Pretensions
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Pretensions (2 Occurrences)
...Pretensions (2 Occurrences). ... 2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (DBY). ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/pretensions.htm - 6k

Fig (45 Occurrences)
... fruit. It ought to have had fruit if it had been true to its "pretensions,"
in showing its leaves at this particular season. "This ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/fig.htm - 33k

Rival (5 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for
superiority; as, rival lovers; rival claims or pretensions. ...
biblethesaurus.org/r/rival.htm - 8k

Pretension (1 Occurrence)
... or false; a presumptuous assertion; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the
appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship. ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/pretension.htm - 7k

Absalom (93 Occurrences)
... father, he began to aspire to the throne. His pretensions were favoured
by the people. By many arts he gained their affection; and ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/absalom.htm - 50k

Pretext (11 Occurrences)

biblethesaurus.org/p/pretext.htm - 9k

False.
... The revolts in this period were generally connected with religious pretensions in
the leaders (Josephus, BJ, II, xiii, 4-"deceived and deluded the people under ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/false..htm - 16k

Fable
... And in 2 Kings 14:9 Jehoash ridicules the pretensions of Amaziah with the story
of the thistle that wished to make a royal alliance with the cedar. ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/fable.htm - 12k

Pharisee (14 Occurrences)
... party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies
and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/pharisee.htm - 11k

Christs (2 Occurrences)
... The revolts in this period were generally connected with religious pretensions in
the leaders (Josephus, BJ, II, xiii, 4-"deceived and deluded the people under ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/christs.htm - 14k

Arrogant (60 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims
or self-importance; -- applied to things; as, arrogant pretensions or behavior ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/arrogant.htm - 22k

Elihu (11 Occurrences)
... supernatural signs. His words become disjointed and incoherent, and cease
with a kind of attempt to recant his pretensions. And ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/elihu.htm - 15k

Headlong (15 Occurrences)
... headlong. (DBY). 2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (DBY). Jude ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/headlong.htm - 10k

English
... The nobles resented the extortion and pretensions of the higher clergy; and, according
to Green, "the enthusiasm of the Friars, who in the preceding century ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/english.htm - 38k

Vain (141 Occurrences)
... (KJV DBY WBS YLT). 2 Timothy 3:4 traitors, headlong, of vain pretensions,
lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (DBY). Titus ...
biblethesaurus.org/v/vain.htm - 36k

Syria (73 Occurrences)
... recognized as the Hittite sphere of influence, and, on the part of the Assyrians
who were soon to become the heirs of the Hittite pretensions, this treaty ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/syria.htm - 60k

Epistles (2 Occurrences)
... 1. Gnosticism: The pretensions of Gnosticism to a higher esoteric knowledge of Divine
things seems to be clearly referred to in several passages. ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/epistles.htm - 80k

Versions
... The nobles resented the extortion and pretensions of the higher clergy; and, according
to Green, "the enthusiasm of the Friars, who in the preceding century ...
biblethesaurus.org/v/versions.htm - 81k

Heaven (653 Occurrences)
... The authorities never acknowledged the pretensions of One who seemed to them a
religious dreamer, and, as they clung to their own conceptions, they grew more ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/heaven.htm - 72k

Bishop (4 Occurrences)
... given by the King James translators, who were officers in the Episcopal church)
to "office," thus, relieving the verse of possible ecclesiastical pretensions. ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/bishop.htm - 40k

Archaeology
... (a) Ignorance of Patriarchal Age: The ignorance of the patriarchal age was once
a frontier fortress which threatened away all literary pretensions beyond that ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/archaeology.htm - 61k

Criticism (1 Occurrence)
... (a) Ignorance of Patriarchal Age: The ignorance of the patriarchal age was once
a frontier fortress which threatened away all literary pretensions beyond that ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/criticism.htm - 101k

Kingdom (409 Occurrences)
... The authorities never acknowledged the pretensions of One who seemed to them a
religious dreamer, and, as they clung to their own conceptions, they grew more ...
biblethesaurus.org/k/kingdom.htm - 101k

John (154 Occurrences)

biblethesaurus.org/j/john.htm - 101k

God (45911 Occurrences)

biblethesaurus.org/g/god.htm - 101k




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