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Prefer (10 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To cause to go before; hence, to advance before others, as to an office
or dignity; to raise; to exalt; to promote; as, to prefer an officer to the ...
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Sure (142 Occurrences)
... use, however, is common (chiefly for 'aman, "to confirm," and its derivatives) in
English Versions of the Bible, where modern English would prefer "secure" or ...
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Surely (587 Occurrences)
... use, however, is common (chiefly for 'aman, "to confirm," and its derivatives) in
English Versions of the Bible, where modern English would prefer "secure" or ...
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Prefects (18 Occurrences)

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Nest (22 Occurrences)
... Eagles use a large heap of coarse sticks and twigs on the cleft of a mountain (Job
39:27 Jeremiah 49:16 Obadiah 1:4); hawks prefer trees; vultures, hollow ...
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Og (22 Occurrences)
... Some, however, prefer to suppose that what is intended is "a sarcophagus of black
basalt," which iron-like substance abounds in the Hauran. ...
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Rent (76 Occurrences)
... and Vulgate and Revised Version, or as some prefer interpreting the phrase, "girdle
and robe are torn [ie, are `a rent'] by the hand of violence.". ...
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Elhanan (4 Occurrences)
... Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff
of whose spear was like a weaver's beam." Most modern critics prefer as the ...
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Person (807 Occurrences)
... of this article to make as clear as possible the conception of the Person of Christ,
in the technical sense of that term, which lies on-or, if we prefer to say ...
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Promote (21 Occurrences)
... venture. 2. (vt) To exalt in station, rank, or honor; to elevate; to raise;
to prefer; to advance; as, to promote an officer. 3. (vi ...
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Primogeniture
... brother. Joseph was displeased when, in his blessing, Jacob seemed to prefer
Ephraim to Manasseh, his firstborn (Genesis 48:18). ...
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Preference (3 Occurrences)

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Palate (15 Occurrences)
... (See JPS YLT). Psalms 137:6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to my
palate: if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (DBY YLT). ...
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Pilate (60 Occurrences)
... from his palace and met the deputation from the Sanhedrin, who, in answer to his
inquiry as to the nature of the accusation they had to prefer against Jesus ...
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Pontius (4 Occurrences)
... from his palace and met the deputation from the Sanhedrin, who, in answer to his
inquiry as to the nature of the accusation they had to prefer against Jesus ...
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Beloved (117 Occurrences)
... to two Heb words and their derivatives: 'ahebh, "to breathe" or "long for," hence,
to love, corresponding to the New Testament, agapao, "to prefer," ie a love ...
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Cold (25 Occurrences)
... After sunset the people wrap themselves up and go to sleep. They prefer to wrap
up their heads rather than their feet in order to keep warm. ...
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Choose (116 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To wish; to desire; to prefer. 3. (vi) To make a selection; to decide. 4.
(vi) To do otherwise. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CHOOSE; CHOSEN. ...
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Chiefest (9 Occurrences)
... (KJV). Psalms 137:6 Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, If I remember
thee not; If I prefer not Jerusalem Above my chief joy. (See JPS). ...
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Asaramel
... others take it to be the equivalent of ba-chatsar `am 'el, "in the court of the
people of God." Another reading is "in Saramel." The majority prefer to take ...
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Sheol (64 Occurrences)
... A favorite derivation is from sha'al, "to ask" (compare Proverbs 1:12; Proverbs
27:20; Proverbs 30:15, 16 Isaiah 5:14 Habakkuk 2:5); others prefer the sha'al ...
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Soap (4 Occurrences)
... Qali was also used in ancient times as a flux in refining precious metals (compare
Malachi 3:2). At the present time many Syrian soap-makers prefer the qali to ...
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Seraiah (18 Occurrences)
... This last or Shasha would be restored elsewhere by some critics; others prefer
the form Shavsha, which is found in 1 Chronicles 18:16. ...
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Sadducees (14 Occurrences)
... The majority of authoritative writers prefer to derive the name from Zadok,
the colleague of Abiathar, the contemporary of David. ...
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Inn (7 Occurrences)
... This evil repute of public inns, together with the Semitic spirit of hospitality,
led the Jews and the early Christians to prefer to recommend the keeping of ...
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Guard (185 Occurrences)
... of Foreigners: The men of the royal body-guard were usually foreigners like the
janissaries of oriental monarchs down to modern times, who prefer to have ...
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Tongue (160 Occurrences)
... So the tongue appears as the specific organ of speech, where we should prefer "mouth"
or "lips" (Exodus 4:10 Psalm 71:24; Psalm 78:36 Proverbs 16:1 Philippians ...
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Obadiah (21 Occurrences)
... hypercritical. He will prefer to read the book as a unity; and in doing so will
get the essence of the message it has for the present day. ...
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Stick (47 Occurrences)
... (WEB). Psalms 137:6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember
you; if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. (WEB). ...
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Roof (55 Occurrences)
... Psalms 137:6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember
you; if I don't prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy. ...
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Trade (33 Occurrences)
... So many scholars prefer to read "Musri" (in Northwestern Arabia) for "Egypt" (mtsr
for mtsrym-see the comms., especially EB, III, cols. 3162-63). ...
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Cleave (52 Occurrences)
... (ASV DBY JPS RSV). Psalms 137:6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave
to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. ...
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Essenes
... of the name given by Philo, affords a link, as said above, with the Essenes, if
the etymology of their name which we have seen reason to prefer be the true one ...
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Exodus (2 Occurrences)
... been contemporary with Hammurabi of Babylon (Amraphel), whose accession dates
(according to Dr. F. Peiser) in 2139 BC Dr. Hommel and Mr. King prefer a later ...
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Jonah (30 Occurrences)
... Some prefer to call it an allegory, others a parable, others a prose poem, others
a didactic story, others a midrash, others a symbolical book. ...
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Preferred (9 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Prefer. Multi-Version Concordance
Preferred (9 Occurrences). John 1:15 John bare witness ...
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Preferring (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prefer. Multi-Version
Concordance Preferring (2 Occurrences). Romans 12:10 In love ...
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Jehovah (20094 Occurrences)
... who despise his word. Cheyne thinks the Servant mentioned in 50:10 may be
the prophet, but I prefer Delitzsch's view. Isaiah 52:13 ...
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Yahweh (6653 Occurrences)
... who despise his word. Cheyne thinks the Servant mentioned in 50:10 may be
the prophet, but I prefer Delitzsch's view. Isaiah 52:13 ...
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Servant (738 Occurrences)
... who despise his word. Cheyne thinks the Servant mentioned in 50:10 may be
the prophet, but I prefer Delitzsch's view. Isaiah 52:13 ...
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Philistines (224 Occurrences)
... 2. Caphtor and Keft: No critical student is likely to prefer these later speculations
to our present monumental information, even without reference to the ...
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Writing (194 Occurrences)
... However that may be, what many prefer to call consonantal writing seems to have
existed for 2,000 years before the vowels were recognized and regularly ...
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Book (211 Occurrences)
... On the other hand Hitzig, Kneucker and Schurer prefer a date subsequent to 70 AD
The last writer argues for the unity of this section, though he admits that ...
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Baruch (24 Occurrences)
... On the other hand Hitzig, Kneucker and Schurer prefer a date subsequent to 70 AD
The last writer argues for the unity of this section, though he admits that ...
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Tree (245 Occurrences)
... (3) We prefer to regard it as a pictorial-spiritual story, the representing of great
spiritual facts and religious history in the form of a picture. ...
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Philippians (2 Occurrences)
... We prefer, however, to agree with Zahn, Ramsay, Findlay, Shaw, Vincent, Julicher,
Holtzmann, Weiss, Godet, and others, who argue for the writing of Philippians ...
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Gospel (108 Occurrences)
... marks of the Gospel as a whole, and which probably, therefore, proceeds from the
same pen (thus Lightfoot, Meyer, Alford, etc.; some, as Zahn, prefer to take ...
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Life (6001 Occurrences)
... (3) We prefer to regard it as a pictorial-spiritual story, the representing of great
spiritual facts and religious history in the form of a picture. ...
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John (154 Occurrences)
... marks of the Gospel as a whole, and which probably, therefore, proceeds from the
same pen (thus Lightfoot, Meyer, Alford, etc.; some, as Zahn, prefer to take ...
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Lord (59401 Occurrences)
... who despise his word. Cheyne thinks the Servant mentioned in 50:10 may be
the prophet, but I prefer Delitzsch's view. Isaiah 52:13 ...
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Backslide
... Some prefer to call it an allegory, others a parable, others a prose poem, others
a didactic story, others a midrash, others a symbolical book. ...
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Temple (614 Occurrences)
... Here, again, at the entrance, was a lofty, richly ornamented gate, which some, as
said, prefer to regard as the Gate of Nicanor or Beautiful Gate. ...
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Discomfiture (6 Occurrences)
... We prefer, however, to agree with Zahn, Ramsay, Findlay, Shaw, Vincent, Julicher,
Holtzmann, Weiss, Godet, and others, who argue for the writing of Philippians ...
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Anem (1 Occurrence)

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Christ (573 Occurrences)

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