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
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vvv	31
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that is why	26
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you	21
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him	19
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them	17
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around	13
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facedown	12
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nor	3
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nearby	2
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than	2
the city	2
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a high	1
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above you	1
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at you in scorn	1
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being responsible for	1
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but fully	1
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by me	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 fighting against	1
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from her shoulder	1
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
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his presence	1
his purpose for me	1
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in addition to these	1
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in me	1
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is rewarded for his ways	1
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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
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of him instead	1
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of its value	1
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of me	1
of the gatekeepers	1
of the value	1
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of your body	1
off my people	1
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over the boy again	1
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over you and said	1
part of	1
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ring	1
sackcloth around	1
saul	1
shall extend	1
sheba	1
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some	1
songs	1
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supporting	1
tenderly to	1
that	1
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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
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the ropes off	1
the space above	1
the steward	1
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then along with	1
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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
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was above	1
was beside	1
was lifted up toward	1
was on moses	1
was over them	1
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we are closely	1
we will go against it	1
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what you have in	1
when	1
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while those facing	1
who supervised	1
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will be next to it	1
will be over you	1
will be set against	1
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with achish	1
with her	1
with me	1
with rehoboam	1
within	1
word throughout	1
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you at	1
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you over	1
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your bags to	1
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yourself in	1
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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
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both	1
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for	1
for through	1
from	1
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him according	1
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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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Isaiah 14:1 · BSB · 3 occurrences
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
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Isaiah 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
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Isaiah 14:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
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Isaiah 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
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Isaiah 14:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
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Isaiah 14:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
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Isaiah 14:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
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Isaiah 14:25 · BSB · 3 occurrences
I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
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Isaiah 14:26 · BSB · 2 occurrences
This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
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Isaiah 15:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
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Isaiah 15:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
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Isaiah 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry out; their souls tremble within.
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Isaiah 15:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
So they carry their wealth and belongings over the Brook of the Willows.
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Isaiah 15:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
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Isaiah 16:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
in loving devotion a throne will be established in the tent of David. A judge seeking justice and hastening righteousness will sit on it in faithfulness.
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Isaiah 16:9 · BSB · 3 occurrences
So I weep with Jazer for the vines of Sibmah; I drench Heshbon and Elealeh with my tears. Triumphant shouts have fallen silent over your summer fruit and your harvest.
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Isaiah 16:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.
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Isaiah 16:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
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Isaiah 17:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In that day men will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
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Isaiah 17:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—
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Isaiah 18:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
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Isaiah 18:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD has told me: “I will quietly look on from My dwelling place, like shimmering heat in the sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
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Isaiah 18:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
They will all be left to the mountain birds of prey, and to the beasts of the land. The birds will feed on them in summer, and all the wild animals in winter.
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Isaiah 19:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
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Isaiah 19:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The bulrushes by the Nile, by the mouth of the river, and all the fields sown along the Nile, will wither, blow away, and be no more.
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Isaiah 19:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the fishermen will mourn, all who cast a hook into the Nile will lament, and those who spread nets on the waters will pine away.
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Isaiah 19:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you and reveal what the LORD of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
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Isaiah 19:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
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Isaiah 19:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.
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Isaiah 20:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences
the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.
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Isaiah 20:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,
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Isaiah 21:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
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Isaiah 21:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.
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Isaiah 22:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
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Isaiah 22:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:
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Isaiah 22:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
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Isaiah 22:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
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Isaiah 22:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
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Isaiah 23:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?
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Isaiah 23:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
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Isaiah 23:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
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Isaiah 24:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants must bear the guilt; the earth’s dwellers have been burned, and only a few survive.
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Isaiah 24:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.
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Isaiah 24:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
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Isaiah 24:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Terror and pit and snare await you, O dweller of the earth.
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Isaiah 24:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earth’s rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
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Isaiah 24:21 · BSB · 3 occurrences
In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
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Isaiah 24:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.
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Isaiah 25:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
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Isaiah 25:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;
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We convert source tables to JSON, expand grammar labels and count tagged words. Greek counts use the SBL edition in TAGNT. Hebrew counts use the main reading in TAHOT, including Qere readings and restored text. Source numbering follows NRSV; alternate references appear where supplied.

Berean Standard Bible translation tables, public domain, Berean Bible. CrossWire KJV 3.1 , public domain text with Bible Foundation and KJV2003 Project tags, licensed for any purpose. Dodson Greek Lexicon , CC0. Strong’s Hebrew dictionary , Open Scriptures transcription, CC BY-SA; converted Hebrew entries retain those terms. Greek pronunciation spellings come from Strong's Greek dictionary, XML edition 1.4 , public domain.

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