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Principal (28 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Highest in rank, authority, character, importance, or degree; most considerable
or important; chief; main; as, the principal officers of a Government ...
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Chief (696 Occurrences)
... of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family;
a person in authority who directs the work of others; the principal actor or ...
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Main (17 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing. ... 10. (v.)
principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. ...
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Leader (183 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the
principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins. ...
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Beam (17 Occurrences)
... In 1 Samuel 17:7, it means a weaver's frame or principal beam; in Habakkuk 2:11,
a crossbeam or girder; 2 Kings 6:2, 5, a cross-piece or rafter of a house; 1 ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/beam.htm - 17k

Ashtoreth (3 Occurrences)
... The moon goddess of the Phoenicians, representing the passive principle in nature,
their principal female deity; frequently associated with the name of Baal ...
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Elamites (2 Occurrences)
... The exact position of Saul's forces may be a matter of speculation, but the late
Principal Miller of Madras, who made a special study of the locality (Least of ...
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Ezranehemiah
... 1. Name: The books of Ezra and Nehemiah, by whomsoever written, are properly so
named according to analogy from the principal persons mentioned in them. ...
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Ezra-nehemiah
... 1. Name: The books of Ezra and Nehemiah, by whomsoever written, are properly so
named according to analogy from the principal persons mentioned in them. ...
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Clean (298 Occurrences)
... make shining"; zakh, etc., "bright," "clean" "pure"; naqi, "free from," "exempt";
Taher, "clean," "pure," "empty," "bright" (?) the principal root, rendered ...
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Elam (24 Occurrences)
... The exact position of Saul's forces may be a matter of speculation, but the late
Principal Miller of Madras, who made a special study of the locality (Least of ...
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Geology
... relatively shallow. 5. Upper Cretaceous Limestone (C): This is the principal
rock of Palestine, Lebanon, and Anti-Lebanon. Many of ...
biblethesaurus.org/g/geology.htm - 16k

Nineveh (23 Occurrences)
... NINEVEH AND ITS SURROUNDINGS 1. Its Walls 2. Principal Mounds and Gateways 3. Extent
and Population within the Walls 4. Extent outside the Walls 5. Calah ...
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Shinar (8 Occurrences)
... The principal difficulty lies in the fact that what might be regarded as the
non-dialectical form singar (which would alone furnish a satisfactory basis of ...
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Nave (19 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal
entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal...
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Nile (37 Occurrences)
... The Nile is also the principal river included in the phrase nahare kush, "rivers
of Ethiopia" (Isaiah 18:1). Poetically the Nile is called yam, "sea" (Job 41 ...
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Japheth (12 Occurrences)
... what has become known in modern times as the `Indo-European Theory,' or the essential
unity of the Aryan (Asiatic) race with the principal races of Europe ...
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Wreath (21 Occurrences)
... of Crest). It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like
the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms. ...
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Incident (5 Occurrences)
... 4. (a.) Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal.
5. (n.) That which falls out or takes place; an event; casualty; occurrence. ...
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Fathers'
... Revised Version has "father's hquse" for "principal household" (1 Chronicles
24:6), "heads of the fathers' houses" for "chief fathers" (Numbers 31:26; Numbers ...
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Face (780 Occurrences)
... six faces. 3. (n.) The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley;
the principal flat surface of a part or object. 4. (n ...
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Father's (251 Occurrences)
... Revised Version has "father's hquse" for "principal household" (1 Chronicles
24:6), "heads of the fathers' houses" for "chief fathers" (Numbers 31:26; Numbers ...
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Ring (33 Occurrences)
... Tabba`ath, the principal Hebrew word, is from Tabha`, "sink," either because the
ring is something "cast" or molded, or, more probably, since the principal use ...
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Dine (10 Occurrences)
... But it is probable that the Egyptians took their principal meal in the evening,
as was the general custom in the East (Luke 14:12). Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Dinner (23 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people
about midday, but by many (especially in cities) at a later hour. ...
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Moabites (26 Occurrences)
... Deep chasms lead down from the tableland to the Dead Sea shore, the principal
one being the gorge of the river Arnon, which is about 1,700 ft. ...
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Birthday (4 Occurrences)
... The locative case gives the time of the principal action, "danced on Herod's birthday,
when it occurred." The construction is not unexampled (see Jelf, section ...
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Crafts (2 Occurrences)
... 1. Written Records and Discoveries of Craftsmanship: Our knowledge of the arts and
crafts of Bible times has come to us through two principal ways. ...
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Cleanse (75 Occurrences)
... the land"). (3) To remove ceremonial defilement, the principal use, for which
the chief root is Taher: "Take the Levites. and cleanse ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/cleanse.htm - 36k

Adding (20 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 6:5 or all that concerning which he sweareth falsely, he hath even repaid
it in its principal, and its fifth he is adding to it; to him whose it 'is ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/adding.htm - 12k

Subject (99 Occurrences)
... 12. (a.) Hence, that substance or being which is conscious of its own operations;
the mind; the thinking agent or principal; the ego. Cf. Object, n., 2. 13. ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/subject.htm - 37k

Surrender (18 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered
by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular ...
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Hero (7 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The principal personage in a poem, story, and the like, or the person who
has the principal share in the transactions related; as Achilles in the Iliad ...
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Wail (50 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 25:34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, you principal
of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully ...
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Turn (963 Occurrences)
... 37. (n.) Monthly courses; menses. 38. (n.) An embellishment or grace (marked thus, /),
commonly consisting of the principal note, or that on which the turn is ...
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Masters (59 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 25:34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, you principal
of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully ...
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Korah (51 Occurrences)
... Aaron in the wilderness (Numbers 16; Numbers 17). Korah is presented as the
principal in the affair. The company is spoken of as his ...
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Corinthians (3 Occurrences)
... In his letter to Rome, written at this time, he sent salutations from some
of the principal members of the church to the Romans. Int. ...
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Tower (74 Occurrences)
... On the East were 16 shrines, the principal of them being dedicated to Nebo and Tasmetu,
his spouse; on thee North were two temples dedicated to Ea. ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/tower.htm - 52k

Jehovah (20094 Occurrences)
... " 1. Historical Situation 2. The Authorship of Isaiah, Chapters 40-66 3. The Prophet
of the Exile 4. The Unity of Isaiah 40-66 5. Principal Ideas of Isaiah 40 ...
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Palestine (1 Occurrence)
... relatively shallow. 5. Upper Cretaceous Limestone (C): This is the principal
rock of Palestine, Lebanon, and Anti-Lebanon. Many of ...
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Servant (738 Occurrences)
... " 1. Historical Situation 2. The Authorship of Isaiah, Chapters 40-66 3. The Prophet
of the Exile 4. The Unity of Isaiah 40-66 5. Principal Ideas of Isaiah 40 ...
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Yahweh (6653 Occurrences)
... " 1. Historical Situation 2. The Authorship of Isaiah, Chapters 40-66 3. The Prophet
of the Exile 4. The Unity of Isaiah 40-66 5. Principal Ideas of Isaiah 40 ...
biblethesaurus.org/y/yahweh.htm - 39k

Repentance (28 Occurrences)
... God. The principal idea is not personal relation to sin, either in its
experience of grief or in turning from an evil course. Yet ...
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Zadok (50 Occurrences)
... was, and not kept at Jerusalem whither the Ark had been brought, he being always
named before Abiathar and probably looked upon as the principal high priest ...
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Moab (162 Occurrences)
... Deep chasms lead down from the tableland to the Dead Sea shore, the principal
one being the gorge of the river Arnon, which is about 1,700 ft. ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/moab.htm - 62k

Worship (332 Occurrences)
... 1. Terms: The principal Old Testament word is shachah, "depress," "bow down,"
"prostrate" (Hithpael), as in Exodus 4:31, "bowed their heads and worshipped"; so ...
biblethesaurus.org/w/worship.htm - 66k

Shepherds (55 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Jeremiah 25:35 The shepherds shall
have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. ...
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Principalities (7 Occurrences)

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Judith (1 Occurrence)
... Name. This apocryphal book is called after the name of its principal character
Judith (yehudhith), "a Jewess"; Ioudith, Ioudeth). ...
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Food (2953 Occurrences)
... Barley (se`orim) has always furnished the principal food of the poorer classes,
and, like wheat, has been made into bread (Judges 7:13 John 6:9, 13). ...
biblethesaurus.org/f/food.htm - 36k

Manuscripts
... But for determining the readings of the text itself the Greek manuscripts or copies
of the original autographs are still the principal evidence of criticism. ...
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Bel (3 Occurrences)
... AUTHORITIES 1. Manuscripts (1) Greek (2) Syriac 2. Recensions or Versions (1) Greek
(2) Syriac (3) Latin (4) Aramaic V. ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: PRINCIPAL OPINIONS VI ...
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Genealogy (29 Occurrences)
... 3. Importance of Genealogies 4. Their Historical Value 5. Principles of Interpretation
6. Principles of Compilation 7. Sources 8. Principal Genealogies and ...
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Genesis
... Genesis is divided into two principal parts. The first part (1-11) gives a general
history of mankind down to the time of the Dispersion. ...
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Dragon (20 Occurrences)
... AUTHORITIES 1. Manuscripts (1) Greek (2) Syriac 2. Recensions or Versions (1) Greek
(2) Syriac (3) Latin (4) Aramaic V. ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: PRINCIPAL OPINIONS VI ...
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Lords (63 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 25:34 Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, you principal
of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully ...
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Malefactor (2 Occurrences)
... But for determining the readings of the text itself the Greek manuscripts or copies
of the original autographs are still the principal evidence of criticism. ...
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Trespass (101 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 6:5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore
it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it ...
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Table (125 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed;
an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents. ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/table.htm - 62k

Hebrew (37 Occurrences)
... The principal Karaite commentators of the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries are: Benjamin
Al-Nahawendi (he was the first to use the term "Karaites," "Ba`ale Miqra ...
biblethesaurus.org/h/hebrew.htm - 77k

Poetry
... (a) Kinds of Parallelism: Lowth distinguished three principal species of parallelism,
which he called synonymous, antithetic and synthetic. ...
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Zedekiah (63 Occurrences)
... From these dated prophecies the principal ideas are to be formed of the real
inwardness of the time and the character of the administration. ...
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Hammurabi
... In his 7th year he took Unug (Erech) and Isin-two of the principal cities of Babylonia,
implying that the Dynasty of Babylon had not held sway in all the states ...
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Jordan (188 Occurrences)
... border-city of Palestine, there gushes forth a considerable fountain called the
Leddan, which is the largest fountain in Syria and the principal source of the ...
biblethesaurus.org/j/jordan.htm - 70k

Dispersion (4 Occurrences)
... for purposes of commerce. In the apostles' time they were found in considerable
numbers in all the principal cities. From the time ...
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Babel (3 Occurrences)
... From this record it would seem that there were two principal defensive structures,
Imgur-Enlil and Nemitti-Enlil-"Enlil has been gracious" and "Enlil's ...
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Arabia (9 Occurrences)
... to the West coast at a distance of between 50 and 100 miles from the sea, with a
subsidiary watershed running along the south; and the principal outlets for ...
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Quarter (33 Occurrences)
... shorter. 9. (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a
place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. 10. ...
biblethesaurus.org/q/quarter.htm - 21k

Vetches (1 Occurrence)
... Isaiah 28:25 When he hath made even the face of it, doth he not cast abroad the
vetches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat, and the ...
biblethesaurus.org/v/vetches.htm - 6k

Vale (20 Occurrences)
... The exact position of Saul's forces may be a matter of speculation, but the late
Principal Miller of Madras, who made a special study of the locality (Least of ...
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Zeus (3 Occurrences)
... Zeus (3 Occurrences). Acts 14:12 They called Barnabas 'Zeus,' and Paul, as
being the principal speaker, 'Hermes.' (WEY YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
biblethesaurus.org/z/zeus.htm - 8k

Zoology
... zo-ol'-o-ji: A systematic list of the animals of the Bible includes representatives
of the principal orders of mammals, birds and reptiles, and not a few of ...
biblethesaurus.org/z/zoology.htm - 18k

Kingdom (409 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling
characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom. Int. ...
biblethesaurus.org/k/kingdom.htm - 101k

Naphtali (51 Occurrences)
... fertility. It was the principal scene of our Lord's public ministry. Here
most of his parables were spoken and his miracles wrought. ...
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Nathanael (6 Occurrences)
... The principal arguments in support of this identification are: (1) Nathanael is
never mentioned by the synoptists, and Bartholomew is never mentioned by John ...
biblethesaurus.org/n/nathanael.htm - 13k

Nethaneel (14 Occurrences)
... princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the
chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being ...
biblethesaurus.org/n/nethaneel.htm - 11k

Negotiator (3 Occurrences)
... (n.) One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal
or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public compacts. ...
biblethesaurus.org/n/negotiator.htm - 7k

Neighbourhood (9 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Acts 28:7 And in the neighbourhood of that place were lands of the principal
man of the island, by name Publius, who, having received us, three days did ...
biblethesaurus.org/n/neighbourhood.htm - 9k

Needle (4 Occurrences)
... Some interpret the expression as referring to the side gate, close to the principal
gate, usually called the "eye of a needle" in the East; but it is rather to ...
biblethesaurus.org/n/needle.htm - 10k




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