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רֶגֶל
regel · Hebrew · Strong's H7272 · 245 occurrences
The KJV renders 14 different Hebrew and Greek words as “time”
What it means
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
from H7270 (רָגַל);
How the KJV renders it
brokenfooted, stool, leg, time
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“time”
“leg”
also renders skélos (G4628), shôbel (H7640), shôwq (H7785), shâq (H8243)
“brokenfooted”
also renders sheber (H7667)
“stool”
also renders kiççêʼ (H3678)
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Where it appears
245 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 28:2 · HNcfdc
Then David the king stood up on his feet and said, “Hear me, my brothers and my people! As for me, it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and for the footstool of our God; and I had prepared for the building.
1 Kings 2:5 · HR/Ncfdc/Sp3ms
“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist and in his sandals that were on his feet.
1 Kings 5:3 · HNcfsc/Sp3ms
“You know that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God because of the wars which were around him on every side, until Yahweh put his enemies under the soles of his feet.
1 Kings 14:6 · HNcfdc/Sp3fs
So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.
1 Kings 14:12 · HNcfdc/Sp2fs
Arise therefore, and go to your house. When your feet enter into the city, the child will die.
1 Kings 15:23 · HNcfdc/Sp3ms
Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.
1 Kings 20:10 HR/Ncfdc/Sp1cs1 Samuel 2:9 HNcfdc1 Samuel 14:13 HNcfdc/Sp3ms1 Samuel 17:6 HNcfdc/Sp3ms1 Samuel 23:22 HNcfsc/Sp3ms1 Samuel 24:3 HNcfdc/Sp3ms1 Samuel 25:24 HNcfdc/Sp3ms1 Samuel 25:27 HR/Ncfdc1 Samuel 25:41 HNcfdc1 Samuel 25:42 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3fs2 Chronicles 3:13 HNcfdc/Sp3mp2 Chronicles 16:12 HR/Ncfdc/Sp3ms2 Chronicles 33:8 HNcfsc2 Kings 3:9 HR/Ncfdc/Sp3mp2 Kings 4:27 HR/Ncfdc/Sp3ms2 Kings 4:37 HNcfdc/Sp3ms2 Kings 6:32 HNcfdc2 Kings 9:35 HC/Td/Ncfda2 Kings 13:21 HNcfdc/Sp3ms2 Kings 21:8 HNcfsc2 Samuel 2:18 HR/Ncfdc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 3:34 HC/Ncfdc/Sp2ms2 Samuel 4:4 HNcfda2 Samuel 4:12 HNcfdc/Sp3mp2 Samuel 9:3 HNcfda2 Samuel 9:13 HNcfdc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 11:8 HNcfdc/Sp2ms2 Samuel 14:25 HNcfsc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 15:16 HR/Ncfdc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 15:17 HR/Ncfdc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 15:18 HR/Ncfsc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 19:24 HNcfdc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 21:20 HNcfdc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 22:10 HNcfdc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 22:34 HNcfdc/Sp3ms2 Samuel 22:39 HNcfdc/Sp1csAmos 2:15 HR/Ncfdc/Sp3msDeuteronomy 2:5 HNcfsaDeuteronomy 2:28 HR/Ncfdc/Sp1csDeuteronomy 8:4 HC/Ncfsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 11:6 HR/Ncfdc/Sp3mpDeuteronomy 11:10 HR/Ncfsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 11:24 HNcfsc/Sp2mpDeuteronomy 19:21 HNcfsaDeuteronomy 25:9 HNcfsc/Sp3msDeuteronomy 28:35 HNcfsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 28:56 HNcfsc/Sp3fsDeuteronomy 28:57 HNcfdc/Sp3fsDeuteronomy 28:65 HNcfsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 29:5 HNcfsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 32:35 HNcfsc/Sp3mpDeuteronomy 33:3 HR/Ncfsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 33:24 HNcfsc/Sp3msEcclesiastes 5:1 HNcfdc/Sp2ms
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