunished, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you will bring his gray hair down to Sheol with blood.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:16 - “So now H6258, I am making one request of you; do not [fn]turn me away.” And she said to him, “Speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:24 - “So now H6258, as Yahweh lives, who has established me and set me on the throne of David my father and who has made me a house as He promised, surely Adonijah shall be put to death today.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:7 - “So now H6258, O Yahweh my God, You have made Your slave king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:4 - “But now H6258 Yahweh my God has given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary nor [fn]calamity.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - “So now H6258, command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25 - “So now H6258, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with Your [fn]servant David my father that which You have [fn]promised him, saying, ‘You shall not have a man cut off from before Me who is to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons keep their way to walk as you have walked before Me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:26 - “So now H6258, O God of Israel, let Your word truly [fn]endure which You have spoken to Your [fn]servant, my father David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:4 - “Your father made our yoke harsh; but you, now H6258, lighten the harsh service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:11 - ‘So now H6258, my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:16 -

Then all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them. So the people responded to the king with this word, saying,

“What portion do we have in David?

We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse;

To your tents, O Israel!

Now H6258 see to your own house, David!”

So Israel went to their tents.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:26 - And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now H6258 the kingdom will return to the house of David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:14 - “Moreover, Yahweh will raise up for Himself a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam this day [fn]and from now H6258 on.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:24 - Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now H6258 I know this: that you are a man of God and that the word of Yahweh in your mouth is truth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:11 - “And now H6258 you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:14

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:14 - “So now H6258 you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here”’; he will then kill me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:19 - “So now H6258 then send and gather to me all Israel at Mount Carmel, together with 450 prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:4 - But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree; and he asked for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough; now H6258, O Yahweh, take my [fn]life, for I am not better than my fathers.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:7 - And Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now H6258 exercise kingship over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be merry; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:23 - “So now H6258, behold, Yahweh has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these your prophets; but Yahweh has spoken calamity against you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - “Behold, fire came down from heaven and consumed the first two commanders of fifty with their fifties; but now H6258 let my [fn]life be precious in your sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:15 - “So now H6258 bring me a musician.” And it came about, when the musician played, that the hand of Yahweh came upon him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:23 - Then they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together, and they have struck down one another. So now H6258, Moab, to the spoil!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:26 - “Please run now H6258 to meet her and say to her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’” And she [fn]answered, “It is well.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6 -

And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying,

“So now H6258 as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 -

Then he returned to the man of God [fn]with all his camp, and came and stood before him, and said, “Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so now H6258 please take a blessing from your servant.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:22 - And he said, “All is at peace. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Behold, just now H6258 two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothes.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:4 - “If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. So now H6258 come, and let us [fn]go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they put us to death, we will die.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:9 -

Then they said to one another, “We are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, but we are keeping silent; if we wait until morning light, punishment will [fn]overtake us. So now H6258, come, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:6 - Then the king asked the woman, and she recounted it to him. So the king appointed for her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers and all the produce of the field from the day that she left the land even until now H6258.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:26 - ‘Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ says Yahweh, ‘and I will repay you in this [fn]property,’ says Yahweh. So now H6258, lift him up and cast him into the [fn]property, according to the word of Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:2 - “So now H6258, when this letter comes to you, [fn]since your master’s sons are with you, [fn]as well as the chariots and horses and a fortified city and the weapons,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:19 - “So now H6258, summon to me all the prophets of Baal, all his slaves and all his priests; let no one be missing, for I have a great sacrifice for Baal; whoever is missing shall not live.” But Jehu did it in [fn]cunning, so that he might cause the slaves of Baal to perish.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:7 - Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests and said to them, “Why do you not repair the damages of the house? So now H6258, take no more money from your acquaintances, but give it over to pay for the damages of the house.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:19 - So the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck five or six times, then you would have struck Aram until you would have consumed it. But now H6258 you shall strike Aram only three times.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:23 - But Yahweh was gracious to them and had compassion on them and turned to them because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not bring them to ruin or cast them from His presence until now H6258.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:20 - “You say (but they are [fn]only empty words), ‘I have counsel and might for the war.’ Now H6258 on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:21 - “Now H6258 behold, you [fn]trust in the staff of this crushed reed, even on Egypt; on which if a man leans, it will go into his [fn]hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:23 - “So now H6258, [fn]come, make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to give riders for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:25 - “So now H6258, have I come up [fn]without the approval of Yahweh against this place to make it a ruin? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land and make it a ruin.’”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:19 - “But now H6258, O Yahweh our God, I pray, save us from his hand that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O Yahweh, are God.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 -

‘Have you not heard?

Long ago I did it;

From days of old I formed it.

Now H6258 I have brought it to pass,

That you should devastate fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:7 - “So now H6258, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “I Myself took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:23 -

“So now H6258, O Yahweh, let the word that You have spoken concerning Your slave and concerning his house [fn]endure forever, and do as You have spoken,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:26 - “So now H6258, O Yahweh, You are God, and You have [fn]promised this good thing to Your slave.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:27 - “So now H6258, You have been pleased to bless the house of Your slave, that it may be forever before You. For You, O Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:8 - Then David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now H6258, please take away the iniquity of Your slave, for I have acted very foolishly.”

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