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Acquire (18 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (vt) To gain as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches,
knowledge, skill, good or bad habits. ...Acquire (18 Occurrences). ...
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Purchase (25 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. ...
5. (vt) To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance. ...
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Gain (142 Occurrences)
... acquisition; accumulation. 5. (n.) To get, as profit or advantage; to obtain
or acquire by effort or labor; as, to gain a good living. 6. (n ...
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Buy (71 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or
consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a ...
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Cattle (277 Occurrences)
... kat'-'-l (behemah, "a dumb beast"; miqneh, "a possession" from qanah, "to acquire"
(compare Arabic qana', "to acquire," and Greek kienos, "beast," and plural ...
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Learn (76 Occurrences)
... or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive
instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or ...
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Get (2204 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To procure; to obtain; to gain possession of; to acquire; to earn; to obtain
as a price or reward; to come by; to win, by almost any means; as, to get ...
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Ignorance (27 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire
and it is his duty to have. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. IGNORANCE. ...
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Favour (171 Occurrences)
... 24:27 But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as
his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour ...
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Acquired (32 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Acquire. Multi-Version Concordance
Acquired (32 Occurrences). Acts 1:18 Now this man obtained ...
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Obtain (63 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To hold; to keep; to possess. 2. (vt) To get hold
of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. ...
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Oblige (1 Occurrence)
... 24:27 But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as
his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour ...
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Obliging (2 Occurrences)
... Acts 25:9 But Festus, desirous of obliging the Jews, to acquire their favour, answering
Paul, said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be judged ...
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Live (3203 Occurrences)
... or faith. 8. (vi) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to
subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils. 9. (vi ...
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Getting (151 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 13:1, the Revised Version (British and American) "buy"); matsa' "to find"
(Numbers 31:50 2 Samuel 20:6); rakhash, "to acquire," "gain" (Genesis 31:18 ...
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Inherit (98 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from
ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong ...
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Find (1784 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to
find means. 7. (vt) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. ...
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Take (11064 Occurrences)
... 9. (vt) To assume; to adopt; to acquire, as shape; to permit to one's self; to indulge
or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as ...
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Rust (7 Occurrences)
... become oxidized. 8. (vi) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called
rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants. 9. (vi ...
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Relieved (8 Occurrences)
... 24:27 But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as
his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour ...
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Realize (29 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To acquire as an actual possession; to obtain as the result of plans and
efforts; to gain; to get; as, to realize large profits from a speculation. ...
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Exercise (35 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Exertion for the sake of training or improvement whether physical, intellectual,
or moral; practice to acquire skill, knowledge, virtue, perfectness ...
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Earn (6 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To acquire by labor, service, or performance; to deserve and receive as
compensation or wages; as, to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels. ...
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Damn
... an accused person. It can only acquire the sense of "judging guilty" or
"condemning" from the context. (3) katakrino, translated ...
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Damnation (11 Occurrences)
... an accused person. It can only acquire the sense of "judging guilty" or
"condemning" from the context. (3) katakrino, translated ...
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Damnable (1 Occurrence)
... an accused person. It can only acquire the sense of "judging guilty" or
"condemning" from the context. (3) katakrino, translated ...
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Desirous (31 Occurrences)
... Acts 25:9 But Festus, desirous of obliging the Jews, to acquire their favour, answering
Paul, said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be judged ...
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Merit (5 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) To reward. 6. (vi) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit;
to profit. Multi-Version Concordance Merit (5 Occurrences). ...
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Miracles (65 Occurrences)
... Mark 6:2 On the Sabbath He proceeded to teach in the synagogue; and many, as they
heard Him, were astonished. "Where did he acquire all this?" they asked. ...
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Marvellous (36 Occurrences)
... Mark 6:2 On the Sabbath He proceeded to teach in the synagogue; and many, as they
heard Him, were astonished. "Where did he acquire all this?" they asked. ...
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Perform (155 Occurrences)
... Mark 6:2 On the Sabbath He proceeded to teach in the synagogue; and many, as they
heard Him, were astonished. "Where did he acquire all this?" they asked. ...
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Proceeded (72 Occurrences)
... Mark 6:2 On the Sabbath He proceeded to teach in the synagogue; and many, as they
heard Him, were astonished. "Where did he acquire all this?" they asked. ...
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Procure (5 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession
of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get ...
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Proficiency (1 Occurrence)
... of being proficient in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression
in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music ...
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Practice (71 Occurrences)
... 12. (vt) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire
discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music. 13. ...
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Peak (1 Occurrence)
... a peak. 7. (vi) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look
thin or sickly. 8. (vi) To pry; to peep slyly. 9. (vt ...
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Completed (109 Occurrences)
... 24:27 But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as
his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour ...
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Color (18 Occurrences)
... 11. (vt) To hide. 12. (vi) To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face;
to blush. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. COLOR; COLORS. ...
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Contract (3 Occurrences)
... to knit. 3. (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit;
to contract a debt; to contract a disease. 4. (n.) To ...
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Captivate (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate;
to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Anthony; the orator captivated all ...
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Cain (18 Occurrences)
... kan (qayin, "spear" or "smith," resembling in sound the root qanah, "get," "acquire,"
Genesis 4:1 the Revised Version, margin, but not necessarily derived from ...
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Crucifixion (4 Occurrences)
... This was regarded as the most horrible form of death, and to a Jew it would
acquire greater horror from the curse in Deuteronomy 21:23. ...
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Canonicity
... have been taken simply as given, and no attempt has been made to inquire how or
when they were written or compiled, or how they came to acquire the dignity and ...
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Compare (22 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) Comparison. 7. (n.) Illustration by comparison; simile. 8. (vt) To get;
to procure; to obtain; to acquire. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. COMPARE. ...
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Coin (9 Occurrences)
... medal. 5. (vt) To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin
a word. 6. (vt) To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. 7 ...
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Conquer (12 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to
gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by ...
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Attain (30 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass;
as, to attain rest. 2. (vt) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire. ...
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Acquainting (1 Occurrence)

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Step (41 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). 1 Timothy 3:13 for those who did minister well a good step to themselves
do acquire, and much boldness in faith that 'is' in Christ Jesus. (YLT). ...
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Silver (329 Occurrences)
... 13. (vt) To make hoary, or white, like silver. 14. (vi) To acquire a silvery
color. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. PIECE OF SILVER. ...
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Seek (368 Occurrences)
... to beseech. 4. (vt) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim
at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life. 5. (vt ...
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Secure (78 Occurrences)
... 8. (vt) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly;
as, to secure an estate. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. SECURE; SECURITY. ...
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Scrape (3 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To collect by, or as by, a process of scraping; to gather in small portions
by laborious effort; hence, to acquire avariciously and save penuriously ...
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Successor (10 Occurrences)
... 24:27 But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as
his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour ...
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Botany
... a height of 300, or even 400 ft., but time is required, and it may be that eventually
many of the eucalypti of the Holy Land will also acquire giant proportions ...
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Wisdom (320 Occurrences)
... Certainly at this time Israel was endeavoring to acquire a culture of her own, and
there is no reason to question that Solomon had given it a powerful stimulus ...
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Image (126 Occurrences)
... by the "image" the mental and moral endowments native to man, and by the "likeness"
the Divine perfections which man can only gradually acquire by free ...
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Witness (295 Occurrences)
... In Acts 22:20 Revelation 2:13; Revelation 17:6 the word martus, "witness", seems
to be beginning to acquire the meaning of "martyr," as in the King James ...
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Paraclete
... In some cases it is best to adopt the Christian term itself, in our translations,
and let the word slowly acquire its own proper significance in our thought ...
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Ransom (46 Occurrences)
... it" (in the Revised Version (British and American) "and he be waxed rich and find
sufficient to redeem it"), is literally, "and his hand shall acquire and he ...
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Nahum (3 Occurrences)
... "If," says AB Davidson, "the distress of Nineveh referred to were the final one,
the descriptions of the prophecy would acquire a reality and naturalness which ...
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Chariot (102 Occurrences)
... for himself chariots and horsemen with a view to contest the throne of his father
(1 Kings 1:5). But Solomon was the first in Israel to acquire chariots and ...
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Holding (62 Occurrences)
... hol'-ding: Occurs with various shades of meaning: (1) as the translation of tamakh,
"to acquire," it has the sense of taking, obtaining (Isaiah 33:15, the ...
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Greece (15 Occurrences)
... are not closely connected with any one phenomenon of Nature or human life, though
Zeus has to do with the sky, and Apollo and Artemis acquire a connection with ...
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Ancient (64 Occurrences)
... are not closely connected with any one phenomenon of Nature or human life, though
Zeus has to do with the sky, and Apollo and Artemis acquire a connection with ...
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Teaching (372 Occurrences)
... destined to occupy a high seat among the ancients (Daniel 12:3). The scribes were
secretaries or copyists of the sacred Law, and would thus acquire at least an ...
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Teacher (103 Occurrences)
... destined to occupy a high seat among the ancients (Daniel 12:3). The scribes were
secretaries or copyists of the sacred Law, and would thus acquire at least an ...
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Teach (172 Occurrences)
... destined to occupy a high seat among the ancients (Daniel 12:3). The scribes were
secretaries or copyists of the sacred Law, and would thus acquire at least an ...
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Harden (22 Occurrences)
... unimpressionable. 3. (vi) To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity,
or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. 4. (vi ...
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Acquiring (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Acquire. Multi-Version
Concordance Acquiring (4 Occurrences). 1 Thessalonians 5:9 ...
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Bible
... have been taken simply as given, and no attempt has been made to inquire how or
when they were written or compiled, or how they came to acquire the dignity and ...
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Anem (1 Occurrence)
... "If," says AB Davidson, "the distress of Nineveh referred to were the final one,
the descriptions of the prophecy would acquire a reality and naturalness which ...
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Religion (23 Occurrences)

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