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The stork; a large migratory wading bird, named from the root meaning 'faithful, loyal' for its devoted parenting.

A species of locust (collective), consistently associated with devastating agricultural destruction and divine judgment.

The cupped hollow of the hands; always dual, denoting both hands together as a vessel for holding or scooping.

Hazeroth; a wilderness encampment of Israel during the exodus, meaning 'enclosures' or 'courtyards.'

Waste, desolate, ruined; describing cities or places that have been destroyed and left uninhabited.

Trembling, fearful; one who quakes from terror in battle or from reverent awe before God's word.

Gold, fine gold; a poetic synonym for zahav used in wisdom literature to express supreme material value.

Burning heat of anger, fierce wrath; always in the construct phrase chori aph ('burning of nostril/anger').

Horite; the pre-Edomite cave-dwelling inhabitants of the hill country of Seir, displaced by Esau's descendants.

despair, lose hope (Nifal); cause to despair, make despondent (Piel causative)

Yediael — a proper name meaning 'known of God,' borne by a Benjamite warrior, a Davidic hero, and a Korahite gatekeeper.

Yehudit — 'in the Judean language,' an adverbial use of the gentilicic adjective referring to the Hebrew dialect of Judah.

A young shoot, twig, or branch growing from a tree or vine; used both literally and as a figure for Israel's renewal.

Jahaziel — a proper name meaning 'God sees,' borne by warriors, priests, Levites, and a restoration-era ancestor.

Jamin — a proper name meaning 'right hand,' borne by a Simeonite clan founder, a Judahite, and a Levite in Ezra's time.

Jael — wife of Heber the Kenite, famed for killing the Canaanite general Sisera with a tent peg (Judges 4–5).

Joktan — son of Eber and ancestor of Arabian tribes in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10; 1 Chronicles 1).

Green vegetation, herbage, or greenness — used of plants given as food and of grass as a symbol of transience.

Mildew or blight (crop disease paired with scorching as divine judgment); paleness or jaundice (of the human face).

Pain, anguish — both physical suffering and deep emotional grief, found especially in Job, Isaiah, and Jeremiah.

A helmet — bronze military headgear for battle; used figuratively of God's 'helmet of salvation' in Isaiah 59:17.

Konanyahu (Conaniah), a Levitical official over tithes and offerings in the time of Hezekiah and Josiah.

Lying, deception, treachery (moral falsehood, especially of Israel's unfaithfulness); leanness, wasting (physical emaciation).

A bag or purse for carrying money or weights; used of honest and dishonest commerce alike.

To complete or finish (Aramaic); used exclusively of completing construction of the Jerusalem temple and its walls.

To long for, yearn deeply; expressing intense desire or pining, often directed toward God or home.

To practice sorcery or witchcraft; a Piel denominative verb for illicit magical arts, always condemned.

Sorcery, witchcraft; illicit magical arts, often paired with sexual immorality as metaphors for spiritual corruption.

To surround, encircle; by extension, to crown or adorn; also to wait (Aramaic-influenced).

To turn aside, depart; figuratively, to be devious, crooked, or perverse in one's ways.

Leviathan: a great sea creature (crocodile, whale); a mythological chaos-serpent defeated by God; an eschatological dragon.

To knead dough; working flour and water into a mass for baking bread.

Moist, fresh, green; describing what retains natural moisture and has not dried out or withered.

To lick or lick up; used of animals consuming and of nations humbled to 'lick the dust.'

To eat, consume food; a rare poetic synonym of אָכַל used almost exclusively in Wisdom literature and poetry.

Secrecy, mystery: used adverbially as 'secretly, in secret'; of Egyptian magicians' 'secret arts' or enchantments.

A poetic preposition equivalent to לְ ('to, for, upon'), found exclusively in elevated verse (Job, Psalms, Isaiah).

Taught, trained, accustomed; as a substantive: disciple, pupil. From the root lamad ('to learn/teach').

Migdol -- an Egyptian frontier fortress-town on the northeast border, mentioned in the Exodus narrative and prophetic oracles.

Knowledge, learning, understanding (intellectual attainment, often paired with wisdom); thought, mind (inner awareness).

Overthrow, catastrophic destruction; used almost exclusively of divine judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah as a paradigmatic warning.

A pole or bar for carrying; tottering or slipping (abstract); the bar of a yoke, figuratively of oppression

Dance, dancing; a communal, joyful activity associated with worship, celebration, and the reversal of mourning.

The best of, the choicest portion; a superlative construct noun for the finest quality of a field, flock, or land.

A bronze grating or lattice-work; a component of the tabernacle's altar of burnt offering (Exodus only).

Tax, tribute, levy; a proportional assessment on war spoils dedicated to the LORD and the Levites (Numbers 31 only).

Machpelah -- the burial site near Hebron where the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their wives were interred.

Miktam: a technical term of uncertain meaning in psalm superscriptions, found exclusively in titles attributed to David.

Malluch: a personal name borne by several Levites and laymen in postexilic Israel.

Tongs or snuffers: dual-form noun for temple implements used to trim lamp wicks or handle altar coals.