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To touch physically, especially for healing; to touch as prohibited or restricted contact; to touch with intent to harm or affect.

Now, just now, at the present moment; marks temporal immediacy or the current time

To turn around, turn back, return; encompasses physical turning, spiritual repentance, and causing others to turn

Joseph — indeclinable proper name borne by several biblical figures, from the patriarch to the husband of Mary

Wrath, anger, or fierce indignation; both divine judgment-fury and human passionate anger

Circumcision; the covenant rite of cutting the foreskin, and by metonymy the Jewish people

Satan, the Adversary; the chief spiritual enemy and accuser in biblical theology

Just as, even as; a comparative adverb introducing analogies and similitudes

Island, coastland, or distant shore; remote habitable lands across or beside the sea

Curse or imprecation, especially conditional self-cursing; solemn oath or sworn covenant; to adjure or place under oath (Hifil).

Utterance, word, or saying -- especially God's word or promise in poetry; also general or human speech in poetic diction.

To cut off or make inaccessible by fortifying; also to gather grapes, harvest a vineyard

Craftsman, artisan; a skilled worker in wood, metal, stone, or engraving — from temple builders to idol makers

Uncleanness, impurity; ritual defilement or moral corruption rendering one unfit for sacred contact

Jezreel — 'God sows'; a city in Issachar, a town in Judah, and a symbolic personal name (Hosea's son)

Precious, costly, rare; of great value whether material, personal, or in scarcity

Deliverance, salvation, safety — God's rescuing act or the resulting state of security and well-being

To be humbled or subdued; to humble oneself before God; to bring low by force or divine action

To bow down, kneel, crouch; ranges from worship and submission to physical collapse and animal crouching

People, nation — a poetic term for ethnic or tribal communities, often parallel to gôy and ʿam

Front, opposite, in front of — a substantive and preposition indicating spatial position directly facing something

A wonder, sign, or portent demonstrating divine power or serving as a prophetic symbol

To act unfaithfully, commit treachery — covenant breach against God through sacrilege or disloyalty

Mizpah ('watchtower'); a place name for several biblical sites, especially in Benjamin and Gilead

To draw, pull, drag; to attract, prolong, extend; to draw out a sound or wield a weapon

Foreignness; what is alien — used of foreign gods (אֱלֹהֵי נֵכָר) and of foreign persons (בֶּן־נֵכָר)

To test, prove, or try; whether God testing humans, humans testing God, or attempting something daring

Oppress, wrong, extort; as participle: oppressor (active) or oppressed person (passive) — from עָשַׁק

To arise, stand, set up, establish; Aramaic qum in Daniel and Ezra for rising, erecting, and appointing.

End, extremity, or edge of a physical object; the farthest reaches of the earth or territory

To reap or harvest grain; to cut and gather a crop, literally or figuratively

Hard, severe, harsh — describing difficult circumstances, obstinate character, cruel treatment, or fierce intensity.

Ramah — 'the Height,' a town in Benjamin associated with Samuel's ministry and Rachel's weeping

Be wicked, act wickedly; in the Hifil, condemn as guilty or actively do evil — covering moral corruption and legal verdict.

To laugh, play, celebrate; in Qal, to laugh in scorn or joy; in Piel, to play, sport, make merry, or perform.

Seir — the mountainous territory southeast of the Dead Sea, homeland of Esau and the Edomites

world, inhabited earth — poetic synonym for the terrestrial realm as God's creative domain

The deep, abyss — primordial waters, ocean depths, subterranean springs, or a metaphor for the unfathomable.

A shout or trumpet blast — war cry, alarm signal, or joyful acclamation before God

To blaspheme, speak irreverently against God; to slander or revile; passive: to be spoken against

witness — one who testifies to what has been seen or known, later developing into the sense of 'martyr'

after, behind, back — spatial or temporal adverb for following, being behind, or turning backward

To owe; to be obligated — morally (ought, must) or financially (to owe a debt)

To return, go back — physical travel to a previous location; rarely, to turn back from a course

wheel — a rotating circular component of chariots, temple lavers, threshing carts, and Ezekiel's vision

Offend, be guilty, incur guilt — to commit a trespass or become liable before God, sometimes involving desolation as consequence.

Rain, rainfall — the general Hebrew term for rain; once an intense downpour

To toss, throw in volume — ritual sprinkling of blood/water, or scattering of dry material (dust, ashes, grain)

vision — a prophetic revelation received in an ecstatic or visionary state, or the prophetic oracle itself

Sin, transgression against God or man; rarely a sin offering or minor fault