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To call alongside; entreat, exhort, encourage, comfort, or invite — spanning earnest appeal, pastoral urging, and consolation.

Only, merely, surely — a restrictive or asseverative particle limiting or emphasizing a statement; rarely 'except'

Eight (cardinal number); used independently and in compound numerals like eighteen and eighty

Samaria (Shomron) — capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel; also the surrounding region

To rise or stand up physically; to rise from the dead or be resurrected; causatively to raise someone from death or to prominence

To save, deliver, rescue, or heal; encompasses spiritual salvation, physical rescue from danger, and restoration to wholeness or health.

To believe, be faithful, support; also to nurse or rear — spanning cognitive trust, steadfast reliability, and parental nurture.

Isaac (Yitshaq) — patriarch, son of Abraham and Sarah; his name means 'he laughs'

To comfort, console; to relent or repent; to have compassion — covering solace given, divine change of course, and reflexive self-comfort.

Third (ordinal); also a third part, three-year-old, or third story — the ordinal adjective with fractional and specialized extensions.

Living creature, wild beast, animal; also the visionary 'living beings' of Ezekiel, and abstractly 'life' or 'vitality.'

To remain over, be left, survive; in Hifil, to leave remaining, preserve alive, or cause to abound and exceed.

Lamb, young male sheep — primarily a sacrificial animal in Levitical law; also used in prophetic similes of innocence

To count, number (Qal); to recount, narrate, declare (Piel); to be counted (Nifal); to be told (Pual) — linking enumeration with storytelling.

Hour, time, moment; a specific period ranging from a literal hour to a decisive or appointed time

Ammon — the people, territory, and descendants of Ben-Ammi, Lot's son; usually in 'sons of Ammon'

A prescribed statute or ordinance; a binding regulation from God or a ruler, often permanent and ritual in character.

Evil, wickedness; bad, harmful; calamity, distress — covering moral evil, qualitative badness, experiential misfortune, and intentional harm.

It is necessary, one must; expressing divine necessity, logical compulsion, or moral obligation; also what is proper or fitting

High place; a raised site for worship (often illicit cultic shrines) or a geographic elevation, ridge, or mountain height.

To redeem or act as kinsman; as participle: kinsman-redeemer, divine Redeemer, or avenger of blood — covering legal, theological, and judicial redemption.

Jeroboam — proper name meaning 'the people increases'; two kings of northern Israel

Sight, appearance, or vision; the outward look of a person or thing, a prophetic visionary experience, or the act of seeing.

To run, move swiftly; as participle: runner, royal guard (bodyguard corps); causative: to chase, rush someone

Continuity; as adverb 'continually, always, perpetually'; as noun 'the daily/continual offering (tamid).'

When, at the time when; a temporal relative adverb introducing clauses of past or future time

Soul, inner self, life; the animating principle of a person encompassing spiritual identity, desires, and mortal existence.

On behalf of; through; behind; around — a preposition expressing separation, passage, or interposition

All, every, whole; the Aramaic quantifier expressing totality, universality, or indefinite distribution across a class.

Aramaic preposition: upon, over, on; to, unto; concerning, about; against; because of; more than

Be complete, be at peace; repay, recompense; fulfill vows; make restitution; bring to completion

Authority, power, right; the capacity to act with legitimate force, including governing powers as entities, jurisdictional domains, and granted privileges.

Make atonement, cover over sin; appease, pacify; forgive — the central verb of Israel's sacrificial system

To forget, cease to remember; passive: to be forgotten; causative: to cause to forget

Good; morally excellent, virtuous, or beneficial—of persons, deeds, or things; also substantivized as 'good things' or 'the good.'

To lift, take up, carry, or remove; spanning physical elevation, acquisition, sustained bearing, and figurative removal

Good, beautiful, excellent; morally commendable or aesthetically fine, also used as a proper-name element in 'Fair Havens.'

Way, road, path; a physical route, a figurative course of life or conduct, or 'the Way' as the early Christian movement.

A little, few, small amount; almost, nearly; soon, in a moment; gradually, little by little

Width, breadth — the lateral measurement of a structure, object, or expanse; occasionally figurative for vastness of understanding

Famine or hunger; a severe widespread food shortage affecting a land, or the personal physical sensation of being hungry.

One another, each other — reciprocal pronoun expressing mutual action, relationship, or obligation among persons

Eye, eyes — the organ of sight; figuratively, spiritual perception, moral disposition, or the focal point of desire and judgment

First in sequence, time, or rank; chief or foremost person; by extension, best in quality or first in logical priority.

To place, put, or lay something down; by extension, to appoint to a role, lay down one's life sacrificially, or resolve in one's heart.

Edom — Esau's byname meaning 'red,' and by extension the nation, territory, and people descended from him southeast of the Dead Sea

Behold, lo! A demonstrative interjection drawing attention to a fact or situation; rarely 'whether, if.'

To meet, encounter; as infinitive construct liqra't functions as a preposition meaning 'toward, against, opposite.'

Child or offspring, whether biological, spiritual, or as a warm vocative address to a younger person.

Pharisee — a member of the Jewish sect devoted to rigorous Torah observance, oral tradition, and separation from ritual impurity