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Defeat (16 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault. 5. (n.) An undoing or
annulling; destruction. ... Multi-Version Concordance Defeat (16 Occurrences). ...
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Nicanor (1 Occurrence)
... Soter. After the defeat of Seron by Judas, Epiphanes entrusted his chancellor
Lysias with the reduction of Judea (1 Maccabees 3:34;). ...
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Gilboa (8 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua', memorable
as the scene of Saul's disastrous defeat by the Philistines. ...
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Thwart (5 Occurrences)
... the air. 7. (vt) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to;
to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat. 8. (vi) To ...
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Ahithophel (17 Occurrences)
... saw with absolute clearness that Absalom had sacrificed his one opportunity, and
he committed suicide to avoid participation in the shameful defeat which he ...
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Ahab (85 Occurrences)
... himself as he that putteth it off." At the advice of a prophet of Yahweh, Ahab,
with 7,000 men under 232 leaders, inflicts a crushing defeat upon Benhadad and ...
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Victory (71 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist
in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition ...
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Nabathaeans
... Ant, XIII, xiii, 3). A few years later (90 BC) Alexander retaliated by attacking
Obedas I, king of the Nabateans, but suffered a severe defeat East of the ...
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Nabataeans
... Ant, XIII, xiii, 3). A few years later (90 BC) Alexander retaliated by attacking
Obedas I, king of the Nabateans, but suffered a severe defeat East of the ...
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Oreb (4 Occurrences)
... 10:26). Oreb, The rock of. The place where Gideon slew Oreb after the defeat
of the Midianites (Judges 7:25; Isaiah 10:26). It was ...
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Gauls
... It was in 191 BC that Gallia Cisalpina was reduced to the form of a Roman province,
and in 189 BC occurred the defeat of Antiochus, king of Asia. ...
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Frustrate (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint;
to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to ...
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Rhodes (2 Occurrences)
... Aeschines, the famous orator of Athens, fled to Rhodes after his defeat by Demosthenes,
and rounded a school of oratory, which was attended by many Romans. ...
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Ekron (20 Occurrences)
... After the defeat of the Philistines, when David killed Goliath, the Israelites pursued
them to the gates of Ekron, which was evidently the nearest walled town ...
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Ekronite (1 Occurrence)
... After the defeat of the Philistines, when David killed Goliath, the Israelites pursued
them to the gates of Ekron, which was evidently the nearest walled town ...
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Disappoint (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that
which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of ...
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Misrephothmaim (2 Occurrences)
... Burning of waters, supposed to be salt-pans, or lime-kilns, or glass-factories,
a place to which Joshua pursued a party of Canaanites after the defeat of Jabin ...
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Misrephoth-maim (2 Occurrences)
... Burning of waters, supposed to be salt-pans, or lime-kilns, or glass-factories,
a place to which Joshua pursued a party of Canaanites after the defeat of Jabin ...
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Ahith'ophel (15 Occurrences)
... say unto Absalom: I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant
in time past, so will I now be thy servant; then wilt thou defeat for me ...
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Ashterothkarnaim
... the King James Version Astaroth; Astaroth, the city of Og, king of Bashan (Deuteronomy
14, etc.); `ashteroth qarnayim, the scene of the defeat of the Rephaim ...
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Ashteroth-karnaim (1 Occurrence)
... the King James Version Astaroth; Astaroth, the city of Og, king of Bashan (Deuteronomy
14, etc.); `ashteroth qarnayim, the scene of the defeat of the Rephaim ...
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Advice (52 Occurrences)
... As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant;
then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.' (See NIV). ...
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Benhadad (24 Occurrences)
... 2. Expeditions against Israel: Next year the Syrians resolved to retrieve their
defeat saying of the Israelites, "Their God is a god of the hills; therefore ...
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Gezer (14 Occurrences)
... In 2 Samuel 5:25 (the King James Version "Gazer") we read that David chased the
Philistines after their defeat in the valley of Rephaim "from Geba until thou ...
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Warfare (18 Occurrences)
... stratia): 1. Religious Significance 2. Preliminaries 3. Operations of War 4. Strategy
5. Important Requisites 6. Characteristics 7. Defeat and Victory 8 ...
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Maccabaeus
... Elasa (161 BC), during the invasion under Bacchides, which was undertaken before
the answer of the Roman Senate arrived, was the cause of the defeat and death ...
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Macedonia (23 Occurrences)
... By the battle of Issus (333), in which Darius himself was defeated, Alexander's
way was opened to Phoenicia and Egypt; Darius' second defeat, at Arbela (331 ...
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Satan (50 Occurrences)
... He hates both God and man and does all that in him lies to defeat God's plan of
grace and to establish and maintain a kingdom of evil, in the seduction and ...
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Herod (45 Occurrences)
... Together they supported the claims of Pompey and, after the latter's defeat, they
availed themselves of the magnanimity of Caesar to submit to him, after the ...
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War (529 Occurrences)
... stratia): 1. Religious Significance 2. Preliminaries 3. Operations of War 4. Strategy
5. Important Requisites 6. Characteristics 7. Defeat and Victory 8 ...
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Defaming (3 Occurrences)

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Hushai (13 Occurrences)
... The king persuaded him to return to Jerusalem, feign submission to Absalom, and
try to defeat the counsel of Ahithophel (2 Samuel 15:32 f). Whatever Absalom ...
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Great (10383 Occurrences)
... tribes. He invaded Thrace with his army and overthrew the Triballi, then
crossed the Danube and inflicted a defeat on the Getae. ...
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Ab'salom (85 Occurrences)
... As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant;
then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.' (See RSV). ...
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Counsel (192 Occurrences)
... As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant;
then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.' (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY ...
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Samuel (129 Occurrences)
... 12). This was the spot where, twenty years before, the Israelites had suffered
a great defeat, when the ark of God was taken. This ...
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Captivity (141 Occurrences)
... THE CHALDAEAN POWER) Southern Kingdom and House of David 1. Break-up of Assyria
2. Downfall of Nineveh, 606 BC 3. Pharaoh Necoh's Revolt 4. Defeat at Carchemish ...
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Jerusalem (782 Occurrences)
... The Dedication of the Temple (165 BC) 34. Defeat of Judas and Capture of the City
35. ... King Agrippa 48. Rising against Florus and Defeat of Gallus 49. ...
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Anem (1 Occurrence)
... of Achan, who stole for himself part of the spoil of the captured city (7:1,
16-26); incidentally his sin is the cause of a disastrous defeat before Ai (7:2- ...
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Maccabees
... as the leader in directing the war of independence, which was carried on with great
heroism on the part of the Jews, and was terminated in the defeat of the ...
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Elamites (2 Occurrences)
...Defeat was the result, and he fled to Elam, there to be captured by Humba-haldasu
and put to death. (12) Assyrian Friendship and Elamite Ingratitude. ...
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Elam (24 Occurrences)
...Defeat was the result, and he fled to Elam, there to be captured by Humba-haldasu
and put to death. (12) Assyrian Friendship and Elamite Ingratitude. ...
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Xerxes (24 Occurrences)
... After the defeat at Salamis in 480 Xerxes himself withdrew from the expedition
and it was finally discontinued in the next year. ...
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Vanquish (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy. 2. (vt) Hence, to
defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute. ...
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Zeeb (3 Occurrences)
... of Oreb: The account of a battle here is corroborated by Isaiah 10:26, a verse which
mentions the "rock of Oreb," and suggests that the great defeat of the ...
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Zemaraim (2 Occurrences)
... Here the armies of Abijah and Jeroboam engaged in a bloody battle, which issued
in the total defeat of the king of Israel, who never "recovered strength again ...
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Kishon (6 Occurrences)
... This was the scene of the defeat of Sisera (Judges 4:7, 13), and of the
destruction of the prophets of Baal by Elijah (1 Kings 18:40). ...
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Nodab (1 Occurrence)
... no'-dab (nodhabh; Nadabaioi): A Hagrite clan which, along with Jetur and Naphish,
suffered complete defeat at the hands of the trans-Jordanic Israelites (1 ...
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Opposition (22 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check,
restrain, or defeat; resistance. 2. (n.) The state of ...
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Outwit (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to
defeat or overreach by superior craft. 2. (n.) The faculty ...
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Og (22 Occurrences)
... The defeat took place at Edrei, one of the chief of these cities (Numbers 21:33
Joshua 12:4), and Og and his people were "utterly destroyed" (Deuteronomy 3:6 ...
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Overthrow (48 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To overturn; to upset; to vanquish an established ruler. 2. (vt) To cause
to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. ...
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Overreach (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To reach too far; to defeat oneself by
setting a goal too high. 2. (vt) To deceive, or get the ...
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Jephthah (26 Occurrences)
... his house first to meet him on his return. The defeat of the Ammonites was
complete. "He smote them from Aroer, even till thou come ...
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Jephthah's (1 Occurrence)
... (Judges 11:30, 31). After a crushing defeat of the Ammonites, Jephthah returned
to his own house, and the first to welcome him was his own daughter. ...
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Jehovahnissi (1 Occurrence)
... je-ho'-va nis'-i (yahweh nicci, "Yahweh is my banner"): So Moses named the altar
which he reared to signalize the defeat of the Amalekites by Israel under ...
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Jehovah-nissi (1 Occurrence)
... je-ho'-va nis'-i (yahweh nicci, "Yahweh is my banner"): So Moses named the altar
which he reared to signalize the defeat of the Amalekites by Israel under ...
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Lose (59 Occurrences)
... 9. (vt) To prevent from gaining or obtaining. 10. (vi) To suffer loss, disadvantage,
or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest. ...
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Gibeon (39 Occurrences)
... Among the Amarna tablets is a letter from Adoni-zedec (qv) to the king of Egypt,
written probably at Makkedah after the defeat, showing that the kings ...
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Whip (7 Occurrences)
... whisk, fork, or the like. 7. (vt) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest
or game; to beat; to surpass. 8. (vt) To overlay (a cord ...
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Worst (8 Occurrences)
... 3. (v.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of;
to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit. 4. (vi) To grow worse; to deteriorate. ...
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Worse (62 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Loss; disadvantage; defeat. 3. (n.) That which is worse; something
less good; as, think not the worse of him for his enterprise. ...
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Ichabod (2 Occurrences)
... When the tidings of the disastrous defeat of the Israelites in the battle against
the Philistines near to Mizpeh were carried to Shiloh, the wife of Phinehas ...
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Ivory (13 Occurrences)
... In 1 Maccabees 8:6, there is a reference to the defeat of Antiochus the Great,
"having an hundred and twenty elephants," by Scipio Africanus in 190 BC 1 ...
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Fling (5 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence,
to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. ...
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Fight (265 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt
to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to ...
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Frustrating (1 Occurrence)
... As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant;
then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.' (See NIV). ...
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Frustration (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat;
as, the frustration of one's designs. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Hazor (19 Occurrences)
... At a later time the Jabin Dynasty appears to have recovered power and restored the
city (Judges 4:2). The heavy defeat of their army at the hands of Deborah ...
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Tryphon
... their country (1 Maccabees 11:54;). Jonathan inflicted a severe defeat on
the forces of Demetrius. The successes of the Jewish leaders ...
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Titus (15 Occurrences)
... carried a letter unto the Jewish people consenting to the favorable terms which
Lysias, the captain of Antiochus, granted to the Jews after his defeat, 163 BC ...
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Transfiguration
... There might be opposition, but there could be no permanent defeat of one
whose work was ratified by Moses, by Elijah, by God Himself. ...
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Taanach (7 Occurrences)
... were not driven out; only at a later time they were set to taskwork (Joshua 17:12
Judges 1:27 f). Here the great battle was fought when the defeat of Sisera ...
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Tears (58 Occurrences)
... prospect of approaching death in Psalm 39:12 2 Kings 20:5; Isaiah 38:5, and of the
suffering consequent on oppression (Ecclesiastes 4:1), or defeat in battle ...
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Resist (23 Occurrences)
... obstruct. 2. (vt) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat,
or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. 3. (vt ...
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Rabbah (14 Occurrences)
... After David's defeat of the Arameans at Helam a year later, the Ammonites were exposed
alone to the full-force of Israel, the ark of the covenant being carried ...
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Ramothgilead (19 Occurrences)
... the region of Argob, which is in Bashan." The city was taken from Omri by the Syrians
under Ben-hadad I (Ant., VIII, xv, 3;), and even after the defeat of Ben ...
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Ramoth-gilead (20 Occurrences)
... the region of Argob, which is in Bashan." The city was taken from Omri by the Syrians
under Ben-hadad I (Ant., VIII, xv, 3;), and even after the defeat of Ben ...
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Retreat (10 Occurrences)
... position. 4. (n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the
purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat. 5 ...
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Raphon
... ra'-fon (Rhapheion): The place where in his campaign East of Jordan Judas inflicted
disastrous defeat on the host of Timotheus, the fugitives fleeing for ...
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