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Active (4 Occurrences)
... power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; --
opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain active principles; the ...
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Propitiation (4 Occurrences)
... hilasmos, is found in the New Testament only in 1 John 2:2; John 4:10.
Here the idea is active grace, or mercy, or friendliness. ...
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Pharisees (86 Occurrences)
... The Pharisees, with him, are a philosophic sect, and not an active political
party. Their Messianic hopes are not so much as mentioned. ...
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Obedience (61 Occurrences)
... obedience through His whole life; and they have made the distinction between His
"passive obedience," yielded on the cross, and His "active obedience" in ...
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Volition
... In the New Testament "will" is chiefly the translation of thelo and boulomai, the
difference between the two being that thelo expresses an active choice or ...
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Live (3203 Occurrences)
... 12. (a.) Having life; alive; living; not dead. 13. (a.) Being in a state of ignition;
burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers. 14. ...
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Lively (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. ... 6. (adv.) In
a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously. ...
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Will (64996 Occurrences)
... In the New Testament "will" is chiefly the translation of thelo and boulomai, the
difference between the two being that thelo expresses an active choice or ...
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Exert (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To put force, ability, or anything of the nature of an active faculty; to
put in vigorous action; to bring into active operation; as, to exert the ...
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Marrow (5 Occurrences)
... of wines on the lees well refined" (Isaiah 25:6). In the Epistle to the Hebrews
the writer speaks of the word of God, which is "living, and active, and sharper ...
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Busy (13 Occurrences)
... merchant. 2. (a.) Constantly at work; diligent; active. 3 ... street. 4. (a.) Officious;
meddling; foolish active. 5. (a.) Careful; anxious. 6 ...
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Activity (11 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The state or quality of being active; nimbleness;
agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing ...
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Stirring (20 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually
employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life. ...
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Faith (769 Occurrences)
... We may word distinguish the two senses as the passive and the active; on the one
side, "fidelity," "trustworthiness"; and "faith," "trust," on the other. ...
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Gift (148 Occurrences)
... divine that the man is drawn above all natural modes of perception (the understanding
becomes "unfruitful"), and the religious nature alone is felt to be active...
biblethesaurus.org/g/gift.htm - 59k

Satan (50 Occurrences)
... The popular notion is that Satan is the enemy of man and active in misleading and
cursing humanity because of his intense hatred and opposition to God. ...
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Languages (36 Occurrences)
... moods, indicative, subjunctive, and jussive, ending in -u, -a, and -, respectively;
as well as many forms or stems, each of which had an active and passive ...
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Nehelamite (4 Occurrences)
... moods, indicative, subjunctive, and jussive, ending in -u, -a, and -, respectively;
as well as many forms or stems, each of which had an active and passive ...
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Love (703 Occurrences)
... they may be summed up in some such definition as this: Love, whether used of God
or man, is an earnest and anxious desire for and an active and beneficent ...
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Tongues (67 Occurrences)
... Important, also (and often overlooked), is the realization that God's
power is just as active in Babylon as it is in Palestine. ...
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Solomon (277 Occurrences)
... For some years before his death David was engaged in the active work of collecting
materials (1 Chronicles 29:6-9; 2 Chronicles 2:3-7) for building a temple in ...
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Justification (6 Occurrences)
... It proceeds on the imputing or crediting to the believer by God himself of the perfect
righteousness, active and passive, of his Representative and Surety ...
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Teaching (372 Occurrences)
... Heb. I, 78). The pupil was not expected to be a passive hearer but an active
participant (Ab., vi0.6; Taylor, Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, 115). ...
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Teacher (103 Occurrences)
... Heb. I, 78). The pupil was not expected to be a passive hearer but an active
participant (Ab., vi0.6; Taylor, Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, 115). ...
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Teach (172 Occurrences)
... Heb. I, 78). The pupil was not expected to be a passive hearer but an active
participant (Ab., vi0.6; Taylor, Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, 115). ...
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Faithful (136 Occurrences)
... wide; it consists, not merely in holiness and in that fellowship and communion with
God which is the very life of the soul; it is also an active force which ...
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Sanctification (13 Occurrences)
... called the formal meaning of the word; but the chief interest of Christian thought
lies in the ethical idea, sanctification considered as the active deed or ...
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Quiver (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (a.) Nimble; active. 2. (vi) To shake or move with
slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. ...
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Quicken (16 Occurrences)
... 2. (v.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to
stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken ...
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Vigorous (9 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force;
strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant. ...
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Virtue (21 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Active quality or power; capacity or power adequate to the production of
a given effect; energy; strength; potency; efficacy; as, the virtue of a ...
biblethesaurus.org/v/virtue.htm - 16k

Vigor (11 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity
for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy. ...
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Zeal (45 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person
or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor. ...
biblethesaurus.org/z/zeal.htm - 21k

Zoroastrianism
... 1. Influence on Occident: Zoroastrianism was an active, missionary religion that
has exerted a profound influence on the world's thought, all the more because ...
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Nehemiah (9 Occurrences)
... The place of his death and burial is, however, unknown. "He resembled Ezra in his
fiery zeal, in his active spirit of enterprise, and in the piety of his life ...
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Nightmonster
... There is no evidence of active participation in this belief, or even of interest
in it as such, on the part of the prophetical writer. ...
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Night-monster
... There is no evidence of active participation in this belief, or even of interest
in it as such, on the part of the prophetical writer. ...
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Ungodly (41 Occurrences)
... New Testament asebes (Romans 5:6), eg indicating that the persons so called are
both irreverent and impious): Trench says that the idea of active opposition to ...
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Operative (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Being in effect; acting; most important; surgical; exerting force, physical
or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. ...
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Justice (212 Occurrences)
... which "feared not God, and regarded not man" (Luke 18:2). In a larger sense justice
is not only giving to others their rights, but involves the active duty of ...
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Jehoiada (51 Occurrences)
... He married Jehosheba, or Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram (2 Chronicles
22:11), and took an active part along with his wife in the preservation and ...
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James (40 Occurrences)
... formalism, which made the service of God consist in washings and outward ceremonies,
whereas he reminds them (1:27) that it consists rather in active love and ...
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Joints (7 Occurrences)
... Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both ...
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Laban (52 Occurrences)
... Yet even at the end of Jacob's 20 years' residence with him he is represented as
still energetic and active (Genesis 31:19, 23), not only ready for an ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/laban.htm - 28k

Libraries
... or manuscript. An archive is a library of official documents not in active
use; a registry, a library of going documents. 1. The ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/libraries.htm - 38k

Lunatick (2 Occurrences)
... There are no data by which to determine whether, in the New Testament times, this
particular word represented a living and active belief or had passed into the ...
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Let (16815 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To cause; to make; -- used with the infinitive in the active form but in
the passive sense; as, let make, ie, cause to be made; let bring, ie, cause to ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/let.htm - 8k

Lust (42 Occurrences)
... of gain. 4. (n.) Licentious craving; sexual appetite. 5. (n.) Hence: Virility;
vigor; active power. 6. (n.) To list; to like. 7. (n ...
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Leopard (6 Occurrences)
... the lion alone in Ecclesiasticus 28:23; with the wolf alone in Habakkuk 1:8. The
leopard is smaller than the lion and the tiger, but is more active than either ...
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Lycia (1 Occurrence)
... Lycia was a stopping-place, rather than the scene of the active work of Paul, and
therefore it figures little in the earliest history of Christianity. ...
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Godhead (5 Occurrences)
... the manhood." "Godhood" seems, indeed, always to have had a tendency to appear in
such contrasts, as if the qualitative consciousness were more active in it ...
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Galatians (2 Occurrences)
... converts, who probably, under the influence of Judaizing teachers, sought to
incorporate the rites of Judaism with Christianity, and by their active zeal had ...
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Gentleness (17 Occurrences)
... kindness"; chrestos is the word translated "kind" (to the unthankful and evil, Luke
6:35), and chrestotes seems to carry in it a similar idea of active kindness ...
biblethesaurus.org/g/gentleness.htm - 13k

Wrest (8 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To tune with a wrest, or key. 4. (n.) The act of wresting; a wrench; a violent
twist; hence, distortion; perversion. 5. (n.) Active or moving power. ...
biblethesaurus.org/w/wrest.htm - 10k

Weasel (1 Occurrence)
... It is active and fearless, and preys upon all sorts of small mammals, birds and
insects. See LIZARD. Alfred Ely Day. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Wake (34 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To be exited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive
state; to be active. 6. (vt) To rouse from sleep; to awake. ...
biblethesaurus.org/w/wake.htm - 17k

Intentions (3 Occurrences)
... Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both ...
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Invalid (3 Occurrences)
... weak. 3. (n.) A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active
service; especially, one in chronic ill health. 4. (n ...
biblethesaurus.org/i/invalid.htm - 7k

Insurrection (8 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government;
open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. ...
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India (2 Occurrences)
... The people and the products of India were well known to the Jews, who seem to have
carried on an active trade with that country (Ezek. 27:15, 24). ...
biblethesaurus.org/i/india.htm - 9k

Imprisoning (1 Occurrence)
... Acts 22:19 "'Lord,' I replied, 'they themselves well know how active I was in
imprisoning, and in flogging in synagogue after synagogue those who believe in ...
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Inert (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (a.) Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances
when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired ...
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Industrious (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Steadily and perseveringly active in a particular pursuit or aim; as, he
was negligent in business, but industrious in pleasure; an industrious ...
biblethesaurus.org/i/industrious.htm - 7k

Idle (33 Occurrences)
... silly; barren. 2. (superl.) Not called into active service; not turned
to appropriate use; unemployed; as, idle hours. 3. (superl ...
biblethesaurus.org/i/idle.htm - 18k

Flogging (9 Occurrences)
... Acts 22:19 "'Lord,' I replied, 'they themselves well know how active I was in
imprisoning, and in flogging in synagogue after synagogue those who believe in ...
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Force (250 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigor; might; often, an
unusual degree of strength or energy; capacity of exercising an influence or ...
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Fiery (47 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna;
a fiery appearance. 2. (a.) Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/fiery.htm - 21k

Form (153 Occurrences)
... which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial
form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/form.htm - 45k

Tryphena (1 Occurrence)
... Tryphena and Tryphosa. Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes
in his epistle to the Romans (16:12). Multi-Version Concordance ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/tryphena.htm - 6k

Temptation (22 Occurrences)
... That temptation was not internal, but by a real, active, subtle being. It was not
self-sought. It was submitted to as an act of obedience on his part. ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/temptation.htm - 30k

Tryphosa (1 Occurrence)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Tryphena and Tryphosa. Two female Christians, active workers,
whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12). Int. ...
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Two-edged (7 Occurrences)
... Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both ...
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Transfiguration
... TRANSFIGURATION. (1) About midway of His active ministry Jesus, accompanied by Peter,
James and John, withdrew to a high mountain apart (probably Mt. ...
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Take (11064 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) In an active sense; To lay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise;
to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and ...
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Trachonitis (1 Occurrence)
... rounded rocks were occasionally seen by the wayside, like gigantic black soap bubbles
blown up by the subterranean steam and gases of the active volcanic age ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/trachonitis.htm - 13k

Robbery (18 Occurrences)
... Properly speaking, the termination -mos should give the derived noun an active sense,
"the act of plundering," whence the King James Version's "robbery." The ...
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Rising (162 Occurrences)
... rising character. 4. (a.) Growing; advancing to adult years and to the
state of active life; as, the rising generation. 5. (prep ...
biblethesaurus.org/r/rising.htm - 36k

Radiant (14 Occurrences)
... running stream), to flow, ie (figurative) assemble; flow (together), be lightened):
the American Standard Revised Version substitutes the active "radiant" for ...
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Robber (14 Occurrences)
... Properly speaking, the termination -mos should give the derived noun an active sense,
"the act of plundering," whence the King James Version's "robbery." The ...
biblethesaurus.org/r/robber.htm - 13k




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