Delay
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Delay (47 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) To allay; to temper. 5. (vi) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to
linger; to tarry. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. DELAY. ...
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Delayed (18 Occurrences)
... (imp. & pp) of Delay. ... Delayed (18 Occurrences). Matthew 24:48 And, if that evil servant
may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come, (See RSV). ...
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Respite (8 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A rest; a postponement or delay; a break. 2. (n.) Temporary intermission
of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay. ...
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Defer (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay;
as, to defer payment of a fee the execution of; to delay; to withhold. ...
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Tarry (62 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To stay or remain behind; to wait. 3. (vi) To delay; to put off going
or coming; to loiter. ... 5. (vt) To delay; to defer; to put off. ...
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Dally
... 1. (vi) To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness;
to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle. ...
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Linger (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (v.) To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in
parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate. ...
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Ready (451 Occurrences)
... journey. 2. (superl.) Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no
delay for lack of being prepared or furnished. 3. (superl ...
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Deliverer (29 Occurrences)
... You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS
YLT NAS RSV NIV). ... You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay. ...
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Needy (83 Occurrences)
... You are my help and my deliverer. Don't delay, my God. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS
YLT NAS RSV NIV). ... You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don't delay. ...
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Lord's (548 Occurrences)
... For it was felt that Christian enthusiasm would raise every day to the highest
religious plane, the decay of that enthusiasm through the long delay of the ...
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Court (172 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:25 Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with
him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the ...
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Afflicted (171 Occurrences)
... Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay. (DBY NAS). ... Thou art
my help and my deliverer: O Jehovah, make no delay. (DBY NAS). ...
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Yet (1244 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:25 Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with
him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the ...
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Quickly (254 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without
delay; quick. Multi-Version Concordance Quickly (254 Occurrences). ...
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Quick (49 Occurrences)
... 7. (superl.) Pregnant; with child. 8. (adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly;
rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick. ...
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Vengeance (63 Occurrences)
... Revelation 6:10 And now in loud voices they cried out, saying, "How long, O Sovereign
Lord, the holy One and the true, dost Thou delay judgment and the taking ...
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Voices (76 Occurrences)
... Revelation 6:10 And now in loud voices they cried out, saying, "How long, O Sovereign
Lord, the holy One and the true, dost Thou delay judgment and the taking ...
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Vowest (3 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 23:21 When thou vowest a vow to Jehovah thy God, thou shalt not delay
to perform it; for Jehovah thy God will certainly require it of thee, and it ...
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Vats (5 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Vats (5 Occurrences). Exodus 22:29 "You shall not delay
to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. ...
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Knock (7 Occurrences)
... someone within. At night the delay would be increased by the difficulty of
arousing the inmates sleeping within the inner chambers. To ...
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Urged (44 Occurrences)
... Acts 9:38 As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there,
sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. (See NIV). ...
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Urgent (12 Occurrences)
... being near Jaffa, the disciples, who had heard that Peter was at Lud, sent two men
to him with an urgent request that he would come across to them without delay...
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Outflow (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Outflow (1 Occurrence). Exodus 22:29 "You shall not delay
to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. ...
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Obtain (63 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:25 Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with
him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the ...
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Opponent (13 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:25 Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with
him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the ...
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Oneself (10 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 3:15 but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct
oneself in God's house, which is the assembly of the living God, the ...
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Outright (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (adv.) Completely; utterly; entirely. 2. (adv.) Immediately; without delay;
at once; as, he was killed outright. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Judgment-seat (10 Occurrences)
... Acts 25:17 When therefore they were come together here, I made no delay, but on
the next day sat on the judgment-seat, and commanded the man to be brought. ...
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Judgement (68 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:25 Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with
him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the ...
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Jonathan's (6 Occurrences)
... fast! Hurry! Don't delay!" Jonathan's boy gathered up the arrows, and came
to his master. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV). ...
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Japhia (5 Occurrences)
... As Joshua passed, he was informed of this, but, unwilling to delay his pursuit of
the fugitives, he ordered great stones to be rolled unto the mouth of the cave ...
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Jaffa (10 Occurrences)
... being near Jaffa, the disciples, who had heard that Peter was at Lud, sent two men
to him with an urgent request that he would come across to them without delay...
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Liquids (3 Occurrences)
... Liquids (3 Occurrences). Exodus 22:29 Thy fulness and thy liquids thou dost not
delay; the first-born of thy sons thou dost give to Me; (YLT). ...
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Late (24 Occurrences)
... 6. (a.) After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as,
he arrived late; -- opposed to early. 7. (a.) Not long ago; lately. ...
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Let (16815 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; -- common in
the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic. ...
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Liquors (1 Occurrence)
... Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of
thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. (KJV WBS). ...
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Gained (66 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Matthew 25:16 Without delay the one who had received the five talents went
and employed them in business, and gained five more. (WEY WBS NAS NIV). ...
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Griefs (7 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Psalms 127:2 Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating
the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep. (YLT). ...
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Gain (142 Occurrences)
... gain dishonestly" (Job 27:8); of one Aramaic verb, zebhan, "to buy," "procure for
oneself" (Daniel 2:8, here used of buying time, ie "seeking delay" (Gesenius ...
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Goal (7 Occurrences)
... toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it;
because it will surely come. It won't delay. (See NAS). ...
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Grant (87 Occurrences)
... remission of sins. (See NAS). Acts 24:4 But, that I don't delay you, I entreat
you to bear with us and hear a few words. (See NAS). Acts 24 ...
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Wait (223 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To cause to wait; to defer; to postpone; -- said of a meal; as, to wait
dinner. 7. (n.) The act of waiting; a delay; a halt. 8. (vi) Ambush. ...
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Weary (77 Occurrences)
... hour; (YLT). Acts 24:4 But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear
with us and hear a few words. (See NAS NIV). Galatians 6 ...
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Winepress (19 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV WEY ASV NIV). Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay the fulness of
thy threshing-floor and the outflow of thy winepress. The ...
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Imploring (8 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Acts 9:38 As Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter
was there, sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. ...
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Impatient (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless,
because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for ...
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Inhabitants (254 Occurrences)
... Revelation 6:10 And now in loud voices they cried out, saying, "How long, O Sovereign
Lord, the holy One and the true, dost Thou delay judgment and the taking ...
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Instant (19 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Pressing; urgent; importunate; earnest. 3. (a.) Closely pressing or impending
in respect to time; not deferred; immediate; without delay. ...
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Instantly (39 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (adv.) Without the least delay or interval; at once;
immediately. 2. (adv.) With urgency or importunity; earnestly; pressingly. ...
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Impatience (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance
of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for ...
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Immediately (141 Occurrences)
... 2. (adv.) Without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once.
3. (adv.) As soon as. Cf. Directly, 8, Note. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Informed (39 Occurrences)
... WEY). Mark 1:30 Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill in bed with a fever,
and without delay they informed Him about her. (WEY). Luke ...
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Felix (11 Occurrences)
... The excuse he gave for delay was the non-appearance of Lysias, but his real
reason was in order to obtain bribes for the release of Paul. ...
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Fermented (23 Occurrences)
... they have brought out from Egypt unleavened cakes, for it hath not fermented; for
they have been cast out of Egypt, and have not been able to delay, and also ...
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Forthwith (30 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (adv.) Immediately; without delay; directly.
2. (adv.) As soon as the thing required may be done by ...
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Forbear (24 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the
plural. 2. (vi) To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. ...
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Forasmuch (64 Occurrences)
... as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they
sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them. ...
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Terms (25 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:25 Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with
him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the ...
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Thrown (126 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:25 Come to terms without delay with your opponent while you are yet with
him on the way to the court; for fear he should obtain judgement from the ...
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Time (7245 Occurrences)
... 15. (vi) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. 16. (vi) To pass time;
to delay. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. LAST TIME, TIMES. ...
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Thereupon (22 Occurrences)
... 2. (adv.) On account, or in consequence, of that; therefore. 3. (adv.)
Immediately; at once; without delay. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Threshing-floor (36 Occurrences)
... Jordan. (DBY YLT). Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay the fulness of thy
threshing-floor and the outflow of thy winepress. The firstborn ...
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Realized (33 Occurrences)
... Revelation 10:7 "There shall be no further delay; but in the days when the seventh
angel blows his trumpet--when he begins to do so--then the secret purposes ...
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Ripe (29 Occurrences)
... Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of
thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. (KJV WBS). ...
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Readily (22 Occurrences)
... 1. (adv.) In a ready manner; without objection; promptly. 2. (adv.) Without
delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. ...
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Relent (15 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To soften; to dissolve. 5. (vt) To mollify ; to cause to be less harsh
or severe. 6. (n.) Stay; stop; delay. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Entreat (55 Occurrences)
... hundred years. (KJV DBY). Acts 24:4 But, that I don't delay you, I entreat
you to bear with us and hear a few words. (WEB ASV). Acts ...
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Employed (8 Occurrences)
... Employed (8 Occurrences). Matthew 25:16 Without delay the one who had received the
five talents went and employed them in business, and gained five more. (WEY). ...
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Excuse (13 Occurrences)
... for being excused; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault or irregular deportment;
apology; as, an excuse for neglect of duty; excuses for delay of payment. ...
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Entreating (10 Occurrences)
... Acts 9:38 And as Lydda was nigh unto Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was
there, sent two men unto him, entreating him, Delay not to come on unto us. ...
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Delai'ah (6 Occurrences)
Delai'ah. << Delaiah, Delai'ah. Delay >>. Multi-Version Concordance Delai'ah (6
Occurrences). ... (See RSV). << Delaiah, Delai'ah. Delay >>. Reference Bible.
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Dwell (474 Occurrences)
... places in the desert. Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (vi) To delay; to linger.
2. (vi) To abide; to remain; to continue. 3. (vi) To ...
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Directly (13 Occurrences)
... 6. (adv.) Manifestly; openly. 7. (adv.) Straightway; next in order; without
delay; immediately. 8. (adv.) Immediately after; as soon as. ...
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Detain (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To keep back or from; to withhold. 2. (vt) To restrain from proceeding;
to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident. ...
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Desiring (108 Occurrences)
... as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they
sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them. ...
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Dandle
... 2. (vt) To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. 3.
(vt) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. Int. ...
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Maid-servants (25 Occurrences)
... Luke 12:45 And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come,
and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and ...
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Moreover (356 Occurrences)
... John 13:32 Moreover God will glorify Him in Himself, and will glorify Him without
delay. (WEY). Acts 2:26 Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. ...
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Mother-in-law (16 Occurrences)
... (WEB WEY BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Mark 1:30 Now Simon's mother-in-law was ill
in bed with a fever, and without delay they informed Him about her. ...
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