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iphtahJephthah

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

Puritas changed it
166 times in 11 works
Consistency
99.4% (166 of 167)
Reach if approved
~177 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
168 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (166 changes in 11 works, 99.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 166)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … becauſe they have done wickedly. Micah. 3.4. For the Lord may juſtly anſwere them as IphtahJephthah did the Elders of Gilead, Judg. 11.7. Did ye not hate mee? How then come …
    With rule
    … becauſe they have done wickedly. Micah. 3.4. For the Lord may juſtly anſwere them as IphtahJephthah did the Elders of Gilead, Judg. 11.7. Did ye not hate mee? How then come …

    Adam Harsnett · A Cordial for the Afflicted · p. 194 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … torne in pieces by Beares to two & forty of them. The Ephraimites that mocked IphtahJephthah, and his Gileadites calling them runagates of Ephraim, were ſlaine to two & forty thouſands …
    With rule
    … torne in pieces by Beares to two & forty of them. The Ephraimites that mocked IphtahJephthah, and his Gileadites calling them runagates of Ephraim, were ſlaine to two & forty thouſands …

    John Mayer · The English Catechism Explained · p. 319 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … loſſe of it might be reſerved vnto him in the world to come. Of IphtahJephthah though ſome write that he was buryed in divers cities for his honour; that …
    With rule
    … loſſe of it might be reſerved vnto him in the world to come. Of IphtahJephthah though ſome write that he was buryed in divers cities for his honour; that …

    John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 348 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … God deliuer them, by the hands of the Iudges? Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, IphtahJephthah, Samſon and others? What ſhall I ſpeak of the deliuerie of Dauid in his …
    With rule
    … God deliuer them, by the hands of the Iudges? Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, IphtahJephthah, Samſon and others? What ſhall I ſpeak of the deliuerie of Dauid in his …

    Gabriel Powel · The Resolved Christian Exhorting to Resolution · p. 277 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    Verſ. 29. Then the ſpirit of the Lord came vpon IphtahJephthah, and hee paſſed ouer to Gilead, and to Manaſſeh, and came to Mizpeh in …
    With rule
    Verſ. 29. Then the ſpirit of the Lord came vpon IphtahJephthah, and hee paſſed ouer to Gilead, and to Manaſſeh, and came to Mizpeh in …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 567 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … in all the Scripture of one Bastard that came to any good, but onely IphtahJephthah, and to shewe that no inheritance did belong to them in heauen, they had …
    With rule
    … in all the Scripture of one Bastard that came to any good, but onely IphtahJephthah, and to shewe that no inheritance did belong to them in heauen, they had …

    Henry Smith · A Preparative to Marriage · p. 16 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … GODS blessed Booke; whether Iobs wife bid her husband blesse or curse GOD: whether IphtahJephthah sacrific'd his daughter, or onely consecrated her to virginity: whether Naaman was a true …
    With rule
    … GODS blessed Booke; whether Iobs wife bid her husband blesse or curse GOD: whether IphtahJephthah sacrific'd his daughter, or onely consecrated her to virginity: whether Naaman was a true …

    Robert Bolton · Death Judgment Hell and Heaven · p. 144 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … be attributed to me, and the city bee called by my name: ſo doth IphtahJephthah invite God to the day for all honour, the Lord the Iudge, Iudge betwixt …
    With rule
    … be attributed to me, and the city bee called by my name: ſo doth IphtahJephthah invite God to the day for all honour, the Lord the Iudge, Iudge betwixt …

    Robert Abbot · Four Sermons · p. 7 · 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.

History of the First Ten Persecutions A13296

  • Printed
    … Hesbon: Secondly, since the dayes of MOSES vntill the dayes of the gouernament of IPHTAHJEPHTHAH, that is, the space of three hundreth yeeres the people of Israel peaceablie possessed …
    With rule
    … Hesbon: Secondly, since the dayes of MOSES vntill the dayes of the gouernament of IPHTAHJEPHTHAH, that is, the space of three hundreth yeeres the people of Israel peaceablie possessed …

    Patrick Simson · History of the First Ten Persecutions · p. 101 · Open in the reader