Opposition
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Opposition (22 Occurrences)
... the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the
sun 180; -- signified by the symbol /; as, / / /, opposition of Jupiter to ...
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Object (76 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. ... 3. (vi) To
make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to. ...
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Oppose (29 Occurrences)
... exhibit. 2. (n.) To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance or
countervail; to set against; to offer antagonistically. 3 ...
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Resistance (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of
a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or ...
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Defiance (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of defying, putting in opposition, or
provoking to combat; a challenge; a provocation; a summons to combat. ...
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Walked (178 Occurrences)
... people; (YLT). Leviticus 26:23 And if by these ye are not instructed by Me,
and have walked with Me 'in' opposition, (YLT). Leviticus 26 ...
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Body (562 Occurrences)
... i: I. PHILOLOGICAL: Generally speaking, the Old Testament language employs no fixed
term for the human body as an entire organism in exact opposition to "soul ...
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Godless (31 Occurrences)
... of the word is that of pollution and profanity; a condition of not merely being
without God but assuming an attitude of open and blatant opposition toward God. ...
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War (529 Occurrences)
... war. 7. (n.) a state of opposition or contest; an act of opposition; an
inimical contest, act, or action; enmity; hostility. 8. (vi ...
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Traverse (5 Occurrences)
... 14. (v.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross. 15. (v.) To cross by way of opposition;
to thwart with obstacles; to obstruct; to bring to naught. 16. ...
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Resist (23 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate;
to act in opposition to; to oppose. ... 5. (vi) To make opposition. ...
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Ed (1 Occurrence)
... According to the Massoretic Text, the name of the altar is the entire sentence:
"It is a witness between us that Yahweh is God." The opposition of the ten ...
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Enmity (23 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) Hatred; hostility; unfriendly disposition. 2.
(n.) A state of opposition; hostility. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ENMITY ...
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Disputation (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite
sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact ...
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Conflict (18 Occurrences)
... 4. (vi) To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to
struggle. 5. (vi) To be in opposition; to be contradictory. Int. ...
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Clash (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision;
to interfere. 3. (vt) To strike noisily against or together. ...
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Confront (15 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To stand in opposition; to oppose with firmness. ... 3. (vt) To set in
opposition for examination; to put in contrast; to compare. ...
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Contend (56 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vi) To strive in opposition; to contest; to
dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight. 2. (vi) To struggle ...
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Contrary (77 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Opposite; in an opposite direction; in
opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds. 2. (a.) Opposed ...
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Against (17413 Occurrences)
... 3. (prep.) In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action;
on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as ...
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Stand (542 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) To maintain an invincible or permanent attitude; to be fixed, steady,
or firm; to take a position in resistance or opposition. ...
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Sadducees (14 Occurrences)
... It has been suggested that the earlier form of the conflict between the Sadducees
and Pharisees was opposition between the priests and the prophets. ...
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Exorcism
... The demons are personal evil powers afflicting human life in their opposition to
God. It is beyond man unaided to obtain deliverance from them. ...
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Exorcist (1 Occurrence)
... The demons are personal evil powers afflicting human life in their opposition to
God. It is beyond man unaided to obtain deliverance from them. ...
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Discrepancies
... Many scholars maintain, for instance, that the ideal of the prophets and that of
the priestly class stand in a relative (not absolute) opposition to each other ...
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Sermon (1 Occurrence)
... Portions of the Sermon imply that the opposition of the religious teachers was already
in evidence, but it clearly belongs to the first year of our Lord's ...
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Rehoboam (42 Occurrences)
... says 16 years). He ascended the throne at Jerusalem immediately upon his
father's death with apparently no opposition. North Israel ...
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Satan (50 Occurrences)
... The popular notion is that Satan is the enemy of man and active in misleading and
cursing humanity because of his intense hatred and opposition to God. ...
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Pharisees (86 Occurrences)
... military abilities. His repeated failures and defeats confirmed the Pharisees
in their opposition to him on religious grounds. He ...
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Man (26072 Occurrences)
... It denotes also man in opposition to woman (Genesis 3:12; Matthew 19:10).
(2.) Hebrews `ish, like the Latin vir and Greek aner, denotes ...
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Predestination
... fathers in the first three centuries of the church, made the doctrine of a special
predestination his foundation for special grace, in opposition to Pelagius. ...
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Corinthians (3 Occurrences)
... In fine, what church would have received without opposition into its archives, as
an epistle of the apostle, half a century after his death, a letter unknown ...
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Epistles (2 Occurrences)
... John's letters were written after the internal doctrinal controversies of the church
had ceased, and the pressure of opposition and error from without tended ...
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English
... VSS, such as the Syriac and the Gothic, were produced to meet obvious requirements
of the teacher or the missionary, and met with no opposition from any quarter ...
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Pentateuch
... acquaintance with it. Before 1908 the conservative opposition to the dominant
theory had exhibited two separate tendencies. One school ...
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Persian (4 Occurrences)
... 4. Anro Mainyus and His Creatures: In opposition to the creatures of Ahura Mazda
are those of Anro Mainyus, who is the source of all moral and material evil. ...
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Yield (78 Occurrences)
... 9. (vi) To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle;
as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door ...
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Reconciliation (11 Occurrences)
... it is not necessary to add that the wrath of God is not to be thought of as having
any unworthy or capricious element in it-it is the settled opposition of His ...
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Vain-words (1 Occurrence)
... 1 Timothy 6:20 O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane
vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge, (YLT). ...
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Volition
... 5:40). So with respect to temptation. We may even choose and act deliberately
in opposition to the will of God. Yet God's counsel ...
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Kedar (11 Occurrences)
... 29). The name occurs as typical of a distant eastern country in opposition
to the lands of the Mediterranean (Jeremiah 2:10). The ...
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Kick (8 Occurrences)
... Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to
spurn. 3. (vi) To recoil; -- said of a musket, cannon, etc. ...
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Nehemiah (9 Occurrences)
... He remained in Judea for thirteen years as governor, carrying out many reforms,
notwithstanding much opposition that he encountered (Nehemiah 13:11). ...
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Noadiah (2 Occurrences)
... (2) A prophetess associated with Tobiah and Sanballat in opposition to Nehemiah
(Nehemiah 6:14). Multi-Version Concordance Noadiah (2 Occurrences). ...
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Ungodly (41 Occurrences)
... asebes (Romans 5:6), eg indicating that the persons so called are both irreverent
and impious): Trench says that the idea of active opposition to religion is ...
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Offer (403 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten; as,
to offer violence, attack, etc. 7. (vi) To present itself; to be at hand. ...
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Oppositions (1 Occurrence)

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Out (29154 Occurrences)
... reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect
position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in ...
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Outrage (3 Occurrences)
... we had already met with suffering and outrage at Philippi, we summoned up boldness,
by the help of our God, to tell you God's Good News amid much opposition. ...
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Off (5363 Occurrences)
... 5. (adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as,
to look off. 6. (adv.) Denoting opposition or negation. 7 ...
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Omri (16 Occurrences)
... For four years there was continued opposition to his reign, Tibni, another claimant
to the throne, leading the opposing party; but at the close of that period ...
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Objection (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) That which is, or may be, presented in opposition; an adverse reason or
argument; a reason for objecting; obstacle; impediment; as, I have no objection ...
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Opposing (13 Occurrences)
... (YLT). 1 Timothy 6:20 O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the
profane vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge, (See NAS NIV). ...
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Outcry (56 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A vehement or loud cry; a cry of distress, alarm,
opposition, or detestation; clamor. 2. (n.) Sale at public auction. ...
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Only (3813 Occurrences)
... the Revised Version margin, though it has strong textual support, is improbable,
and can well be explained as due to orthodox zeal, in opposition to adoptionism ...
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Jehoshaphat (79 Occurrences)
... Jehu (2 Chronicles 19:1-3) reproached him for the course he had been pursuing,
whereupon he entered with rigour on his former course of opposition to all ...
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Jar (45 Occurrences)
... jarred on my ears. 5. (vi) To act in opposition or disagreement; to clash;
to interfere; to quarrel; to dispute. 6. (vt) To cause ...
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Left (3923 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who are in the
opposition; the advanced republicans and extreme radicals. ...
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Labor (181 Occurrences)
... with difficulties or disease; to do one's work under conditions which make it
especially hard, wearisome; to move slowly, as against opposition, or under a ...
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Look (1874 Occurrences)
... 10. (vt) To expect. 11. (vt) To influence, overawe, or subdue by looks or presence
as, to look down opposition. 12. (vt) To express or manifest by a look. 13. ...
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Go (17871 Occurrences)
... 10. (vi) To move from the person speaking, or from the point whence the action is
contemplated; to pass away; to leave; to depart; -- in opposition to stay and ...
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Gebal (3 Occurrences)
... rule. The city submitted to Alexander the Great without opposition, and
furnished a fleet to aid him in the siege of Tyre (332). ...
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Whereas (55 Occurrences)
... 3. (conj.) When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; although; --
implying opposition to something that precedes; or implying ...
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With (66342 Occurrences)
... or the like. 3. (prep.) To denote a close or direct relation of opposition
or hostility; -- equivalent to against. 4. (prep.) To ...
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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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Irresistible (1 Occurrence)
... (a.) That can not be successfully withstood or opposed; superior to opposition;
resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. ...
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Isaiah (64 Occurrences)
... Ahaz, king of Judah, at this crisis refused to co-operate with the kings of Israel
and Syria in opposition to the Assyrians, and was on that account attacked ...
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Insurrection (8 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government;
open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state. ...
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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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Friend (139 Occurrences)
... by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are
popularly called Quakers. 5. (n.) A paramour of either sex. ...
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Foreskin (12 Occurrences)
... 25). (b) In the sense of "obstinacy," "opposition to God's law." The rite
of circumcision meant submission under the law. While ...
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Fro (54 Occurrences)
... 1. (adv.) From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in opposition to the word
to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To. 2. (prep.) From. ...
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Falsely-named (1 Occurrence)
... 1 Timothy 6:20 O Timotheus, the thing entrusted guard thou, avoiding the profane
vain-words and opposition of the falsely-named knowledge, (YLT). ...
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Fight (265 Occurrences)
... or against. 2. (vi) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against;
to contend; to strive; to make resistance. 3. (vt) To ...
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Factious (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Given to dissension, in opposition to the common good; turbulent; seditious;
prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. ...
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Forehead (23 Occurrences)
... as an adamant harder than flint," whereby an unflinching loyalty to God and a complete
disregard of opposition is meant (Jeremiah 3:8, 9). Compare the phrase ...
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Forcible (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Violent; impetuous. 3. (a.) Using force against opposition or resistance;
obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction. ...
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Faction (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition
to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be ...
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Thyatira (4 Occurrences)
... It was taught by many of the early church that no Christian might belong to one
of the guilds, and thus the greatest opposition to Christianity was presented. ...
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