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1 Samuel 25:3

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good: Proverbs 14:1, Proverbs 31:26, Proverbs 31:30-31

was churlish: 1 Samuel 25:10-11, 1 Samuel 25:17; Psalms 10:3; Isaiah 32:5-7

and he was: Wehoo calibbee:, literally, "and he was a Calebite;" but as the word cailev: signifies a dog, the Septuagint has understood it as implying a man of canine disposition, and translated it, και ανθρωπος κυνικος:, "and he was a doggish man." It is understood in the same way by the Syriac and Arabic.

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