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  • He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!”

    Do You Know Who I Am? Angela Thomas 2010

  • He took the young girl by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!”

    101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

  • He took the young girl by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!”

    101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

  • He took the young girl by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!”

    101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

  • He took the young girl by the hand and said to her, “Talitha koum!”

    101 Amazing Truths about Jesus Mark Littleton 2007

  • 9: 34 PM koum said ... yet you see the biggest part of the unkown is not the good people's circle ...

    The unknown is scary. Jessica Hagy 2006

  • 005: 041 Then, taking her by the hand, He says to her, "Talitha, koum;" that is to say, "Little girl, I command you to wake!"

    Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Mark Richard Francis Weymouth 1862

  • Though the words found but once in the New Testament (apax legomena) are not relatively numerous in the Second Gospel, they are often remarkable; we meet with words rare in later Greek such as (eiten, paidiothen, with colloquialisms like (kenturion, xestes, spekoulator), and with transliterations such as korban, taleitha koum, ephphatha, rabbounei

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

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