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Milcah — a personal name borne by Nahor's wife (Abraham's niece by marriage) and a daughter of Zelophehad

Deep, depth, abyss — the unfathomable ocean depths, used of the Red Sea, chaotic waters, and God's power to submerge

Headrest, place at the head — the spot beside or beneath someone's head, typically while sleeping or resting

Destruction, ruin; as a personified agent, the Destroyer sent in divine judgment (Ex 12:23; Jer 51:25).

Staff, walking stick, support rod — a rod used for walking, leaning, or as an instrument of authority and aid

Feel or touch physically (Qal); grope about, search by feeling (Piel); cause to feel or touch (Hifil)

A container for liquids: either a leather wineskin or an earthenware jar, used literally and as a figure for fragility.

Pour forth speech or praise (Hifil); flow or bubble up as water (Qal); cause to ferment or putrefy

To gore, push with horns; figuratively to thrust at or charge in battle

Practice divination, interpret omens — to read signs or portents; prohibited in Israel, yet used of Joseph's cup

Netophathite — gentilic of Netophah, a village near Bethlehem; home to David's warriors and Levitical singers

Pleasant, delightful — poetic adjective describing what brings deep enjoyment or aesthetic delight

To shake, shake out, or shake off; to cast off vigorously; to be shaken loose; to shake oneself free.

Siege mound, siege ramp — an earthen embankment raised against city walls during military assault

Sapphire, lapis lazuli — a brilliant blue precious stone prized in ancient Near Eastern art and worship

Ebed-Melech — 'servant of the king,' an Ethiopian court official who rescued Jeremiah from the cistern

Iddo — prophet and chronicler; also several other OT figures bearing this name

To bend, make crooked, pervert; used of twisting justice and the physical bowing of age

Uzzi — 'my strength,' a personal name borne by several priestly and tribal figures in Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah

Elam (II) — personal and clan name for several post-exilic families; distinct from the nation Elam

To toil, labor — to work hard with weariness; especially in Ecclesiastes for the exhausting effort of human life

Solemn assembly, sacred gathering — a formal convocation marking the close of a festival period

Crooked, perverse, twisted — morally deviant or deceitful in speech, conduct, or character

Shrewd or crafty — positively: prudent, sensible (Proverbs); negatively: cunning, devious (Genesis 3:1; Job).

A heap or pile, used of grain stores, rubbish mounds, and ruins

Paran, a wilderness region northeast of Sinai associated with Israel's desert wanderings

Paddan-aram, the upper Mesopotamian plain around Haran, homeland of the patriarchal family

That which opens the womb — the firstborn, whether of humans or animals, consecrated to the LORD.

Pekah, son of Remaliah, usurping king of Israel who reigned during the Syro-Ephraimite crisis

Engraving or carved inscription, especially gem engravings on the priestly vestments

A twisted cord or thread — used for binding, fastening priestly garments, measuring, and as a figure for fragile constraint.

Issue, offspring, produce — descendants of persons or growth from the earth, always plural in form.

To press, constrain, bring into straits; of siege pressure, persistent urging, and oppression

Zelophehad, a man of Manasseh whose five daughters secured inheritance rights for women in Israel

Crown of the head, the topmost part of the skull, often in blessings and curses

Kidron, the valley-wadi east of Jerusalem, used for disposing of idolatrous objects

Kenaz, an Edomite clan name and father of Othniel, Israel's first judge

Divination, the practice of seeking hidden knowledge by occult means; also an oracle or authoritative pronouncement

To call out, proclaim; to read aloud (Aramaic, primarily in Daniel and Ezra)

Baldness, especially a shaved spot on the head as a sign of mourning, prohibited for priests and Israel

Riblah, a city in the land of Hamath on the Orontes, used as a military staging ground by Egypt and Babylon

To smell, perceive odor; metaphorically, to delight in or savor

Spirit or wind (Aramaic); the animating divine or human spirit, or meteorological wind, in Daniel

Reuel, 'friend of God,' name of Moses' father-in-law, an Edomite ancestor, and others

Shepherd or herdsman, the Qal participle of ra'ah used for those who tend flocks, including God and rulers

Rezin, king of Aram-Damascus who allied with Pekah against Judah in the Syro-Ephraimite crisis

Beat, stamp, spread out; hammer metal into plates; overlay with hammered metal

A solemn rest or sabbatism, divinely appointed complete cessation from labor on sacred occasions

Onyx or a precious banded stone, used in the high priest's vestments and among Eden's treasures

To go about, rove, range to and fro; of roaming, searching, and restless wandering