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Tyrant (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the
family Tyrannidae; -- called also tyrant bird. ...Tyrant (2 Occurrences). ...
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Nero
... He became emperor of Rome when he was about seventeen years of age (AD 54), and
soon began to exhibit the character of a cruel tyrant and heathen debauchee. ...
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Ruler (329 Occurrences)
... rool'-er: 1. In the Old Testament: (1) moshel, "ruler," "prince," "master" (tyrant),
applied to Joseph in Egypt (Genesis 45:8; compare Psalm 105:21); to the ...
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Tiberius (1 Occurrence)
... He was called a tyrant and was refused deification after death, and Augustus was
said to have prophesied "Alas for the Roman people who shall be ground under ...
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Lamech (11 Occurrences)
... It is very instructive to note that this "father of polygamy" at once becomes the
first blustering tyrant and a braggadocio; we are fully permitted to draw ...
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Irritate (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To excite anger or displeasure in; to provoke; to tease; to exasperate;
to annoy; to vex; as, the insolence of a tyrant irritates his subjects. ...
biblethesaurus.org/i/irritate.htm - 7k

Immanuel (3 Occurrences)
... the dual object of which was, first, to organize a resistance against Assyria, and
second, to force Ahaz to cooperate in their designs against the common tyrant...
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Imperious (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (a.) Haughty; arrogant; overbearing; as, an imperious tyrant; an imperious manner.
3. (a.) Imperative; urgent; compelling. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Tyrannize (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vi) To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule with unjust and
oppressive severity; to exercise power others not permitted by law or required ...
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Tyranny (4 Occurrences)

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Tyrants (4 Occurrences)

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Rhegium (1 Occurrence)
... a colony of Chalcidian Greeks, the place enjoyed great prosperity in the 5th century
BC, but was captured and destroyed by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in ...
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Eglon (13 Occurrences)
... Under the pretext of carrying a present to the tyrant, he secured a private interview
and assassinated him with a two-edged sword which he had carried ...
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Despot (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) An absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign. 2. (n.) One who rules
regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Merciless (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Lacking mercy; cruel; unsparing; as, a merciless
tyrant; merciless waves. Multi-Version Concordance Merciless (4 Occurrences). ...
biblethesaurus.org/m/merciless.htm - 7k

Menelaus
... in presents he secured the office of high priest for himself (2 Maccabees 4:23),
171 BC Menelaus returned with "the passion of a cruel tyrant" to Jerusalem ...
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Ananias (11 Occurrences)
... he had said, "The high priest breaking the law! God's high priest a tyrant
and a lawbreaker! I see a man in white robes, and have ...
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Samos (1 Occurrence)
... was renowned in antiquity as one of the noted centers of Ionjan luxury, and reached
its zenith of prosperity under the rule of the famous tyrant Polycrates (533 ...
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Athens (5 Occurrences)
... constitution. The tyrant Pisistratus was in control permanently from 541
to 527 BC; his son Hipparchus was assassinated in 514. ...
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Apocalyptic
... the hand of the Messiah. They pictured to themselves the tyrant smitten
down by the direct judgment of Yahweh. After the death of ...
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Herod (45 Occurrences)
... of his court, the irreconcilable spirit of the Jews, as well as the consciousness
of his own wrongdoing, changed him into a Jewish Nero: a tyrant, who bathed ...
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Literature (2 Occurrences)
... the hand of the Messiah. They pictured to themselves the tyrant smitten
down by the direct judgment of Yahweh. After the death of ...
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Testaments
... Then as later on, in the many persecutions which followed, the Samaritans, ever
pliable and willing to obey the tyrant of the day, went practically scot free. ...
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Between (2624 Occurrences)
... Then as later on, in the many persecutions which followed, the Samaritans, ever
pliable and willing to obey the tyrant of the day, went practically scot free. ...
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Prince (160 Occurrences)
... prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?" The context here
suggests the thought of a wicked prince, a tyrant. Psalm ...
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Empire (8 Occurrences)
... parties. Even Cato Uticensis-the incarnation of republican ideas-admitted it
would be better to choose a master than wait for a tyrant. ...
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Elamites (2 Occurrences)
... Beginning with the semi-mythical period, we have the story of the fight of the
Babylonian hero Gilgames with the Elamite tyrant Humbaba, who was defeated by ...
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Hittites (39 Occurrences)
... According to his younger brother Hattusil, he was tyrant, who was finally driven
out by his subjects and died before the accession of Kadashman-Turgu (about ...
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Elam (24 Occurrences)
... Beginning with the semi-mythical period, we have the story of the fight of the
Babylonian hero Gilgames with the Elamite tyrant Humbaba, who was defeated by ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/elam.htm - 48k

Discomfiture (6 Occurrences)
... sufferings inflicted upon them because they were Christians; and the persecutions
at the time were instigated by the fear and the brutality of the tyrant. ...
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Moses (9295 Occurrences)
... 25, 26 Acts 7:25-28). He thought to be a nobody and do right better than
to be a tyrant and rule Egypt. 4. Refuge in Midian: Moses ...
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Taxing (3 Occurrences)
... The unusual combination in a publican of petty tyrant, renegade and extortioner,
made by circumstances almost inevitable, was not conductive to popularity. ...
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Tax (43 Occurrences)
... The unusual combination in a publican of petty tyrant, renegade and extortioner,
made by circumstances almost inevitable, was not conductive to popularity. ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/tax.htm - 47k

Roman (26 Occurrences)
... parties. Even Cato Uticensis-the incarnation of republican ideas-admitted it
would be better to choose a master than wait for a tyrant. ...
biblethesaurus.org/r/roman.htm - 101k

Christianity
... parties. Even Cato Uticensis-the incarnation of republican ideas-admitted it
would be better to choose a master than wait for a tyrant. ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/christianity.htm - 101k

Revelation (52 Occurrences)
... Haer., v.30, 3). This testimony is confirmed by Clement of Alexandria (who speaks
of "the tyrant"), Origen, and later writers. Epiphanius ...
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Peter (181 Occurrences)
... sufferings inflicted upon them because they were Christians; and the persecutions
at the time were instigated by the fear and the brutality of the tyrant. ...
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First (4693 Occurrences)
... sufferings inflicted upon them because they were Christians; and the persecutions
at the time were instigated by the fear and the brutality of the tyrant. ...
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John (154 Occurrences)

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