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gnaw, strip bare, leave nothing (metaphor: voracious judges)

bones (Aramaic)

the Garmite (gentilics designation)

sweep away, carry off (by flood or current)

yield, produce, what is brought forth (seasonally)

evictions, expulsions, violent seizures of property

those who send rain, rain-givers (divine prerogative)

rained upon, rain (Aramaic noun or passive participle)

Gishpa (overseer of temple servants)

terror, dismay, mental collapse from fear

anguish, languishing, despair of soul

kite, bird of prey (possibly red kite or falcon)

bear (animal, Aramaic)

strength, vigor, rest (uncertain meaning)

glide, flow gently, move smoothly (of wine on lips)

sacrifice (Aramaic verb, Pe participle)

sacrifices (Aramaic plural, ritual offerings in temple context)

dove's dung (obscure term, possibly a plant name or literal excrement sold during famine)

Lidevir (place name in Gad's territory, east of Jordan, possibly identical with Lo-debar)

Diblah (place name in Ezekiel, likely textual error for Riblah in Syria)

Diblaim (personal name, father of Gomer, Hosea's wife)

clinging (Aramaic participle, describing elements that fail to unite despite mixture)

and the word (disputed textual form in Jeremiah's prophetic critique)

rafts (floats for transporting cedar logs from Lebanon by sea)

from your words (poetic term for divine instruction received from Moses)

Dibri (personal name, a Danite, father of Shelomith whose son was stoned for blasphemy)

the humps (of camels, part of description of caravan bearing wealth through desert)

in Dabbesheth (place name, a boundary town in Zebulun's allotment)

and let them multiply (jussive verb, Jacob's blessing that Ephraim and Manasseh increase like fish)

distinguished (passive participle, describing the beloved as conspicuous among many)

Dedan (place/people name, Arabian trading group, likely a textual variant for Rhodes in Ezekiel 27)

Dedanites (gentilic plural, Arabian trading caravans addressed in Isaiah's oracle)

Dehaye (uncertain ethnic/place name in Ezra's list of Persian officials, possibly meaning 'that is')

bewildered (niphal participle, describing a warrior too stunned to act)

galloping (participle, describing the rushing of warhorses in battle)

and causing soul to pine (hiphil participle, diseases that waste away the life force)

of fish (construct noun in phrase 'boats of fishing,' describing fish transport vessels)

Dodavahu (personal name meaning 'beloved of Yahweh,' father of the prophet Eliezer)

Dodai (personal name, variant of Dodo, an officer in David's administration)

her sickness (construct infinitive, referring to menstrual impurity period)

beat (qal perfect, pounding grain in a mortar)

leaps (qal imperfect, describing anguish dancing or skipping before the fearsome creature)

rather than dwell (qal infinitive in comparative construction, choosing temple service over wickedness)

like the ball (simile marker + noun, describing exile as being hurled like a ball into distance)

Dura (place name, plain near Babylon where Nebuchadnezzar erected the golden image)

and tread it down (Aramaic qal consecutive imperfect with suffix, beast trampling the earth)

they will be driven (niphal imperfect, the wicked thrust down in darkness)

and entertainment (Aramaic plural noun, uncertain meaning, possibly music, dancing, or concubines)

and millet (grain type in Ezekiel's symbolic bread recipe during siege)

and they will fish them (qal perfect consecutive with suffix, hunters pursuing scattered Israel)