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Nest of a bird (literal and metaphorical, of secure habitations on high); room or compartment within a structure.

To be or become many, numerous, to multiply (Qal); to be produced by ten-thousands (Pual participle).

Compassionate, merciful; a divine attribute paired with 'gracious,' defining God's covenant character.

Rechab; a personal name borne by Ish-bosheth's assassin, the Rechabite ancestor, and a post-exilic builder.

Remaliah; father of Pekah king of Israel, whose patronymic Isaiah uses with deliberate contempt.

To be hungry, to hunger (Qal intransitive); to cause to hunger, to let go hungry (Hiphil causative).

To thunder or roar; of God producing thunder as a theophanic display, of the sea roaring in praise, or of faces trembling in agitation.

Aramaic adjective: great (in size/importance); abundant, much, many (quantity); exceedingly (adverbial).

Field, open land; a poetic form of שָׂדֶה denoting cultivated ground, wild terrain, or land broadly.

A boil or inflamed skin ulcer; used of plague sores, leprous eruptions, and painful afflictions on human or animal flesh.

Drunk, intoxicated; used literally of persons overcome by wine and figuratively of staggering helplessness or divine judgment.

To be at peace, make peace, fulfill, or be wholly devoted; from the root שׁלם expressing completeness, wholeness, and covenant harmony.

To change, alter, be different; also to disguise oneself, pervert, or transfer from one place to another.

Shephatiah — a masculine personal name meaning 'YHWH has judged,' borne by several OT figures including a son of David.

Burning, conflagration; a burn wound or scar on skin

Resident alien, sojourner — a non-native dwelling among a community, with varying degrees of permanence

Lower or lowest in position; a spatial adjective for architectural levels, geographic features, and relative elevation.

Razor or knife for cutting; sheath or scabbard for a sword

Terah — Abraham's father and patriarch of the migration from Ur to Haran; also a wilderness camp on the Exodus route.

Unrighteous, unjust; describing persons who act wickedly or things that lack moral rectitude, opposed to dikaios.

Rooster, cock; the domestic fowl whose crowing marks the pre-dawn watch, central to Peter's denial narrative.

To rest or cause to rest; cease from labor, refresh another, or be refreshed oneself.

To recline at a meal in the ancient dining posture; to lean back, sit down to eat at table.

A wineskin — an animal-hide bag for storing and transporting wine, central to Jesus' parable of new wine in old skins.

Courtyard or court of a building; sheepfold or enclosed pen for livestock

Babylon — the ancient Mesopotamian city and empire; used historically for the exile and symbolically for Rome in Revelation.

Baptist, Baptizer — title applied exclusively to John son of Zechariah, the forerunner who baptized in the Jordan

To torment, torture, cause severe suffering; to be battered or tossed by waves

Bethany — village on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem; also a locale east of the Jordan where John baptized

Judgment seat, tribunal; a step or foot's length of ground

Cry out, shout aloud — to raise one's voice in urgent proclamation, distress, or prophetic declaration

Counsel, purpose, plan — a deliberated intention or resolution, whether divine decree or human decision

Thunder — the sound accompanying storms; a theophanic sign of divine power and majesty

Gehenna — the Valley of Hinnom as a symbol of eschatological punishment; hell, place of final destruction

Knee — the joint of the leg; used literally and in the idiom of kneeling in worship, prayer, or submission

Come! (plural imperative) — an invitation or summons calling others to approach, follow, or witness

To divide and distribute among recipients, or to be split apart in disunity or internal conflict.

Mind, understanding, disposition — the faculty of intellectual and moral discernment; one's way of thinking

Fishing net — a large net used by Galilean fishermen, cast or dragged to catch fish

custom, habit — an established practice or tradition, especially in religious or communal life

lead out, bring out — to conduct someone from an enclosed place into the open, often implying deliverance

from within, inside, inwardly — adverb of interior location or source of motion from the interior

Zebedee — Galilean fisherman, father of the apostles James and John

To burn with zeal or earnest desire for something good, or to burn with jealousy and envy toward another.

A reed plant or staff made from it; also a writing pen fashioned from a sharpened reed.

To burn up completely or consume by fire, whether actively setting ablaze or passively being consumed in flames.

To lie down, especially of the sick or bedridden; also to recline at a meal table in the ancient dining posture.

A lot cast for decisions; by extension, an allotted portion, inheritance, or assigned share.

To glue, join, cling to; attach oneself to a person, cleave devotedly, be united in marriage, or stick physically.

might, power, dominion — sovereign strength or supreme authority, especially in doxological ascription to God