Direction
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Direction (128 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance;
management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public ...
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Slope (29 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line
or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to ...
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Traverse (5 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut
with traverse trenches. ... 14. (v.) To lay in a cross direction; to cross. 15. ...
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Random (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule,
or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that ...
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Shear (5 Occurrences)
... n.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous
parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to ...
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Turn (963 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To give another direction, tendency, or inclination to; to direct otherwise;
to deflect; to incline differently; -- used both literally and figuratively ...
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Range (9 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields. 6. (n.) To sail or pass
in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast. ...
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Reverse (12 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite
or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method. ...
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Direct (58 Occurrences)
... 5. (a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion, or from west to east;
in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial ...
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Parallel (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Extended in the same direction, and in all
parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel tracks. ...
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Course (87 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A route or path of direction; passage. ... 3. (n.) Motion, considered as to its
general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance. ...
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North (164 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) That one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which
lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person ...
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Lead (192 Occurrences)
... 11. (vt) To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; as,
to lead an army, an exploring party, or a search; to lead a political party. ...
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West (110 Occurrences)
... is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one
of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right ...
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Wind (180 Occurrences)
... a pole. 7. (vi) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend;
to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees. 8. (vi ...
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Towards (416 Occurrences)
... 1. (prep.) In the direction of; to. 2. (prep.) With direction to, in a moral
sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. ...
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Directs (6 Occurrences)
... too with ships, great as they are, and often driven along by strong gales, yet they
can be steered with a very small rudder in whichever direction the caprice ...
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Down (12601 Occurrences)
... 11. (adv.) In the direction of gravity or toward the center of the earth; toward
or in a lower place or position; below; -- the opposite of up. 12. ...
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Plumb (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A weight attached to a line and used by builders
to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See below. ...
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South (170 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the
region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who ...
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Stretching (84 Occurrences)
... Genesis 10:19 Their country stretching from Zidon to Gaza, in the direction of Gerar;
and to Lasha, in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim ...
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Order (809 Occurrences)
... 9. (n.) A command; a mandate; a precept; a direction. 10. (n.) Hence: A
commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods; a direction...
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Precious (128 Occurrences)
... a Hebrew statement of arrangement into a western language, one may either translate
literally word by word, thus adopting the Hebrew direction of reading, or ...
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Negeb (37 Occurrences)
... South of edition Dahariyeb-the probable site of DEBIR (which see)-and as stretching
South in a series of rolling hills running in a general direction of East ...
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Negev (39 Occurrences)
... South of edition Dahariyeb-the probable site of DEBIR (which see)-and as stretching
South in a series of rolling hills running in a general direction of East ...
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Euphrates (36 Occurrences)
... After running respectively 400 and 270 miles in a westerly direction, they unite
near Keban Maaden, whence in a tortuous channel of about 300 miles, bearing ...
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Stones (244 Occurrences)
... a Hebrew statement of arrangement into a western language, one may either translate
literally word by word, thus adopting the Hebrew direction of reading, or ...
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Across (172 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a
direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. ...
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Line (131 Occurrences)
... (n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision. ... (n.) Dispositions made to cover
extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy. ...
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Valued (27 Occurrences)
... price of the making of the House, even the House of witness, as it was valued by
the word of Moses, for the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar ...
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Vision (106 Occurrences)
... In one aspect it proposes a revelation for immediate direction, as in the ease of
Abram (Genesis 15:2 and frequently); Lot (Genesis 19:15); Balaam (Numbers 22 ...
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Zeboiim (7 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 13:18 And another went in the direction of Beth-horon: and another went
by the hill looking down on the valley of Zeboiim, in the direction of the ...
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Kishon (6 Occurrences)
... Winding, a winter torrent of Central Palestine, which rises about the roots of Tabor
and Gilboa, and passing in a northerly direction through the plains of ...
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Onward (25 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Moving in a forward direction; tending toward
a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc. ...
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Left-handed (3 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch when seen in
front; -- said of a twist, a rotary motion, etc., looked at from a given ...
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Lengthwise (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal
direction. Multi-Version Concordance Lengthwise (1 Occurrence). ...
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Lutes (16 Occurrences)
... 1 Chronicles 25:6 All these were under the direction of their fathers Asaph, Jeduthun,
and Heman, for song in the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, lutes and ...
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Gareb (3 Occurrences)
... Joshua 15:8), but this is too far South; it is inconceivable that the prophet could
have imagined the city extending so far in this direction; most probably ...
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Wide (206 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious
across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not ...
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Incline (38 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean;
to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to ...
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Following (546 Occurrences)
... 5. (a.) (In the field of a telescope) In the direction from which stars are apparently
moving (in consequence of the earth's rotation); as, a small star, north ...
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Throw (135 Occurrences)
... 14. (vt) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to
twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the ...
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Rule (291 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action;
a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a ...
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Right-handed (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (a.) Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch
seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a ...
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English
... 6. (n.) A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences
the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. ...
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Double (49 Occurrences)
... twice as much as. 9. (v.) To pass around or by; to march or sail round,
so as to reverse the direction of motion. 10. (v.) To unite ...
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Province (66 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district
or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over ...
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Priesthood (30 Occurrences)
... In like manner Job offered burnt offerings for his children, and likewise by divine
direction for the three "comforters" when the great trial had passed (Job 1 ...
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Corded (37 Occurrences)
... 1 Chronicles 25:3 Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah,
Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun ...
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Chaldaean (9 Occurrences)
... Kings 25:5 But the Chaldaean army went after the king, and overtook him in the lowlands
of Jericho, and all his army went in flight from him in every direction...
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At (20085 Occurrences)
... 1. (prep.) Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in
place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to ...
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Aim (17 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, in the line of
direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the ...
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Against (17413 Occurrences)
... 2. (prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with;
in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof. ...
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Slant (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (vt) To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique or sloping direction
to; as, to slant a line. 3. (n.) A slanting direction...
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Stroke (26 Occurrences)
... 15. (n.) The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod,
crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a ...
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Sight (522 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their
direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant. ...
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Stress (3 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted
in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies ...
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Swing (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To sway or move from one side or direction to another; as, the door swung
open. 3. (vi) To use a swing; as, a boy swings for exercise or pleasure. ...
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Sweep (34 Occurrences)
... 16. (n.) Direction and extent of any motion not rectilinear; as, the sweep
of a compass. 17. (n.) Direction or departure of a curve ...
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Service (317 Occurrences)
... (6) Yadh means literally, an "open hand, indicating direction, power, and so ministry
as in 1 Chronicles 6:31, where David appoints certain ones to have ...
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Set (6715 Occurrences)
... 33. (vi) To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as,
the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward. 34. ...
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Pushing (26 Occurrences)
... there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine,
pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the ...
biblethesaurus.org/p/pushing.htm - 14k

Face (780 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point,
or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding ...
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Cross (157 Occurrences)
... 17. (a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually ... 22. (vt)
To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. 23. ...
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Arabia (9 Occurrences)
... 50 and 100 miles from the sea, with a subsidiary watershed running along the south;
and the principal outlets for the drainage run in a Northeast direction. ...
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Helm (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) The place or office of direction or administration. 4. (n.) One at the place
of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director. ...
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Strike (168 Occurrences)
... 42. (n.) A puddler's stirrer. 43. (n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping
edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be ...
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Divorce (18 Occurrences)
... Whichever way we depart from strict practice under the Savior's direction we land
in polygamy. ... "Be quiet" is a direction that hovers over every situation. ...
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Ahaz (42 Occurrences)
... His first steps in this direction were the causing to be made and circulated of
molten images of the Baalim, and the revival in the valley of Hinnom, south of ...
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East (228 Occurrences)
... is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one
of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right ...
biblethesaurus.org/e/east.htm - 51k

Exodus (2 Occurrences)
... to due south. The Lord now assumed the direction of their march in the pillar
of cloud by day and of fire by night. They were then ...
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Dial (2 Occurrences)
... known or unknown, since Hezekiah was given the choice and exercised it of his own
free will, as to whether a shadow should move in a particular direction or in ...
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Jonah (30 Occurrences)
... (2) According to the book bearing his name, Jonah the son of Amittai received a
command to preach to Nineveh; but he fled in the opposite direction to escape ...
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Cutting (178 Occurrences)
... We find also references to it, through in a different direction, by Paul (Galatians
6; 7) and by Ezekiel (9:4). (see HAIR.). Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Cherubim (63 Occurrences)
... The cherubim do not turn as they change direction, but always go straight forward
(Ezekiel 1:9, 17; Ezekiel 10:11), as do the wheels of the cherubic chariot ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/cherubim.htm - 40k

Offices (14 Occurrences)
... the ethical relation of man to God; while the king furnishes the typical form of
that exercise of sovereign authority and Providential direction which concerns ...
biblethesaurus.org/o/offices.htm - 43k

Agape
... The direction that the second Eucharistic prayer should be offered "after being
filled" (x.1) appears to imply that a regular meal had immediately preceded the ...
biblethesaurus.org/a/agape.htm - 15k

Rooms (69 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 42:1 And he took me out into the inner square in the direction of the north:
and he took me into the rooms which were opposite the separate place and ...
biblethesaurus.org/r/rooms.htm - 28k

Version
... It derives its name from the popular notion that seventy-two translators were employed
on it by the direction of Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, and that ...
biblethesaurus.org/v/version.htm - 37k




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