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sichemShechem

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

Puritas changed it
415 times in 143 works
Consistency
99.0% (415 of 419)
Reach if approved
~440 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
419 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (415 changes in 143 works, 99.0% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 415)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Remember, David numbred the people but once, and committed adultery but once, SichemShechem and Dinah committed fornication but once, Ammon committed adultery but once, Reuben went up …
    With rule
    Remember, David numbred the people but once, and committed adultery but once, SichemShechem and Dinah committed fornication but once, Ammon committed adultery but once, Reuben went up …

    John Preston · Remains · p. 274 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … giving him both their Idols & idolatrous jewels he hid them vnder an oke at SichemShechem, for he knew that the worship of God & of Idols could not stand togither …
    With rule
    … giving him both their Idols & idolatrous jewels he hid them vnder an oke at SichemShechem, for he knew that the worship of God & of Idols could not stand togither …

    Henry Ainsworth · The Communion of Saints · p. 110 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Abimelech, when this Ephod was ſet up in the houſe of Baal-bereth in SichemShechem. Iudg. 9.33.
    With rule
    … Abimelech, when this Ephod was ſet up in the houſe of Baal-bereth in SichemShechem. Iudg. 9.33.

    John Weemes · Exposition of the Moral Law · p. 99 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … one grave. They meant that Iacob was buried in Hebron: and the Patriarks in SichemShechem: and who would thinke that ſcholers should be ignorant of this? and that after …
    With rule
    … one grave. They meant that Iacob was buried in Hebron: and the Patriarks in SichemShechem: and who would thinke that ſcholers should be ignorant of this? and that after …

    Hugh Broughton · A Censure of the Late Translation for our Churches · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … because the question was asked in generall, and not particularly for it (and at SichemShechem, it seemeth, and not neere Bezek); and because there is no mention of Bezek …
    With rule
    … because the question was asked in generall, and not particularly for it (and at SichemShechem, it seemeth, and not neere Bezek); and because there is no mention of Bezek …

    Edmund Bunny · Of the Head Cornerstone · p. 226 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … that Religion:) and ſo ſaith he 7. yeares after: an honeſt and deuout Alderman of SichemShechem (perceiuing well how his and his neighboures gaines came in, and how the poore …
    With rule
    … that Religion:) and ſo ſaith he 7. yeares after: an honeſt and deuout Alderman of SichemShechem (perceiuing well how his and his neighboures gaines came in, and how the poore …

    William Crashaw · The Jesuits Gospel 2 · p. 25 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … two had many ſweating combates heere in England, ſo had they tormentings at Loretto, SichemShechem, Lile, Louaine, Doway, & elſwhere beyond the Seas; and all the conſolation which they found …
    With rule
    … two had many ſweating combates heere in England, ſo had they tormentings at Loretto, SichemShechem, Lile, Louaine, Doway, & elſwhere beyond the Seas; and all the conſolation which they found …

    John Gee · The Foot out of the Snare · p. 51 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … but theſe Antichriſtian Montebankes haue vvalls, & vvoods, & hollovve trees, & ſtockes, & ſtones, & miracles, & maruels at SichemShechem, at Halas, Bruxells, compoſtella, Loretto, & vvhere not, & vvhat not to encreaſe theire popish trading …
    With rule
    … but theſe Antichriſtian Montebankes haue vvalls, & vvoods, & hollovve trees, & ſtockes, & ſtones, & miracles, & maruels at SichemShechem, at Halas, Bruxells, compoſtella, Loretto, & vvhere not, & vvhat not to encreaſe theire popish trading …

    William Loe · The Merchant Real · p. 28 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

3 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Jesuits Gospel 2 A19582

  • Printed
    A DISCOVRSE OF THE LADIES OF HALL AND SIchemShechem, in way of preface ſhewing particularly the occaſion of this new Goſpell.
    With rule
    A DISCOVRSE OF THE LADIES OF HALL AND SIchemShechem, in way of preface ſhewing particularly the occaſion of this new Goſpell.

    William Crashaw · The Jesuits Gospel 2 · p. 15 · Open in the reader

The Jesuits Gospel A69161

  • Printed
    A DISCOVRSE OF THE LADIES OF HALL AND SICHEMSHECHEM, IN WAY OF PREface: ſhewing particularly the occaſion of this new Goſpell.
    With rule
    A DISCOVRSE OF THE LADIES OF HALL AND SICHEMSHECHEM, IN WAY OF PREface: ſhewing particularly the occaſion of this new Goſpell.

    William Crashaw · The Jesuits Gospel · Open in the reader

The Garden of Zion B01751

  • Printed
    … get of SICHEMSHECHEM his cruell intent,
    With rule
    … get of SICHEMSHECHEM his cruell intent,

    Zacharie Boyd · The Garden of Zion · p. 41 · Open in the reader