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Hewn stone, dressed stone — cut and squared building blocks for monumental construction

Wheel or wheelwork (of chariots or Ezekiel's throne-vision); also whirlwind or whirling dust driven before the wind.

Gileadite — a person from Gilead, the Transjordanian highland east of the Jordan River

Cud — regurgitated food chewed by ruminant animals, central to the Levitical clean/unclean distinction

Dibon — a Moabite city on the King's Highway, allotted to Gad and Reuben, target of prophetic oracles

To pierce or thrust through fatally with a weapon; in passive forms, to be pierced, slain, or fatally wounded.

To be or become fat; in Piel, to make fat, anoint, accept favorably, or remove altar ashes.

Thrust, push, shove physically; drive out or expel from a place; reject or spurn figuratively

Hither, here — adverb of place indicating motion toward or presence at the speaker's location

Presumptuousness, arrogance — insolent pride that defies authority, whether human or divine

Pure, clean, clear — free from contamination; of olive oil, incense, sky, or moral character

Time, appointed time (Aramaic) — a defined season, occasion, or period; used in Daniel and Ezra

Tail — the hind extremity of an animal; figuratively the lowest, weakest, or most insignificant part

Heber/Cheber — personal name meaning 'associate, companion'; borne by several Israelite men

Thorn, brier, or bramble (a thorny plant); also a hook or ring used for capturing and restraining captives.

Loins, the midsection of the body viewed as the seat of strength, reproductive power, and the place where a belt is girded.

Mother-in-law — a husband's mother or wife's mother, central to the Ruth narrative

Leavened bread — bread or food made with leaven, prohibited during the Feast of Unleavened Bread

Hanun — personal name meaning 'favored, gracious'; an Ammonite king and two post-exilic builders

Hanani — personal name meaning 'gracious, my grace'; borne by several priests, prophets, and leaders

Be polluted or profaned (Qal); defile or make profane (Hifil); corrupt through flattery or hypocrisy

Delighting in, willing, desiring — verbal adjective describing one who takes pleasure in or is inclined toward

Magician, diviner-priest — a learned practitioner of ritual magic in Egyptian and Babylonian courts

Harim — personal name meaning 'consecrated/devoted'; priestly and lay families in post-exilic Judah

To be hot, scorched, or charred; to burn, glow; also to burn with anger, kindle fire, or be parched and dried up.

Strip off, lay bare, expose; peel bark from a tree; scoop or draw water from a vessel

To form a marriage alliance or become a son-in-law; intermarry with another family, clan, or nation (Hitpael denominative of חתן).

To slaughter, butcher — killing an animal for food or sacrifice; extended to violent killing of people

Plaster, daub, coat — to smear a surface with clay, lime, or whitewash; literal and metaphorical

To taste food or drink literally; by extension, to perceive or discern through experience.

Jedaiah (יְדַעְיָה) — 'YHWH has known/regarded'; priestly name borne by several postexilic figures

Familiar spirit, spiritist — one who conjures the dead or channels occult knowledge; always condemned

Jehohanan (יְהוֹחָנָן) — 'YHWH is gracious'; a common name borne by military, priestly, and lay figures

Joah (יוֹאָח) — 'YHWH is brother'; name of four OT figures, most notably Hezekiah's royal recorder

Javan (Yavan): son of Japheth, eponymous ancestor of the Ionians; by extension, Greece as a geographic-political entity.

Japheth (יֶפֶת) — third son of Noah; ancestor of the peoples spread across Asia Minor and the coastlands

Be precious, prized, or esteemed; make rare or scarce (Hifil); be appraised at a price

Lobe/appendage of the liver — the caudate lobe, a fatty protrusion burned in Israelite sacrificial ritual

Gather, collect (Qal); assemble people purposefully (Piel); wrap or bundle oneself up (Hitpael)

Lioness, great lion — a poetic term for the female or mature lion, used in prophecy and blessing

Brick, tile — a molded block of clay dried or baked for building; associated with forced labor and hubris

To blaze, flame; (Piel) to set ablaze, burn up, consume with fire.

Lamech (לֶמֶךְ) — name borne by two antediluvian figures: the Cainite warrior-poet and Seth's descendant

Sojourning or place of sojourning; temporary residence as an alien in a land not one's own; also a dwelling place.

Province, district — an administrative region under imperial governance, especially in Persian and Babylonian contexts

Foundation, base — the structural underpinning of a building or, poetically, the deep foundations of the earth itself

Bonds, fetters, restraints — physical chains or ropes; metaphorically, any yoke of oppression or covenant obligation

Fear, dread, terror; awe-inspiring deeds or spectacles; the One who is to be feared (divine epithet)

Ruin or destruction (especially of fools); terror or object of dread (in prophetic judgment contexts).

Mikhmash — a Benjaminite town at a strategic pass northeast of Jerusalem, prominent in Saul's Philistine wars