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Winter as a season of cold weather; also a violent storm or tempest, especially at sea.

Made by hands, handmade; manufactured by human effort, often contrasted with divine or spiritual creation.

Natural, unspiritual, soulish; pertaining to the natural life-principle (psyche) as opposed to the Spirit (pneuma).

Hosanna; a Hebrew liturgical exclamation meaning 'Save, we pray!' used as an acclamation of praise and messianic hope.

Abihail; a proper name meaning 'my father is might,' borne by several men and women in the Hebrew Bible.

Mighty One; a poetic divine epithet for God, always in construct ('Mighty One of Jacob/Israel'), expressing sovereign power.

Dust, fine powder; airborne particles raised by wind or feet, used literally of soot and debris and figuratively of divine judgment.

Reddish, reddish-tinged; used exclusively of the color of leprous skin eruptions in Levitical diagnostic law.

Oholibah, symbolic name for Jerusalem as an unfaithful wife in Ezekiel's allegory of the two sisters.

Ahio, a proper name borne by several men including the brother of Uzzah who drove the ark-cart.

Ahiezer, 'my brother is help'; name of a Danite chief and one of David's warriors.

Another, other; Aramaic adjective used in Daniel's visions to distinguish successive kingdoms and beasts.

A thorny bramble bush (rhamnus); also Atad, the place name of a threshing floor beyond the Jordan.

Aiah, 'falcon'; a Horite name and the father of Rizpah, Saul's concubine.

Elim, an oasis with twelve springs and seventy palms; the second Israelite camp after crossing the Red Sea.

Tree (Aramaic); a large tree in Nebuchadnezzar's dream symbolizing his far-reaching dominion.

The pupil of the eye, used figuratively for something precious ('apple of the eye'); also the darkest part of night.

To swear an oath or adjure (Qal/Hiphil); also to curse or pronounce an imprecation.

Elimelech, 'God is king'; Naomi's husband who emigrated to Moab during a Bethlehem famine.

Eliasaph, 'God has added'; a Gadite chief and a Levitical leader in the wilderness period.

Elizaphan — proper name meaning 'God has protected,' borne by a Kohathite chief and a Zebulunite leader.

Mute, unable to speak; used literally of persons and figuratively of watchmen and idols.

Elasah — proper name meaning 'God has made,' borne by four men in Chronicles, Ezra, and Jeremiah.

Mighty, strong, courageous; describing powerful persons, forces, or God's irresistible strength.

Word, speech, utterance; a poetic synonym of דָּבָר used of human discourse and divine promises.

Esarhaddon — Assyrian king (681–669 BCE), son of Sennacherib, who resettled peoples in Samaria.

Azel — proper name of a Benjamite descendant of Saul through Jonathan's line.

Healing, restoration; literally 'new flesh over a wound,' used figuratively of national and spiritual recovery.

A portion or allowance of food, especially a regular ration; also a meal or dinner in a general sense.

Ariel — 'lion of God'; a prophetic name for Jerusalem, also a personal name and possibly an altar-hearth term.

Archite — a gentililic adjective denoting origin from the town of Erech/Arkah, applied chiefly to Hushai, David's counselor.

Arpad, an Aramean city-state in northern Syria conquered by Assyria, always paired with Hamath in prophetic oracles.

Mountain slopes or watershed ravines, used in geographic descriptions of Canaan's terrain, especially the slopes of Pisgah.

Ashdodite, a gentilic adjective for inhabitants of the Philistine city of Ashdod, used as noun or modifier.

Eshcol, a proper noun denoting both an Amorite ally of Abraham and a grape-rich valley near Hebron.

Conjurer or enchanter, an Aramaic term for Babylonian court diviners in the book of Daniel.

Quiver, the case or container for carrying arrows, used both literally of military equipment and figuratively of God's purposes.

Eshtemoa, a Levitical city in the hill country of Judah south of Hebron, also a personal name in Chronicles.

A cutting tool of iron — plowshare or mattock — the iconic instrument in the swords-to-plowshares prophecy.

Bebai, a personal name borne by a chief of returning exiles whose descendants appear in Ezra and Nehemiah.

Bigvai, a personal name borne by a leader among the returning exiles in the time of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah.

Empty talk, idle boasting, or lies; by extension liars and false prophets. Also: limbs or members of the body.

Tin, alloy, or dross; a base metal separated from precious ore, also used for a plumb weight.

to cease, stop; (Pa'el) to cause to cease, make stop -- used of halting work or activity by decree

Egg or eggs, used of birds' nests, ostrich brooding, and metaphorically of viper's eggs hatching evil.

bekhirah -- the firstborn daughter, the elder of two sisters or daughters

Baal Peor -- the Moabite deity Baal worshipped at Peor, and the site of Israel's apostasy

tidings, news (especially good news); also the reward given to the bearer of tidings

gevirah -- a queen mother or noble lady; the king's mother holding court authority

Gibbethon -- a Levitical city in Dan's territory, a Philistine-contested border town