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a fleet, an expedition, a messenger. Primary meaning: a fleet, an expedition, a messenger, one sent on a mission. Strong's: a delegate; specially, an ambassador of the Gospel; officially a commissioner of Christ ("apostle") (with miraculous powers). Lexical nuances: a fleet , an expedition (Dem.).

to make, do, fashion, accomplish. To make, produce, fashion, perform; broad verb of creative and historical action, describing God making the cosmos and fulfilling covenant.

time, season, appointed epoch. Time, proper occasion, opportune season ('To everything there is a season', Ecclesiastes 3:1); divine kairos for deliverance or judgment.

perpetuity, eternity, forever. Continuous duration, perpetual time, eternity; used of the eternal dwelling of God ('inhabits eternity', Isaiah 57:15) and Messiah's throne.

to love, desire, delight in. To love, delight in; commanded in Shema ('love the LORD your God with all your heart', Deuteronomy 6:5) and neighbor love (Leviticus 19:18).

tree, wood, timber, gallows. Tree, wood; features in primeval garden (Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge), altar/ark, and tree bearing covenant curse (Deuteronomy 21:23).

steadfast love, covenant loyalty, mercy. Covenant loyalty, lovingkindness, steadfast love, mercy; the core relational attribute of God by which He obligates Himself in grace to sustain His covenant promises.

to visit, attend to, appoint, punish. To attend to, inspect, muster, appoint, visit; used of God visiting His people in gracious deliverance or judicial reckoning of iniquity.

to draw out, deliver, equip for war. To pull off, draw out, rescue from distress; used of God delivering righteous from affliction ('He delivers the afflicted', Job 36:15).

light, daylight, illumination. Physical light summoned at creation ('Let there be light'), spiritual revelation, purity, and divine favor ('The LORD is my light').

name, memorial, reputation. Name, reputation, renown, character; especially the Name of the LORD representing His self-revelation, holy presence dwelling at the sanctuary, and locus of worship.

grace, favor, charm, acceptance. Grace, unmerited favor, charm; finding grace in the eyes of the LORD (Noah in Genesis 6:8; Moses in Exodus 33:17).

utterance, speech, word, promise. Spoken word, poetic utterance; words of God in wisdom literature and Psalms pleasing to the soul (Psalm 19:14).

to show grace, be gracious, bestow favor. To bend down, show unmerited favor, pity; heartfelt petition of psalmist ('Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness', Psalm 51:1).

helper, rescue, counterpart. Help, vital rescuer; applied to woman as corresponding counterpart to man (ezer kenegdo, Genesis 2:18), and to God as Israel's sole deliverer.

transgression, rebellion, revolt. Rebellion, breach of relationship, defiant revolt against sovereign authority; willful breach of covenant stipulations (Isaiah 53:5).

to leave, abandon, cast off. To leave behind, abandon; God temporarily abandoning His dwelling place at Shiloh or his inheritance due to persistent idolatry.

an oracle. Primary meaning: an oracle. Strong's: an utterance (of God). Lexical nuances: an oracle : Ac 7:38 , Ro 3:2 , He 5:12 , I Pe 4:11 (on the eccl., λόγια τ. Κυρίου , v. Lft., Essay on Sup. Rel. , 172 ff.).†

to bend, twist, pervert, act iniquitously. To twist moral rectitude, pervert divine justice, make crooked ('we have sinned and acted iniquitously', Daniel 9:5).

to assemble, gather together, convoke. To convoke the covenant community for worship, covenant renewal, or war (Exodus 35:1, 1 Kings 8:1).

mother, matriarch. Mother, bearer of life; honored in Decalogue, and metaphor for divine comfort ('As one whom his mother comforts', Isaiah 66:13).

to uncover, reveal, disclose, go into exile. To strip, uncover, reveal secret mysteries (galah ozen / galah sod); also physically to go into exile, stripped of homeland.

to rebel, transgress, revolt. To revolt against rightful king, break allegiance, transgress divine covenant laws defiantly.

soul, life, living being, person. Throat, neck, appetite, breath, life, living creature; in biblical anthropology, humanity was created a living soul (nephesh chayah), a psychophysical unity.

beginning, firstfruits, chief part. Beginning, chief part, firstfruits, starting point in time or importance; opens canon ('In the beginning God created', Genesis 1:1).

emptiness, void, desolation. Emptiness, void, vacancy; occurs in hendiadys with tohu to express uninhabited desolation awaiting divine creative fullness.

carved image, graven idol. Carved or hewn image of wood or stone; forbidden in Second Commandment as false materialization of invisible transcendent God.

to reckon, account, devise, impute. To think, calculate, invent, devise, account; centrally in Genesis 15:6, God reckoned (imputed) Abram's faith to him as righteousness.

perpetuity, endurance, victory. Eminence, endurance, everlastingness, perpetuity, truth; unwavering consistency of God ('The Glory of Israel will not lie', 1 Samuel 15:29).

eternity, everlasting, forever. Antiquity, futurity, perpetual time, eternity; qualitative duration extending beyond human horizons, applied to God's eternal throne and everlasting covenant.

Branch, sprout, shoot (Messianic Title). Vegetative shoot, branch; technical Messianic title in the prophets for the Davidic heir: 'The Branch of the LORD' (Isaiah 4:2, Jeremiah 23:5, 33:15, Zechariah 3:8, 6:12).

servant, slave, worshiper. Servant, bondservant; honorary title of covenant leaders (Moses, David) and supremely the prophetic 'Servant of the LORD' (Isaiah 53).

witness, testifying party, monument. Witness, testifying person or memorial stones testifying to covenant oath taken before God (Genesis 31:48, Joshua 24:27).

young bull, steer, premier sacrificial victim. Young bull; premier sacrificial victim prescribed for high priest's sin offering, whole congregation sin offering, and Day of Atonement.

before, in the presence of (God/King). Before, in the immediate presence of; standing before the Ancient of Days or earthly monarch.

to speak the same language, to agree with, to agree. Primary meaning: to speak the same language, to agree with, to agree, confess. Strong's: to assent, i.e. covenant, acknowledge. Lexical nuances: to speak the same language (Hdt.).