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Rule (291 Occurrences)
... an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules
of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or ...
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Govern (21 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Genesis 1:16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. ...
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Scepter (28 Occurrences)
... (WEB WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). Revelation 2:27 He will rule them with a rod of iron,
shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: (See NIV) ...
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Principle (32 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A settled rule of action; a governing law of conduct; an opinion or belief
which exercises a directing influence on the life and behavior; a rule...
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Theocracy
... Josephus had been speaking, "but, as one might say, using a strained expression,
he set forth the national polity as a theocracy, referring the rule and might ...
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Stumbled (47 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 28:13 And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule,
line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go ...
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Apostles'
... The oldest usage of the term "Rule of Faith" (regula fidei), now commonly
given to the Scriptures, has reference to this creed. ...
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Gedaliah (31 Occurrences)
... Here he was joined by Jeremiah (40:6). 2. His Conciliatory Spirit and Wise Rule:
The Jewish soldiers who had escaped capture, having heard that the Chaldeans ...
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Trespass (101 Occurrences)
... 4. (vi) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another;
to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral ...
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Reign (468 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v.) To exercise sovereign power; to rule. ... 6.
(n.) To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule. Int. ...
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Ruthlessly (8 Occurrences)
... them serve. (WEB NIV). Leviticus 25:43 You shall not rule over him with
harshness, but shall fear your God. (See NIV). Leviticus 25 ...
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Rigor (8 Occurrences)
... rigor. (KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV). Leviticus 25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him
with rigor; but shalt fear thy God. (KJV ASV WBS). Leviticus ...
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Regular (95 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or
type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular ...
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Rigour (5 Occurrences)
... rigor. (See JPS YLT). Leviticus 25:43 Thou shalt not rule over him with
rigor, but shalt fear thy God. (See JPS DBY YLT). Leviticus ...
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Standard (42 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity,
extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure ...
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Severity (7 Occurrences)
... flesh. (WEB WEY ASV RSV). Leviticus 25:43 You shall not rule over him with
harshness, but shall fear your God. (See NAS). Leviticus ...
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Sway (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To influence or direct by power and authority; by persuasion, or by moral
force; to rule; to govern; to guide. ... 12. (n.) Rule; dominion; control. 13. ...
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Labored (35 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 5:16 besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand
and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work. ...
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Prince (160 Occurrences)
... authority. As a rule, the name is given to human beings; in a few instances
it is applied to God and Christ, the angels and the devil. ...
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Iron (104 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Strength; power; firmness; inflexibility; as, to rule with a rod
of iron. 5 ... nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. ...
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Ruling (123 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Rule. ... 5. (n.) A decision or rule of a judge or a court, especially an
oral decision, as in excluding evidence. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Ruled (84 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Rule. Multi-Version Concordance
Ruled (84 Occurrences). Acts 13:21 Afterward they asked ...
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Stumble (89 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 28:13 And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule,
line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go ...
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Pontius (4 Occurrences)
... As a rule a procurator must be of equestrian rank and a man of certain
military experience. Under his rule, the Jews were allowed ...
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Pilate (60 Occurrences)
... As a rule a procurator must be of equestrian rank and a man of certain
military experience. Under his rule, the Jews were allowed ...
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Wisely (60 Occurrences)
... dignity. (WEY). 1 Timothy 3:12 A deacon must be true to his one wife, and rule
his children and his own household wisely and well. (WEY). ...
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Measure (269 Occurrences)
... a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples
of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which ...
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Jehu's (6 Occurrences)
... kings of Israel? (See NIV). 2 Kings 10:36 And the time of Jehu's rule over
Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years. (BBE). 2 Kings ...
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Jerub-baal's (3 Occurrences)
... I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem: Which is better for you, that
all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are threescore and ten persons, rule over you ...
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Jerubbaal (15 Occurrences)
... Judges 9:2 "Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem,'Is it better for
you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or ...
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Jerubba'al (11 Occurrences)
... Judges 9:2 "Say in the ears of all the citizens of Shechem, 'Which is better for
you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubba'al rule over you, or that one ...
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Luminaries (7 Occurrences)
... Genesis 1:16 And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the
rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of ...
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Lesser (7 Occurrences)
... (WEB NAS NIV). Genesis 1:16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. ...
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Luminary (2 Occurrences)
... Genesis 1:16 And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the
rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of ...
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Lord (59401 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) The Savior; Jesus Christ. 9. (vt) To invest with the dignity, power, and
privileges of a lord. 10. (vt) To rule or preside over as a lord. 11. ...
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Guided (86 Occurrences)
... guided. (BBE). Galatians 6:16 And on all who are guided by this rule be peace
and mercy, and on the Israel of God. (BBE). Philippians ...
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Injured (28 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 28:13 For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule,
line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their ...
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Formula (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A prescribed or set form; an established rule; a fixed or conventional
method in which anything is to be done, arranged, or said. ...
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Regulate (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To adjust by rule, method, or established mode;
to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. ...
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Earthworks (10 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 25:1 Now in the ninth year of his rule, on the tenth day of the tenth month,
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came against Jerusalem with all his army ...
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Easter (1 Occurrence)
... But this was not satisfactory, especially to the western churches, and a
definite rule for the determination of Easter was needed. ...
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Exception (6 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out
something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. ...
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Principality (3 Occurrences)
... Version (British and American) for mera'ashoth (from ro'sh, "head"), "head-parts."
In the New Testament "principality" occurs for arche, "rule," generally in ...
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Pauline
... The full extent of these beliefs, to be sure, is not now ascertainable, for Pharisaism
was a rule of conduct rather than a system of dogmas, and great ...
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Proportion (15 Occurrences)
... proportion. 3. (n.) The portion one receives when a whole is distributed
by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot. 4. (n ...
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Executed (39 Occurrences)
... of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in
execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them ...
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Borrow (10 Occurrences)
... 15:6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend
to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations ...
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Boughs (29 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 19:11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their
stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their ...
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Citizens (28 Occurrences)
... Judges 9:2 "Say in the ears of all the citizens of Shechem, 'Which is better for
you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubba'al rule over you, or that one ...
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Considered (80 Occurrences)
... Mark 10:42 but Jesus having called them near, saith to them, 'Ye have known that
they who are considered to rule the nations do exercise lordship over them ...
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Square (94 Occurrences)
... etc. 10. (n.) Hence, a pattern or rule. 11. ... b2. 12. (n.) Exact proportion;
justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule. 13. ...
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Syracuse (1 Occurrence)
... Syracuse assumed a pre-eminent position in the affairs of Sicily under the rule
of the tyrants Gelon (485-478 BC; compare Herodotus vii.154-55) and Hieron (478 ...
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Divorce (18 Occurrences)
... 1. The Family: It may be well here to treat of the exception which Christ
made in His rule to the indissolubility of marriage. It ...
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Year (4027 Occurrences)
... land permanently (Leviticus 25:23), the next verse furnishing the motive: "The land
is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me." The same rule was to ...
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Drunkenness (10 Occurrences)
... While total abstinence is not prescribed as a formal and universal rule, broad
principles are laid down, especially in the New Testament, which point in that ...
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Lights (71 Occurrences)
... Genesis 1:16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/lights.htm - 27k

Slander (34 Occurrences)
... As a rule it is a false charge (compare Matthew 5:11); but it may be a truth circulated
insidiously and with a hostile purpose (eg Daniel 3:8, "brought ...
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Parable (52 Occurrences)
... Luke 8:9, 10). He followed in so doing the rule of the divine procedures,
as recorded in Matthew 13:13. The parables uttered by ...
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Apostolic (2 Occurrences)
... only by a miracle (Acts 12). With the resumption of Roman rule in 44 AD
the persecution ceased. Some peaceable mode of living was ...
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Sheol (64 Occurrences)
... more erroneous to speak with Dr. Charles (Eschatology, 35;) of Sheol as a region
"quite independent of Yahwe, and outside the sphere of His rule." "Sheol is ...
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Macedonia (23 Occurrences)
... 1. Philip and Alexander: With the accession of Philip II, son of Amyntas II, in
359 BC, Macedonia came under the rule of a man powerful alike in body and in ...
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Sends (94 Occurrences)
... sends thee away. (DBY). 2 Samuel 22:48 It is God who sends punishment on
my haters, and puts peoples under my rule. (BBE). 1 Kings ...
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Bracelet (5 Occurrences)
... this writing, and its interpretation doth shew me, purple he putteth on, and a bracelet
of gold 'is' on his neck, and third in the kingdom he doth rule.' (YLT). ...
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Stem (18 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 19:11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their
stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/stem.htm - 13k

Male (303 Occurrences)
... Numbers 18:10, 11). As a rule Jewish parents (as is now common in the Orient)
preferred male children to daughters. This is seen ...
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Tarsus (5 Occurrences)
... Cilicia ultimately fell under the rule of the Seleucid kings of Syria, whose
capital was Antioch on the Orontes. Though Greeks, they ...
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Captive (123 Occurrences)
... They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over
their oppressors. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Jubilee (25 Occurrences)
... land permanently (Leviticus 25:23), the next verse furnishing the motive: "The land
is mine: for ye are strangers and sojourners with me." The same rule was to ...
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Bone (35 Occurrences)
... Judges 9:2 "Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem,'Is it better for
you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or ...
biblethesaurus.org/b/bone.htm - 21k

Stars (64 Occurrences)
... Genesis 1:16 God made the two great lights: the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night. He also made the stars. ...
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Sweat (3 Occurrences)
... make their ministrations unpleasant. The rule was of special importance in the
sultry climate of Palestine. Luke, the physician, describing ...
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Scribes (85 Occurrences)
... admonitions above referred to, not to make instruction in the Law the object of
self-interest, lead to the conclusion that gratuity was not the rule; and in ...
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Ministry (44 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body. 5. (n.)
Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt. Int. ...
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Guilt (180 Occurrences)
... It is that of a rule and the transgression of it, which must be made good. ... He sees
it as a power that comes to rule a man's life and that rules in the race. ...
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Lend (21 Occurrences)
... 15:6 For Yahweh your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend
to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations ...
biblethesaurus.org/l/lend.htm - 18k

Sceptre (20 Occurrences)
... sceptre. (See JPS ASV). Psalms 110:2 Jehovah shall send the sceptre of thy
might out of Zion: rule in the midst of thine enemies. (DBY). ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/sceptre.htm - 17k

Stoics (1 Occurrence)
... own sake. They speculated about ultimate problems only for the practical
purpose of discovering a rule of life and conduct. And ...
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Acknowledge (61 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 26:13 O Lord, our God, other lords than you have had rule over us; but in
you only is our salvation, and no other name will we take on our lips. ...
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Purity (16 Occurrences)
... God rejoice over thee." Language cannot more clearly disclose delight in the joy
of those who are adjusting themselves under the "primal eldest" rule over sex ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/purity.htm - 30k

Maketh (399 Occurrences)
... Genesis 1:16 And God maketh the two great luminaries, the great luminary for the
rule of the day, and the small luminary -- and the stars -- for the rule of ...
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