Waiting for reviewApostrophes and possessivesCandidate #9450 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ahabsahab's

Apostrophes added or expanded, mostly possessives: gods → god's. Approve one at a time: some places are plurals.

Puritas changed it: 1,047 times in 545 works
Consistency: 99.8% (1,047 of 1,049)
Reach if approved: ~1,102 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 1,049 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,047 changes in 545 works, 99.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,047)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… at no hand abide it; ſuch words ſound in his eares like Micahs in AhabsAhab's, neuer good. Herein they differ from the godly, and leaue them alone to themſelues …
With rule
… at no hand abide it; ſuch words ſound in his eares like Micahs in AhabsAhab's, neuer good. Herein they differ from the godly, and leaue them alone to themſelues …
Thomas Granger · The Application of Scripture · p. 20 · Open in the reader
Printed
… ſo: ſo alſo in the chapter following, when he ſent to the guardians of AhabsAhab's children, willing them, if they thought it good to create one of their maſters …
With rule
… ſo: ſo alſo in the chapter following, when he ſent to the guardians of AhabsAhab's children, willing them, if they thought it good to create one of their maſters …
Samuel Hieron · Three Sermons · p. 16 · Open in the reader
Printed
… an other evill, the worship of Baal the Sidonian idoll, brought in by Iezabel (AhabsAhab's wife) 1 King. 16. What calamitie followed hereupon, he sheweth in one word: See more in …
With rule
… an other evill, the worship of Baal the Sidonian idoll, brought in by Iezabel (AhabsAhab's wife) 1 King. 16. What calamitie followed hereupon, he sheweth in one word: See more in …
Francis Johnson · A Christian Plea · p. 92 · Open in the reader
Printed
… out, too much overladen and wearied with adulterous Shichemites, tyranous Sauls, negligent Elies, cruell AhabsAhab's, proud Herods, incredulous Pharaohs; here ambition, there covetouſneſſe, every where glutony, and exceſſe.
With rule
… out, too much overladen and wearied with adulterous Shichemites, tyranous Sauls, negligent Elies, cruell AhabsAhab's, proud Herods, incredulous Pharaohs; here ambition, there covetouſneſſe, every where glutony, and exceſſe.
Sebastian Benefield · Eight Sermons at the University of Oxford · p. 42 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and seldome. To begin with 1 Kings 21.8. Where we find, That Iezabel wrote Letters in AhabsAhab's name to the Elders, and to the Nobles that were in his City, The …
With rule
… and seldome. To begin with 1 Kings 21.8. Where we find, That Iezabel wrote Letters in AhabsAhab's name to the Elders, and to the Nobles that were in his City, The …
William Pemble · The Period of the Persian Monarchy · p. 73 · Open in the reader
Printed
… and of other books of holy Scripture. For as God said to Elias in AhabsAhab's time, I haue reserued seuen thousand that neuer bowed the knee to Baal: So …
With rule
… and of other books of holy Scripture. For as God said to Elias in AhabsAhab's time, I haue reserued seuen thousand that neuer bowed the knee to Baal: So …
William Perkins · Exposition of Revelation 1-3 · p. 164 · Open in the reader
Printed
… greatest hurt, therefore I care for no more. So Naboth he cared not for AhabsAhab's wrath. So Mordecay cared not for Hamans displeasure: so did the Apostles, they cared …
With rule
… greatest hurt, therefore I care for no more. So Naboth he cared not for AhabsAhab's wrath. So Mordecay cared not for Hamans displeasure: so did the Apostles, they cared …
John Preston · Three Sermons on the Lords Supper · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… which God would stretch over Ierusalem the line of Samaria, and the leuell of AhabsAhab's house, and doe with that famous City, as a man doth with a dish …
With rule
… which God would stretch over Ierusalem the line of Samaria, and the leuell of AhabsAhab's house, and doe with that famous City, as a man doth with a dish …
Thomas Gataker · Nature and Use of Lots · p. 327 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

1 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

Exposition of 1 Thessalonians A11591

Printed
… wrought euill in the ſight of the Lord, &c. whom IEZABEL his Wife prouoked. AHABSAHAB'S ſinnes are Iezabels ſinnes; becauſe ſhee prouoked to commit them.
With rule
… wrought euill in the ſight of the Lord, &c. whom IEZABEL his Wife prouoked. AHABSAHAB'S ſinnes are Iezabels ſinnes; becauſe ſhee prouoked to commit them.
William Sclater · Exposition of 1 Thessalonians · p. 177 · Open in the reader