Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50218 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

geheziGehazi

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

Puritas changed it: 302 times in 163 works
Consistency: 99.6% (302 of 303)
Reach if approved: ~318 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: gehazi
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 303 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (302 changes in 163 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 302)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… Peter found out the secret fraude of Ananias, & Sapphirae: Eliseus being absent found out GeheziGehazi his corruption: yea, hee could tell what was doone in the King of Syria …
With rule
… Peter found out the secret fraude of Ananias, & Sapphirae: Eliseus being absent found out GeheziGehazi his corruption: yea, hee could tell what was doone in the King of Syria …
Andrew Willet · A General View of Papistry · p. 297 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be thus led to the stockes, and as an Oxe to the shambles; wretched GeheziGehazi that to receiue that which his Maister refused, partakes of that plague which his …
With rule
… be thus led to the stockes, and as an Oxe to the shambles; wretched GeheziGehazi that to receiue that which his Maister refused, partakes of that plague which his …
Thomas Cooper · The Worldlings Adventure · p. 49 · Open in the reader
Printed
Contrary is that of thoſe, who think themſelues wiſer than their maſter: ſo GeheziGehazi thought his maſter vnwiſe, to let Naaman depart: ſo did the Prophets offend, 2 King …
With rule
Contrary is that of thoſe, who think themſelues wiſer than their maſter: ſo GeheziGehazi thought his maſter vnwiſe, to let Naaman depart: ſo did the Prophets offend, 2 King …
William Gouge · Exposition on John 5 · p. 90 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſerue God and Mammon; you may diſpute for it, you ſhall neuer compound it. GeheziGehazi cannot run after the forbidden talents, but hee muſt leaue his maſter. Some indeed …
With rule
… ſerue God and Mammon; you may diſpute for it, you ſhall neuer compound it. GeheziGehazi cannot run after the forbidden talents, but hee muſt leaue his maſter. Some indeed …
Thomas Adams · The Temple · p. 53 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſome vertues: one ſinne of couetouſneſs ouerthrew Iudas; the deſire of a bribe got GeheziGehazi the leproſie; Sampſon his luſt, loſt him his ſtrength and eies: Caines enuie made …
With rule
… ſome vertues: one ſinne of couetouſneſs ouerthrew Iudas; the deſire of a bribe got GeheziGehazi the leproſie; Sampſon his luſt, loſt him his ſtrength and eies: Caines enuie made …
Richard Bernard · The Sinners Safety if Here He Look for Assurance · p. 85 · Open in the reader
Printed
… be told of them yet they will out-face it. Such a one was GeheziGehazi; Thy ſeruant went no whether. And of the ſame brood were Ananias and Saphyra …
With rule
… be told of them yet they will out-face it. Such a one was GeheziGehazi; Thy ſeruant went no whether. And of the ſame brood were Ananias and Saphyra …
Nehemiah Rogers · The True Convert · p. 200 · Open in the reader
Printed
… bribes. Esau would cast vp his pottage. Achan woulde cast downe his golde, and GeheziGehazi woulde refuse his giftes. Nabuchadnezzar would be humbler. Balam would be faithfull, and the …
With rule
… bribes. Esau would cast vp his pottage. Achan woulde cast downe his golde, and GeheziGehazi woulde refuse his giftes. Nabuchadnezzar would be humbler. Balam would be faithfull, and the …
Henry Smith · Four Sermons · Open in the reader
Printed
… is hard to cure, and the most earry it to their death naturall, as GeheziGehazi, Azariah: The latter is an harder cure, and therefore the most carrie the running …
With rule
… is hard to cure, and the most earry it to their death naturall, as GeheziGehazi, Azariah: The latter is an harder cure, and therefore the most carrie the running …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 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.