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pharoahPharaoh

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

Puritas changed it
1,016 times in 491 works
Consistency
99.9% (1,016 of 1,017)
Reach if approved
~1,069 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Disagrees: pharao
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,017 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,016 changes in 491 works, 99.9% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,016)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … tendering to God his due honour; they ſay little leſſe in their actions then PharoahPharaoh ſaid in plain termes; Who is the Lord that I ſhould obey his voyce …
    With rule
    … tendering to God his due honour; they ſay little leſſe in their actions then PharoahPharaoh ſaid in plain termes; Who is the Lord that I ſhould obey his voyce …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 229 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … affections of mans heart, with much rage and hellish fiercenesse, and is that grād PharoahPharaoh who setteth al those inferior officers a work, who therefore is called the [spirit …
    With rule
    … affections of mans heart, with much rage and hellish fiercenesse, and is that grād PharoahPharaoh who setteth al those inferior officers a work, who therefore is called the [spirit …

    William Pemble · Five Godly and Profitable Sermons · p. 14 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … or the Sonne of Ieſſe? Is ſcarce worth the name of Rebellion. That of PharoahPharaoh, is to bee trembled at, who is IEHOVAH, that I ſhould obey his voice …
    With rule
    … or the Sonne of Ieſſe? Is ſcarce worth the name of Rebellion. That of PharoahPharaoh, is to bee trembled at, who is IEHOVAH, that I ſhould obey his voice …

    William Sclater · Exposition of 2 Thessalonians · p. 140 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    Fourthly, onely they haue eſcaped from condemnation, as the Iſraelites eſcaped the hand of PharoahPharaoh, and reioyced.
    With rule
    Fourthly, onely they haue eſcaped from condemnation, as the Iſraelites eſcaped the hand of PharoahPharaoh, and reioyced.

    Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 116 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    QUEST. XXI. Why Moses is bid to meete PharoahPharaoh by the water.
    With rule
    QUEST. XXI. Why Moses is bid to meete PharoahPharaoh by the water.

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Genesis and Exodus · p. 87 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … which couenaunt is ſtronger that the heauens order. The ſame yeere Ezekiel… prophecyeth that PharoahPharaoh king of Egypt (who had ben as a Reede to the houſe of Iſrael …
    With rule
    … which couenaunt is ſtronger that the heauens order. The ſame yeere Ezekiel… prophecyeth that PharoahPharaoh king of Egypt (who had ben as a Reede to the houſe of Iſrael …

    Hugh Broughton · A Consent of Scripture · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … man, as the like was not in thoſe daies, yet in the Court of PharoahPharaoh learned to Court it and diſſemble, & ſweare fearefully by the life of Pharaoh: And …
    With rule
    … man, as the like was not in thoſe daies, yet in the Court of PharoahPharaoh learned to Court it and diſſemble, & ſweare fearefully by the life of Pharaoh: And …

    Thomas Cartwright · Commentary Upon Colossians · p. 233 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    7. THE Spiritual PharoahPharaoh most eagerly pursueth those who are departing out of his Kingdom: He passeth by …
    With rule
    7. THE Spiritual PharoahPharaoh most eagerly pursueth those who are departing out of his Kingdom: He passeth by …

    Richard Allestree · The Government of the Thoughts · p. 165 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Commentary on Habakkuk A51907

  • Printed
    … iniquity, and declare their uttermoſt malice againſt the Church, and when he had ſuffered PHAROAHPHARAOH and his hoaſt to follovv his people of Iſrael into the red Sea, and …
    With rule
    … iniquity, and declare their uttermoſt malice againſt the Church, and when he had ſuffered PHAROAHPHARAOH and his hoaſt to follovv his people of Iſrael into the red Sea, and …

    Edward Marbury · Commentary on Habakkuk · p. 55 · Open in the reader