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balaāBalaam

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

Puritas changed it
34 times in 20 works
Consistency
100% (34 of 34)
Reach if approved
~36 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
34 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (34 changes in 20 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 34)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … the whiche he hath continually a ſingular care, we haue manifeſt example hereof, in BalaāBalaam, and Caiphas: for althogh he wer as euil a mā as the erth doth …
    With rule
    … the whiche he hath continually a ſingular care, we haue manifeſt example hereof, in BalaāBalaam, and Caiphas: for althogh he wer as euil a mā as the erth doth …

    Pierre Viret · Christian Instruction and Sum of Doctrine Part 1 · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … armour is not carnall but mighty for God: to pull dovvne ſtrong holdes: This BalaāBalaam meant By more cities of refuge, Rambam ſeeketh corners. thus he reaſoneth:
    With rule
    … armour is not carnall but mighty for God: to pull dovvne ſtrong holdes: This BalaāBalaam meant By more cities of refuge, Rambam ſeeketh corners. thus he reaſoneth:

    Hugh Broughton · A Comment Upon Coheleth · p. 43 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … aſſe neuer ſpake but once, and then he reproued. Then if Balaams aſſe reproued BalaāBalaam, how much more ought Balaam to reproue aſſes, or ſuch as will be no …
    With rule
    … aſſe neuer ſpake but once, and then he reproued. Then if Balaams aſſe reproued BalaāBalaam, how much more ought Balaam to reproue aſſes, or ſuch as will be no …

    Henry Smith · Six Sermons · p. 95 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … disdaine in the Apocalipse, saying, Thou hast their certaine which hold the doctrine of BalaāBalaam, who taught Balaac how to giue a scandale, (that is an occasion) for the …
    With rule
    … disdaine in the Apocalipse, saying, Thou hast their certaine which hold the doctrine of BalaāBalaam, who taught Balaac how to giue a scandale, (that is an occasion) for the …

    William Fulke · A Brief Confutation of a Popish Discourse · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … to their christen profession support the execrable doctryne of yt subtile sothsayer & cursed …harmer BalaāBalaam, which by pestilent coūsel caused kīg Balaac to prouoke the children of Israell to …
    With rule
    … to their christen profession support the execrable doctryne of yt subtile sothsayer & cursed …harmer BalaāBalaam, which by pestilent coūsel caused kīg Balaac to prouoke the children of Israell to …

    John Bale · The Image of Both Churches in Revelation · p. 30 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … for takynge vpon you farre more then euer ye be able for to dyscharge. BalaāBalaam sought howe too get thanckes of God and a rewarde of Baala…, and in …
    With rule
    … for takynge vpon you farre more then euer ye be able for to dyscharge. BalaāBalaam sought howe too get thanckes of God and a rewarde of Baala…, and in …

    Thomas Lever · Sermon Preached at Pauls Cross · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … in Balaams time God was not angryonce a day according to his maner, leaſt BalaāBalaam ſhould have curſed Iſrael in that moment, and ſo deſtroyed them: this they will …
    With rule
    … in Balaams time God was not angryonce a day according to his maner, leaſt BalaāBalaam ſhould have curſed Iſrael in that moment, and ſo deſtroyed them: this they will …

    John Paget · Arrow Against the Separationists · p. 422 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … same to his Prophet, Ezek. 21. 19.—23. he said] that is, as the Greeke explaineth it, BalaāBalaam said. I have prepared] or, I have ordered. He vainly glorieth of his religious …
    With rule
    … same to his Prophet, Ezek. 21. 19.—23. he said] that is, as the Greeke explaineth it, BalaāBalaam said. I have prepared] or, I have ordered. He vainly glorieth of his religious …

    Henry Ainsworth · Annotations on the Pentateuch, Psalms, Song of Songs · p. 150 · 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.