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Zabad; a personal name meaning 'he has given' or 'gift,' borne by at least seven men in the Old Testament.

To be pure, make clean, or purify oneself; moral and ritual cleansing across Qal, Piel, and Hitpael stems.

A hook or ring for restraining captives and animals; also a decorative brooch or clasp offered as tabernacle jewelry

Sin, transgression — a great moral offense before God; rarely, a sin-offering presented at the altar

Wisdom (Aramaic); divinely granted insight, interpretive skill, and comprehensive understanding, especially in Daniel.

Sun-pillars or incense altars; cultic objects associated with Canaanite solar worship, always condemned in Scripture.

To treat violently, do wrong; to strip or tear down; to shed (of a vine); passive: to be violated

Dedication or consecration; the inaugural ceremony setting apart an altar, temple, or city wall for sacred use.

Dry ground or land, especially as revealed by the miraculous withdrawal of water in divine acts of deliverance.

The skillfully woven waistband of the priestly ephod, a decorative sash binding the vestment at the waist.

To be attached to, to love, to set one's affection or desire upon someone or something.

Fillets or bands clasping the pillars of the tabernacle courtyard, overlaid with silver or gold.

To dig, bore through — breaking through walls or earth; also to row a boat, digging oars through water

To grind grain or material with a millstone; by extension, to crush or reduce to powder.

Spotted, speckled, variegated — of multi-colored livestock; also patched or mended, of worn garments

Jabin ('he discerns'), the dynastic name of Canaanite kings of Hazor defeated by Israel.

To cause grief, afflict, torment (causative); to be grieved, to suffer sorrow (passive-reflexive)

Beloved, dear, lovely; used of persons cherished by God and of places precious to the worshiper.

Jehonadab/Jonadab ('YHWH is generous'), name of a Rechabite leader and of David's nephew.

Jehozadak ('YHWH is righteous'), the exiled priest and father of Joshua the high priest of the return.

More, excessively, advantage — adverb and noun of excess, surplus, or superiority (Ecclesiastes/Esther)

Jezreelite, a gentilic adjective identifying someone from Jezreel, applied to Naboth and to Ahinoam.

Jahath — a proper name borne by a grandson of Judah and several Levites, possibly meaning 'he (God) will snatch up.'

Jachin — 'he will establish'; a Simeonite clan name and the name of the right-hand pillar before Solomon's temple.

Ostrich; a large flightless bird associated in Scripture with mourning, desolation, and ritual uncleanness.

To shine forth, radiate beams of light; used especially of God's theophanic glory breaking through in splendor.

Bed, couch (poetic); side-chamber, annex room (architectural, in Solomon's temple)

To burn (Aramaic); used exclusively in Daniel 3 to describe the blazing furnace into which the three faithful men were cast.

To be dislocated or alienated (Qal); to hang or impale publicly (Hifil); those who have been hanged (Hofal participle).

To lay a snare, set a trap (Qal active); to be ensnared, caught in a trap (Nifal/Pual passive)

Jerahmeel — 'may God have compassion'; a prominent Judahite clan name, also borne by a Levite and a royal official.

Ishmaelite — a gentilic adjective denoting descendants of Ishmael or members of the Ishmaelite trading confederation.

Israel — the national name of God's covenant people, here in Aramaic portions of Ezra referring to the post-exilic community.

Excellent, surpassing (attributive adjective); exceedingly, extraordinarily (adverbial intensifier) — Aramaic, in Daniel

To be in pain or cause pain; physical anguish, emotional grief, or (by extension) ruin and destruction

Kebar — a river or canal in Babylonia beside which the Jewish exiles settled and where Ezekiel received his visions.

Ewe-lamb — a young female sheep, used in sacrificial regulations and memorably in Nathan's parable to David.

Priest; an Aramaic noun for a cultic religious official who ministers in the temple service.

Cyrus; the Persian emperor who authorized the return of the Jewish exiles and the rebuilding of the temple.

Thus, so; an Aramaic adverb introducing reported speech or summarizing a preceding statement.

Cor; a large unit of dry (and occasionally liquid) measure, approximately 220 liters or 6 bushels.

Carmi; a personal name borne by a son of Reuben and the father of Achan the troubler of Israel.

To write, record in writing; an Aramaic verb for composing letters, decrees, and visions.

Aramaic conjunction: except, but, however; occasionally inferential 'therefore'

Luz; the ancient Canaanite city renamed Bethel after Jacob's vision, and a second city built by a Hittite exile.

Wormwood; a bitter plant (Artemisia) used figuratively for the bitterness of divine judgment, injustice, and sin's consequences.

Hundred; the Aramaic cardinal number one hundred, used in compound numerals for counting people, animals, and commodities.

Choice things, precious bounty; the finest produce of heaven and earth, used of nature's gifts in blessing and love poetry.

Terror, dread; object of fear. Especially in Jeremiah's coined phrase magor missabib, 'terror on every side.'

Mushi, a Levite, son of Merari; ancestor of the Mushite clan within the tribe of Levi.