Hebrew words starting with ayin
579 words in the Bible begin with ayin (ע), listed most frequent first. This is page 1 of 3. Every word links to its meaning, its attested forms, and the verses it appears in.
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- alעַלuponnot studied yet
- asahעָשָׂהto do or make: to bring something about by acting, whether shaping a thing or carrying out a deed
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- to press or squeeze: a separate, rare word that happens to share this spelling
- amעַםa people: a body of persons bound together as one community by shared descent, land, and loyalty
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- kinsman, blood relative: the members of one's own family or clan
- adעַדtillnot studied yet
- irעִירa settled place where people live together: the everyday word for a town of any size, marked off from open country and from lone farmsteads.
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- agitation: a rush of rage, panic, or anguish, in a rare word written with the same letters as the word for a town.
- imעִםwithnot studied yet
- alahעָלָהto go up: to move, or to carry something, from a lower place to a higher one
- ayinעַיִןthe eye: the organ of sight, and by extension how a person sees, judges, wants, and is looked upon.
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- a spring or well: a place where water comes up out of the ground.
- evedעֶבֶדa servant or slave: a person whose identity is defined by subordination to another, ranging from an owned slave to a royal official to a worshipper chosen by God.
- avarעָבַרto move across or past something: to cross over, pass by, pass through, or move on
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- to overstep what God commanded: to break a covenant, command, or oath
- to make something cross over: to bring across, hand over, remove, or send through
- to be furious or overbearing: anger that boils over its limits
- amadעָמַדto stand: to be on one's feet and in place, and so to take up a position, come to a halt, or wait there on someone
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- to remain: to keep standing over time, and so to last, to hold one's ground, or to be valid rather than fall
- to arise: to come onto the scene and take one's place, as a king coming to power
- to set up: to make something or someone stand, and so to erect, station, appoint, present, or confirm
- odעוֹדstill, yet, again: a small word that marks something as continuing, repeating, or being added on
- olamעוֹלָםthe farthest horizon of time a speaker can see: the remotest past, the unending future, or simply forever, with the direction and the distance set by what is being talked about
- attahעַתָּהnow: at this present point in time, as opposed to the past or the future
- asarעָשָׂרtennot studied yet
- anahעָנָהto answer: to respond to what someone has said, asked, or charged
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- to sing responsively: to lift up a song or chant, often as one group answering another
- etsעֵץa tree: a living, growing woody plant, or trees taken together as a kind of vegetation
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- wood: what a tree yields once it is cut, whether as building timber, as fuel, or as the material a thing is made of
- the wooden pole, stake, or tree on which the body of a condemned person is hung up in public
- esrimעֶשְׂרִיםtwentynot studied yet
- etעֵתthe right or appointed time: the particular moment when something is due, fitting, or destined to happen.
- avadעָבַדto serve: to do directed labor on behalf of someone or something, whether working the soil, laboring for a master, or worshiping a god.
- olahעֹלָהburnt offering: the sacrifice in which the whole animal is burned on the altar and the smoke rises to God, with no portion kept back for priest or worshiper
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- ascent: a flight of steps or stairway leading upward
- avonעָוֺןiniquity: sin pictured as a crooked thing that clings to the person who did it, carrying within it the deed, the guilt it creates, and the ruin it brings
- azavעָזַבto leave: to let go of someone or something, whether by simply walking away or by abandoning what one was bound to hold onto
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- to restore or repair, as in setting a wall or building back in order
- eserעֶשֶׂרten: the cardinal number 10
- edahעֵדָהa body of people gathered as one group, joined by a shared bond or common purpose
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- a swarm or herd of animals massed together
- avodahעֲבֹדָהlabor: work done for another, whether freely given or forcibly imposed
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- cultic service: the formal ministry at the sanctuary, and the prescribed rites of sacred occasions
- erevעֶרֶבevening: the close of the day, from sunset into the early dark.
- etsemעֶצֶםa bone, or the bones of a body taken together as its frame
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- a person's own body or self; one's own flesh and blood
- the very same; used to mark a thing as the exact one in view
- ammudעַמּוּדa pillar: an upright column that holds something up or stands as a fixed, towering marker
- apharעָפָרdust: dry, loose surface earth, and what it stands for, the stuff a human body is made of and crumbles back into.
- ammonעַמּוֹןAmmon: the people east of the Jordan whom the Bible almost always calls "the sons of Ammon", traced in Genesis to Lot and settled north of Moab around their capital Rabbah
- orעוֹרskin: the outer covering of a body, whether living skin on a person or animal or the hide and leather taken from a dead one
- esavעֵשָׂוEsau: the firstborn twin of Isaac and Rebekah, the brother who sold his birthright, and the ancestor of the nation of Edom
- ozעֹזstrength exerted on behalf of someone or against opposition: the power to prevail and protect, overwhelmingly God's
- everעֵבֶרthe region or side across from where you stand: the far side, the opposite quarter, or simply a side or edge
- etsahעֵצָהcounsel: the considered advice, plan, or purpose that comes out of thinking a matter through.
- ananעָנָןa cloud: a mass of water vapor in the sky, and above all the cloud in which the LORD shows and hides his presence.
- anahעָנָהto bring someone low: to afflict, humble, or oppress, by force or by hardship; and being brought low oneself.
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- to be occupied or busied with something: to be kept busy at a task.
- azarעָזַרto help: to come to someone's aid by adding your strength to theirs
- urעוּרto wake or rouse: to bring something from rest, sleep, or stillness into alertness and action, or to come awake oneself
- arakhעָרַךְto lay out in good order: to set things in their proper places, piece by piece
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- to set a fixed price on something: to assess its worth
- ezעֵזa goat: the common herd animal, most often the she-goat
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- goats' hair: the coarse spun hair of goats, used as cloth
- aniעָנִיafflicted and lowly: a person bowed down by hardship, poverty, or oppression, and so dependent on God for help
- ophעוֹףflying creatures as a class: birds and other winged animals, taken together
- edעֵדa witness: someone or something that confirms what is true, especially what happened or what was agreed
- emeqעֵמֶקa broad, open valley: the wide, flat lowland that lies between hills
- edutעֵדוּתthe solemn, God-given charter of the covenant: the binding terms that also stand as a lasting witness to the bond between God and his people
- aravahעֲרָבָהa dry, treeless lowland plain; with the article, the Arabah, the great rift valley of the Jordan and Dead Sea
- amalעָמָלwearing toil: hard work that drains a person, the misery that comes with it, and what such work finally yields
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- mischief: harm that one person deliberately schemes and works against another
- avlahעַוְלָהinjustice: a wrong done against what is right, especially when fairness or honest dealing is owed
- ervahעֶרְוָהnakedness: the exposed private parts of the body, and by extension the shame, vulnerability, or indecency that exposure brings
- elyonעֶלְיוֹןupper, higher, or highest: set physically above something else, or raised above others in rank
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- the Most High: a title for God as the supreme one, higher than every other power in heaven or on earth
- avurעָבוּרa joining word that ties an action to the reason or the goal behind it: because of, for the sake of, or so that
- adעַדthe unending future: time stretching ahead with no stopping point, so most often translated forever
- azaryahעֲזַרְיָה, עֲזַרְיָהוּAzariahnot studied yet
- atsarעָצַרto hold back: to restrain, stop, or shut something in so it cannot move, flow, or get out
- udעוּדto bear solemn witness: to warn, testify, or call witnesses so a matter is put firmly on record
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- to hold up and restore: to sustain those who cannot hold themselves up, or to set the fallen back on their feet
- immadעִמָּדִיwith menot studied yet
- oved edomעֹבֵד אֱדוֹםObed-edomnot studied yet
- ayעַיAinot studied yet
- olעֹלyoke: the wooden bar fastened over the neck of a draft animal, and by extension the burden of subjection it pictures
- amaleqעֲמָלֵקAmaleknot studied yet
- ederעֵדֶרa flock or herd: a group of grazing animals kept and driven together.
- osherעֹשֶׁרriches: great material wealth, the abundance of money, goods, and prized possessions that marks a person as rich
- oniעֳנִיaffliction: the hard, lowered condition of someone weighed down by suffering, oppression, or want
- ashaqעָשַׁקto wrong someone by abusing power over them, especially by squeezing them for money or property they cannot defend
- egelעֵגֶלa calf: a young bull, not yet full-grown.
- arelעָרֵלuncircumcised: having the foreskin intact, and so outside the covenant sign; by extension, a body part left closed and a young tree's fruit left off-limits
- evrahעֶבְרָהoverflowing fury: anger that swells past its limits and pours out, and by extension pride swollen to the same excess
- ivriעִבְרִיHebrew: a member of the people of Israel, named as an outsider views them
- eliעֵלִיElinot studied yet
- erekhעֵרֶךְan ordered arrangement: things set out in place, laid out in proper order
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- an assessed value: a set amount of worth fixed on a person or thing by a standard
- orephעֹרֶףthe back of the neck; the nape, the side a person shows by turning away
- esevעֵשֶׂבthe green, seed-bearing plants of the ground: herbs, low growth, and field crops, as opposed to trees
- issaronעִשָּׂרוֹןa tenth of an ephah: a fixed dry measure of flour, roughly two quarts, used in the grain offerings
- ummahעֻמָּהclose beside, or corresponding to: one thing set directly parallel to another, in space or in kind
- avעָבa dense, dark cloud, especially a heavy storm or rain cloud
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- a thicket: dense undergrowth or brushwood that offers cover
- atsumעָצוּםvast: so overwhelmingly great, in strength or in sheer numbers, that it cannot be resisted
- asiriעֲשִׂירִיtenth: the ordinal that ranks something as number ten, and the one-in-ten portion that follows from it
- attudעַתּוּדan adult male goat, the he-goat that heads the flock
- elamעֵילָםElamnot studied yet
- alamעָלַםto hide or conceal something, or for something to slip out of sight and awareness
- uzziyyahעֻזִּיָּהוּUzziahnot studied yet
- edahעֵדָהa witness: an object or act set up to testify to an agreement or a fact
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- the LORD's testimonies: the terms of his covenant, solemnly declared and meant to be kept
- uphעוּףto fly: to move through the air, as a bird, insect, arrow, or winged being does.
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- darkness, gloom: the deep dark that a rare word in Job may name.
- ivverעִוֵּרblind: unable to see
- ezrahעֶזְרָהhelp: the decisive, active intervention of a stronger party to rescue a weaker one in trouble
- agalahעֲגָלָהa cart or wagon: a wheeled vehicle pulled by cattle to haul loads or carry people, as distinct from a war chariot
- ashanעָשָׁןsmoke: the rising haze of a fire, whether from a burning city, a mountain in flame, or a body breathing out heat
- avotעֲבֹתa braided cord: a rope of several strands twisted together, used to bind, harness, or fasten
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- interwoven foliage: the dense, tangled boughs at the crown of a great tree
- azעַזmarked by overpowering force: strong or mighty, and, turned against someone, fierce, harsh, or brazen.
- alilahעֲלִילָהa deed or dealing: a weighty thing someone does, whether God's striking acts or a person's wanton practices
- asahelעֲשָׂהאֵלAsahelnot studied yet
- atarahעֲטָרָהa crown or wreath: a circlet worn on the head as a mark of royalty, celebration, or honor
- ashirעָשִׁירa rich person: someone who has an abundance of material goods, usually set opposite the poor
- ogעוֹגOgnot studied yet
- ezraעֶזְרָאEzranot studied yet
- anavעָנָוthe lowly: one bowed down, by hardship or by a settled inner posture, who looks to God for help instead of asserting himself
- eqronעֶקְרוֹןEkronnot studied yet
- aravעָרַבto stand surety: to put yourself or your property up as the guarantee for someone else's debt or safety
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- to mingle: to mix yourself in with others, joining or associating so that you become part of them
- azzahעַזָּהGazanot studied yet
- ezerעֵזֶרhelp, or one who helps: aid given to someone who cannot manage alone, and by far most often the aid God himself supplies.
- ammoniעַמּוֹנִיAmmonnot studied yet
- ovadyahעֹבַדְיָהוּObadiahnot studied yet
- olelעוֹלֵלa young child: a small, dependent little one, from infancy through the early years.
- aliyyahעֲלִיָּהan upper room: a chamber built on top of a house or as the upper story of a larger building
- alalעָלַלto work one's will on a person: to deal harshly with them, to make sport of or abuse them
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- to glean: to go back over a harvested vine or field and strip off what remains
- to thrust or lay something in the dust, or to defile it there (used only of Job and his horn)
- atsomעָצֹםto grow vast, whether in numbers or in strength
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- to shut the eyes; to close them firmly
- to gnaw or break the bones of a victim
- aritsעָרִיץruthless: fiercely violent and terror-inspiring, overpowering others by sheer force
- atarעָתַרto plead urgently with God, and (of God) to be moved by that pleading and grant it
- amorahעֲמֹרָהGomorrahnot studied yet
- enavעֵנָבgrape: the ripe fruit of the grapevine
- ashteעַשְׁתֵּיelevennot studied yet
- alehעָלֶהa leaf: the green growth of a tree or plant, and by extension its foliage
- omriעׇמְרִיOmrinot studied yet
- avahעָוָהto bend, twist, or be bent over: to make something crooked or to be doubled over in the body
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- to do wrong, commit iniquity, act perversely: to do what is morally crooked
- atahעָטָהto wrap oneself in a covering, or to drape a covering over: to enfold, cover, or clothe.
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- to grip or seize firmly: to take tight hold of.
- ayephעָיֵףfaint: drained of strength and ready to collapse, usually from thirst, hunger, or hard travel
- amoqעָמֹקdeep: reaching far down below the surface, whether measured with the eye or felt as something beyond reach
- atsavעָצַבto be in or cause deep pain, chiefly the inner pain of grief and distress
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- to shape or fashion something by hand, as a craftsman forms a figure
- atsavעָצָבan idol: a man-made image set up and worshipped as a false god
- asharעָשַׁרto be rich or to grow rich, and to make someone rich: everything to do with having, gaining, or giving wealth.
- atalyahעֲתַלְיָהוּAthaliahnot studied yet
- edenעֵדֶןEden: the well watered, richly fruitful land where God planted the first garden, and afterward the measure of what a land blessed by God looks like
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- Eden: the name of a Levite serving in Hezekiah's day
- uzzi'elעֻזִּיאֵלUzzielnot studied yet
- ataphעָטַףto grow faint: to weaken and give way, in body or in spirit
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- to cover: to wrap or clothe something so that it is wholly enveloped
- to turn aside: to move off to one side (uncertain)
- alazעָלַזto exult: to break out in loud, triumphant joy
- amasaעֲמָשָׂאAmasanot studied yet
- aromעָרוֹםuncovered: stripped of clothing or protection, from total nakedness down to having too little to wear
- aro'erעֲרֹעֵרAroernot studied yet
- orlahעׇרְלָהforeskin: the fold of skin cut away in circumcision, and more broadly any natural covering that seals a thing off from the use it was made for
- asvorעָשׂוֹרa group of ten, with the thing being counted left unsaid: the tenth day of a month, a run of ten days, or a ten-stringed instrument
- everעֵבֶרEbernot studied yet
- anatotעֲנָתוֹתAnathothnot studied yet
- eqevעֵקֶבconsequence: the outcome that follows a course of conduct, whether the reward it earns or, as a connecting word, the reason ("because") for what comes next
- erevעֵרֶבa mixed company: an assorted, largely foreign body of people mingled together with a nation
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- woof: the crosswise threads woven across the lengthwise warp in a piece of cloth
- arahעָרָהto lay bare: strip off whatever covers something, or drain out whatever fills it, leaving it exposed or empty
- araphelעֲרָפֶלthe dense, dark storm-cloud in which God draws near, present yet hidden from sight
- aratsעָרַץto be gripped by dread: to tremble in terror, to strike terror into others, or to hold in reverent awe
- osheqעֹשֶׁקextortion: the wrong of using power over someone weaker to squeeze gain out of them, by force, by fraud, or by withholding what is owed, and the goods so taken
- eglahעֶגְלָהa heifer: a young cow, grown past calfhood but not yet bred and usually never put to work
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- Eglath: the opening word of the Moabite place name Eglath-shelishiyah
- adiעֲדִיfinery: the array of ornaments, most often gold, that is put on to make the wearer splendid
- uzzaעֻזָּאUzzahnot studied yet
- akharעָכַרto bring ruin on a person or community by fouling their shared life, the way stirred mud clouds clear water until nothing is left safe or usable
- omerעֹמֶרsheaf: a bundle of cut grain stalks gathered together at harvest
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- omer: a dry measure of grain, a tenth of an ephah, roughly one person's food for a day
- amramעַמְרָםAmramnot studied yet
- ephronעֶפְרוֹןEphronnot studied yet
- etsyon geverעֶצְיוֹן גֶּבֶרEzion-gebernot studied yet
- atselעָצֵלlazy and sluggish; the habitually work-avoiding person Proverbs calls the sluggard
- aqevעָקֵבthe heel: the hard back of the foot on a person or an animal, the low point where the body is most easily caught or struck
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- footprints: the tracks feet leave in the ground, and by extension the path a person has walked
- the rear: the back end of a moving or fighting force, the part that trails behind
- eglonעֶגְלוֹןEglonnot studied yet
- amminadavעַמִּינָדָבAmminadabnot studied yet
- eved melekhעֶבֶד מֶלֶךְEbed-melechnot studied yet
- en gediעֵין גֶּדִיEngedinot studied yet
- amitעָמִיתfellow: a member of your own community, the peer who is bound to you by the same obligations
- amaleqiעֲמָלֵקִיAmalekitenot studied yet
- anahעֲנָהAnahnot studied yet
- aqarעָקָרbarren: unable to bring forth young, so that no child is ever born
- ashעָשׁa moth: the small insect whose grub eats holes through stored cloth
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- grass: the green growth of an open field, what grazing animals feed on
- ashtarotעַשְׁתָּרוֹתAshtarothnot studied yet
- adarעָדַרto be missing: absent from a group, a count, or a supply that ought to be complete
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- to hoe: to break up and weed the soil of a field or vineyard by hand
- to support in battle: to join a fighting force as a backer, or to take one's place in its ranks
- avatעָוַתto bend something out of its straight shape, and so to twist a verdict, a scale, or a person's rightful claim
- azazעָזַזto be strong enough to come out on top: strength that overpowers a rival, outlasts a threat, or hardens a face against shame
- uzziעֻזִּיUzzinot studied yet
- amalעָמַלto toil: to wear oneself out working hard at something
- ananעָנַןto bring clouds over the earth: to gather cloud cover across the sky
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- to practice soothsaying: to work as one particular kind of banned diviner, whose technique the Bible never describes
- atsarahעֲצָרָהa solemn assembly: the community called together and set apart for a holy occasion
- iqqeshעִקֵּשׁcrooked: bent away from what is straight and right, in a person's heart, conduct, or speech.
- arumעָרוּםshrewd: the calculating, anticipatory intelligence that reads a situation and plans ahead, for good or for ill
- aremahעֲרֵמָהa heap: a mounded pile of loose material, most often harvested grain
- adahעָדָהto pass on: to travel across or past a place, or to take a thing off and carry it away
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- to deck oneself out: to put on jewelry and finery, or to place ornaments on someone else
- iddoעִדּוֹIddonot studied yet
- ovedעוֹבֵדObednot studied yet
- eromעֵירֹםnaked in a way that is bad news: exposed, defenseless, destitute, or shamed
- ammihudעַמִּיהוּדAmmihudnot studied yet
- anagעָנֹגto luxuriate in something: to take rich, unhurried pleasure in it, the way a person of leisure enjoys comfort
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- to be pampered: to live so softly and richly cared for that hardship is unthinkable
- aphaphעַפְעַףthe eyelids: the pair of lids that open, close, and frame a person's eyes, and by extension the eyes themselves and the look they give
- erעֵרErnot studied yet
- orevעֹרֵבthe raven: a large, glossy black scavenging bird of cliffs and wastelands, and in the food laws the whole crow family named after it.
- eresעֶרֶשׂa bed or couch, named with the poetic word for it rather than the everyday one
- adayahעֲדָיָהוּAdaiahnot studied yet
- adaphעָדַףto go past a set amount, so that some is left over: to be extra, to be in surplus
- opheretעֹפֶרֶתlead: the soft, heavy, dull gray metal, the cheapest of the common metals and valued almost entirely for its weight
- azarahעֲזָרָהan area closed in by a firm edge: the temple's walled yard, or the ledge that runs around the altar
- omedעֹמֶדthe spot where a person stands: the place someone occupies, or the post someone has been given.
- amelעָמֵלthe person in wearing toil: someone working himself out at hard labor, or worn down by the hardship it brings
- amasעָמַסto load: to pile a weight onto a back, or to take that weight up and carry it
- amaqעָמֹקto be deep, or to make something deep: to reach far down, out of sight or out of reach
- anaqעֲנָקAnak: the forebear the Bible attaches to the unusually tall clans who held Hebron, named as the measure of an enemy Israel thought unbeatable
- anaqiעֲנָקִיAnakitenot studied yet
- anashעָנַשׁto impose a payment on a wrongdoer as his penalty, or to be made to pay one
- arovעָרֹבthe swarm: the dense mass of pests God sent as the fourth plague on Egypt, filling houses and ruining the land
- arviעַרְבִיArabiannot studied yet
- asarעָשַׂרto tithe: to hand over a tenth of a harvest or herd as a due, or to claim that tenth from someone else.
- ataqעָתַקto move on from where you were, or to shift something out of the place it held
- avdonעַבְדּוֹןAbdonnot studied yet
- adahעָדָהAdah: the first of Lamech's two wives in the line of Cain, and the mother of Jabal and Jubal.
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- Adah: the Canaanite wife of Esau, daughter of Elon the Hittite, and mother of his firstborn son Eliphaz.
- adullamעֲדֻלָּםAdullamnot studied yet
- utsעוּץUznot studied yet
- azmavetעַזְמָוֶתAzmavethnot studied yet