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iannesjannes

i standing for j: Iesus → Jesus, iudge → judge.

Puritas changed it
196 times in 128 works
Consistency
98.4% (196 of 199)
Reach if approved
~209 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: jannes
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
199 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (196 changes in 128 works, 98.4% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 196)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    Ye fooliſh Galathians, what IannesJannes, and Iambres, Aegyptian Sorcerers haue bewitched you, that you ſhould follow ſo readily ſuch …
    With rule
    Ye fooliſh Galathians, what IannesJannes, and Iambres, Aegyptian Sorcerers haue bewitched you, that you ſhould follow ſo readily ſuch …

    Peter Smart · The Vanity and Downfall of Superstitious Popish Ceremonies · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    4. How desperately doe numbers resist and repell the true and faithfull word? as IannesJannes and Iambres resisted Moses, 2 Tim. 3.8. so be there in every Congregation resisters and adversaries …
    With rule
    4. How desperately doe numbers resist and repell the true and faithfull word? as IannesJannes and Iambres resisted Moses, 2 Tim. 3.8. so be there in every Congregation resisters and adversaries …

    Thomas Taylor · The Progress of Saints to Full Holiness · p. 349 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Eleazar 20 Manasses 27 Simon Iustus 28 Onias Simons sonne 39 Iason 3 Menelaus 12 Ionathas 18 Simon 8 Ioannes Hircanus 31 Aristobulus 1 IannesJannes Alexander 27 Alexandra the widow of Alexander high Priest. 9 Hircanus her son 3. moneths. Aristobulus Hircanus …
    With rule
    … Eleazar 20 Manasses 27 Simon Iustus 28 Onias Simons sonne 39 Iason 3 Menelaus 12 Ionathas 18 Simon 8 Ioannes Hircanus 31 Aristobulus 1 IannesJannes Alexander 27 Alexandra the widow of Alexander high Priest. 9 Hircanus her son 3. moneths. Aristobulus Hircanus …

    Andrew Willet · Commentary on Daniel · p. 320 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … withstand himselfe, for Moses and Aaron came in the power of God, Paule saith IannesJannes and Iambres withstood them, if God turned their staues into Serpents, then God withstood …
    With rule
    … withstand himselfe, for Moses and Aaron came in the power of God, Paule saith IannesJannes and Iambres withstood them, if God turned their staues into Serpents, then God withstood …

    George Gifford · Discourse of the Subtle Practices of Devils · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    9 Which wrought vayne myracles before him as did IannesJannes & Iambres the sorcerers of Egipt before Pharao, in counterfaiting Moyses and Aaron. Yea, by …
    With rule
    9 Which wrought vayne myracles before him as did IannesJannes & Iambres the sorcerers of Egipt before Pharao, in counterfaiting Moyses and Aaron. Yea, by …

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

  6. Printed
    … in all ages, ennemies to the trueth inuenters of sectes & errors, such like as IannesJannes and …ambres resisted Moises so do they the trueth, as the learned scribes & Pharise …
    With rule
    … in all ages, ennemies to the trueth inuenters of sectes & errors, such like as IannesJannes and …ambres resisted Moises so do they the trueth, as the learned scribes & Pharise …

    John Knox · An Answer to Blasphemous Cavillations by an Anabaptist · p. 279 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … he wrought great myracles before the King of AEgipt; and that certeyne Magicians called IannesJannes and Mambres would haue done the like: which are things that are not set …
    With rule
    … he wrought great myracles before the King of AEgipt; and that certeyne Magicians called IannesJannes and Mambres would haue done the like: which are things that are not set …

    Philippe de Mornay · Concerning the Truth of Christian Religion · p. 465 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to hand, as many things did: as that 2. Timot. 3.8. where the Apostle saith, that IannesJannes and Iambres withstood Moses; the historie of which is not found in the old …
    With rule
    … to hand, as many things did: as that 2. Timot. 3.8. where the Apostle saith, that IannesJannes and Iambres withstood Moses; the historie of which is not found in the old …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · p. 81 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (3)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.