Countervail
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Countervail (1 Occurrence)

Esther 7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. (KJV WBS)

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Countervail (1 Occurrence)
...COUNTERVAIL. ... "Nothing doth countervail (the Revised Version (British and American)
"can be taken in exchange for") a faithful friend" (Ecclesiasticus 6:15). ...
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Damage (57 Occurrences)
... damage" (the Revised Version, margin "For our affliction is not to be compared with
the king's damage" the King James Version "could not countervail the king's ...
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Oppose (29 Occurrences)
... exhibit. 2. (n.) To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or
countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically. 3 ...
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Bondwomen (10 Occurrences)
... But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although
the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. (KJV JPS ASV DBY). ...
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Bond-men (16 Occurrences)
... But if we had been sold for bond-men and bond-women, I had held my tongue, although
the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. (WBS). ...
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Bond-women (3 Occurrences)
... But if we had been sold for bond-men and bond-women, I had held my tongue, although
the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. (WBS). ...
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Countest (3 Occurrences)

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Counterpart (2 Occurrences)

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Tongue (160 Occurrences)
... But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although
the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. (KJV DBY WBS). ...
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Enemy (134 Occurrences)
... But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although
the enemy could not countervail the king's damage. (KJV WBS). ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
COUNTERVAIL

koun-ter-val' (shawah, "equalize"): To thwart or overcome by acting against with equal force; thus, "The enemy could not countervail the king's damage" or loss (Esther 7:4 the American Standard Revised Version reads "The adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage"). "Nothing doth countervail (the Revised Version (British and American) "can be taken in exchange for") a faithful friend" (Ecclesiasticus 6:15).

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. t.) To offset; to act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.

2. (n.) Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.

Strong's Hebrew
7737. shavah -- to agree with, be like, resemble
... avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, be, make equal, lay, A
primitive root; properly, to level, ie Equalize; figuratively ...
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