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mesheckMeshech

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

Puritas changed it
23 times in 21 works
Consistency
100% (23 of 23)
Reach if approved
~24 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
23 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (23 changes in 21 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 23)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … cauſe to cry out dayly, We unto us, we are conſtrained to dwell with MeſheckMeshech, and have our habitation in the tents of Kedar, where your righteous Souls were …
    With rule
    … cauſe to cry out dayly, We unto us, we are conſtrained to dwell with MeſheckMeshech, and have our habitation in the tents of Kedar, where your righteous Souls were …

    Samuel Fairclough Sr · The Prisoners Praises · p. 26 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … others. You will say with David, Psal. 120.5. Wo is me, that I sojourn in MesheckMeshech, that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar. Your soul, like Lots, will be …
    With rule
    … others. You will say with David, Psal. 120.5. Wo is me, that I sojourn in MesheckMeshech, that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar. Your soul, like Lots, will be …

    John Flavel · The Seamans Companion · p. 109 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … thorns sting him. Woe is me, sayth the Psalmist, that I must remaine in MesheckMeshech, and dwell in the tents of Kedar.
    With rule
    … thorns sting him. Woe is me, sayth the Psalmist, that I must remaine in MesheckMeshech, and dwell in the tents of Kedar.

    Thomas Adams · A Divine Herbal Together with a Forest of Thorns · p. 123 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … And Dauid cried out: Woe is me that I am constrained to dvvell in MesheckMeshech, and to haue my habitation in the tents of Kedar, Psal. 120. 5. And iust Lot …
    With rule
    … And Dauid cried out: Woe is me that I am constrained to dvvell in MesheckMeshech, and to haue my habitation in the tents of Kedar, Psal. 120. 5. And iust Lot …

    William Perkins · A Reformed Catholic · p. 330 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … scarce more wickedness to be found, Psal. 120. 6. Wo is me that I sojourn in MesheckMeshech, that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar, (i. e.) among those who were …
    With rule
    … scarce more wickedness to be found, Psal. 120. 6. Wo is me that I sojourn in MesheckMeshech, that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar, (i. e.) among those who were …

    John Flavel · The Method of Grace · p. 534 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of man whom thou hast made so strong for thy self, that Pharaoh, Elam, MesheckMeshech, with the sonnes of Tubal may fall in the midst of them that are …
    With rule
    … of man whom thou hast made so strong for thy self, that Pharaoh, Elam, MesheckMeshech, with the sonnes of Tubal may fall in the midst of them that are …

    William Prynne · Sad and Serious Political Considerations · p. 37 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … not but that one may be forced upon some special cause to dwell in MesheckMeshech, and be forced to forsake Sacrificing, to shew mercy; but I speak of such …
    With rule
    … not but that one may be forced upon some special cause to dwell in MesheckMeshech, and be forced to forsake Sacrificing, to shew mercy; but I speak of such …

    Thomas Shepard · The Parable of the Ten Virgins · p. 195 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … a Heathen, yet gave in commandment to his people concerning the God of Shadrach, MeſheckMeshech and Abednego, being convinced that he was the only true God, that if any …
    With rule
    … a Heathen, yet gave in commandment to his people concerning the God of Shadrach, MeſheckMeshech and Abednego, being convinced that he was the only true God, that if any …

    John Brinsley · An Antidote Against the Poisonous Weeds of Heretical Blasphemies · p. 41 · 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.