al H5921

עַל (al) means “upon” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

עַל Hebrew · H5921 5,771 tagged occurrences in 4,490 verses

Pronunciation guide: al Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5921A

עַל · al · upon

prep 1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against 1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards 1b) above, beyond, over (of excess) 1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence) 1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition) 1e) over (of suspension or extension) 1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity) 1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion) 1h) to (as a dative)

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TBESH · H5921B

[כִּי] עַל [כֵּן] · [ki] al [ken] · as

conj forasmuch as, because that, because, notwithstanding, although

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

properly, the same as H5920 (עַל) used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

KJV glosses: above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

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How translators render H5921

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
on	762
over	289
against	210
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to	197
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therefore	74
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above	45
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into	32
it on	32
vvv	31
about	30
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concerning	27
that is why	26
near	25
over you	25
beside	24
according to	23
along	23
from me	23
on him	22
against it	21
you	21
was in charge of	20
him	19
for him	18
upon him	18
for you	17
them	17
and against	16
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so	16
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on you	15
to you	15
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was over	15
around	13
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me	13
why	13
against us	12
facedown	12
men in	12
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us	12
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as	11
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it	8
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it pleases	4
of you	4
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past	4
this is why	4
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he was wearing	3
high above	3
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in front of	3
in spite of	3
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it into	3
next to	3
next to it	3
nor	3
on account of	3
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with us	3
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than	2
the city	2
their	2
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with you	2
you on	2
your	2
a high	1
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above you	1
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and show me	1
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at you in scorn	1
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back upon	1
be entrusted	1
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being responsible for	1
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between	1
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both	1
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but fully	1
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by me	1
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company	1
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corresponding to	1
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despite	1
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entrusted with	1
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for battle against her	1
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for themselves	1
for this	1
for your honor	1
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from here	1
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from my people	1
from us	1
from which	1
from your neck	1
from yourselves	1
grieving for	1
had	1
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hagar by	1
has aroused	1
he has received money from	1
he has veiled	1
he will reign on	1
he wrote on	1
her husband	1
here because of	1
here by	1
his own	1
his presence	1
his purpose for me	1
in addition to them	1
in addition to these	1
in charge	1
in charge of them	1
in front of it	1
in his grasp	1
in his presence	1
in me	1
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is rewarded for his ways	1
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is to remain	1
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is with	1
it across	1
it against	1
it for	1
kindly to them	1
led	1
let me supply	1
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like	1
loaded with	1
long as you live in	1
longed for	1
look on you	1
looms over	1
lying	1
lying on	1
manned	1
may be before	1
may you have	1
moreover	1
must wear the robe	1
my people	1
myself	1
near amasa	1
now	1
now tamar was wearing	1
of all	1
of him	1
of him instead	1
of his	1
of its value	1
of its value to it	1
of me	1
of the gatekeepers	1
of the value	1
of them	1
of your body	1
off my people	1
oil into	1
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on account	1
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on the altar	1
on the bodies	1
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over her	1
over me is	1
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over the boy again	1
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over whom	1
over you and said	1
part of	1
pot on	1
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regard	1
regulating	1
rest on	1
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ring	1
sackcloth around	1
saul	1
shall extend	1
sheba	1
since	1
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some	1
songs	1
standing above them	1
standing on	1
still in	1
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supporting	1
tenderly to	1
that	1
that are on it	1
that has come upon you	1
that is on them	1
that spirit on	1
that spirit on them	1
that they	1
that was in	1
that you have in	1
the envoys	1
the envoys gladly	1
the load	1
the lord	1
the nursing child	1
the oil on	1
the ropes off	1
the space above	1
the steward	1
their bodies by	1
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themselves to	1
then along with	1
there on	1
these officers were in charge of	1
they	1
they turn against	1
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they were responsible for	1
they will attack	1
they will attack us	1
things against	1
this happened because	1
this to	1
though	1
to ahaz	1
to assist	1
to be in charge of	1
to fall into	1
to fight	1
to himself	1
to his people	1
to meet	1
to mount it on	1
to my sorrow	1
to reach	1
to that city	1
to the city	1
to the fire	1
to your	1
to your yoke	1
toward them	1
toward us	1
turned against them	1
turned away from her	1
turns on	1
unanswered	1
up	1
up on	1
upon elisha	1
upon himself	1
upon myself	1
upon yourself	1
upon yourselves	1
was above	1
was beside	1
was lifted up toward	1
was on moses	1
was over them	1
was placed	1
was reclining	1
was under	1
was upon	1
was upon us	1
we are closely	1
we will go against it	1
were above	1
were arranged	1
were assigned to	1
were at	1
were beside	1
were over	1
were responsible for	1
were still covering	1
what you have in	1
when	1
wherever	1
while those facing	1
who supervised	1
who was at	1
will be next to it	1
will be over you	1
will be set against	1
will come against	1
will grow even	1
will he	1
will remain on	1
will turn to	1
with achish	1
with her	1
with me	1
with rehoboam	1
within	1
word throughout	1
written in	1
yet	1
yet he watches over	1
you are wearing	1
you at	1
you concerning	1
you for	1
you in	1
you over	1
you to	1
you would	1
your bags to	1
your doom	1
your downfall	1
your responsibility	1
yourself in	1
yourselves above	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
beside	3
upon	3
above	2
against	2
by	2
in	2
according to	1
after	1
against them touching	1
among	1
and	1
and from	1
as	1
because	1
beyond the time	1
both	1
by reason of	1
for	1
for through	1
from	1
from off	1
from out	1
him according	1
him of	1
how long	1
in that	1
near	1
of them had the charge of	1
off	1
on	1
out	1
over	1
over us	1
than	1
than they	1
them out of	1
thereof from	1
throughout	1
to	1
to him concerning	1
with	1

Verses containing H5921

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Exodus 30:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.
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Exodus 30:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Take the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.”
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Exodus 30:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It must not be used to anoint an ordinary man, and you must not make anything like it with the same formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.
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Exodus 30:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
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Exodus 31:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony and the mercy seat upon it, and all the other furnishings of the tent—
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Exodus 32:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now when the people saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!”
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Exodus 32:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
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Exodus 32:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD relented from the calamity He had threatened to bring on His people.
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Exodus 32:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.
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Exodus 32:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.
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Exodus 32:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”
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Exodus 32:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each of you men is to fasten his sword to his side, go back and forth through the camp from gate to gate, and slay his brother, his friend, and his neighbor.’”
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Exodus 32:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Afterward, Moses said, “Today you have been ordained for service to the LORD, since each man went against his son and his brother; so the LORD has bestowed a blessing on you this day.”
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Exodus 32:34 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
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Exodus 32:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the LORD sent a plague on the people because of what they had done with the calf that Aaron had made.
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Exodus 33:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the people heard this bad news, they went into mourning, and no one put on any of his jewelry.
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Exodus 33:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the LORD had said to Moses, “Tell the Israelites, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I should go with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.’”
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Exodus 33:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
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Exodus 33:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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Exodus 33:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD continued, “There is a place near Me where you are to stand upon a rock,
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Exodus 33:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and when My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
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Exodus 34:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.
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Exodus 34:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Be ready in the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai to present yourself before Me on the mountaintop.
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Exodus 34:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
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Exodus 34:7 · BSB · 4 occurrences
maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
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Exodus 34:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.
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Exodus 34:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
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Exodus 34:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD also said to Moses, “Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”
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Exodus 34:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments.
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Exodus 34:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
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Exodus 34:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and the Israelites would see that the face of Moses was radiant. So Moses would put the veil back over his face until he went in to speak with the LORD.
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Exodus 35:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
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Exodus 36:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He made loops of blue material on the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and also on the end curtain in the second set.
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Exodus 36:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He then made curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
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Exodus 36:17 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He made fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in the first set, and fifty loops along the edge of the corresponding curtain in the second set.
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Exodus 37:3 · BSB · 3 occurrences
And he cast four gold rings for its four feet, two rings on one side and two on the other.
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Exodus 37:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry it.
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Exodus 37:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the cherubim had wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
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Exodus 37:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He cast four gold rings for the table and fastened them to the four corners at its four legs.
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Exodus 37:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He also made the utensils for the table out of pure gold: its plates and dishes, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings.
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Exodus 37:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences
He made two gold rings below the molding on opposite sides to hold the poles used to carry it.
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Exodus 38:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He made a horn at each of its four corners, so that the horns and altar were of one piece, and he overlaid the altar with bronze.
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Exodus 38:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then he inserted the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar for carrying it. He made the altar with boards so that it was hollow.
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Exodus 38:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the inventory for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the Testimony, as recorded at Moses’ command by the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.
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Exodus 38:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a beka per person, that is, half a shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone twenty years of age or older who had crossed over to be numbered, a total of 603,550 men.
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Exodus 39:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They made shoulder pieces for the ephod, which were attached at two of its corners, so it could be fastened.
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Exodus 39:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod was of one piece with the ephod, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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Exodus 39:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.
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Exodus 39:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then they fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
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Exodus 39:14 · BSB · 3 occurrences
The twelve stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel. Each stone was engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
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