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seuentyseventy

u and v used by position, not sound: haue → have, vnto → unto.

Puritas changed it
232 times in 111 works
Consistency
88.2% (232 of 263)
Reach if approved
~276 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: seventy
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
263 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (232 changes in 111 works, 88.2% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 232)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … famine and peſtilence, others caried away captiue into Babylon, and ſo remayning in captivitie, ſeuentyseventy yeres: yet God in the midſt of his vvrath remembring mercy, ſtill preſerved a …
    With rule
    … famine and peſtilence, others caried away captiue into Babylon, and ſo remayning in captivitie, ſeuentyseventy yeres: yet God in the midſt of his vvrath remembring mercy, ſtill preſerved a …

    Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 200 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … beeing all Infidels, and the Brittaines were driuen out of the Country. Two hundred seuentyseventy one of their Nobles at one méeting at Almesbury, being subtilly slain by the …
    With rule
    … beeing all Infidels, and the Brittaines were driuen out of the Country. Two hundred seuentyseventy one of their Nobles at one méeting at Almesbury, being subtilly slain by the …

    John Foxe · Christs Victory over Satans Tyranny · p. 21 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … manner the Lord tooke of the spirit of Moses, and put it on the seuentyseventy Elders, Numb. 11.17. whereby they were furnished with gifts of gouernment, and enabled to beare …
    With rule
    … manner the Lord tooke of the spirit of Moses, and put it on the seuentyseventy Elders, Numb. 11.17. whereby they were furnished with gifts of gouernment, and enabled to beare …

    William Perkins · Exposition of Jude · p. 80 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … comes of a farre greater Wrath? When Dauid receiued a pestilence whereof there died seuentyseventy thousand Men, it is recorded, that the Wrath of the Lord was kindled against …
    With rule
    … comes of a farre greater Wrath? When Dauid receiued a pestilence whereof there died seuentyseventy thousand Men, it is recorded, that the Wrath of the Lord was kindled against …

    Francis Rous · Oil of Scorpions · p. 8 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … be made white as Snow: and the parable teacheth, that if a sinner offendeth seuentyseventy times seuen times in a day, and as often truely repent, he shall bee …
    With rule
    … be made white as Snow: and the parable teacheth, that if a sinner offendeth seuentyseventy times seuen times in a day, and as often truely repent, he shall bee …

    Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 335 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … of the Iewish Commonwealth, our platforme agrees in substance. Their Sanedrim or Senate of seuentyseventy, to our Parliament, Counsell-Table, Starr-chamber, Exchequer-chamber, &c. Our Iustices of Assises …
    With rule
    … of the Iewish Commonwealth, our platforme agrees in substance. Their Sanedrim or Senate of seuentyseventy, to our Parliament, Counsell-Table, Starr-chamber, Exchequer-chamber, &c. Our Iustices of Assises …

    Samuel Ward · Jethros Justice of Peace · p. 53 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … Soule: to which Aquinas bendeth in the firſt part of his Summes, Queſtion the ſeuentyseventy nine, Article the twelfth: But in the thirteenth Article he concludeth, that it properly …
    With rule
    … Soule: to which Aquinas bendeth in the firſt part of his Summes, Queſtion the ſeuentyseventy nine, Article the twelfth: But in the thirteenth Article he concludeth, that it properly …

    Immanuel Bourne · The Anatomy of Conscience · p. 6 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … malicious; How often ſhall I then forgiue? ſeuen times? No Lord, more than ſo, ſeuentyseventy times ſeuen: hee that would not forgiue his brother the pence, his pounds, yea …
    With rule
    … malicious; How often ſhall I then forgiue? ſeuen times? No Lord, more than ſo, ſeuentyseventy times ſeuen: hee that would not forgiue his brother the pence, his pounds, yea …

    Henry Greenwood · The Prisoners Prayers · p. 33 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (31)

23 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 16 are listed here. 8 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Lectures Upon John 4 A03342

  • Printed
    … this Citie. And Christ giues this for a reason, why he sent forth the SeuentySeventy, because the Lords haruest was then great; God had much good corne to gather …
    With rule
    … this Citie. And Christ giues this for a reason, why he sent forth the SeuentySeventy, because the Lords haruest was then great; God had much good corne to gather …

    Arthur Hildersham · Lectures Upon John 4 · p. 376 · Open in the reader

The Shield of Righteousness A03698

  • Printed
    … and they ſhall do more then this, that are in Chriſt. For, as the SeuentySeventy returning with ioy, ſayd to Chriſt, euen the Diuels are ſubiect to vs, through …
    With rule
    … and they ſhall do more then this, that are in Chriſt. For, as the SeuentySeventy returning with ioy, ſayd to Chriſt, euen the Diuels are ſubiect to vs, through …

    Robert Horne · The Shield of Righteousness · p. 99 · Open in the reader

Miscellanies Christian and Judaical A05462

  • Printed
    … so many men, but I know not where he should find so many Angels. SeuentySeventy men are indeed named in the tenth chapter, but were all those at Babel …
    With rule
    … so many men, but I know not where he should find so many Angels. SeuentySeventy men are indeed named in the tenth chapter, but were all those at Babel …

    John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 91 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … sonnes of Israel that went downe into Egypt: (Hee set bounds of the People) SeuentySeventy tongues. Thus farre the Rabbin: Who is so confident of this number of seuentyseventy …
    With rule
    … sonnes of Israel that went downe into Egypt: (Hee set bounds of the People) SeuentySeventy tongues. Thus farre the Rabbin: Who is so confident of this number of seuentyseventy …

    John Lightfoot · Miscellanies Christian and Judaical · p. 95 · Open in the reader

Pilgrimage A10228

  • Printed
    … haue in the earth, without which varietie there would be no knowledge amongst men. SeuentySeventy men Moses tooke to himselfe. Eighty stripes are due to a drunken man. Ninety …
    With rule
    … haue in the earth, without which varietie there would be no knowledge amongst men. SeuentySeventy men Moses tooke to himselfe. Eighty stripes are due to a drunken man. Ninety …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 215 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … mis-reckoning of Times; almost all Antiquitie being carried downe the streame of the SeuentySeventy Interpreters, which adde many hundred yeares to the Hebrew Text, either of purpose, as …
    With rule
    … mis-reckoning of Times; almost all Antiquitie being carried downe the streame of the SeuentySeventy Interpreters, which adde many hundred yeares to the Hebrew Text, either of purpose, as …

    Samuel Purchas · Pilgrimage · p. 490 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Judges A10933

  • Printed
    VERS. 7. And Adonibezek ſaid, SeuentySeventy Kings hauing the thumbes of their hands, and of their feete cut off, gathered …
    With rule
    VERS. 7. And Adonibezek ſaid, SeuentySeventy Kings hauing the thumbes of their hands, and of their feete cut off, gathered …

    Richard Rogers · Commentary on Judges · p. 20 · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

  • Printed
    … in the Hebrue it is written, He ſhall lyue by hys fayth. And the SeuentySeventy haue, By my fayth. And Symmachus manifeſtly agreeth with the Hebrue veritie: for he …
    With rule
    … in the Hebrue it is written, He ſhall lyue by hys fayth. And the SeuentySeventy haue, By my fayth. And Symmachus manifeſtly agreeth with the Hebrue veritie: for he …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 17 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … might vnderſtand thoſe things which he cited out of the Prophetes: but that the SeuentySeventy added this greke worde foreign, that is, worde, and yet obſerue the Hebrue phraſe. For …
    With rule
    … might vnderſtand thoſe things which he cited out of the Prophetes: but that the SeuentySeventy added this greke worde foreign, that is, worde, and yet obſerue the Hebrue phraſe. For …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 282 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … aduerbe Meod which ſignifieth, very: whereby is noted a very nigh inward néerenes. The SeuentySeventy intepreters haue in their tranſlation, not onely, in the hart, and in the mouth …
    With rule
    … aduerbe Meod which ſignifieth, very: whereby is noted a very nigh inward néerenes. The SeuentySeventy intepreters haue in their tranſlation, not onely, in the hart, and in the mouth …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … to ſpeake, and to confeſſe God. In Hebrue is not written, Theyr ſound.] The SeuentySeventy haue thus turned it, foreign, but in Hebrue is written, Canam, and Can ſignifieth a …
    With rule
    … to ſpeake, and to confeſſe God. In Hebrue is not written, Theyr ſound.] The SeuentySeventy haue thus turned it, foreign, but in Hebrue is written, Canam, and Can ſignifieth a …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 327 · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … in the ſence they nothing at all diſagrée from it. Paul alludeth vnto the SeuentySeventy, from whome yet (as we ſhall afterward declare) he ſomwhat varieth. The greateſt difference …
    With rule
    … in the ſence they nothing at all diſagrée from it. Paul alludeth vnto the SeuentySeventy, from whome yet (as we ſhall afterward declare) he ſomwhat varieth. The greateſt difference …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · p. 338 · Open in the reader

Remains of John Boyse A16562

  • Printed
    … Iacob, which came into Aegypt, are seuentyseventy, that is, as Moses expoundeth himselfe, Deut. 10. 22. SeuentySeventy persons, and Bernard out of that text, reasoned thus with an Archbishop in France …
    With rule
    … Iacob, which came into Aegypt, are seuentyseventy, that is, as Moses expoundeth himselfe, Deut. 10. 22. SeuentySeventy persons, and Bernard out of that text, reasoned thus with an Archbishop in France …

    John Boys · Remains of John Boyse · p. 179 · Open in the reader

Texts of Scripture Chaining the Holy Chronicle A17005

  • Printed
    … and thereupon the thirde Captiuitie folowed. VVherfore fiftie ful yeres are to finyſh the SeuentySeventy, when Cyrus came vp, and made a decree to buylde the Temple againe. Cyrus …
    With rule
    … and thereupon the thirde Captiuitie folowed. VVherfore fiftie ful yeres are to finyſh the SeuentySeventy, when Cyrus came vp, and made a decree to buylde the Temple againe. Cyrus …

    Hugh Broughton · Texts of Scripture Chaining the Holy Chronicle · Open in the reader

Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 1 A68508

  • Printed
    … it ſignifieth) I will cut off, but diſperdam, I will deſtroy. So doe the SeuentySeventy Interpreters in their Greeke edition of the Bible, here tranſlating the Hebrew word not …
    With rule
    … it ſignifieth) I will cut off, but diſperdam, I will deſtroy. So doe the SeuentySeventy Interpreters in their Greeke edition of the Bible, here tranſlating the Hebrew word not …

    Sebastian Benefield · Twenty-One Sermons on Amos 1 · p. 108 · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

  • Printed
    SeuentySeventy peeces of Siluer. Some interprete it a pounde of Siluer, & other ſome, Siluer peeces …
    With rule
    SeuentySeventy peeces of Siluer. Some interprete it a pounde of Siluer, & other ſome, Siluer peeces …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · Open in the reader