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Lexicon :: Strong's H259 - 'eḥāḏ

Aa
אֶחָד
Transliteration
'eḥāḏ
Pronunciation
ekh-awd'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
A numeral from אָחַד (H258)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 61

Strong’s Definitions

אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x

The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 952x
The KJV translates Strong's H259 in the following manner: one (687x), first (36x), another (35x), other (30x), any (18x), once (13x), eleven (with H6240) (13x), every (10x), certain (9x), an (7x), some (7x), miscellaneous (87x).

  1. one (number)

    1. one (number)

    2. each, every

    3. a certain

    4. an (indefinite article)

    5. only, once, once for all

    6. one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one

    7. first

    8. eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֶחָד ʼechâd, ekh-awd'; a numeral from H258; properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first:—a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-) ly, each (one), eleven, every, few, first, highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
STRONGS H259: Abbreviations
אֶחָד 962 adjective number one (Phoenician אחד, Sabean id., compare DHMZMG 1876, 707, Arabic أَحَدً, Ethiopic አሐዱ፡ Aramaic חַד, dfo; on Assyrian edu, aḫadu, compare DlW No. 139) — absoluteא׳ Genesis 1:5 —אַחַ֫ד Genesis 21:15 +; so even before preposition 1 Samuel 9:3 and elsewhere see Dr; feminine absolute אַחַ֫ת Genesis 2:21 +; אֶחָ֑ת † Genesis 11:1 +; construct אַחַ֫ת Deuteronomy 13:13 +; plural masculine אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 + 4:t.; חַד Ezekiel 33:30 strike out Co compare Greek Version of the LXX; —
1. one Genesis 1:9; Genesis 27:38, 45; Exodus 12:49; Joshua 23:10; 1 Samuel 1:24; 2 Samuel 12:3 +, Zechariah 14:9; Malachi 2:10; Job 31:15 +, so also (emphatic) 2 Samuel 17:3 for MT אֲשֶׁר Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one or two לֹא לְיוֺם אֶחָד וְלֹא לִשְׁנַיִם Ezra 10:13; as substantive followed by מִן Genesis 2:21; Leviticus 4:2, 13; Isaiah 34:16 +; הָא׳ Genesis 19:9; Genesis 42:13, 32; 2 Kings 6:3, 5 +; one and the same Genesis 40:5; Job 31:15; plural דְּבָרִים אֲחָדִים Genesis 11:1 compare Ezekiel 37:17 (absolute), but see Co;＝few, a few יָמִים א׳ ‴ Genesis 27:44; Genesis 29:20; Daniel 11:20; כְּאִישׁ אֶחָד as one man, together Judges 20:8; 1 Samuel 11:7; also כְּאֶחָד late＝Aramaic כַּחֲדָא † Ezra 2:64 (= Nehemiah 7:66) Ezra 3:9; Ezra 6:20; Ecclesiastes 11:6; see especially Isaiah 65:25 (|| earlier יַחְדֶּו Isaiah 11:6, 7).
2.＝each, every Exodus 36:30; Numbers 7:3, 85; Numbers 28:21; 1 Kings 4:7; 2 Kings 15:20 +; also repeated, distributive sense Numbers 7:11; Numbers 13:2; Numbers 17:21; Joshua 3:12; Joshua 4:2, 4.
3.＝a certain 1 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 18:10; 2 Kings 4:1; Esther 3:8 — 2 Samuel 17:9 see Dr 1 Samuel 1:1; hence
4.＝indefinite article 1 Samuel 6:7; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 26:20 (but strike out Greek Version of the LXX We Dr) 1 Kings 19:4, 5 +.
5. only 1 Kings 4:19; & (feminine) once 2 Kings 6:10; Psalm 62:12; Psalm 89:36 (once for all); אַחַת לְשָׁלוֺשׁ שָׁנִים 2 Chronicles 9:21, בַּשָּׁנָה א׳ Leviticus 16:34 compare Job 40:5, אֶחָ֑ת אֶחָ֑ת Joshua 6:3, 11 compare Joshua 6:14, בְּאַחַת Numbers 10:4; Job 33:14; at once בְּאֶחָ֑ת Proverbs 28:18 compare וְאִנָּקְמֶה נְקַם־אַחַת Judges 16:28. **Num 10:4 בְּאַחַת is rather 'in one (of the trumpets)'; Job 33:14 it＝in one way; Proverbs 28:18 read probably with Syriac Version Lag Dy Bi בַּשָּׁ֑חַת; Judges 16:28 is rather 'vengeance for one of my two eyes' (see GFM). Jeremiah 10:8 בְּאַחַת probably＝in one, altogether. אחד.
6. one... another, the one... the other א׳⬩⬩⬩א׳ Exodus 17:12; Exodus 18:3, 4; Amos 4:7; 2 Samuel 12:1; Jeremiah 24:2; 2 Chronicles 3:17; Nehemiah 4:11 +; 2 Samuel 14:6 read הָאֶחָד אֶת־אָחִיו for האחד את־האחד Greek Version of the LXX We Dr; one after another, one by one, לְאַחַד אֶחָד Isaiah 27:12 compare Ecclesiastes 7:27.
7. as ordinal, first (mostly P & late) Genesis 1:5 (P) Genesis 2:11 (J) Exodus 39:10 (P); absolute Job 42:14, Ezekiel 10:14 especially of first day of month Exodus 40:2 (P) Ezra 3:6; Ezra 10:16, 17; Nehemiah 8:2; Haggai 1:1; first year, שְׁנַת אַחַת 2 Chronicles 36:22; Ezra 1:1; Daniel 1:21; Daniel 9:1, 2; Daniel 11:1 compare first (day, יוֺם omitted) Genesis 8:5, 13 בְּאֶחָד לַחֹדֶשׁ; so Exodus 40:17; Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 1:18; Numbers 29:1; Numbers 33:38 (all P) Deuteronomy 1:3; 2 Chronicles 29:17; Ezra 7:9 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 29:17; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1; Ezekiel 45:18.
8. in combination,
a. אַחַד עָשָׂר eleven (compare עָשָׂר, עַשְׁתֵּי) Genesis 32:23; Genesis 37:9 (JE) Deuteronomy 1:2; so אַחַת־עֶשְׂרֵה Joshua 15:51 (P) 2 Kings 23:36; 2 Kings 24:18; 2 Chronicles 36:5, 11; Jeremiah 52:1 (precedes noun, except Joshua 15:51; as ordinal, eleventh אַחַת עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה Ezekiel 30:20; Ezekiel 31:1 compare 1 Kings 6:38; 2 Kings 9:29;
b. with other numerals, as cardinal אֶחָד וְאַרְבָּעִים אֶלֶף וַחֲמֵשׁ מֵאוֺת Numbers 1:41; compare Numbers 2:16, 28; Numbers 31:34, 39 (all P; א׳ precedes other numeral); but אַרְבָּיִם וְאַחַת שָׁנָה (א׳ following) 1 Kings 14:21; 1 Kings 15:10; 2 Kings 14:23; 2 Chronicles 12:13 compare 2 Kings 22:1 2 Chronicles 34:1; 2 Kings 24:18＝Jeremiah 52:1 2 Chronicles 36:11; Joshua 12:24 (D) Isaiah 30:17; Ezra 2:26＝Nehemiah 7:30 compare Nehemiah 7:37; Daniel 10:13; as ordinal בְּאַחַת וְשֵׁשׁ מֵאוֺת שָׁנָה Genesis 8:13 (P) Exodus 12:18 (P), 1 Chronicles 24:17; 1 Chronicles 25:28; 2 Chronicles 16:13 (א׳ preceding); but 1 Kings 16:23; Haggai 2:1 (א׳ following).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:5; 1:5; 1:9; 2:11; 2:21; 2:21; 8:5; 8:13; 8:13; 11:1; 11:1; 11:1; 19:9; 21:15; 27:38; 27:44; 27:45; 29:20; 32:23; 37:9; 40:5; 42:13; 42:32

Exodus

12:18; 12:49; 17:12; 18:3; 18:4; 36:30; 39:10; 40:2; 40:17

Leviticus

4:2; 4:13; 16:34; 23:24

Numbers

1:18; 1:41; 2:16; 2:28; 7:3; 7:11; 7:85; 10:4; 10:4; 13:2; 28:21; 29:1; 31:34; 31:39; 33:38

Deuteronomy

1:2; 1:3; 13:13

Joshua

3:12; 4:2; 4:4; 6:3; 6:11; 6:14; 12:24; 15:51; 15:51; 23:10

Judges

16:28; 16:28; 20:8

1 Samuel

1:1; 1:1; 1:24; 6:7; 9:3; 11:7; 24:15; 26:20

2 Samuel

12:1; 12:3; 14:6; 17:3; 17:9; 18:10

1 Kings

4:7; 4:19; 6:38; 14:21; 15:10; 16:23; 19:4; 19:5

2 Kings

4:1; 6:3; 6:5; 6:10; 9:29; 14:23; 15:20; 22:1; 23:36; 24:18; 24:18

1 Chronicles

24:17; 25:28

2 Chronicles

3:17; 9:21; 12:13; 16:13; 29:17; 34:1; 36:5; 36:11; 36:11; 36:22

Ezra

1:1; 2:26; 2:64; 3:6; 3:9; 6:20; 7:9; 10:13; 10:16; 10:17

Nehemiah

4:11; 7:30; 7:37; 7:66; 8:2

Esther

3:8

Job

31:15; 31:15; 33:14; 33:14; 40:5; 42:14

Psalms

62:12; 89:36

Proverbs

28:18; 28:18

Ecclesiastes

7:27; 11:6

Isaiah

11:6; 11:7; 27:12; 30:17; 34:16; 65:25

Jeremiah

10:8; 24:2; 52:1; 52:1

Ezekiel

10:14; 26:1; 29:17; 30:20; 31:1; 31:1; 32:1; 33:30; 37:17; 45:18

Daniel

1:21; 9:1; 9:2; 10:13; 11:1; 11:20

Amos

4:7

Haggai

1:1; 2:1

Zechariah

14:9

Malachi

2:10

H259

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Strong's Number H259 matches the Hebrew אֶחָד ('eḥāḏ),
which occurs 976 times in 739 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 6 / 15 (Num 29:14–Jos 4:4)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:14 - and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an [fn]ephah for [fn]each H259 of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for [fn]each H259 of the two rams,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:15 - and a tenth for each H259 of the fourteen lambs;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:16 - and one H259 male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:19 - and one H259 male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:22 - and one H259 male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:25

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:25 - and one H259 male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:28 - and one H259 male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:31 - and one H259 male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offerings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:34 - and one H259 male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:36 - ‘But you shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD: one H259 bull, one H259 ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:38 - and one H259 male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering and its drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:28 - “Levy a tax for the LORD from the men of war who went out to battle, one H259 [fn]in five hundred of the persons and of the cattle and of the donkeys and of the sheep;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - “From the sons of Israel’s half, you shall take one H259 drawn out of every fifty of the persons, of the cattle, of the donkeys and of the sheep, from all the animals, and give them to the Levites who keep charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:34 - and 61,000 H259 donkeys,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:39 - and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the LORD’S levy was 61; H259

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - and from the sons of Israel’s half, Moses took one H259 drawn out of every fifty, both of man and of animals, and gave them to the Levites, who kept charge of the tabernacle of the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the [fn]command of the LORD, and died there in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come from the land of Egypt, on the first H259 day in the fifth month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:18 - “You shall take one H259 leader of every tribe to apportion the land for inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:30 - ‘If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the [fn]evidence of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one H259 witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - “But if they [fn]marry one H259 of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - “Every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel shall be wife to one H259 of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel each may possess the inheritance of his fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:2 - It is eleven H259 days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3 - In the fortieth year, on the first H259 day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD had commanded him to give to them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:23 - “The thing pleased me and I took twelve of your men, one H259 man for each tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:42 - that a manslayer might flee there, who unintentionally slew his neighbor without having enmity toward him in time past; and by fleeing to one H259 of these cities he might live:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:4 - “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! H259

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:14 - but in the place which the LORD chooses in one H259 of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:12 - “If you hear in one H259 of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:7 - “If there is a poor man with you, one H259 of your brothers, in any H259 of your [fn]towns in your land which the LORD your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:5 - “You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any H259 of your [fn]towns which the LORD your God is giving you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:2 - “If there is found in your midst, in any H259 of your [fn]towns, which the LORD your God is giving you, a man or a woman who does what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, by transgressing His covenant,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:6 - “On the [fn]evidence of two witnesses or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the [fn]evidence of one H259 witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - “Now if a Levite comes from any H259 of your [fn]towns throughout Israel where he resides, and comes [fn]whenever he desires to the place which the LORD chooses,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand [fn]swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the [fn]handle and [fn]strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one H259 of these cities and live;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:11 - “But if there is a man who hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and rises up against him and strikes [fn]him so that he dies, and he flees to one H259 of these cities,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:15 - “A single H259 witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin [fn]which he has committed; on the [fn]evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:15 - “If a man has two wives, the one H259 loved and the other H259 [fn]unloved, and both the loved and the [fn]unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the [fn]unloved,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:16 - “He shall live with you in your midst, in the place which he shall choose in one H259 of your [fn]towns where it pleases him; you shall not mistreat him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:5 - “When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any duty; he shall be free at home one H259 year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:5 - “When brothers live together and one H259 of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:11 - “If two men, a man and his [fn]countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one H259 comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:7 - “The LORD shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be [fn]defeated before you; they will come out against you one H259 way and will flee before you seven ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:25 - “The LORD shall cause you to be [fn]defeated before your enemies; you will go out one H259 way against them, but you will flee seven ways before them, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:55 - so that he will not give even one H259 of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will [fn]oppress you in all your [fn]towns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:30 - “How could one H259 chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock had sold them,
And the LORD had given them up?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:12 - “Now then, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one H259 man for each H259 tribe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:13 - “It shall come about when the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, and the waters which are [fn]flowing down from above [fn]will stand in one H259 heap.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:16 - the waters which were [fn]flowing down from above stood and rose up in one H259 heap, a great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those which were [fn]flowing down toward the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:2 - “Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one H259 man from each H259 tribe,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:4 - So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one H259 man from each H259 tribe;

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