Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	build_v	mount_n	zion_n	18	3	9.1833	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30018	Itinerarium totius Sacræ Scripturæ, or, The travels of the holy patriarchs, prophets, judges, kings, our Saviour Christ and his apostles, as they are related in the Old and New Testaments with a description of the towns and places to which they travelled, and how many English miles they stood from Jerusalem : also, a short treatise of the weights, monies, and measures mentioned in the Scriptures, reduced to our English valuations, quantity, and weight / collected out of the works of Henry Bunting ; and done into English by R.B.; Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae, das ist, Ein Reisebuch uber die gantze Heilige Schrifft. English. 1682	Bünting, Heinrich, 1545-1606.; Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1682 (1682)	Wing B5362A; ESTC R37168	398,143	460

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the_o child_n be_v free_a yet_o nevertheless_o etc._n etc._n from_o whence_o may_v be_v gather_v that_o he_o be_v no_o stranger_n but_o a_o inhabitant_n in_o capernaum_n it_o have_v upon_o the_o north_n side_n of_o it_o the_o three_o tribe_n ne●thalim_fw-la asser_n and_o zabulon_n upon_o the_o south_n benjamin_n juda_n dan_n and_o simeon_n upon_o the_o west_n issachar_n epharaim_n and_o the_o half_a tribe_n of_o manasses_n and_o upon_o the_o east_n reuben_n gad_n and_o the_o other_o half_a tribe_n of_o manasses_n so_o that_o our_o saviour_n christ_n dwell_v in_o the_o midst_n of_o the_o twelve_o tribe_n of_o israel_n furthermore_o it_o be_v a_o goodly_a market_n town_n and_o have_v as_o well_o relation_n to_o tyrus_n and_o sidon_n two_o town_n of_o the_o gentile_n within_o forty_o four_o mile_n of_o it_o as_o to_o jerusalem_n from_o whence_o may_v be_v verify_v that_o say_n of_o esa._n ca._n 8_o 9_o the_o land_n of_o zebulon_n and_o naphtalim_fw-la near_o the_o way_n of_o the_o sea_n 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