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Ten — the cardinal number, appearing in both masculine and feminine forms across counting, ages, and measurements

Lip(s), speech; the edge or rim of an object; the shore or bank of water; also language or tongue.

Angel, messenger — a supernatural heavenly being serving God, or a human envoy sent to deliver a message.

To find, discover, or come upon someone or something; passive: to be found, turn out to be, be revealed.

To ask, inquire, request, demand, borrow, or lend; covering question-asking, petition, and the loan transaction in both directions

Crowd, multitude, throng — a gathered mass of people, especially those following Jesus or assembling in public

Abram / Abraham — the patriarch, father of Isaac and Ishmael, whose name was changed by God in Genesis 17:5

To bow down, prostrate oneself in worship or obeisance; also: to bow low (Qal), to depress or weigh down (Hiphil).

Work, deed, or action; what one does or produces, whether moral conduct, labor, or an enterprise undertaken.

Thirty; also used as a title for David's elite corps of warriors ('the Thirty').

Sin; a failure to meet God's standard, moral transgression, missing the mark of righteousness

To be holy, sanctify, consecrate, set apart as sacred; declare or make holy across Qal, Piel, Hifil, Hitpael, Niphal, Pual stems

understand, perceive, discern; (Qal) grasp, perceive; (Niphal) be discerning; (Hifil) understand, teach; (Hitpael) consider

To fight, wage war, do battle; in Nifal the standard verb for armed conflict, in rare Qal a poetic fighter or combatant.

To choose, select, prefer; of God's sovereign election of persons and places, and of human deliberate choice; passive: chosen, elect.

Benjamin; youngest son of Jacob and Rachel, the tribe and territory descended from him

A generation or age: the people living in a given period, successive posterity, or the formula 'from generation to generation' expressing perpetuity.

Glory, splendor, radiant majesty; the visible manifestation of divine excellence and honor

To kill or slay violently; as participle, a slayer or the slain; in passive stems, to be killed.

Work, occupation, labor; craftsmanship; property, goods; any productive activity from temple construction to daily business.

Modal particle indicating contingency, indefiniteness, or hypothetical conditions; combines with relative pronouns, conjunctions, and verb moods.

Another, other, different; occasionally 'next' or 'following' in temporal or sequential contexts.

City, town; an inhabited urban settlement, whether named or generic

To seek, inquire of, consult, investigate, require; be sought or consulted (Niphal); care for

Nation, people, ethnic group; in the NT often 'the Gentiles' — non-Jewish peoples collectively contrasted with Israel.

The outside, the area beyond a building, camp, or city; in the plural, streets or public squares; rarely, open countryside.

Opening, entrance, doorway; the passage into a tent, house, temple, or city, occasionally the door or gate structure itself.

Kingdom, reign, royal dominion; the sovereign rule of a king and the realm where that rule holds

Fifty; the cardinal number, or a military/organizational unit of fifty men under a commander.

A sacrifice, animal offering slaughtered in worship; the most common and ancient Israelite cultic offering.

A discourse particle: surely, indeed (asseverative); only, merely (restrictive); but, however (adversative).

To be or become ritually unclean, to defile, to declare unclean; spanning stative impurity, causative defilement, reflexive self-defilement, and priestly pronouncement

To flee, escape, run away from danger; as participle: a fugitive; Hifil: put to flight, drive away

Then; at that time, marking temporal sequence or logical consequence in narrative

Mighty, strong; a warrior or mighty man of valor; as a divine title: the Mighty One.

Righteousness, justice; right conduct before God and society; concrete righteous acts or deeds of vindication

Heart; the inner self as seat of thought, emotion, will, and spiritual life

Paul; the apostle to the Gentiles (also Sergius Paulus, the Roman proconsul)

Death — the event of dying, the state of being dead, death personified as a cosmic power, and death as judicial penalty or standard of comparison

turn, surround, go around; (Qal) turn, encircle, traverse; (Niphal) wind, turn; (Hifil) cause to turn, bring around; (Hofal) be turned

To rejoice, be glad; in Piel, to make glad or gladden; a fundamental emotion word spanning festive celebration, spiritual joy, and divine delight.

Grace, favor, or kindness — especially God's unmerited favor toward humanity; also thanks, a concrete act of goodwill, or a charitable gift.

Second (ordinal numeral); used adverbially as 'a second time'; rarely of a second story or tier.

Another, other; denotes a distinct or additional entity of the same kind, sometimes used in correlative pairs.

Peter; Simon Peter, the leading apostle, named 'Rock' by Jesus

Ram; a male sheep, used prominently in sacrifice, tribute, food, and prophetic symbolism

To shepherd, tend, or pasture flocks; also the agent noun 'shepherd'; by extension, to graze (intransitive) or to devour figuratively.

Preposition/adverb: on behalf of, for the sake of; above, beyond, more than; concerning; exceedingly

To go, proceed, travel; figuratively: to walk or conduct oneself in a manner of life

Zion — the fortified hill of Jerusalem, extending to denote the holy city, its temple mount, and God's covenant people