Commerce
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Commerce

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Commerce (3 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. COMMERCE. ... 1. Early Overland Commerce: There were
forces in early Hebrew life not favorable to the development of commerce. ...
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Trade (33 Occurrences)
... 4. (v.) Specifically: The act or business of exchanging commodities by barter,
or by buying and selling for money; commerce; traffic; barter. ...
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Cinnamon (4 Occurrences)
... There is no trace of it in Egypt, and it was unknown in Syria. The inner rind when
dried and rolled into cylinders forms the cinnamon of commerce. ...
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Commercial (1 Occurrence)
... (a.) of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade;
mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. ...
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Ships (46 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Early used in foreign commerce by the Phoenicians (Genesis
49:13). ... The same partnership existed for the commerce of the West. ...
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Boats (11 Occurrences)
... Joppa. From this cooperation in the building of the Temple there grew up
a larger connection in the pursuit of sea-borne commerce. ...
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Dispersion (4 Occurrences)
... Phrygia and Lydia. (4.) From Asia Minor many Jews moved into Greece and
Macedonia, chiefly for purposes of commerce. In the apostles ...
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Esarhaddon (3 Occurrences)
... and destroyed. He built another city upon the same site, which he called
Kar-Esarhaddon, and endeavored to revive its commerce. And ...
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Merchandise (34 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought
or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities. ...
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Maritime (1 Occurrence)
... on, or situated near, the ocean; as, the Maritime Provinces of Canada; connected
with the sea by site, interest, or power; having shipping and commerce or a ...
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Myrrh (22 Occurrences)
... 13). Mor is generally identified with the "myrrh" of commerce, the dried
gum of a species of balsam (Balsamodendron myrrha). This ...
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Pannag (1 Occurrence)
... PANNAG. pan'-ag (pannagh; kasia; Ezekiel 27:17 margin, "Perhaps a kind of
confection"): One of the articles of commerce of Judah and Israel. ...
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Phenicia (1 Occurrence)
... Phoenicia lay in the very centre of the old world, and was the natural entrepot
for commerce with foreign nations. It was the "England ...
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Buying (12 Occurrences)
... Nomads. 1. The Primitive Stage; (the "Shop"): Among primitive races and
nomads there can be, of course, no organized commerce. Yet ...
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Cassia (3 Occurrences)
... (1.) Hebrew kiddah', ie, "split." One of the principal spices of the holy anointing
oil (Exodus 30:24), and an article of commerce (Ezek. 27:19). ...
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Asher (43 Occurrences)
... land assigned to Asher sloped to the Phoenician seaboard, and brought him into touch
with the Phoenicians who were already world-famous in trade and commerce. ...
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Nabathaeans
... Later, however, they seem to have imbibed considerable Aramean culture, and Aramaic
became at least the language of their commerce and diplomacy. ...
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Nabataeans
... Later, however, they seem to have imbibed considerable Aramean culture, and Aramaic
became at least the language of their commerce and diplomacy. ...
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Phoenicians
... fe-nish'-ia, fe-nish'-anz: 1. The Land 2. The Colonies 3. The People 4. Arts and
Manufactures 5. Commerce and Trade 6. Language and Culture 7. Religion 8 ...
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Phoenicia (6 Occurrences)
... fe-nish'-ia, fe-nish'-anz: 1. The Land 2. The Colonies 3. The People 4. Arts and
Manufactures 5. Commerce and Trade 6. Language and Culture 7. Religion 8 ...
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Library
... CONTENTS 1. Philology 2. Astronomy and Astrology 3. Religious Texts 4. Law 5. Science
6. Literature 7. History and Chronology 8. Commerce 9. Letters I. The ...
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Commentary (2 Occurrences)

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Tyre (59 Occurrences)
... and more illustrious history. The commerce of the whole world was gathered
into the warehouses of Tyre. "Tyrian merchants were the ...
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Zidon (25 Occurrences)
... 1, 33). This city was famous for its manufactures and arts, as well as
for its commerce (1 Kings 5:6; 1 Chronicles 22:4; Ezek. 27 ...
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Know (8133 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To recognize; to distinguish; to discern the character of; as, to know
a person's face or figure. 6. (vi) To have sexual commerce with. ...
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Negotiate (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (vi) To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat
with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences. ...
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Navigate (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To journey; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator;
to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication ...
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Nahum (3 Occurrences)
... Nineveh was a city of vast extent, and was then the centre of the civilzation and
commerce of the world, a "bloody city all full of lies and robbery" (Nahum 3:1 ...
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Unlawful (9 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 16:34 And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy unlawful commerce,
whereas none followeth thee to commit lewdness: and in that thou givest a ...
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Oil (281 Occurrences)
... It was one of the most valuable products of the country (Deuteronomy 32:13; Ezek.
16:13), and formed an article of extensive commerce with Tyre (27:17). ...
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Joppa (14 Occurrences)
... took it "for a haven, and made it an entrance for the isles of the sea," the Jews
thus possessing for the first time a seaport through which commerce might be ...
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Jehoshaphat (79 Occurrences)
... Again he entered into an alliance with Ahaziah, the king of Israel, for
the purpose of carrying on maritime commerce with Ophir. ...
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Latin (2 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. LATIN. lat'-in: Was the official language
of the Roman Empire as Greek was that of commerce. In ...
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Lod (4 Occurrences)
... Jerusalem and the East. Its position on these great arteries of commerce
meant trade for the inhabitants. "The manufacture and repair ...
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Loan (9 Occurrences)
... At a later period of the Hebrew commonwealth, when commerce increased, the practice
of exacting usury or interest on loans, and of suretiship in the commercial ...
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Lydda (3 Occurrences)
... Jerusalem and the East. Its position on these great arteries of commerce
meant trade for the inhabitants. "The manufacture and repair ...
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Lignaloes
... heart wood; logs are buried, the outer part decays while the inner, saturated with
the resin, forms the "eagle wood" or "aloe wood" of commerce; "aloes" being ...
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War (529 Occurrences)
... between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defense, for revenging
insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the ...
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Whore (14 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A woman who practices unlawful sexual commerce with men, especially
one who prostitutes her body for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. ...
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Income (7 Occurrences)
... business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of
houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of ...
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Intercourse (6 Occurrences)
... or dealings between persons or nations, as in common affairs and civilities, in
correspondence or trade; communication; commerce; especially, interchange of ...
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Import (2 Occurrences)
... from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country
from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to export ...
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Inland (1 Occurrence)
... Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within the seashore boundary; not passing
on, or over, the sea; as, inland transportation, commerce, navigation, etc. ...
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Incest (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between
persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. ...
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Frankincense (22 Occurrences)
... This frankincense, or olibanum, used by the Jews in the temple services is not to
be confounded with the frankincense of modern commerce, which is an exudation ...
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Friend (139 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the
like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an ...
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Feast (209 Occurrences)
... before him as one body; the meeting was in its own nature a binding of themselves
in fellowship with Jehovah; so that it was not politics and commerce that had ...
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Trader (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and
selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Indies ...
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Traffic (12 Occurrences)
... 4. (v.) Commerce, either by barter or by buying and selling; interchange of goods
and commodities; trade. 5. (v.) Commodities of the market. ...
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Trafficker (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader;
a merchant. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TRAFFIC, TRAFFICKER. ...
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Trading (24 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trade. 2. (a.) Carrying on trade or commerce; engaged
in trade; as, a trading company. 3. (a.) Frequented by traders. ...
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Revival (1 Occurrence)
... the like. 6. (n.) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state of
something, as of commerce, arts, agriculture. 7. (n.) Renewed ...
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Respect (204 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To regard; to consider; to deem. 5. (vt) To have regard to; to have reference
to; to relate to; as, the treaty particularly respects our commerce. ...
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Empty (84 Occurrences)
... 8. (superl.) Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; as, empty dreams.
9. (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. ...
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East (228 Occurrences)
... that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite
article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of ...
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Essay (1 Occurrence)
... usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay
on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce. ...
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Exportation (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of exporting; the act of conveying or
sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce. ...
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External (8 Occurrences)
... 5. (a.) Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations; as, external trade
or commerce; the external relations of a state or kingdom. ...
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Extend (35 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities,
the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to ...
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Decapolis (3 Occurrences)
... and Gadara." Such combinations of Greek cities arose as Rome assumed dominion in
the East, to promote their common interests in trade and commerce, and for ...
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Derbe (4 Occurrences)
... It was the last city on distinctively Roman territory, on the road leading from
Southern Galatia to the East; it was here that commerce entering the province ...
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Manna (19 Occurrences)
... The manna of European commerce comes chiefly from Calabria and Sicily. It drops
from the twigs of a species of ash during the months of June and July. ...
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Merchant (15 Occurrences)
... MERCHANT; MERCHANTMAN. mur'-chant, mur'-chant-man. See COMMERCE; MERCHANDISE;
TRADE. Multi-Version Concordance Merchant (15 Occurrences). ...
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Mercury (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with
the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower ...
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Puteoli (1 Occurrence)
... exist. The shore line devoted to purposes of commerce (emporium) extended
for a distance of about 1 1/4 miles westward from the mole. ...
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By (30426 Occurrences)
... way, process, etc.; through means of; with aid of; through; through the act or agency
of; as, a city is destroyed by fire; profit is made by commerce; to take ...
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Bind (68 Occurrences)
... authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the
conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations ...
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Citron (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick
rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce. 2. (n.) A citron tree. ...
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Chamber (73 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association;
as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce. ...
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Cos (1 Occurrence)
... It soon became a flourishing place of commerce and industry; later, like Corinth,
it was one of the Jewish centers of the Aegean, as well as one of the ...
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Corinth (13 Occurrences)
... Timoleon. Harbors are few on the Corinthian Gulf. Hence, no other city could
wrest the commerce of these waters from Corinth. According ...
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Chaldee
... It was the language of commerce and of social intercourse in Western Asia, and after
the Exile gradually came to be the popular language of Palestine. ...
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Cubit (51 Occurrences)
... The ordinary cubit of commerce was shorter, and has been variously estimated at
between 16 and 18 or more inches, but the evidence of the Siloam inscription ...
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Conversation (30 Occurrences)
... behavior. 2. (n.) Familiar intercourse; intimate fellowship or association;
close acquaintance. 3. (n.) Commerce; intercourse; traffic. 4 ...
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Commission (11 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) A company of persons joined in the performance of some duty or the execution
of some trust; as, the interstate commerce commission. ...
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Colossae (1 Occurrence)
... There were many Jews living there, and a chief article of commerce, for which the
place was renowned, was the collossinus, a peculiar wool, probably of a ...
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Company (287 Occurrences)
... 12. (vi) To associate. 13. (vi) To be a gay companion. 14. (vi) To have
sexual commerce. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. COMPANY. ...
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Caperberry (1 Occurrence)
... The familiar "capers" of commerce are the young buds, but the berries were the parts
most used in ancient times; their repute as excitants of sexual desire is ...
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Cocoon (1 Occurrence)
... It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the
larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared. ...
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Aramaic (12 Occurrences)
... This affords proof that at all events before the reign of Tiglath-pileser Aramaic
was the general speech for commerce and diplomacy all over Southwest Asia. ...
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