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Ephron — a Hittite landowner in Hebron; also a city near Bethel taken by Abijah.

To hurt, pain, or grieve; emotionally to be sorrowful, causatively to vex another, and physically to injure or twist.

Because, on account of (causal conjunction); end, outcome; reward, recompense for faithful action.

To lay bare, uncover, strip; also to pour out or empty a vessel; reflexively to strip oneself or spread out.

Thick darkness or heavy cloud, especially the dense obscurity enveloping God's theophanic presence.

To tremble in terror or dread; causatively to terrify or strike with awe; passively to be feared or awesome.

Oppression or extortion; the unjust exploitation of others, especially the vulnerable, for gain.

To open wide (especially the mouth) to swallow, speak, or cry out; to rescue or deliver.

To let loose, uncover, neglect, or leave unrestrained; in Hifil, to cause cessation or unruliness.

Perets (Perez), son of Judah and Tamar; ancestor of David and the Messianic line.

A pair or yoke of animals, especially draft oxen; by extension, an acre — the land area a yoke of oxen plows in a day.

To put an end to, destroy, annihilate; passively to perish or be cut off; intensively to consume utterly.

Ziklag, a Philistine city in the Negev given by Achish of Gath to David during his exile.

To bow the head, kneel down in reverence or submission; used of worship before God and homage before kings.

Kohathite — gentilic noun for a descendant of Kohath, second son of Levi, one of three Levitical clans

To be short, insufficient, or cut short; idiomatically of the soul/spirit becoming impatient or weary

Great, large (in size, magnitude, or rank); as a title: chief, head official in Aramaic court contexts.

Rabbah — 'the great city,' capital of Ammon (modern Amman, Jordan); also a town in Judah

Spear, lance — a thrusting weapon with a long shaft, standard military armament in ancient Israel

Wickedness, evil; guilt or culpable wrongdoing attributed to a person or nation.

Ear or head of grain — the mature seed-bearing spike of cereal plants like wheat or barley

Lily, lotus — any lily-like flower; used of botanical beauty, architectural ornament, and romantic imagery

Laughter (joyful or scornful); a laughingstock or object of derision; sport, amusement, diversion.

To gaze, regard with favor or attention; also to look away, be dismayed, or (of eyes) grow dim—centering on the act of directed sight.

Swarming creatures — collective term for small animals that teem in water or creep on land

Outward form, figure, appearance — the visible shape or physical bearing of a person

Oven, furnace; a portable clay stove for baking, also used figuratively for divine wrath and intense heat.

Teraphim — household idol figurines used for divination and domestic cult veneration

Thorn, thorn-bush — any thorny or prickly plant; used literally and figuratively of obstacles and judgment

Belonging to another, not one's own; a stranger or outsider; foreign, of another nation or land.

Both — adjective/pronoun indicating two parties or things taken together as a pair

announce, declare, report — to make known by proclaiming news, events, or divine revelation to others

recline at table — to assume the ancient dining posture of reclining on a couch during a meal

withdraw, depart, retire — to leave a place deliberately, often to avoid danger or seek solitude

resist, oppose, withstand — to set oneself against an adversary, whether human, spiritual, or divine

once — a single time; once for all, decisively and unrepeatable

disobey, be disobedient — to refuse compliance with authority or reject the persuasion of truth

To seize or snatch by force; to be caught up in divine transport; to plunder or carry off goods.

gaze intently, look fixedly — to fix one's eyes upon someone or something with focused, sustained attention

tomorrow, the next day — temporal adverb indicating the day following the present or a referenced point in time

Thought, reasoning, deliberation; also dispute, argument, or verbal contention between persons.

sixth — the ordinal number indicating the sixth position in a sequence

year — a period of twelve months, used for calendar reckoning, liturgical cycles, and temporal duration

To know, be acquainted with; to understand or comprehend through experience or intellectual grasp.

To rejoice, be glad, celebrate; transitively, to make glad or gladden another person.

To sacrifice an animal ritually to God or gods, or to slaughter/kill for a feast or figuratively for destruction.

To observe attentively, consider carefully, or perceive with discernment; to fix one's mind on something so as to understand it.

to break (bread) — the physical act of tearing a loaf apart, especially in communal and sacramental meals

inheritance — a share received from an ancestor, whether material property or a divinely promised spiritual portion

common — shared by all, or ritually unclean/profane; the two senses hinge on communal inclusion vs. sacred exclusion