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Jeshurun, poetic name for Israel emphasizing the nation's ideal upright character

Jattir, a Levitical city in the hill country of Judah, southwest of Hebron

heaviness, weight; mass, abundance; vehemence, intensity

kiln, furnace (for burning lime or pottery)

to be able, capable (Aramaic equivalent of Hebrew יכל)

Cushan-rishathaim, king of Aram-naharaim who oppressed Israel for eight years

two kinds, mixed kinds; diverse species (forbidden in Levitical law)

prison, place of confinement (Ketiv-Qere variant of כלא)

to grow warm and tender (of compassion); to become hot (of skin in famine)

to give a title, surname, or epithet (Piel); to flatter with honorific titles

merchant, trader (secondary meaning of Canaan, because Canaanites/Phoenicians were known as traders)

Orion (constellation); the great hunter bound in the heavens, associated with the Pleiades

and now (Aramaic); formulaic phrase introducing the main business of official letters

vexation, grief, anger (dialectical variant of כעס, found only in Job)

Kephirah, a Hivite/Gibeonite city later assigned to Benjamin, modern Kefireh

to bind, tie up (Aramaic); to be bound with ropes or fetters

divorcement, the legal act of divorce; always in the phrase 'certificate of divorcement'

Lod (Lydda), a town in Benjamin's territory, modern Ludd near Tel Aviv

Libyans, people of North Africa west of Egypt, allied with Egypt and Cush

Lud/Ludim: (1) Lydia in Asia Minor, son of Shem; (2) an African people, son of Mizraim, possibly conflated

Levites (Aramaic plural), descendants of Levi serving in temple worship

Laish, the original name of the northern city Dan before the Danites conquered and renamed it

knife, cutting instrument (for sacrifice or butchering)

refusing, one who refuses (always of disobeying YHWH, with infinitive following)

pricking, painful (of thorns); malignant (of leprosy)

turbans, caps, headgear (conical or convex, worn by common priests, not the high priest)

choice or precious things given as gifts

Magog, name of a territory and people descended from Japheth

saw (tool for cutting stone or wood)

tribute, tax levied on subject peoples

strife, contention, quarreling

quick, skillful, prompt

journey, walk, going

stocks or restraining device for punishment

Moladah, town in Simeon's territory

surrounded, encircled, set (as gems)

pruning hooks or knives for cutting vines

a little, very small, trifling amount

to strike, smite, hinder (Aramaic)

vision (received in ecstatic state)

window, light, opening for seeing

sickness, disease

Mahlon, son of Elimelech and first husband of Ruth

Mica, name of several post-exilic individuals

Mijamin, name of several priests

covering (of fat, garments, ship deck, worms)

brick mold or kiln; brick terrace

to salt, season with salt

mariners, sailors

Melek, Benjamite name; also 'king'