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Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #39998 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

terahsterah's

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it
67 times in 23 works
Consistency
100% (67 of 67)
Reach if approved
~70 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
67 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (67 changes in 23 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 67)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Stephen, the former, the Iewes holde for ſome rancor, becauſe he ſayth, that after TerahsTerah's death, God remooued Abrahams to Charan. Nothing but rancor coulde thruſt them into that …
    With rule
    … Stephen, the former, the Iewes holde for ſome rancor, becauſe he ſayth, that after TerahsTerah's death, God remooued Abrahams to Charan. Nothing but rancor coulde thruſt them into that …

    Hugh Broughton · A Treatise Proving Melchizedek to be Shem · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … The Apoſtle makes them wilde onely at their firſt ingraffing, and ſo was all TerahsTerah's race wilde likewiſe, till that change of Faith wrought in Abrahams call, and the …
    With rule
    … The Apoſtle makes them wilde onely at their firſt ingraffing, and ſo was all TerahsTerah's race wilde likewiſe, till that change of Faith wrought in Abrahams call, and the …

    Thomas Blake · The Covenant of God Entered with Mankind · p. 337 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    Novv Moſes returns to ſhevv the cauſe both of TerahsTerah's removall vvith his family from Ur of the Chaldees, and of Abrams removall, after …
    With rule
    Novv Moſes returns to ſhevv the cauſe both of TerahsTerah's removall vvith his family from Ur of the Chaldees, and of Abrams removall, after …

    Arthur Jackson · A Help for the Understanding of the Holy Scriptures · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … shew Ur to be in Mesopotamia, and Abram to be called there. And after TerahsTerah's death at Haran, then he had a new Call, Gen. XII. 1. And else the …
    With rule
    … shew Ur to be in Mesopotamia, and Abram to be called there. And after TerahsTerah's death at Haran, then he had a new Call, Gen. XII. 1. And else the …

    John Richardson · Observations Upon the Old Testament · p. 5 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Answer. Secondly, Hee is reckoned first of TerahsTerah's sonnes, as Sem is of Noahs, not because hee was the first in time …
    With rule
    Answer. Secondly, Hee is reckoned first of TerahsTerah's sonnes, as Sem is of Noahs, not because hee was the first in time …

    John Lightfoot · Harmony of the Gospels · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    And if Abraham was born at TerahsTerah's 70; then 1250, or 1260 years, of the 1ſt Ark, brought up the 2d, to Zion: and …
    With rule
    And if Abraham was born at TerahsTerah's 70; then 1250, or 1260 years, of the 1ſt Ark, brought up the 2d, to Zion: and …

    John Sadler · Christ Under the Law · p. 54 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in the yere of the world 2453; whereto if we adde those sixtie yeres of TerahsTerah's life before mentioned, it amounteth to 2513. And so Broughton reckoneth. Iunius and Lydyat account …
    With rule
    … in the yere of the world 2453; whereto if we adde those sixtie yeres of TerahsTerah's life before mentioned, it amounteth to 2513. And so Broughton reckoneth. Iunius and Lydyat account …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 138 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … TerahsTerah's life: ſo to obſcure all the matter: as not being Abrahams peculiar, in TerahsTerah's life time. Saint Stephen his Angelique tongue might haue holpen here, but that we …
    With rule
    … TerahsTerah's life: ſo to obſcure all the matter: as not being Abrahams peculiar, in TerahsTerah's life time. Saint Stephen his Angelique tongue might haue holpen here, but that we …

    Hugh Broughton · To the Learned Nobility of England Touching Bible Translation · 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.