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plead

Meaning of “plead”

Sense 1: To argue, appeal, or speak in support of a cause before one who may decide it. Sense 2: To contend, judge, vindicate, or maintain a cause.

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39 occurrences35 verses11 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Judges 6:31

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Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
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1611 witness · Hosea 2:2 · retained source text

Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whordomes out of her sight, and her adulteries from betweene her breasts;

1611 marginal noteIsai.50.1.

1611 marginal noteEze.16.25

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