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Pangs (26 Occurrences)
... They tremble. Pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. ... (See RSV). Psalms
48:6 Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail. ...
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Bite (13 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. ...
10. (vi) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites. 11. ...
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Stay (221 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To stop from motion or falling; to prop; to fix firmly; to hold up; to support. ...
(vi) To hold out in a race or other contest; as, a horse stays well. ...
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Hold (500 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To have; to possess; to be in possession of; to occupy; to derive title
to; as, to hold office. ... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. HOLD. ...
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Memorial (54 Occurrences)
... Katecho, "to have or hold fast," is rendered in 1 Corinthians 15:2 the King James
Version "keep in memory," margin "hold fast," the American Standard Revised ...
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Memory (181 Occurrences)
... Katecho, "to have or hold fast," is rendered in 1 Corinthians 15:2 the King James
Version "keep in memory," margin "hold fast," the American Standard Revised ...
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Pretend (9 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To hold before, or put forward, as a cloak or disguise for something
else; to exhibit as a veil for something hidden. 3. (vt ...
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Contain (19 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To hold within fixed limits; to comprise;
to include; to enclose; to hold. 2. (vt) To have capacity ...
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Anchor (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A iron instrument which is attached to a ship by a cable (rope or chain),
and which, being cast overboard, lays hold of the earth by a fluke or hook ...
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Aloof (15 Occurrences)
... Acts 5:38 And now I tell you to hold aloof from these men and leave them
alone--for if this scheme or work is of human origin, it will come to nothing. ( ...
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Anguish (75 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT). Exodus 15:14 The peoples have heard, they tremble; pangs
have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. (See NAS NIV). ...
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Affrighted (60 Occurrences)
... Exodus 15:15 Then were the chiefs of Edom dismayed; The mighty men of Moab, trembling
taketh hold upon them: All the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. ...
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Sorrows (37 Occurrences)
... Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent. ...
shall not sorrows take hold of you, as of a woman in travail? ...
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Keep (4573 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain
in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain. ...
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Maintain (50 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain;
to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain ...
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Profession (9 Occurrences)
... (DBY). 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life,
whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/profession.htm - 11k

Pot (46 Occurrences)
... used as the translation of a number of Hebrew and Greek words whose fundamental
meaning seems to describe them as intended for the most part to hold liquid or ...
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Prize (13 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever. ... But I am pressing on, striving
to lay hold of the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me. (WEY DBY). ...
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Pause (4 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A break or paragraph in writing. 6. (n.) A hold. See 4th Hold, 7.
7 ... pauses. 9. (n.) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. 10. ...
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Profess (9 Occurrences)
... 1 Timothy 6:12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto
thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many ...
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Catch (46 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything)
in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball. ...
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Comprehend (9 Occurrences)
... This double meaning appears in two Hebrew and two Greek words which signify in turn
(1) mental or spiritual perception, (2) capacity to hold or contain, as in ...
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Carry (246 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To have or hold as a burden, while moving from place to place; to have upon
or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn ...
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Apprehend (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To take hold of with the understanding, that is, to conceive in the mind;
to become cognizant of; to understand; to recognize; to consider. ...
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Cling (35 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or
embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually ...
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Steady (10 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To make steady; to hold or keep from shaking, reeling, or falling; to make
or keep firm; to support; to make constant, regular, or resolute. ...
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Striving (33 Occurrences)
... perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize for
which also Christ has laid hold of me. (WEY). Colossians ...
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Seizes (16 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 22:28 If a man find a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be
married, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; (See NAS RSV ...
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Stand (542 Occurrences)
... foundation. 4. (n.) To occupy or hold a place; to have a situation; to be
situated or located; as, Paris stands on the Seine. 5. (n ...
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Cherish (20 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to
foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. Int. ...
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Adoni'jah (26 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). 1 Kings 1:50 And Adonijah feared because of Solomon; and he arose,
and went, and caught hold on the horns of the altar. (See RSV). ...
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Astonishment (51 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Luke 5:9 For astonishment had laid hold on him, and on all those who were
with him, at the haul of fishes which they had taken; (BBE WBS). ...
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Premillennial
... Many honest and faithful men hold that it will be introduced by the agencies now
at work, mainly by the preaching of the gospel of Christ and the extension of ...
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Keepeth (60 Occurrences)
... Ruth 3:15 And he saith, 'Give the covering which 'is' on thee, and keep hold on
it;' and she keepeth hold on it, and he measureth six 'measures' of barley, and ...
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Caught (110 Occurrences)
... Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great
oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the ...
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Prisoner (87 Occurrences)
... In Revelation 18:2, the King James Version renders this word by two different words,
namely, "hold" and "cage"; the Revised Version (British and American ...
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Millennium
... Many honest and faithful men hold that it will be introduced by the agencies now
at work, mainly by the preaching of the gospel of Christ and the extension of ...
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Seize (91 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To take possession of by force. 3. (vt) To invade suddenly; to take sudden
hold of; to come upon suddenly; as, a fever seizes a patient. ...
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Peace (523 Occurrences)
... "Peace" in the sense of silence, to hold one's peace, etc ... (WEY). Mark 1:25 And Jesus
rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. (KJV ASV DBY WBS). ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/peace.htm - 46k

Confession (22 Occurrences)
... Lay hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good
confession in the sight of many witnesses. (WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Pains (59 Occurrences)
... (BBE NAS). Job 9:28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold
me innocent. ... Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. ...
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Silence (80 Occurrences)
... Psalms 39:12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace
at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers ...
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Shoulders (38 Occurrences)
... Luke 23:26 As soon as they led Him away, they laid hold on one Simon, a Cyrenaean,
who was coming in from the country, and on his shoulders they put the cross ...
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Beside (326 Occurrences)
... (See RSV NIV). Mark 3:21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay
hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself. (KJV ASV WBS YLT RSV). ...
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Agony (20 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 1:9 And he said unto me, Stand, I pray thee, beside me, and slay me; for
anguish hath taken hold of me, because my life is yet whole in me. ...
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Quake (23 Occurrences)
... Mend its fractures, for it quakes. (Root in WEB NAS RSV). Psalms 75:3 The earth
and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah. (WEB NIV). ...
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Youth (169 Occurrences)
... Of him they laid hold, (WEY). ... Genesis 21:18 rise, lift up the youth, and lay hold
on him with thy hand, for for a great nation I set him.' (YLT). ...
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Vows (38 Occurrences)
... Numbers 30:7 and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that
he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound ...
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Vessels (210 Occurrences)
... don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and
there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of ...
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Zalmon (3 Occurrences)
... (2.) A wood near Shechem, from which Abimelech and his party brought boughs and
"put them to the hold" of Shechem, "and set the hold on fire" (Judges 9:48). ...
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Prove (83 Occurrences)
... a perverse and crooked generation. (See NIV). Romans 3:4 No, indeed; let us hold
God to be true, though every man should prove to be false. ...
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Deserting (4 Occurrences)
... when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name
was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on the ...
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Measureth (24 Occurrences)
... Ruth 3:15 And he saith, 'Give the covering which 'is' on thee, and keep hold on
it;' and she keepeth hold on it, and he measureth six 'measures' of barley, and ...
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Misuses (2 Occurrences)
... Misuses (2 Occurrences). Exodus 20:7 "You shall not take the name of Yahweh your
God in vain, for Yahweh will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. ...
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Pitchers (12 Occurrences)
... don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and
there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of ...
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Polluting (8 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 56:2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold
on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand ...
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Pisidia (2 Occurrences)
... to the Meander and Ephesus; the Seleucid kings regularly founded their cities in
Asia Minor at important strategical points, to strengthen their hold on the ...
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Pressing (16 Occurrences)
... reached perfection. But I am pressing on, striving to lay hold of the prize
for which also Christ has laid hold of me. (WEY). Titus ...
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Pots (30 Occurrences)
... And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the
washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables. ...
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Peak (1 Occurrence)
... brails, etc. 4. (n.) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within
it. 5. (n.) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill. 6 ...
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Pledges (15 Occurrences)
... Numbers 30:7 and her husband hear it, and hold his peace at her in the day that
he hears it; then her vows shall stand, and her bonds with which she has bound ...
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Boughs (29 Occurrences)
... Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great
oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the ...
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Betrayer (5 Occurrences)
... Matthew 26:48 Now the betrayer had agreed upon a sign with them, to direct them.
He had said, "The one whom I kiss is the man: lay hold of him." (WEY RSV NIV). ...
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Baptisms (4 Occurrences)
... coming' from the market-place, if they do not baptize themselves, they do not eat;
and many other things there are that they received to hold, baptisms of cups ...
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Baptismal (1 Occurrence)
... Those who recognize the right of such to baptism hold that in the normal Christian
development children of believing parents should be the subjects of Divine ...
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Buckler (19 Occurrences)
... 1 Chronicles 12:8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into
the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle ...
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Bowl (44 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A concave vessel of various forms (often
approximately hemispherical), to hold liquids, etc. 2 ...
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Clinging (4 Occurrences)
... John 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father;
but go to my brothers, and tell them,'I am ascending to my Father and ...
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Cage (3 Occurrences)
... In Revelation 18:2 we find a reference to "a hold (the King James Version "cage")
of every unclean and hateful bird." See also Ecclesiasticus 11:30. ...
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Cups (28 Occurrences)
... don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and
there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/cups.htm - 15k

Collateral (11 Occurrences)
... (WEB). Proverbs 20:16 Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger;
and hold him in pledge for a wayward woman. ...Hold it for a wayward woman! ...
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Chaldees (13 Occurrences)
... This, some hold, accords with the view of Eupolemus, because Camarina may be from
the Arabic name of the moon qamar, which refers perhaps to the fact that the ...
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Constrain (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to
constringe. ... 3. (vt) To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress. ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/constrain.htm - 9k

Cornices (1 Occurrence)
... and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house
for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold therein, and not ...
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Charge (379 Occurrences)
... 8. (vt) To place within or upon any firearm, piece of apparatus or machinery, the
quantity it is intended and fitted to hold or bear; to load; to fill; as, to ...
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Ascending (16 Occurrences)
... John 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Don't hold me, for I haven't yet ascended to my Father;
but go to my brothers, and tell them,'I am ascending to my Father and ...
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Ahithophel (17 Occurrences)
... Some hold that he was the grandfather of Bathsheba, and make much of this in forming
their estimates of him. Does the evidence sustain this view? ...
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Adversity (54 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 9:9 and they shall answer,'Because they forsook Yahweh their God, who brought
forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold of other gods ...
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Absalom's (16 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 13:20 Absalom her brother said to her, "Has Amnon your brother been with
you? But now hold your peace, my sister. He is your brother. ...
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