Cruelty
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Cruelty

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Cruelty (8 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A cruel and barbarous deed; inhuman treatment; the act of willfully causing
unnecessary pain. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CRUEL; CRUELTY. ...
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Cruel (196 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery. 4. (a.) Attended with
cruelty; painful; harsh. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CRUEL; CRUELTY. ...
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Bloody (19 Occurrences)
... cruel. 4. (a.) Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp.,
marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle. 5 ...
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Menahem (8 Occurrences)
... After a reign of about ten years (BC 771-760) he died, leaving the throne to his
son Pekahiah. His reign was one of cruelty and oppression (2 Kings 15:14-22). ...
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Adonibezek (2 Occurrences)
... He confessed that God had requited him for his like cruelty to the seventy kings
whom he had subdued (Judges 1:4-7; Comp. 1 Samuel 15:33). Int. ...
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Achan (7 Occurrences)
... In Proverbs 11:17, 29; Proverbs 15:6, 27) the word is used with intensity to
describe the results of cruelty, disloyalty, greed, wickedness. ...
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Shame (412 Occurrences)
... 54:4 Micah 2:6), confusion (Isaiah 6:7), nakedness (Isaiah 47:3 Micah 1:11),
everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:2), folly (Proverbs 18:13), cruelty (Isaiah 50:6 ...
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Savage (3 Occurrences)
... savage manners. 4. (a.) Characterized by cruelty; barbarous; fierce;
ferocious; inhuman; brutal; as, a savage spirit. 5. (n.) A ...
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Felix (11 Occurrences)
... end of a two years' term, Porcius Festus was appointed in the room of Felix (AD
60), who proceeded to Rome, and was there accused of cruelty and malversation ...
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Breathe (17 Occurrences)
... "Breathe" in English Versions of the Bible of the Old Testament requires no remark
except at Psalm 27:12 ("such as breathe out cruelty"), from yaphach, "to ...
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Oppression (67 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. (n.) That which
oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. ...
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Habitations (38 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS). Genesis 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. (KJV WBS). ...
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Obadiah (21 Occurrences)
... and the mighty men in Edom be able to avert the crushing calamity (Obadiah 1:1-9).
(2) The overthrow of Edom is due to the violence and cruelty shown toward ...
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Nero
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) A Roman emperor notorious for debauchery and barbarous
cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant. Int. ...
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Slavery (31 Occurrences)
... there were masters who disobeyed God and even abused their "brothers in bonds."
As usual the unfortunate female slave got the full measure of inhuman cruelty. ...
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Slave (148 Occurrences)
... there were masters who disobeyed God and even abused their "brothers in bonds."
As usual the unfortunate female slave got the full measure of inhuman cruelty. ...
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Xerxes (24 Occurrences)
... He was finally murdered by his vizier and left an unenviable reputation for caprice
and cruelty. For the various Biblical references see AHASUERUS. ...
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Esther (48 Occurrences)
... Scaliger long ago identified Esther with Amestris, an identification which Prideaux
rejected on account of the cruelty which Herodotus has attributed to that ...
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Kid (42 Occurrences)
... Among the various reasons assigned for this law, that appears to be the most
satisfactory which regards it as "a protest against cruelty and outraging the ...
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Urijah (29 Occurrences)
... He fled into Egypt from the cruelty of the king, but having been brought back he
was beheaded and his body "cast into the graves of the common people.". Int. ...
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Unceasing (11 Occurrences)
... your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over
you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty? (See RSV). ...
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Oppress (57 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload;
hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty. ...
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Gideon (45 Occurrences)
... of land so flagrant, that the matter of sustenance became a serious problem (Judges
6:4). The multitude of these desert hordes and the cruelty of their ...
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Wolf (4 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Hebrews zeeb, frequently referred to in Scripture
as an emblem of treachery and cruelty. Jacob's prophecy ...
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Incurable (13 Occurrences)
... your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over
you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty? (See NAS). ...
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Inhuman (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (a.) Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or
punishment. Multi-Version Concordance Inhuman (1 Occurrence). ...
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Instruments (136 Occurrences)
... provision, (YLT). Genesis 49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of
cruelty are in their habitations. (KJV DBY WBS YLT). Exodus ...
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Fatherless (44 Occurrences)
... Oppressing the fatherless is frequently mentioned as a typical act of cruelty and
injustice (compare Job 6:27; Job 22:9; Job 24:3, 1; 29:12; 31:16, 17, 21 ...
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Fierce (92 Occurrences)
... wind. 2. (superl.) Vehement in anger or cruelty; ready or eager to kill or
injure; of a nature to inspire terror; ferocious. 3. (superl ...
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Fatal (5 Occurrences)
... your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over
you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty? (WEB NIV). ...
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Ferocious (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Fierce; savage; wild; indicating cruelty; as, ferocious
look or features; a ferocious lion. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Far (2526 Occurrences)
... space or extent. 3. (a.) Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes;
as, far be it from me to justify cruelty. 4. (a.) Remote ...
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Terrible (90 Occurrences)
... phobos, "fear"): The above terms, and many others which employed, denote whatever,
by horrible aspect, or by greatness, power, or cruelty, affrights men ...
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Thorn (30 Occurrences)
... It is supposed by some that the crown of thorns placed in wanton cruelty by the
Roman soldiers on our Saviour's brow before his crucifixion was plaited of ...
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Tiphsah (2 Occurrences)
... open to him. In his wrath he massacred the Tiphsites with circumstances
of horrible cruelty (2 Kings 15:16). Khirbet Tafsah, about ...
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Teeth (50 Occurrences)
... the biter," "crusher," "molar," "jaw-teeth," "great teeth" (Job 29:17 m; Joel
1:6)). Figurative: The word is used as a synonym of reckless strength and cruelty...
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Terror (137 Occurrences)
... phobos, "fear"): The above terms, and many others which employed, denote whatever,
by horrible aspect, or by greatness, power, or cruelty, affrights men ...
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Revolting (1 Occurrence)
... & vb. n.) of Revolt. 2. (a.) Causing abhorrence mixed with disgust; exciting extreme
repugnance; loathsome; as, revolting cruelty. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Rigor (8 Occurrences)
... winter. 6. (n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness;
relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty. 7. (n ...
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Revolt (18 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; --
with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty. ...
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Endless (10 Occurrences)
... your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over
you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty? (WEB NIV). ...
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Enduring (25 Occurrences)
... with the sword. They went from place to place in sheepskins or goatskins,
enduring want, oppression and cruelty. (WEY). Hebrews 12 ...
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Explain (30 Occurrences)
... Matthew 16:21 From this time Jesus began to explain to His disciples that He must
go to Jerusalem, and suffer much cruelty from the Elders and the High Priests ...
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Drusilla (1 Occurrence)
... purpose. She was also influenced to take this step by the cruelty of Azizus
and the hatred of Bernice who was jealous of her beauty. ...
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Disgust (18 Occurrences)
... of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral
taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite ...
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Murder (41 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) To destroy; to put an end to. 4. (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as
if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English. Int. ...
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Monster (10 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness,
or cruelty. 4. (a.) Monstrous in size. 5. (vt) To make monstrous. Int. ...
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Massacre (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances
of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the ...
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Persecute (48 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty
or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to ...
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Butcher (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty;
one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle. ...
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Bitter (203 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent;
as, bitter reproach. 6. (vt) Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable. ...
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Bulrushes (3 Occurrences)
... command to throw boy babies into the river, a command which she had for three months
braved and which now she so obeyed as probably to bring the cruelty of the ...
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Breakdown (1 Occurrence)
... your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over
you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty? (See NAS). ...
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Breathing (25 Occurrences)
... "Breathe" in English Versions of the Bible of the Old Testament requires no remark
except at Psalm 27:12 ("such as breathe out cruelty"), from yaphach, "to ...
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Breath (95 Occurrences)
... "Breathe" in English Versions of the Bible of the Old Testament requires no remark
except at Psalm 27:12 ("such as breathe out cruelty"), from yaphach, "to ...
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Cheek (9 Occurrences)
... the biter," "crusher," "molar," "jaw-teeth," "great teeth" (Job 29:17 m; Joel
1:6)). Figurative: The word is used as a synonym of reckless strength and cruelty...
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Captive (123 Occurrences)
... Captives were often treated with great cruelty and indignity (1 Kings 20:32; Joshua
10:24; Judges 1:7; 2 Samuel 4:12; Judges 8:7; 2 Samuel 12:31; 1 Chronicles ...
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Cruelties (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Plural of Cruelty. Multi-Version Concordance
Cruelties (1 Occurrence). 2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa ...
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Crumb

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Aided (4 Occurrences)
... Judges 9:24 That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might
come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them ...
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Abishai (25 Occurrences)
... David understood and feared their hardness and cruelty. Abishai's best trait
was his unswerving loyalty to his kinsman, David. Edward Mack. ...
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Ammonites (97 Occurrences)
... Their hostility to Judah is shown in their joining the Chaldeans to destroy it
(2 Kings 24:2). Their cruelty is denounced by the prophet Amos 1:13, and their ...
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Ahasbai (1 Occurrence)
... daughter of Otanes, a distinguished general of Xerxes, and the grand-daughter of
Sisamnes, a notorious judge, who was put to death with great cruelty by the ...
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Antonius
... Trading upon the influence of his brother at court, his cruelty and rapacity knew
no bounds, and during his rule revolts became continuous, and marked a ...
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Ammon (100 Occurrences)
... Their hostility to Judah is shown in their joining the Chaldeans to destroy it
(2 Kings 24:2). Their cruelty is denounced by the prophet Amos 1:13, and their ...
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Clap (11 Occurrences)
... All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt
your endless cruelty? (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Hagar (15 Occurrences)
... Genesis 16:1; 21:9, 10), whom she gave to Abraham (qv) as a secondary wife (16:2).
When she was about to become a mother she fled from the cruelty of her ...
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Scourging (5 Occurrences)
... The victim was tied to a post (Acts 22:25) and the blows were applied to the back
and loins, sometimes even, in the wanton cruelty of the executioner, to the ...
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Scourge (24 Occurrences)
... The victim was tied to a post (Acts 22:25) and the blows were applied to the back
and loins, sometimes even, in the wanton cruelty of the executioner, to the ...
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Lamentations (6 Occurrences)
... city, Jerusalem, through the Chaldeans, 587-586 BC The sufferings and the anxieties
of the city, the destruction of the sanctuary, the cruelty and taunts of ...
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Injury (21 Occurrences)
... your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over
you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty? (WEB NIV). ...
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Killing (41 Occurrences)
... Judges 9:24 That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might
come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them ...
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Manasseh (140 Occurrences)
... Manasseh prisoner (BC 681) to Babylon. Such captive kings were usually
treated with great cruelty. They were brought before the ...
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Bethlehem (49 Occurrences)
... From this town came those famous "sons of Zeruiah," David's nephews, whose loyalty
and whose ruthless cruelty became at once a protection and a menace to their ...
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Palestine (1 Occurrence)
... The cruelty and opression of the successors of Antiochus at length led to the revolt
under the Maccabees (BC 163), when they threw off the Syrian yoke. ...
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Tiberius (1 Occurrence)
... It is true that Pilate was sent to Rome by the governor of Syria to answer to a
charge of unjustifiable cruelty, but Tiberius died before Elate reached Rome. ...
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Pontius (4 Occurrences)
... their blood. They returned his hatred with cordiality, and accused him of
every crime, maladministration, cruelty, and robbery. He ...
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Pilate (60 Occurrences)
... their blood. They returned his hatred with cordiality, and accused him of
every crime, maladministration, cruelty, and robbery. He ...
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Foes (95 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Psalms 27:12 Don't deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for
false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty. ...
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Threescore (87 Occurrences)
... Judges 9:24 That the cruelty done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might
come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them ...
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