Obscurity
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Obscurity (10 Occurrences)
... uncertainty. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. OBSCURITY. ob ... darkness.".
Multi-Version Concordance Obscurity (10 Occurrences). Hebrews ...
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Shadow (72 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent
on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays ...
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Gloom (29 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade;
obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight. ...
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Shade (67 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays
of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the ...
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Observance (8 Occurrences)

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Darkness (177 Occurrences)
... 30:18). The "day of darkness" in Joel 2:2, caused by clouds of locusts, is a
symbol of the obscurity which overhangs all divine proceedings. ...
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Version
... (1.) The oldest of these is the Septuagint, usually quoted as the LXX. The origin
of this the most important of all the versions is involved in much obscurity. ...
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Nabathaeans
... XVII, iii, 2; BJ, I, vi, 2, etc.). Their earlier history is shrouded in
obscurity. Jerome, Quaeat in Genesis 25:13, following the ...
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Noon-day (8 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 58:10 and if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul: then shall thy light rise in darkness, and thine obscurity be as the ...
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Nabataeans
... XVII, iii, 2; BJ, I, vi, 2, etc.). Their earlier history is shrouded in
obscurity. Jerome, Quaeat in Genesis 25:13, following the ...
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Noonday (13 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 58:10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the ...
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Night (3322 Occurrences)
... starlight, or artificial light. 2. (n.) Darkness; obscurity; concealment. 3.
(n.) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance. 4. (n.) A ...
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Obscureth (1 Occurrence)

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Obscure (7 Occurrences)
... illustrious. 7. (vi) To conceal one's self; to hide; to keep dark. 8. (n.)
Obscurity. Multi-Version Concordance Obscure (7 Occurrences). ...
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Overtaketh (6 Occurrences)
... 59:9 Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness overtaketh us not: we wait
for light, and behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. ...
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Jesus (10891 Occurrences)
... "Each of these years had peculiar features of its own. (1.) The first year may be
called the year of obscurity, both because the records of it which we possess ...
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Jael (6 Occurrences)
... Jael emerges from obscurity by this single deed, and by the kindest construction
can hardly be said to have reached an enviable fame. ...
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Jareb (2 Occurrences)
... ja'-reb, jar'-eb (yarebh, "let him contend"; Septuagint Iareim): 1. Obscurity of
the Name: Is mentioned twice in Hosea (5:13; 10:6) as an Assyrian king who ...
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Golden (86 Occurrences)
... The origin of animal worship is hidden in obscurity, but reverence for the bull
and cow is found widespread among the most ancient historic cults. ...
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Gloomy (10 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (superl.) Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through
obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. ...
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Grope (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person,
by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel ...
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Whiteness (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The quality or state of being white; white
color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface. ...
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Illuminate (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (vt) To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason;
to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty. ...
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Involve (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine. 2. (vt) To envelop completely;
to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity. ...
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Illustration (3 Occurrences)
... distinct. 2. (n.) That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended
to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity. 3 ...
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Furthest (3 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Job 28:3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound,
the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. (WEB JPS ASV). ...
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Revive (31 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) Hence, to recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression;
as, classical learning revived in the fifteenth century. ...
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Recesses (5 Occurrences)
... (DBY NAS). Job 28:3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest
bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. (See NIV). ...
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Righteousness (442 Occurrences)
... The meaning of some of these rites is lost in obscurity, but from a very early period
the characteristic of Hebrew righteousness is that it moves in the ...
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Egypt (596 Occurrences)
... the time of the Fourth Dynasty. After the fall of the Old Empire came a
period of decline and obscurity. This was followed by the ...
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Expound (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To lay open the meaning of; to explain; to clear of obscurity; to interpret;
as, to expound a text of Scripture, a law, a word, a meaning, or a riddle. ...
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Emerge (2 Occurrences)
... view or existence; to appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun
emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity...
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Ezekiel (4 Occurrences)
... Jerome calls the book `a labyrith of the mysteries of God.' It was because of this
obscurity that the Jews forbade any one to read it till he had attained the ...
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Explain (30 Occurrences)
... 2. (v.) To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound;
to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the ...
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Explanation (9 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing
from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in ...
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Dusk (21 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight;
as, the dusk of the evening. 3. (n.) A darkish color. 4. (vt) To make dusk. ...
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Declarer (1 Occurrence)
... Amos 4:13 For, lo, the former of mountains, and creator of wind, And the declarer
to man what 'is' His thought, He is making dawn obscurity, And is treading on ...
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Dark (234 Occurrences)
... suspicious. 6. (a.) Deprived of sight; blind. 7. (n.) Absence of light; darkness;
obscurity; a place where there is little or no light. 8 ...
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Declare (346 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To make clear; to free from obscurity. 2.
(vt) To make known by language; to communicate or manifest ...
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Dimness (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The state or quality / being dim; lack of
brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity. ...
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Death-shade (16 Occurrences)
... Job 10:22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no
order, And the shining 'is' as thick darkness.' (YLT). Job ...
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Midday (11 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 58:10 and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thine obscurity be as ...
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Mizraim (5 Occurrences)
... to the children of Ham. The origin and significance of this name are involved
in much obscurity. Two improbable etymologies and ...
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Pontus (3 Occurrences)
... The first points in the earliest history of Pontus emerge from obscurity, much as
the mountain peaks of its own noble ranges lift their heads above a fog bank. ...
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Pestle (1 Occurrence)
... The pestilence is said to walk in darkness (Psalm 91:6) on account of its sudden
onset out of obscurity not associated with any apparent cause. See MORTAR. ...
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Pestilence (57 Occurrences)
... The pestilence is said to walk in darkness (Psalm 91:6) on account of its sudden
onset out of obscurity not associated with any apparent cause. ...
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Proffer (1 Occurrence)
... Isaiah 58:10 and thou proffer thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul: then shall thy light rise in the darkness, and thine obscurity be as ...
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Brightness (36 Occurrences)
... 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look
for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity. ...
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Background (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red
hangings. 4. (n.) A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight. ...
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Blackest (5 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Job 28:3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest
bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. (See NIV). ...
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Clear (641 Occurrences)
... 16. (vt) To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse. 17. (vt) To free from
obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. 18. ...
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Amos (12 Occurrences)
... At this period Amos was called from his obscurity to remind the people of the law
of God's retributive justice, and to call them to repentance. ...
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Ashurbanipal (1 Occurrence)
... destroyed himself in the flames. There is much obscurity about the last
years of Ashurbanipal's reign. The decadence of Assyria ...
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Acre (1 Occurrence)
... There is here an alleged obscurity and uncertainty in the text, but it is not such
as to affect either the translation or the nature of the event. ...
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Ascertain (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity,
doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine. ...
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Searches (11 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Job 28:3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest
bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. (WEB NAS NIV). ...
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Shines (15 Occurrences)
... (DBY). Job 10:22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and
no order, And the shining 'is' as thick darkness.' (See NAS). ...
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Shadowing (3 Occurrences)
... anything fleeting or transient, as of the days of man's life on earth (1 Chronicles
29:15 Job 8:9 Psalm 109:23); (3) with the idea of obscurity or imperfection ...
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Take (11064 Occurrences)
... An occasional obscurity is thus caused, as in Genesis 27:3, "take me venison" for
"hunt venison for me." "To take advice" (2 Chronicles 25:17; the King James ...
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Satisfy (32 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 58:10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the ...
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Deaf (22 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Isaiah 29:18 In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and
the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness. ...
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Treading (26 Occurrences)
... Amos 4:13 For, lo, the former of mountains, and creator of wind, And the declarer
to man what 'is' His thought, He is making dawn obscurity, And is treading on ...
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Noon (30 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 58:10 and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted
soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the ...
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Calf (39 Occurrences)
... The origin of animal worship is hidden in obscurity, but reverence for the bull
and cow is found widespread among the most ancient historic cults. ...
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Philip (37 Occurrences)
... Owing to confusion with Philip the evangelist, there is much obscurity in the accounts
of Apocrypha literature concerning the earlier missionary activities of ...
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Chemosh (8 Occurrences)
... 8. Parallels between Inscription and Old Testament Record: Naturally enough there
is considerable obscurity in local and personal allusions. ...
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Creator (19 Occurrences)
... Amos 4:13 For, lo, the former of mountains, and creator of wind, And the declarer
to man what 'is' His thought, He is making dawn obscurity, And is treading on ...
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Discomfiture (6 Occurrences)
... Tradition which runs back into the first half of the 2nd century appears to favor
it, though much uncertainty and obscurity still surround the earliest ages of ...
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Tithe (30 Occurrences)
... not. The whole subject is involved in considerable obscurity, which with
our present information cannot easily be cleared away. ...
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Shining (115 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Job 10:22 A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and
no order, And the shining 'is' as thick darkness.' (YLT). ...
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Sets (80 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Job 28:3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest
bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. (WEB). ...
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Apocryphal
... not preserved in the canonical Acts were eagerly accepted, and as the actual history
of the individual apostles was largely shrouded in obscurity, legends were ...
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Reuben (73 Occurrences)
... At any rate, when disruption came they joined the Northern Kingdom (1 Kings 11:31).
The subsequent history of the tribe is left in much obscurity. ...
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General (9 Occurrences)
... not preserved in the canonical Acts were eagerly accepted, and as the actual history
of the individual apostles was largely shrouded in obscurity, legends were ...
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Creeds
... Its origin and growth are involved in considerable obscurity (see separate article,
APOSTLES' CREED; and compare Heurtley, Harmonia Symbolica). ...
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Red (124 Occurrences)
... correct historical interpretation. 5. Obscurity of Later History: The later
history of the rite is altogether obscure. As no provision ...
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Thick (129 Occurrences)
... Job 28:3 Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound,
the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness. (WEB JPS ASV). ...
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Judaeus
... unsullied. Hence, the obscurity which surrounds his conception of the Logos,
likewise his vacillation with respect to its personality. ...
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Philo
... unsullied. Hence, the obscurity which surrounds his conception of the Logos,
likewise his vacillation with respect to its personality. ...
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