Joshua 9:4
They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
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Ambassadors
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2 Corinthians 5:20
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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מַלְאָךְ
malʼâk · mal-awk'
4 times translated as this KJV form213 total Strong's occurrences
a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
Strong's KJV usage: ambassador, angel, king, messenger.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 35:21Strong's last: Ezekiel 17:15
Open full H4397 profile →πρεσβεύω
presbeúō · pres-byoo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to be a senior, i.e. (by implication) act as a representative (figuratively, preacher)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be an ambassador.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 5:20Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 5:20
Open full G4243 profile →לוּץ
lûwts · loots
1 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff; hence (from the effort to pronounce a foreign language) to interpret, or (generally) intercede
Strong's KJV usage: ambassador, have in derision, interpreter, make a mock, mocker, scorn(-er, -ful), teacher.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 32:31Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 32:31
Open full H3887 profile →צִיר
tsîyr · tseer
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
a hinge (as pressed in turning); also a throe (as a phys. or mental pressure); also a herald or errand-doer (as constrained by the principal)
Strong's KJV usage: ambassador, hinge, messenger, pain, pang, sorrow. Compare 6736.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 18:2Strong's last: Isaiah 18:2
Open full H6735 profile →צָיַר
tsâyar · tsaw-yar'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to make an errand, i.e. betake oneself
Strong's KJV usage: make as if...had been ambassador.
Strong's first: Joshua 9:4Strong's last: Joshua 9:4
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H4397
But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, that they might give him horses and much people. Shall he prosper? shall he escape that doeth such things? or shall he break the covenant, and be delivered?
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ambassador
AMBAS'SADOR, noun [This is the more common orthography; but good authors write also embassador; and as the orthography of embassy is established, it would be better to write embassador. See Embassador.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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