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Strife, contention, or quarreling between parties

A step or footstep, often metaphorically for one's course or way of life

Straits, distress, or severe difficulties that hem one in on every side

Hammers used for driving nails, pegs, or shaping metal in construction and craftsmanship

A gathering or collection, especially of waters in one place

Merab, Saul's elder daughter promised to David but given to another

Homelessness, wandering, or the state of being driven out without refuge

Merib-Baal, son of Jonathan and grandson of Saul, also called Mephibosheth

A riding seat: chariot, saddle, or litter seat for mounted travel

Broth or juice stewed from meat, sometimes ritually unclean

Ointment mixture or the compounding of perfumed oils and spices

Bitter herbs eaten with the Passover meal, symbolizing slavery's bitterness

Lending, debt, or the practice of charging interest (usury)

The opening of the womb, the moment when birth breaks forth

To draw or pull out, especially from water or danger

Desolation, devastation, or utter ruin and waste

Meshezabel, a Jewish name meaning 'God delivers' used in the Persian period

Outstretching or sending forth, particularly of the hand or gifts

The lintel, the horizontal beam above a doorway

Teeth, specifically incisors or fangs, often used of fierce animals

Mattan, a personal name meaning 'gift' borne by a Baal priest and a Judean father

Gifts, rewards, or presents given in honor or compensation

Mattenai, a shortened personal name meaning 'gift of Yahweh'

To be beautiful, comely, or befitting; to be appropriate or suitable

blasphemies, contemptuous acts or speech directed against God, expressing scorn and insult

Prophecy, either genuine divine revelation or false prophetic claims

Nobah, both a Manassite person and a Transjordanian place he renamed

To wail, lament, or mourn with audible grief

Nahalal or Nahalol, a Levitical town in the territory of Zebulun

A dunghill, refuse heap, or pile of ruins and rubble

Comfort, consolation, or compassionate feeling toward someone suffering

Nehelamite; gentilic designation for Shemaiah, the prophet who opposed Jeremiah in Babylon

Tendrils, shoots, or spreading branches of a vine

Offspring, posterity, or descendants (parallel with 'grandchildren')

Crushed, broken, or stricken (especially of the spirit)

Posterity, grandchildren, or later descendants (parallel with 'offspring')

smitten, stricken; physically disabled or spiritually contrite

Necho II, Egyptian pharaoh contemporary with Josiah (611-605 BC)

treasure, treasury; the stored wealth of a king

Nemuel, name of two Israelites: son of Simeon and a Reubenite

to come up, ascend; Aramaic loan-word for upward movement

Naarah, a wife of Ashhur in Judah's genealogy

Neariah, name of two post-exilic men: a descendant of David and a Simeonite

height, elevated region; construct form in the place-name 'Naphoth-dor'

Nephilim, giants; antediluvian and Canaanite beings of extraordinary size

Naphish, son of Ishmael and eponymous ancestor of an Arabian tribe

miscarriage, stillborn; an aborted or prematurely expelled fetus

to take breath, refresh oneself; Niphal of נָפַשׁ

hawk, a bird of prey; generic term including hawks and falcons

to fall in ruins, be ruined; used of destroyed cities