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A whip or scourge, used literally of punishment and figuratively of divine judgment and calamity

Hem, skirt, or train of a garment, used of priestly robes, God's robe in vision, and metaphors of shame

A cry for help or outcry of distress, directed toward God in lament and arising from oppression

Thorns, briers (collective); adamant, diamond, or flint (a very hard stone)

To plunder, despoil; of seizing goods by force, as raiders and conquerors

A detestable or abominable thing, used in Levitical dietary laws and prophetic denunciations of idolatry

Tiglath-pileser III, king of Assyria (745-727 BCE), conqueror of northern Israel and Levantine vassal states

Middle — positional adjective describing the central story of a building or the middle position in a series

Teman — a region or city in Edom, associated with wisdom traditions and prophetic oracles of judgment

Three (Aramaic) — the cardinal numeral 'three,' used exclusively in the Aramaic portions of Daniel and Ezra

Do good, act beneficently — to perform morally good or kind actions toward others

Sanctification, holiness — the process and state of being set apart for God, moral consecration

Hades — the unseen realm of the dead, the underworld abode of departed spirits in NT cosmology

Impossible (of things or situations); powerless, weak (of persons)

Impurity, uncleanness — moral defilement, especially sexual immorality and spiritual corruption

Together, at the same time; together with (as a preposition governing a dative)

To carry upward; offer up (sacrifice or praise); bear (sins) upon oneself as a substitute

Lawless, wicked; outside the Mosaic Law — describing moral transgression or relational standing apart from Torah

To receive or obtain; receive back what was lost or owed; take aside physically

Apollos — Alexandrian Jewish Christian, eloquent preacher and associate of Paul in the early church

Make a defense, speak in self-defense — to offer a verbal defense against accusations, especially in legal settings

Redemption, release through ransom payment; deliverance achieved by the atoning work of Christ

An ungodly or impious person, one who lacks reverence for God and lives in disregard of divine law

Licentiousness, sensuality, shameless moral excess and sexual debauchery

A greeting or salutation, whether spoken in person or written in a letter

Take away, remove; cut off or sever — whether abstractly removing (sins, disgrace) or physically severing (a body part)

Set apart, separate; mark off by boundaries; consecrate for divine service; exclude, ostracize

Achaia, the Roman senatorial province comprising southern Greece with its capital at Corinth

A book, scroll, or written document, especially sacred or authoritative Scripture

Life or manner of living; livelihood, possessions — earthly existence versus material means of subsistence

A tear or tears shed in weeping, expressing grief, compassion, or earnest supplication

Master, sovereign lord — whether addressing God/Christ as supreme ruler or human slaveholders as household masters

A righteous ordinance, regulation, or decree; a righteous deed; an act of judicial acquittal

Persecution, hostile pursuit or systematic oppression on account of faith

Forsake, abandon, leave behind — whether deserting a person in need or neglecting communal assembly

Food offered in sacrifice to idols, idol meat — a central issue in early Christian ethical debate

Cut down (a tree in judgment); cut off (a limb or branch, removing part from whole)

Fall out, drop off; run aground (nautical); fall away from grace; fail, become void

To make known or visible; either to formally report/disclose information to authorities, or to reveal, manifest, and make apparent.

Here, in this place; an adverb of location indicating the speaker's present position

Ninth — ordinal numeral marking the ninth hour (about 3 PM), pivotal in crucifixion and parable narratives

Guilty, liable, deserving of punishment; also subject to or held in bondage under a power or condition.

From here, from this place; also used distributively to mean 'on this side...on that side.'

To confess (sins); to praise or give thanks (to God); to consent or agree (to a proposal)

Since, because, seeing that (causal conjunction); also used temporally as 'when, after that.'

To come upon, arrive, overtake — describing both divine visitation and the onset of events or calamities

To command, order with authority — to impose a directive from a position of power over persons or spirits

To complete, bring to fulfillment; to be accomplished or perfected (passive); to carry out sacred duties

Press, squeeze; afflict, cause distress; suffer tribulation; be narrow or constricted

Joppa — the Mediterranean port city (modern Jaffa/Yafo) central to the Cornelius conversion narrative