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Anonymous  +  788441 Sun, 21 Jun 09 05:50 AM
Hi. I was looking at two verses, Judges 21:22 and Jeremiah 14:14, of the Bible, New International Version, and saw these words in each verse.

In Judges 21:22, I saw the words "a kindness" and in Jeremiah 14:14, the words "divinations" and "idolatries."

 

I think they are uncountable nouns. I think I can see how the word "kindness" can be made into types or instances in some sentences (I think). Here, I think it is instances that we are looking at.

 

Judges 21:22 (New International Version):

 

When their fathers or brothers complain to us, we will say to them, 'Do us a kindness by helping them, because we did not get wives for them during the war, and you are innocent, since you did  not give your daughters to them,' "

 

But it is hard to see how the words "divinations" and "idolatries" can be used in plural. Help.

 

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Mister Micawber  +  788656 Sun, 21 Jun 09 09:20 AM
Yes, kindness, divination and idolatry can be countable, as with those examples.


After many divinations, the high priest finally determined that it would rain sometime that year.

The people's idolatries of both the Greek and Roman pantheons confused the Visigoths.


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