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Vintage, grape harvest — the seasonal gathering of grapes from the vineyard

To inquire, search out, examine, or reflect; Piel intensive of careful investigation, inspection, or contemplation.

Pure, clean, sincere — describing moral clarity of heart, ritual cleanness, or physical emptiness

To eat, take food; also to choose or select — a rare Hebrew verb for eating (distinct from common akal), with one instance meaning 'choose.'

Basemath — proper name ('fragrant') borne by wives of Esau and a daughter of Solomon

To rise up, grow high, be exalted — of waters rising, plants growing, or God triumphing gloriously

To blaspheme, revile — speaking with contempt against God or reproaching others (Piel only)

Gedor — a town in Judah's hill country and a proper name in Benjamite and Judahite genealogies

To stir up strife, attack, assail; in Hitpael, to slash oneself — hostile action ranging from conflict to ritual self-laceration.

A cub or whelp, especially of a lion — used metaphorically for tribal vigor, young warriors, and fierce offspring

Fleece; the shorn wool of a sheep, used exclusively in the Gideon narrative as a sign from God.

Sinew, tendon; fibrous tissue connecting muscle to bone, used literally and figuratively for stubbornness.

Brimstone, sulfur; a combustible mineral associated with divine judgment and catastrophic destruction.

Girgashite; one of the seven Canaanite peoples displaced by Israel, territory unknown.

Be anxious, worry, fear; to experience inner distress, concern, or dread about a situation or person.

A pot or kettle for cooking, or a basket for carrying produce such as figs; context determines which vessel is meant.

Mandrakes—the aromatic fruit of Mandragora officinarum, believed to promote fertility and desire; once used for 'baskets' in Jer 24:1.

Dor; a Canaanite coastal city in Manasseh's territory, south of Mount Carmel on the Mediterranean.

Dishon or Dishan—two Horite clan chiefs descended from Seir in Edom's genealogies (Gen 36; 1 Chr 1).

Delaiah; a theophoric name meaning 'Yahweh has drawn up/delivered,' borne by five different men.

To honor, show respect, adorn; also of terrain swelling or being rugged; reflexively, to glorify oneself.

Shout, shouting, cheer; the loud cry of grape-treaders at harvest or the battle cry of an enemy.

An archaic demonstrative pronoun meaning 'this' or 'that,' a rare synonym of zeh/hazzeh used with definite nouns.

Haran; a personal name meaning 'mountaineer,' borne by Abram's brother (father of Lot) and a Levite.

Wolf; a predatory canid used literally and as a figure for violent, rapacious persons or enemies.

Zilpah — Leah's maidservant given to Jacob as a wife, mother of Gad and Asher.

Object of trembling or horror; a thing that causes terror, used in prophetic judgment curses.

To refine or purify, especially metals by smelting; also of distilling rain and purifying speech.

A span — the distance from thumb-tip to little-finger-tip of an outstretched hand, about half a cubit.

A wound, stripe, or bruise caused by a blow; physical injury from striking or beating.

A company or association of people; also a magical spell or enchantment—a binding charm prohibited in Deuteronomic law.

Thread, cord, or line — a thin fiber used for binding, marking, or measuring.

Havilah — a land or people associated with gold and precious materials, appearing in both primeval and genealogical contexts.

Shore or coast — the strip of land bordering the sea, used in geographical descriptions of the Promised Land.

A hole, opening, or cavity — in a wall, a door, a chest lid, or as a den or hiding place.

Swine or pig, the ritually unclean animal forbidden as food; also the wild boar that ravages the vineyard of Israel.

Aramaic adjective 'living, alive' used as a divine epithet and substantively; also as a noun meaning 'life, lifetime.'

Aramaic noun meaning 'power, strength, force'; also 'army, military host,' the Aramaic cognate of Hebrew chayil.

Profane, common, or ordinary — that which is not consecrated; the opposite of holy (qodesh).

Feminine noun meaning 'preciousness, desirable things, treasures'; also 'delicacies, choice food.'

Hepher, a proper masculine name borne by a Manassite clan-head, a Judahite, and one of David's warriors

Noun meaning 'winter, cold/rainy season'; also 'autumn, harvest-time,' and by extension 'prime of life.'

A wood, forest, or wooded height; a thicketed highland area used for concealment or construction

Feminine noun meaning 'encampment, settlement, nomadic village'; also 'battlement, row of stones.'

Jabbok, a river in Transjordan (modern Zarqa) serving as a territorial boundary and the site of Jacob's wrestling

Yehud, the Aramaic form of 'Judah' used in post-exilic texts (Ezra, Daniel) for the province or people

Jonadab (Yonadab/Yehonadab), a proper name meaning 'YHWH is noble/generous,' borne by David's nephew and the Rechabite patriarch

Jeconiah (Yekhonyah/Yekhanyahu), the penultimate king of Judah exiled to Babylon, also called Jehoiachin

Verb meaning 'to be beautiful, be fair' (Qal); 'to beautify, adorn' (Piel); 'to make oneself beautiful' (Hitpael).

Honor, glory, splendor; an Aramaic noun denoting royal dignity, magnificence, and weight of esteem