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To hand over, deliver, betray, transmit, entrust, surrender, or permit — spanning custody transfer, treacherous betrayal, tradition-passing, and self-giving

To trust, rely on, feel secure; in Hifil, to cause someone to trust or feel confident

Chariot or chariotry (collective war-vehicle force); rarely, the upper millstone of a hand-mill.

Sister, female sibling or close kinswoman; idiomatically, 'counterpart' or 'one to another' of paired objects.

Straight, upright, righteous; of persons: morally upright; of actions: right, correct, pleasing to God; physically: straight, level; also a proper name (Book of Yashar).

River, stream — a perennial flowing watercourse; often 'the River' (the Euphrates) or poetic cosmic floods

Fruit, produce of trees and ground; metaphorically, offspring or result of one's actions

Righteousness, justice, rightness; the moral standard of what is upright, fair, and correct before God and in society.

Sacred, holy; set apart for God; as a divine title, 'the Holy One'; in the plural, holy ones or saints.

To go away, depart; to leave one place for another; of things or conditions: to pass away, come to an end; also of news spreading abroad or of going after something.

To remain, abide, stay; in a place: lodge, dwell temporarily; in a state or relationship: continue, persist, indwell; of things: last, endure; also to wait for, await.

Interrogative and indefinite adverb: 'how?' in questions of manner or possibility; 'somehow, lest somehow' in clauses of apprehension.

Firstborn — the first child or offspring, bearing special inheritance rights; figuratively, preeminence or primacy

A beat, stroke, occurrence; most often 'time, occasion' for counting repetitions; also step, footstep; foot or base of a person or object; and anvil.

Abomination, detestable thing or practice -- something morally or ritually abhorrent to God or culturally repugnant.

To seek, search for, desire to obtain; in passive, to be required or demanded

To grow up, become great; in Piel to magnify, rear; in Hifil to make great, do great things; reflexively to boast

Tongue; the physical organ of speech, and by extension language, a tongue-shaped bay of the sea, or a bar/wedge of gold

Kingdom, realm; also the abstract exercise of kingship, royal sovereignty, or dominion.

To pour out, shed, or spill — liquid, blood, wrath, or spirit; covering ritual libation, violent bloodshed, passive outpouring, metaphorical effusion, and reflexive dissolution

To burn or set fire to; consume with fire, whether actively, passively, or as a resulting state of having been burned

Love -- God's self-giving love, believers' mutual love, and (rarely) the communal love-feast of the early church.

To weep, cry aloud; in Piel, to bewail or lament for someone with intensified mourning

be heavy (weight); honor, respect; be honored, glorified; make heavy, harden; be/make glorious; be rich

King, ruler, sovereign; used of earthly monarchs, the Messiah, and God as supreme ruler

One's own, personal, private; used adverbially for 'privately/apart' and substantively for 'one's own people'

To judge, pass judgment, condemn; also to decide or determine; in passive, to be judged or stand trial

Pasture-land, open common surrounding a city; specifically the grazing grounds allotted to Levitical cities

To prophesy -- speaking God's word by divine authority (Nifal) or prophesying ecstatically under Spirit compulsion (Hitpael).

To make sacrifices smoke on the altar or burn incense in worship or idolatry; encompasses both Piel (incense) and Hifil (altar offerings) stems.

Assembly, congregation -- most often the Christian church (local or universal); also any gathered assembly including Israel's wilderness congregation.

House, dwelling place; by extension, household or family lineage as a social unit

To be ashamed, feel shame or disgrace; causatively to put to shame; also to delay or tarry (Piel); rarely to dry up

To give thanks, praise, or confess (Hifil/Hitpael); originally 'to throw, cast' (Piel); the core gesture of publicly declaring what God has done.

Aramaic preposition: from, out of, indicating source or origin; also partitive 'some of' and rarely adversative 'against'

Falsehood, deception, or vain emptiness; the Hebrew word for lies, fraud, and all that betrays trust or proves worthless.

To die; of physical death (natural, violent, judicial) or figurative/spiritual death (dying to sin, the law, or self)

A particle of negation meaning 'not, so as not to, except, without'; from a root meaning 'failure' or 'cessation', used for negative purpose, exclusion, and privation.

be good, pleasing; do good to, treat well; be glad (of heart); amend, improve; play/perform skillfully; well, thoroughly

Pillar, column — both architectural supports and the theophanic pillar of cloud/fire guiding Israel

A correlative pronoun meaning 'as many as, as much as, whatever, whoever, how much, as long as'; marks quantity, extent, degree, or duration relative to a reference set.

Absalom — personal name meaning 'my father is peace'; David's third son who led a famous rebellion

Wing of a bird, angel, or cherub; also the skirt or hem of a garment, or the edge/extremity of a land.

To put on or wear a garment; causatively to clothe someone; participially to be clothed in; passively to have been dressed

The south as a cardinal direction; also the Negev, the specific arid region south of Judah.

Sabbath; the seventh day of rest and worship, used of weekly observance, sabbatical years, and as a sign of God's covenant.

Truth, reality, faithfulness; divine truth, sincerity, and what accords with fact as opposed to falsehood

To be about to, be on the point of doing something; as participle, coming or future; also to intend, be ready, or delay

Whole, entire, complete; denoting totality or full extent, occasionally used adverbially for 'completely.'

Dust, dry earth, or loose soil; the material of human creation and mortality, also rubble or fine powder.