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Tree, wood, timber; firewood, stick, stake/gallows, wooden shaft; broad term for any woody plant or product

Lord, master, sovereign — title of authority for human superiors, property owners, God as supreme ruler, or plural lords

To fear, be afraid; to revere or stand in awe of God; (Nifal ptc.) awesome, terrible; (Piel) to frighten, terrify

Vessel, utensil, container; weapon, armor; implement, article, tool; goods, baggage; musical instrument

Reflexive pronoun: himself, herself, itself, themselves; also possessive (his own) and reciprocal (one another)

To know; from the perfect of eidon ('to see'), meaning to know facts or truths, or to know personally through acquaintance.

Field, cultivated land; also open country or wild terrain as opposed to settled, worked agricultural plots.

Or — disjunctive conjunction presenting alternatives or introducing particular cases

Four; the cardinal number, also forming the compound 'fourteen' when paired with the word for ten.

War, battle — armed conflict between opposing forces, whether a single engagement or prolonged campaign

Prophet — a divinely appointed spokesperson who declares God's message to the people

Twenty — the cardinal number used for counting, age, measurement, and compound numerals

To answer, respond, reply; also to testify or bear witness; in Nifal, to be answered; occasionally to sing responsively.

YHWH — the sacred Tetragrammaton, the proper covenant name of the God of Israel

Evil, wickedness, calamity, harm, or distress — the noun form encompassing moral badness, disaster, injury, and suffering.

Clan, family group; a kinship unit larger than a household but smaller than a tribe, the basic social division of Israel.

to attend to, visit; to count, muster, number; to appoint, set in charge; to punish; to miss, be missing; to deposit

Very, exceedingly, greatly — the primary Hebrew intensifier for degree or magnitude

To turn aside, remove, depart, or deviate; spanning physical diversion, removal, departure, moral deviation, and passive being removed

To speak, talk, or tell; general verbal communication, including passive forms meaning 'to be spoken' or 'to be told.'

Bread, the staple baked food of the ancient Near East; by extension, food or sustenance in general.

Time, season, or appointed moment — a point or period in time, ranging from general temporal reference to divinely appointed occasion.

Sin or sin-offering — the act of missing the mark before God, and the sacrificial remedy prescribed to atone for it.

Solomon — son of David, king of Israel renowned for wisdom, wealth, and building the Temple

to be strong, firm; to seize, grasp; to strengthen, encourage; to repair buildings; to harden (heart); to prevail

To cut — physically cutting trees or objects, cutting a covenant, or being cut off as divine punishment; spans Qal, Niphal, Hifil, and Hofal stems.

To work, serve, worship, till, or enslave; spanning religious devotion, personal service, agricultural labor, and forced servitude

Philistine(s) — the people of the coastal plain of Canaan, or an individual member of that nation

Whole burnt offering — an animal sacrifice entirely consumed by fire on the altar as worship ascending to God

Levite(s) — members of the tribe of Levi serving in Israel's worship, or the patriarch Levi himself

Hosts, armies (of YHWH) — the celestial or military forces invoked in the divine title 'LORD of Hosts'

Enemy, adversary, foe; one who is hostile, whether a personal rival, national opponent, or divine antagonist

Covenant, pact, treaty; a solemn binding agreement between parties, whether divine-human or between nations

You (second person masculine plural independent pronoun)

Month (calendar period) or new moon (lunar festival day marking the first of the month)

To draw near or approach; in Hifil, to bring near or present an offering; statively, to be near or at hand.

Heaven, sky; the visible firmament above and the divine dwelling place or realm of God

Nostril, nose, face; by metonymy anger or wrath; in the dual idiom 'erekh appayim, slow to anger.

Flock, small livestock; collective term for sheep and goats as a group

Stone — rock as material or object for building, throwing, memorials; also a standard weight, and figuratively a title of God

For the sake of, in order that; a preposition-conjunction expressing purpose, cause, or the beneficiary of an action.

Flesh, meat; the physical body, edible animal tissue, or the outer skin; humanity in its frailty before God.

Wilderness, desert; uninhabited open land used for pasturage or traversed in journeys

Pharaoh; title of the kings of Egypt, from Egyptian pr-'o ('great house')

To live, be alive; to revive, restore to life; to keep alive, spare; to recover from illness

Disciple, learner, pupil; a committed follower of a teacher, especially of Jesus

Wicked, ungodly — a morally corrupt person opposed to God's ways; also forensically guilty in legal contexts

Babylon, Babel; the ancient Mesopotamian capital on the Euphrates, seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire

To take, receive, obtain, or seize; encompasses physical grasping, receiving gifts or authority, and forceful seizure.

Earth, land, ground — the world as a whole, a specific territory or country, soil as physical substance, or dry land versus sea