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Morning -- the early part of the day, from dawn until midday; used of time, sacrifice, and divine faithfulness.

To leave, forsake, or abandon; ranges from covenantal betrayal and physical departure to the state of being forsaken and even helping with a burden.

Joseph -- proper name meaning 'he adds'; the patriarch, and by metonymy the northern tribes descended from him.

Messenger or angel; a human envoy sent on a mission, or a divine heavenly being sent by God.

To deliver, rescue, snatch away; Niphal: escape, be delivered; Piel: strip, plunder; Hifil: save from danger or enemies

To lie down, recline, sleep; euphemism for sexual intercourse; Hifil: lay someone down; also: pour out (liquid)

To love; as participle: lover, friend, paramour; passive: beloved; also the abstract noun 'love' (ahavah)

Gift, tribute, offering; from secular presents between persons, through vassal tribute, to the grain/cereal offering of the Levitical cult.

To be able, to have power; as a verb 'can/could'; substantivally, 'the powerful one' or 'the mighty.'

To want, wish, be willing, or purpose; the primary Greek verb for expressing desire, consent, intention, and delight.

To add, increase; to continue, do again; in Nifal: be added, join oneself to

Thus, so, in this way -- adverb of manner pointing to how something is done or occurs.

To save, deliver, rescue (Hifil); a savior or deliverer (Hifil participle); to be saved or receive salvation (Nifal).

Just, righteous; of persons who act uprightly, of God's moral perfection, of nations, or of being in the right forensically.

to complete, finish, bring to an end; consume, destroy; fail, be exhausted; fulfill a purpose or decree

To judge, govern, vindicate, contend at law; as participle: judge (office-holder); Niphal: be judged, stand trial

To gather, collect, assemble; by extension to remove, take away; euphemism for dying ('gathered to one's people')

Chest or box; the Ark of the Covenant, a money-collection chest, or a coffin for burial.

Separation, alone, by oneself; apart from, besides; also: poles/staves, limbs, branches, bars

Glory, honor, splendor; the visible radiance of God's presence, human dignity and esteem, or material wealth.

Army, host, or organized force; also hard service, compulsory duty, or warfare as an activity.

Law, ordinance; especially the Mosaic Torah, but also law as a principle or system.

To enter, go into, or come in; of physical entry into a place or figurative entry into a state or condition.

Jewish person; Judea — an adjective denoting Jewish identity, used substantively for a Jew or geographically for the region of Judea.

Palm of the hand, sole of the foot; also: ladle/dish, hip socket, paw, handle, palm-frond

To be able, have power; to prevail or overcome; to endure or bear hardship.

Oil, fat, ointment; primarily olive oil for anointing, offerings, cooking, and lighting, but also fatness/fertility and perfumed cosmetic oil.

To write, compose, or inscribe; of authoring documents, citing Scripture with 'it stands written,' and recording in texts or books.

beside, from beside; source (genitive), proximity (dative), motion/comparison (accusative)

Friend, companion, neighbor, fellow; a person connected by proximity, affection, or shared activity.

Beast, animal, cattle — a large land creature, either wild or domesticated; collectively, livestock or animals in general.

to be high, exalted; to lift up, raise (physically or in status); to exalt, extol (God or a person); to contribute (an offering)

Rod, staff, scepter, or tribe; a stick used for striking, discipline, or rule, and by metonymy a tribal division of Israel.

Ear, organ of hearing; often in 'in the ears of' meaning 'in the hearing/presence of.'

A written document: a book or scroll, a letter or epistle, or an official legal certificate such as a deed of divorce or royal decree.

World, ordered creation, human society; also adornment — the created order, inhabited earth, or system of human values; rarely, outward decoration.

uncover, reveal, go into exile — verb of exposure and displacement: literal (nakedness, covering) or abstract (secrets, divine truth); causative stems = exile

To swear or take an oath (Niphal); to cause to swear, adjure, or administer an oath (Hiphil).

To perish, be destroyed; in Piel, to destroy or annihilate; in Hifil, to cause to perish; also to be lost, go astray.

Commandment, precept, directive — a binding instruction from God as covenant law or from a human authority as an executive order.

Just as, even as; how — a comparative conjunction introducing correspondence or manner, rarely used as an interrogative.

Cattle, herd — collective noun for bovine livestock, whether viewed as a group or as individual oxen and cows

Jordan — the principal river of Palestine, flowing from the Sea of Galilee southward to the Dead Sea

Indeed, on the one hand — a discourse particle expressing affirmation or marking the first element of a correlative pair

First, former, chief; as adjective: first in sequence or time; substantively: former things, ancestors, the beginning

Moab — the nation, people, and territory east of the Dead Sea, descended from Lot

Ephraim — Joseph's younger son, the Israelite tribe descended from him, and their allotted territory

King — Aramaic noun for a sovereign ruler, used predominantly of Babylonian and Persian monarchs in Daniel and Ezra

Hand, hands — the physical body part, also expressing agency, power, custody, and divine action

Old, aged; an elder or community leader; used both as an adjective for age and a title for civic authority.