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To be or become light, shine; to give light, illuminate; to make the face shine (show favor); to kindle a lamp.

End, extremity; nothingness, non-existence; adversative particle 'however, but'; privative 'without, for lack of.'

Asher — Jacob's eighth son by Zilpah; the Israelite tribe settled in the fertile northwest coastal region

To despise, regard with contempt; passively, to be scorned or held as worthless

To plunder, take spoil; as participle, a plunderer; in passive stems, to be plundered or despoiled.

Balak — king of Moab who hired Balaam to curse Israel during the wilderness period

Gibeah, a city of Benjamin; also Geba (a distinct Levitical city); rarely, 'hill' as a common noun

Exile, captivity; collectively the community of exiles, especially the Babylonian deportees

To conceive, become pregnant; as participle, the one who conceived; passively, to be conceived

To tear down, demolish, or break through; used of destroying walls, altars, and cities, and of breaking past boundaries.

To found, lay a foundation, establish; Nifal: be founded; also: to take counsel together, conspire

To discipline, chasten, instruct, or admonish; correction administered by God or a human authority to produce obedience and wisdom.

Beautiful, handsome, fair (of persons, animals, objects); occasionally 'fitting' or 'appropriate' in wisdom contexts.

Issachar — ninth son of Jacob and Leah; the Israelite tribe and its territorial allotment

Tablet (esp. the stone tablets of the covenant) or board/plank used in construction and shipbuilding.

When? — interrogative adverb of time, often in the urgent cry 'how long?' (ad-matay)

Soothing, pleasing — a sacrificial term for the aroma acceptable to God (reach nikhoakh)

Perpetuity, forever; eminence, glory; endurance; victory -- a word spanning time, majesty, and triumph.

To strip off garments, flay an animal, or make a sudden raid; encompasses undressing, forcible stripping, skinning, and military incursion.

Jealousy, passionate possessiveness; zeal or ardent devotion; envy or resentful rivalry

Open square, plaza, broad place — the public space in a city, typically near the gate

Produce, yield: crops from the land; income or revenue from labor or trade; the harvest as an event.

Understanding, discernment, insight; the faculty of comprehension and the practical skill that flows from it.

Resurrection, rising; the act of being raised from the dead, or figuratively, a rising up in destiny.

Draw near, approach: spatially to a person or place; temporally of events or seasons at hand; spiritually to God.

James (Iakobos) — Greek form of Jacob, borne by several NT figures including two apostles

New, fresh, unprecedented in kind — qualitative newness distinct from mere temporal recency (neos)

To loose, untie, release, dissolve, break, or destroy; from physical unbinding to legal annulment and cosmic dissolution.

Part, portion, share; region, district; section, side; turn in sequence; piece or fragment of something.

Always, at all times — adverb of continuous or habitual temporal scope

To suffer, endure pain or hardship — used of Christ's redemptive passion and believers' trials

When? (interrogative temporal adverb); ever, at any time (in lest-clauses with me); perhaps, possibly (rare).

End, conclusion, termination (esp. eschatological); tax, toll, or customs duty; goal, outcome, or purpose.

Honor, esteem, respect; also price or monetary value in commercial contexts.

Where? Whither? How long? An interrogative adverb of place and (with ʿad) of time, also used indefinitely as 'anywhere.'

Man, human being (individual or generic); mankind, humanity collectively; mortal, frail human (poetic emphasis).

Separate, set apart (Hifil); be separated, withdraw (Nifal); distinguish between holy and profane (Hifil).

security, safety — used adverbially for dwelling, walking, or lying down in a state of confident safety

To mix or mingle; predominantly a cultic term for grain offerings mixed with oil, but also to confuse language and to mingle among nations.

Benaiah — personal name meaning 'Yah has built up,' borne by David's warrior-captain and several others

Bar, bolt, crossbar for gates or structural framing; also (as homograph) a fugitive, one who flees.

Garden, cultivated enclosure; an enclosed plot for growing plants, from Eden's paradise to royal pleasure grounds.

To flow or gush; used of water, a land flowing with milk and honey, bodily discharges in purity law, and figuratively of wasting away.

Waste, ruin, desolation; the physical rubble or abstract state of a destroyed place

little ones, small children — collective noun for the young dependents of a household or community

To wait, hope, expect; to place confident hope in God or await an outcome with anticipation

Fear, reverence, awe; ranging from terror before danger to devout piety toward God

Jesse — the Bethlehemite father of King David, grandson of Ruth and Boaz

orphan, fatherless child — one deprived of a father, paradigmatic figure of vulnerability in Israelite law

lyre, harp — the kinnor, a portable stringed instrument used in worship, celebration, and lament