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alas! ah! — an exclamation of grief, dismay, or desperate appeal

Ahitub — a priestly name meaning 'my brother is goodness,' borne by ancestors of key Israelite priests

Ahimaaz — a name meaning 'my brother is wrath/counsel,' borne by Zadok's son and Saul's father-in-law

Eliphaz — 'God is fine gold,' name of Esau's firstborn son and Job's chief counselor

sack, grain bag — a large bag for carrying provisions, exclusively in the Joseph narrative

then, now then — an enclitic emphatic particle used in questions and inferential statements

Long, slow (of anger); long-suffering, patient — adjective describing forbearance or physical extent

Bani — a Hebrew name meaning 'built,' borne by multiple Levites, warriors, and clan heads

to shear (sheep), cut off (hair) — shearing wool or cutting hair, often at a festive occasion

Gezer — a fortified Canaanite city on the Ephraim-Judah border, later an Israelite Levitical city

Bowl, basin (rounded vessel); spring, water source — a concave receptacle whether crafted or natural

Exile, captivity; collectively, the community of deportees carried away from their homeland

Rebuke, reproof, threatening censure — especially the awe-inspiring rebuke of God

To stir up strife, provoke, contend with; in Hitpael, to engage in conflict or wage war against someone.

Goshen — the fertile Nile Delta region where Israel sojourned, and a district in southern Judah

Fish (collective feminine noun) — aquatic creatures as a class, especially of the sea and Nile

Darius — the Persian royal name borne by Darius Hystaspis and 'Darius the Mede' in Scripture

Grass, tender herbage; also threshing (from a separate root דּוּשׁ)

Fat ashes (from sacrificial offerings); fatness, richness, abundance (of divine blessing or fertility)

Destruction, calamity, engulfing ruin; also (evil) desire, covetous craving

If, whether; or (in paired constructions) — Aramaic conditional conjunction

This; which, who — an archaic poetic pronoun serving as both demonstrative and relative

Companion, associate; as adjective, united or joined together — one bound in fellowship, rank, or purpose.

Hur — a personal name borne by Moses' companion, a Judahite ancestor of Bezalel, and others

Heat or warmth; the burning intensity of midday sun, the flush of passion, the temperature of hot bread, and the comfort of bodily warmth.

To divide, halve, or split; in Qal, actively apportioning; in Nifal, being divided; idiomatically, to cut short one's days.

Hashabiah — 'Yahweh has reckoned'; a Levitical name borne by musicians, officers, and officials

Purification, ritual cleansing — the prescribed process of restoring ceremonial purity

Jehiel — personal name meaning 'may God live,' borne by several Levites, officials, and leaders in Chronicles and Ezra

Jerimoth / Yerimoth — personal name meaning 'heights' or 'he is exalted,' borne by Benjamites, Levites, and others

To subdue, conquer, or bring into bondage; ranging from dominion over creation to military conquest, enslavement, and sexual violation.

Cyrus (Koresh) — king of Persia who conquered Babylon and decreed the Jewish return from exile

Entire, whole, perfect; as a noun: the whole of something; a whole burnt offering consumed entirely by fire.

Scales, balances — a dual-form noun for the weighing instrument used literally in commerce and figuratively for divine judgment

Confidence, trust; the object in which one trusts; a state of security or safety from danger.

To exchange, substitute, or replace; in Nifal, to be changed — swapping one thing for another, often with grave consequences.

Price, cost — the payment or value offered for goods, land, or figuratively for intangible things like wisdom or people

Ordination or consecration of priests ('filling of hands'); also the setting or mount for gemstones.

Dominion, rule, realm — sovereign authority or jurisdiction exercised by God, kings, or celestial bodies

Mephibosheth (Merib-baal) — son of Jonathan and grandson of Saul, lame in both feet, shown loyalty by David

Purchase, acquisition — the act of buying, the price paid, or the property obtained through a transaction

Miriam — prophetess and sister of Moses and Aaron; also a Judahite man in 1 Chronicles 4:17

To play a stringed instrument; as a participle, a musician or minstrel who performs on strings.

River (Aramaic) — the Euphrates or a river in general, used in Ezra for the Trans-Euphrates region and in Daniel for a river of fire

A violent storm-wind or tempest, often figuring God's sudden, sweeping judgment or overwhelming destructive force.

A woven basket, especially for carrying bread and baked offerings in ritual and ceremonial settings.

Eber, descendant of Shem through Arpachshad and traditional ancestor of the Hebrew peoples.

To wrap or envelop oneself in a garment; to cover another (transitive); causatively, to clothe or blanket.

People, nation (Aramaic); the collective population of a kingdom or ethnic group in Daniel and Ezra.

Anathoth, a Levitical city in Benjamin; hometown of Jeremiah and place of Abiathar's exile.