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Iron — the metal in raw, worked, or figurative form, signifying strength, hardness, and unyielding severity.

To be strange or foreign; as participle: a stranger, outsider, foreigner, or alien — one who does not belong to the family, community, or covenant.

Egyptian; a gentilic adjective/noun for persons from Egypt (masculine or feminine) and for the land of Egypt itself.

Livestock, cattle — domesticated animals as movable wealth; occasionally the act or result of acquisition (from q-n-h, 'to acquire').

young woman, girl; often marriageable or of service age; can denote maidservant or female attendant

Bow — a weapon for shooting arrows in warfare or hunting; also the rainbow as God's covenantal sign in the sky.

A contribution or offering set apart for sacred use; the portion lifted off or separated for God, the priests, or the sanctuary.

Twelve — the cardinal number, often designating the twelve tribes of Israel or the twelve apostles.

Head — the anatomical body part; figuratively, authority, preeminence, or source of origin.

Simon — a common Greek personal name (from Hebrew Shimon), borne by Simon Peter and several other NT figures.

To place, set down, leave, or give rest; in Hifil, to deposit in a location, abandon, permit, or settle; in Hofal, to be placed or left.

To stand, station oneself, take one's stand (Nifal); to set up, erect, establish (Hifil); as participle, an officer or governor.

Adversary, foe, or oppressor; also narrowness or distress as an abstract state of affliction.

Horn of an animal or altar; metaphorically, strength, power, or dignity; also a hill or slope, and rays of light from a theophany.

To kill or put to death; in passive forms, to be killed, slain, or martyred.

Fire — literal combustion or divine/eschatological fire of judgment, purification, and theophany.

To rejoice, be glad, or experience joy; also a conventional greeting meaning 'hail' or 'greetings.'

To delight in or take pleasure in someone or something; also to desire, want, or be willing to act.

To reject, refuse, or repudiate; to despise or scorn; in the Nifal, to be rejected or deemed reprobate; also to loathe or find abhorrent.

The east as a cardinal direction; also the rising of the sun, often in the phrase 'mizrach hashemesh.'

A sacred place or sanctuary; the consecrated space set apart for the worship and presence of God.

Selah — a liturgical or musical notation in the Psalms and Habakkuk, of uncertain meaning; perhaps a pause or cue.

She-goat; female goat(s) as livestock, food, or sacrifice; also goat hair used as textile material for the tabernacle.

Wall; a structural wall of a building, house, or temple; occasionally a city fortification wall.

Spoil, plunder, or booty — goods seized by force in war, including livestock, garments, precious metals, and captives.

Abraham — the patriarch, father of Isaac, to whom God gave the covenant of promise and the land of Canaan.

To drink — consume liquid; figuratively, to partake of suffering, judgment, or spiritual sustenance.

To tie, bind, imprison; bind by a vow; harness animals; as substantive, a prisoner or captive.

Cedar — the cedar tree (Cedrus libani), famed for its height, fragrance, and prized timber; a symbol of majesty and pride.

Vapor, breath, fleeting puff; figuratively, vanity, futility, absurdity; applied to idols as worthless nothings.

To cry out in distress or supplication; in the Nifal, to be summoned or assembled; in the Hifil, to call together or proclaim aloud.

Reproach, disgrace, shame; a social condition of dishonor or the verbal taunts that inflict it.

To be dry or wither; causatively, to dry up; by extension (Hifil), to be put to shame.

To watch over, guard, keep, or observe; ranging from obeying commands to protecting persons to reserving things for the future.

Light; natural, divine, or metaphorical illumination; rarely the glow of a fire.

Eleazar — 'God has helped'; a proper name borne by Aaron's son the high priest and several later biblical figures.

Belly, abdomen, womb; the physical midsection of the body, extending to the womb as seat of gestation and idiomatically to origin or birth.

Bethel — 'house of God'; an ancient Canaanite city in Ephraim, a major Israelite cultic site tied to Jacob's vision.

Not — a poetic and archaic particle of negation, synonymous with lo but found almost exclusively in elevated verse.

Gad — 'fortune'; Jacob's seventh son by Zilpah, the tribe descended from him, or the prophet who served David.

Why? Wherefore? — an interrogative adverb probing motive or cause, often expressing surprise, reproach, or lament.

Reuben — 'behold, a son!'; Jacob's firstborn by Leah, and the Israelite tribe settled in Transjordan.

To wash, bathe, or rinse with water; covering full-body bathing for purification, washing specific objects or body parts, and passive reception of washing.

Shofar; a ram's horn trumpet used for warfare, assembly, worship, and theophany; occasionally the horn itself as object.

Eternal, everlasting; pertaining to an age without end, especially of divine life, punishment, and covenant realities.

Temple — the sacred precinct in Jerusalem, especially the temple complex including its courts, porticoes, and sanctuary.

Elijah -- the prophet from Tishbe whose name means 'my God is Yahweh,' champion against Baal worship

To say, speak, tell; to command or order; passively, to be said or called (Aramaic).

A hill or elevated mound of earth; plural hills; also the proper name Gibeah, a Benjaminite town.

Aramaic verb: to be, exist; to become or come to pass; also used as a periphrastic auxiliary with participles.