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Strong's H4043

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H4043

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dictionaries from openscriptures/strongs. CC BY-SA 4.0 / Public Domain. Derived from James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890/1894.

מָגֵןmâgênmaw-gane'

Short Definition: a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler)
Strong’s Definition: a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler); figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile
KJV Definition: [idiom] armed, buckler, defence, ruler, [phrase] scale, shield.

Hebrew occurrences:174

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Brown–Driver–Briggs: מָגֵן
STEP Hebrew Lexicon: מָגֵן

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dictionaries from openscriptures/strongs. CC BY-SA 4.0 / Public Domain. Derived from James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890/1894.