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Predecessor (1 Occurrence)
... position. Multi-Version Concordance Predecessor (1 Occurrence). 1 Chronicles
17:13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. ...
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Succession (2 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or
other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc ...
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Priesthood (30 Occurrences)
... According to the Epistle to the Hebrews, Melchizedek, a priest of the highest
rank, had neither predecessor nor successor in his great office. ...
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Aramaic (12 Occurrences)
... Aramaic was the official language of the extensive Persian empire, as it had been
to some extent that of its predecessor, the empire of Assyria. ...
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Kingdom (409 Occurrences)
... Baasha began his reign of 24 years by extirpating the house of his predecessor
(1 Kings 15:29), just as the `Abbasids annihilated the Umeiyads. ...
biblethesaurus.org/k/kingdom.htm - 101k

Josiah (51 Occurrences)
... God. The Passover was then celebrated, as in the days of his great predecessor,
Hezekiah, with unusual magnificence. Nevertheless ...
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Festus (14 Occurrences)
... country from many robbers (Sicarii: Josephus, Ant, XX, viii-x; BJ, II, xiv, 1);
but his procuratorship was too short to undo the harm wrought by his predecessor...
biblethesaurus.org/f/festus.htm - 15k

Forerunner (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A predecessor; an ancestor. 3. (n.) A piece of rag terminating the
log line. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. FORERUNNER. ...
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Elder (34 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) One who is older; a superior in age; a senior. 4. (n.) An aged
person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor. ...
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Downwards (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (adv.) From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another
in a descending line. Multi-Version Concordance Downwards (2 Occurrences). ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/downwards.htm - 7k

Pul (3 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary. (1.) An Assyrian king. It has been a question whether
he was identical with Tiglath-pileser III. (qv), or was his predecessor. ...
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Pekah (11 Occurrences)
... PEKAH. 1. Accession: Son of Remaliah, and 18th king of Israel. Pekah murdered his
predecessor, Pekahiah, and seized the reins of power (2 Kings 15:25). ...
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Predatory (1 Occurrence)

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Predecessors (3 Occurrences)

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Porcius (1 Occurrence)
... country from many robbers (Sicarii: Josephus, Ant, XX, viii-x; BJ, II, xiv, 1);
but his procuratorship was too short to undo the harm wrought by his predecessor...
biblethesaurus.org/p/porcius.htm - 11k

Climax (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that
each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness. ...
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Ancient (64 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) An aged man; a patriarch. Hence: A governor; a ruler; a person of
influence. 9. (n.) A senior; an elder; a predecessor. 10. ...
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Astyages
... I, king of the Medes 585-550 BC, and predecessor of Cyrus (Bel and the Dragon
verse 1): His wife was the daughter of Alyattes, king of Lydia. ...
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Sepharvaim (6 Occurrences)
... and his predecessor from their agents in Palestine, proves that in the century before
the Exodus an active literary intercourse was carried on between these ...
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Shalmaneser (3 Occurrences)
... in the Biblical history (2 Kings 17:3; 2 Kings 18:9). He succeeded Tiglathpileser
on the throne in 727 BC, but whether he was a son of his predecessor, or a ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/shalmaneser.htm - 9k

Successor (10 Occurrences)
... One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and
sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/successor.htm - 9k

Alphabet (2 Occurrences)
... 4. Origin of the Letters: Few modern questions are changing shape so rapidly as
that of the historical predecessor of the Canaanite or Phoenician alphabet. ...
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Joram (26 Occurrences)
... Hazael succeeded Ben-hadad as ruler of Syria, and his first act, after having
murdered his predecessor, was to regain Ramoth-gilead. ...
biblethesaurus.org/j/joram.htm - 27k

Heliodorus
... he-li-o-do'-rus (Heliodoros): Treasurer of the Syrian king Seleucus IV, Philopator
(187-175 BC), the immediate predecessor of Antiochus Epiphanes who carried ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/heliodorus.htm - 8k

Language (112 Occurrences)
... Aramaic was the official language of the extensive Persian empire, as it had been
to some extent that of its predecessor, the empire of Assyria. ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/language.htm - 101k

Holies (23 Occurrences)
... of Solomon's reign. This sanctum, like its predecessor, contained but one
piece of furniture-the Ark of the Covenant. It had, however ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/holies.htm - 17k

Commentaries
... Clement, Origen's predecessor, had written a treatise called Hupotuposeis,
or "Outlines," a survey of the contents of Holy Scripture. ...
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Jehoram (27 Occurrences)
... Hazael succeeded Ben-hadad as ruler of Syria, and his first act, after having
murdered his predecessor, was to regain Ramoth-gilead. ...
biblethesaurus.org/j/jehoram.htm - 30k

Amorites (82 Occurrences)
... The Amorite king, captured on this occasion by the Egyptians, was probably
the immediate predecessor of the Sihon of the Old Testament. ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/amorites.htm - 50k

Miracle (15 Occurrences)
... In reply to the question of John the Baptist, His predecessor, He said, "Go and
tell John the things which ye hear and see: the blind receive their sight, and ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/miracle.htm - 44k

Ephesians (4 Occurrences)
... We find it in the Muratorian Fragment (10b, l. 20) as the second of the epistles
which "Paul wrote following the example of his predecessor John." It is used ...
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Abraham (2539 Occurrences)
... where from the Biblical tradition we should expect to find it, namely, in Babylonia
(eg in a contract of the reign of Apil-Sin, second predecessor of Hammurabi ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/abraham.htm - 50k

Chronology
... vet., III, 275) and his predecessor Was C. Sentius Saturninus from 745/9-748/6
(Ant; XVI, ix, 1; x, 8; xi, 3; XVII, i, 1; ii, 1; iii, 2), there seems to be no ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/chronology.htm - 74k

Judicial (2 Occurrences)
... that there might be no question about the matter, after the death of Moses, Joshua,
in accordance with instructions received by his great predecessor in the ...
biblethesaurus.org/j/judicial.htm - 25k

Isaac (127 Occurrences)
... But several times Jacob calls Yahweh the God (or, the Fear; see infra) of Isaac,
because Isaac is his own immediate predecessor in this chain of the faithful. ...
biblethesaurus.org/i/isaac.htm - 60k

Quotations
... But, like many another notable prophetic message it is set in the key of
the Messianic King whose unworthy predecessor Ahaz was. ...
biblethesaurus.org/q/quotations.htm - 40k

Hoshea (13 Occurrences)
... He conspired against and slew his predecessor, Pekah (Isaiah 7:16), but did not
ascend the throne till after an interregnum of warfare of eight years (2 Kings ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/hoshea.htm - 19k

Temple (614 Occurrences)
... the shekhinah, the Holy Spirit, and the Urim and Thummim (Yoma', xxi.2). 2. Its
Divisions and Furniture: The temple was divided, like its predecessor, into a ...
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Holy (1097 Occurrences)
... of Solomon's reign. This sanctum, like its predecessor, contained but one
piece of furniture-the Ark of the Covenant. It had, however ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/holy.htm - 99k

Jesus (10891 Occurrences)
... Baptist it held the same place; and, in one of the Gospels, it is expressly stated
that Jesus began His ministry by repeating this watchword of His predecessor...
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Hezekiah (124 Occurrences)
... awake. Of their fellowship was the king himself, who emulated the activity
of his predecessor Solomon as patron of piety and letters. ...
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Apocryphal
... Witness the words of an orthodox reviser in regard to his heretical predecessor:
"Quaedam de virtutibus quidem et miraculls quae per eos Dominus fecit, vera ...
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General (9 Occurrences)
... Witness the words of an orthodox reviser in regard to his heretical predecessor:
"Quaedam de virtutibus quidem et miraculls quae per eos Dominus fecit, vera ...
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Elisha (70 Occurrences)
... 4. Characteristics of His Ministry: (1) In Comparison with Elijah. In many
respects Elisha is a contrast to his great predecessor. ...
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Sodomite (1 Occurrence)
... But, like many another notable prophetic message it is set in the key of
the Messianic King whose unworthy predecessor Ahaz was. ...
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Captivity (141 Occurrences)
... under Jehoiachin, 597 BC: Jehoiachin who succeeded Jehoiakim reigned only three
months, the same length of time as his unfortunate predecessor Jehoahaz (2 ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/captivity.htm - 79k

Gospel (108 Occurrences)
... Thus there was only one link between Irenaeus and the apostolic age. Another link
was constituted by his association with Pothinus, his predecessor in Lyons. ...
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John (154 Occurrences)
... Thus there was only one link between Irenaeus and the apostolic age. Another link
was constituted by his association with Pothinus, his predecessor in Lyons. ...
biblethesaurus.org/j/john.htm - 101k

Israel (27466 Occurrences)
... Baasha began his reign of 24 years by extirpating the house of his predecessor
(1 Kings 15:29), just as the `Abbasids annihilated the Umeiyads. ...
biblethesaurus.org/i/israel.htm - 101k

Exodus (2 Occurrences)
... The objections made to the Old Testament date for the Exodus early in the reign
of Amenophis III, or in that of his predecessor Thothmes IV, thus appear to ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/exodus.htm - 82k

Ethics
... Baptist it held the same place; and, in one of the Gospels, it is expressly stated
that Jesus began His ministry by repeating this watchword of His predecessor...
biblethesaurus.org/e/ethics.htm - 70k

New (1850 Occurrences)
... vet., III, 275) and his predecessor Was C. Sentius Saturninus from 745/9-748/6
(Ant; XVI, ix, 1; x, 8; xi, 3; XVII, i, 1; ii, 1; iii, 2), there seems to be no ...
biblethesaurus.org/n/new.htm - 101k

Book (211 Occurrences)
... In this case it is often described for a time on a title-page as "founded" on its
predecessor, but generally the original author's name is dropped from the ...
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Acts (271 Occurrences)
... Witness the words of an orthodox reviser in regard to his heretical predecessor:
"Quaedam de virtutibus quidem et miraculls quae per eos Dominus fecit, vera ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/acts.htm - 101k

Law (670 Occurrences)
... that there might be no question about the matter, after the death of Moses, Joshua,
in accordance with instructions received by his great predecessor in the ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/law.htm - 101k

Epistle (13 Occurrences)
... We find it in the Muratorian Fragment (10b, l. 20) as the second of the epistles
which "Paul wrote following the example of his predecessor John." It is used ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/epistle.htm - 101k

Messenger (235 Occurrences)

biblethesaurus.org/m/messenger.htm - 101k

Testament (13 Occurrences)

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