Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #10667 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

abimilechAbimelech

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 141 times in 77 works
Consistency: 100% (141 of 141)
Reach if approved: ~149 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 142 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (141 changes in 77 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 141)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… words I vſe be theſe Who will deny but that as the ſinne of AbimilechAbimelech (in taking Sarah, Abrahams wife vnto him) had ſhut vp euery wombe of the …
With rule
… words I vſe be theſe Who will deny but that as the ſinne of AbimilechAbimelech (in taking Sarah, Abrahams wife vnto him) had ſhut vp euery wombe of the …
John Darrell · Reply to John Deacon · Open in the reader
Printed
… done, and was not rewarded. Its remarkable alſo, that when God intended to puniſh AbimilechAbimelech and the Sechemites, Iudges 9. its ſaid, God ſent an evill ſpirit between them, and …
With rule
… done, and was not rewarded. Its remarkable alſo, that when God intended to puniſh AbimilechAbimelech and the Sechemites, Iudges 9. its ſaid, God ſent an evill ſpirit between them, and …
Anthony Burgess · Spiritual Refining · p. 507 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the law comes, a mans mouth will not be ſtopped. Gen. 20.3. God came to AbimilechAbimelech by night, and ſaid, Thou art but a dead man, becauſe of the woman …
With rule
… the law comes, a mans mouth will not be ſtopped. Gen. 20.3. God came to AbimilechAbimelech by night, and ſaid, Thou art but a dead man, becauſe of the woman …
William Fenner · Remains · p. 15 · Open in the reader
Printed
… hee could have sent a Spirit of Mutiny amongst us, as hee did betweene AbimilechAbimelech and the Sechemites, to have made our Funerals and slaine heaps more in number …
With rule
… hee could have sent a Spirit of Mutiny amongst us, as hee did betweene AbimilechAbimelech and the Sechemites, to have made our Funerals and slaine heaps more in number …
John Milton · Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline · p. 68 · Open in the reader
Printed
… are accounted of as if they had maintained all the Kings enemies, (as accordingly AbimilechAbimelech the Prieſt with all his Fathers Houſe were ſlain by Saul, for his ſuppoſed …
With rule
… are accounted of as if they had maintained all the Kings enemies, (as accordingly AbimilechAbimelech the Prieſt with all his Fathers Houſe were ſlain by Saul, for his ſuppoſed …
Alexander Simson · Two Treatises · p. 182 · Open in the reader
Printed
… meanes to reforme him, caſt him out of the familie: If there be an AbimilechAbimelech, let him bee ſuppreſſed, or remoued, leaſt hee deſtroy the whole linage of the …
With rule
… meanes to reforme him, caſt him out of the familie: If there be an AbimilechAbimelech, let him bee ſuppreſſed, or remoued, leaſt hee deſtroy the whole linage of the …
John Downame · Lectures Upon Hosea 1-4 · p. 94 · Open in the reader
Printed
… otherwise they were in danger to fall into. I know (saith the Lord to AbimilechAbimelech, Gen. 20.6.) that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also …
With rule
… otherwise they were in danger to fall into. I know (saith the Lord to AbimilechAbimelech, Gen. 20.6.) that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also …
Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon Psalm 51 · p. 692 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the woman whom thou haſt taken, for ſhe hath an husband. Likewiſe his ſucceſſor AbimilechAbimelech, alſo king of the Philiſtians at Gerar, knowing that Rebecca was Iſaacks wife, decreed …
With rule
… the woman whom thou haſt taken, for ſhe hath an husband. Likewiſe his ſucceſſor AbimilechAbimelech, alſo king of the Philiſtians at Gerar, knowing that Rebecca was Iſaacks wife, decreed …
Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 218 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.