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chaff, dry husks (light refuse blown away when grain is threshed and winnowed)

blindness (abstract noun denoting the condition of being blind, used of sacrificial defects)

to lend aid, come to help, hasten (rare verb, possibly related to Arabic 'succor'; textually uncertain)

to help, sustain, support (very uncertain; possibly Aramaism, or text is corrupt)

wrong, injustice, subversion of justice (deprivation of fair treatment, especially legal rights)

(she-)goats (Aramaic plural form in Ezra's list of sin offerings at temple dedication)

Uzzah (personal name meaning 'strength'; Levite mentioned in Chronicles' genealogies)

to restore, repair (uncertain meaning; possibly 'they fortified/restored,' but could be from 'abandon')

Azbuk (personal name; father of Nehemiah, one of the wall-builders in post-exilic Jerusalem)

forsaken area, desolate region (feminine participle used as noun: the abandoned/forsaken place)

Azaz (personal name; Reubenite mentioned in Chronicles' genealogies)

Uzziah (personal name meaning 'YHWH is my strength'; one of David's mighty warriors)

Aziel (personal name; Levitical musician, probably textual variant of Uzziel)

Aziza (personal name; Israelite who divorced foreign wife during Ezra's reforms)

Azzan (personal name; father of Paltiel, the Issacharite leader during wilderness period)

to dig about, dig carefully (intensive Piel: to work soil thoroughly around plants)

Ezer (personal name meaning 'help'; Ephraimite mentioned in Chronicles' genealogies)

Ezrah (personal name; member of Judah's tribe in Chronicles' genealogies)

Ezri (personal name meaning 'my help'; David's agricultural official over field workers)

Azariah (personal name meaning 'YHWH has helped'; Daniel's companion in Babylonian exile)

counsel, advice, judgment (Aramaic noun for wise advice or prudent decision)

pails, buckets (vessels for holding milk or liquid, used in Job's metaphor of prosperity)

sneezings (plural noun referring to sneezing actions, used of Leviathan in Job's poetry)

to turn aside, turn (to change direction, possibly indicating inability to see or find)

Atarah (personal name meaning 'crown' or 'wreath'; woman in Judah's genealogy)

Atroth-shophan (place name meaning 'crowns of Shophan'; Transjordanian town built by Gadites)

Ebal (gentile name; Arabian people descended from Joktan in Table of Nations)

to rush upon, pounce on (describing soldiers rushing greedily on plunder, possibly violating Saul's oath)

to scream at, shriek at, rail against (describing harsh verbal attack or scolding)

to rush upon, pounce on (describing Saul's disobedient seizure of Amalekite plunder)

forever, perpetuity, eternity (long duration either past or future, possibly textual variant in 2 Chronicles)

Ilai (personal name; one of David's mighty warriors from Ahohite clan)

Elam (place name; ancient kingdom east of Mesopotamia, frequent prophetic target)

scorching heat, burning (dub.; possibly 'with the scorching/fury of His breath,' text uncertain)

En-hakkore (place name meaning 'spring of the caller/partridge'; water source God provided for Samson)

En-haddah (place name meaning 'swift spring'; town in Issachar's tribal territory)

En-Chatsor, a town in the tribal territory of Naphtali

Harod, a spring where Gideon's army camped before battling the Midianites

En-Mishpat, another name for Kadesh-Barnea meaning 'spring of judgment'

En-Eglaim, a location on the shore of the Dead Sea in Ezekiel's restoration vision

En-Rimmon, a settlement in post-exilic Judah, possibly identical with Ain and Rimmon combined

En-Tappuach, a settlement on the border between Ephraim and Manasseh

to be faint, exhausted; used of extreme physical weakness or swooning

Ir, a personal name in the genealogy of Benjamin

Ir-Hamelach (City of Salt), an unidentified settlement in the Judean wilderness

Iru, a descendant of Caleb in the genealogy of Judah

Iri, a Benjaminite listed among the descendants of Bela

Ir-Nachash (City of Nachash), possibly named after a person or meaning 'city of bronze/serpent'

Ir-Shemesh (City of the Sun), a town in Dan's territory, identical with Beth-Shemesh

Akko, a Phoenician seaport city in Asher's territory (later known as Ptolemais, modern Acre)