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Flight (325 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Lofty elevation and excursion; a mounting; a scaling; as, a flight of
imagination, ambition, folly. ... Multi-Version Concordance Flight (325 Occurrences). ...
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Wing (18 Occurrences)
... They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in
the case of a few species of birds, as the ostrich, auk, etc., the wings are ...
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Eagle (27 Occurrences)
... properly the griffon vulture or great vulture, so called from its tearing its prey
with its beak), referred to for its swiftness of flight (Deuteronomy 28:49 ...
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Swallow (38 Occurrences)
... whole land, and fill the air with their shrill cry." The swift (cypselus) is ordinarily
classed with the swallow, which it resembles in its flight, habits, and ...
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Aramaeans (49 Occurrences)
... (BBE). 2 Samuel 10:13 Then Joab and the people with him went forward to the fight
against the Aramaeans, and they went in flight before him. (BBE). ...
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Quick-footed (7 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 30:16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly
go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those ...
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Windblown (3 Occurrences)
... for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters,
and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they ...
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Taker (26 Occurrences)
... Numbers 35:6 And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places
to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to ...
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Adoniram (4 Occurrences)
... The murder of Adoniram, and the ignominious flight of Rehoboam, were natural
consequences. Willis J. Beecher. Multi-Version Concordance Adoniram (4 Occurrences) ...
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Aramaean (13 Occurrences)
... Esau. (BBE YLT). Genesis 31:20 And Jacob went away secretly, without giving
news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean. (BBE YLT). Genesis ...
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Swords (50 Occurrences)
... (WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV). Leviticus 26:7 And you will put to flight those who are
against you, and they will be put to death by your swords. (BBE). ...
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Absalom's (16 Occurrences)
... had given them orders. Then all the king's sons got up, and every man got
on his beast and went in flight. (BBE NIV). 2 Samuel 13 ...
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Slope (29 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 13:34 But Absalom went in flight. ... (BBE). 2 Kings 9:27 Now when Ahaziah,
king of Judah, saw this, he went in flight by the way of the garden house. ...
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Hagar (15 Occurrences)
...Flight, or, according to others, stranger, an Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid (Genesis
16:1; 21:9, 10), whom she gave to Abraham (qv) as a secondary wife (16:2 ...
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Flag (30 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 30:17 A thousand will go in fear before one; even before five you will go
in flight: till you are like a pillar by itself on the top of a mountain, and ...
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War-carriages (76 Occurrences)
... Exodus 14:25 And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had
hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before ...
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Carriage (32 Occurrences)
... death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage
to go in flight to Jerusalem. (BBE). 1 Kings 18:44 ...
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Hawk (6 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary (Hebrews netz, a word expressive of strong and
rapid flight, and hence appropriate to the hawk). It is ...
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Safe (388 Occurrences)
... Numbers 35:6 And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places
to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to ...
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Birds (125 Occurrences)
... added the rudder. The structural formation of a bird is so arranged as to
give powerful flight and perfect respiration. In the case ...
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Overtaken (36 Occurrences)
... (See JPS). Isaiah 13:15 Everyone who is overtaken will have a spear put through
him, and everyone who goes in flight will be put to the sword. (BBE). ...
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Wounded (114 Occurrences)
... 1 Samuel 31:1 Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel
went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount ...
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Attacking (73 Occurrences)
... came to the tents of the Ammonites, and they went on attacking them till the heat
of the day: and those who were not put to death were put to flight in every ...
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Chaldaeans (65 Occurrences)
... 2 Kings 25:4 So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of
war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was ...
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Causing (248 Occurrences)
... from another country who is living among them, these six towns are to be safe places,
where anyone causing the death of another through error may go in flight. ...
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Secretly (104 Occurrences)
... house. (BBE). Genesis 31:20 And Jacob went away secretly, without giving
news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean. (BBE). Genesis ...
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Locust (25 Occurrences)
... computation: the hebrews called them `the countless,' and the Arabs knew them as
`the darkeners of the sun.' Unable to guide their own flight, though capable ...
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Error (90 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Numbers 35:11 Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which
anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight. (BBE JPS). ...
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Bethhoron (12 Occurrences)
... and slain (1 Maccabees 7:39; Josephus, Ant, XII, x, 5). Along this pass in 66 AD
the Roman general Cestius Gallus was driven in headlong flight before the Jews ...
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Beth-horon (12 Occurrences)
... and slain (1 Maccabees 7:39; Josephus, Ant, XII, x, 5). Along this pass in 66 AD
the Roman general Cestius Gallus was driven in headlong flight before the Jews ...
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Keeper (72 Occurrences)
... be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to
death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight...
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Fighting (201 Occurrences)
... Exodus 14:25 And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had
hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before ...
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Safely (83 Occurrences)
... of fire, got safely away from the edge of the sword, were made strong when they
had been feeble, became full of power in war, and put to flight the armies of ...
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Music-maker (55 Occurrences)
... Psalms 11:1 <For the chief music-maker. Of David.> In the Lord put I my faith; how
will you say to my soul, Go in flight like a bird to the mountain? (BBE). ...
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Quick-running (4 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 30:16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly
go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those ...
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Quicker (5 Occurrences)
... end without hope. (BBE). Job 9:25 My days go quicker than a post-runner:
they go in flight, they see no good. (BBE). Jeremiah 4:13 ...
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Zeredah (4 Occurrences)
... gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against
his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as ...
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Quail (5 Occurrences)
... fields. They have a longer, fuller wing than the partridge and can make
stronger flight. In Palestine they were migratory. They ...
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Overcame (84 Occurrences)
... Genesis 14:15 And separating his forces by night, he overcame them, putting them
to flight and going after them as far as Hobah, which is on the north side of ...
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Overseer (84 Occurrences)
... death by all Israel. And King Rehoboam went quickly and got into his carriage
to go in flight to Jerusalem. (BBE). 2 Kings 25:19 ...
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Landing (4 Occurrences)
... etc. 5. (n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs,
or connecting one flight with another. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Gibeon (39 Occurrences)
... is a letter from Adoni-zedec (qv) to the king of Egypt, written probably at Makkedah
after the defeat, showing that the kings contemplated flight into Egypt. ...
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Geba (22 Occurrences)
... by his armor-bearer, he accomplished an apparently impossible feat, climbing the
rocky steeps of the gorge to the North and putting the enemy to flight. ...
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Winter (22 Occurrences)
... Winter (22 Occurrences). Matthew 24:20 Pray that your flight will not be in the
winter, nor on a Sabbath, (WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Wings (81 Occurrences)
... Often the wings of an eagle are mentioned because they are from 7 to 9 feet in sweep,
of untiring flight, and have strength to carry heavy burdens: so they ...
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Fighters (12 Occurrences)
... great fighters, who was with David in Pas-dammim when the Philistines came together
there for the fight; and when the men of Israel had gone in flight, (BBE). ...
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Fugitives (21 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 15:9 For the waters of Dimon are full of blood: and I'm sending even more
on Moab, a lion on those of Moab who go in flight, and on the rest of the land ...
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Rout (6 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially
of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or ...
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Exodus (2 Occurrences)
... Jacob into Egypt to the " death of Joseph 71 " " From the death of Joseph to the
birth of " Moses 278 " " From the birth of Moses to his flight into " Midian ...
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Death-wound (3 Occurrences)
... (BBE). 2 Kings 9:27 Now when Ahaziah, king of Judah, saw this, he went in
flight by the way of the garden house. And Jehu came after ...
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Makkedah (8 Occurrences)
... It was brought into prominence by the flight thither of the 5 kings of the Amorites
who, having united their forces for the destruction of Gibeon, were ...
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Perennially (2 Occurrences)
... 49:19 See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the
resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her ...
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Barefoot (7 Occurrences)
... barefoot" (Isaiah 20:2); and like the Egyptians, "naked and barefoot" (Isaiah
20:3, 4). It seems that David in his flight before Absalom "went barefoot," not ...
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Birth-pains (10 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 49:22 See, he will come up like an eagle in flight, stretching out his
wings against Bozrah: and the hearts of Edom's men of war on that day will be ...
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Chaldaean (9 Occurrences)
... 2 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 ...
biblethesaurus.org/c/chaldaean.htm - 9k

Amain
... a-man' (translated from the Greek eis phugen hormesan, "they rushed to flight"):
The word is composed of the prefix "a" and the word "main," meaning "force ...
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Augury (5 Occurrences)
... The derivation of "augur" is doubtful, but that it means strictly to divine from
the flight of birds is suggested by its likeliest etymology (avis, gur) and ...
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Attacker (14 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 18:17 I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker;
I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall. ...
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Shema (7 Occurrences)
... See SHIMEI. (2) One of the heads of "fathers' houses" in Aijalon, who put to flight
the inhabitants of Gath (1 Chronicles 8:13, Codex Vaticanus and Codex ...
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Sea-mew (2 Occurrences)
... The sea-gull is a "slender" bird, but not "lean" as the root shachaph implies. However,
with its stretch of wing and restless flight it gives this impression. ...
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Steeds (11 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 30:16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly
go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those ...
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Snakes (25 Occurrences)
... when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said
to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the ...
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Seamew (1 Occurrence)
... The sea-gull is a "slender" bird, but not "lean" as the root shachaph implies. However,
with its stretch of wing and restless flight it gives this impression. ...
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Supporters (12 Occurrences)
... there was Judas of Galilee, at the time of the numbering, and some of the people
went after him: he was put to death, and all his supporters were put to flight...
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Jael (6 Occurrences)
... They defeated him at "Taanach by the waters of Megiddo," but Sisera sought in flight
to save himself. ... Sisera was in flight and Barak in pursuit. ...
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Outskirts (38 Occurrences)
... 1 Chronicles 6:57 And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men
might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir ...
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Shimei (43 Occurrences)
... (2.) A Benjamite of the house of Saul, who stoned and cursed David when he reached
Bahurim in his flight from Jerusalem on the occasion of the rebellion of ...
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Fearing (107 Occurrences)
... (YLT). 1 Kings 19:3 And he got up, fearing for his life, and went in flight, and
came to Beer-sheba in Judah, parting there from his servant; (BBE). ...
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Writings (111 Occurrences)
... be turned away from me this night: for it is said in the Writings, I will put to
death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep of the flock will be put to flight...
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Overcome (300 Occurrences)
... Numbers 32:21 Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he
has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him, (BBE). ...
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Peacock
... While the peacock wing seems out of proportion to the size of the bird,
it will sustain flight and bear the body to the treetops. ...
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Battle (282 Occurrences)
... to Joshua, and he at the head of his picked men made a night march up from Gilgal
and fell upon the Amorites at Gibeon the next day and put them to flight. ...
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Insects (17 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 51:6 Let your eyes be lifted up to the heavens, and turned to the earth which
is under them: for the heavens will go in flight like smoke, and the earth ...
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Driving (144 Occurrences)
... Exodus 14:25 And made the wheels of their war-carriages stiff, so that they had
hard work driving them: so the Egyptians said, Let us go in flight from before ...
biblethesaurus.org/d/driving.htm - 37k

Speed (22 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 30:16 Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly
go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/speed.htm - 14k

Towns (450 Occurrences)
... Numbers 35:6 And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places
to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to ...
biblethesaurus.org/t/towns.htm - 36k

Attacks (45 Occurrences)
... any man has hate for his neighbour, and waiting for him secretly makes an attack
on him and gives him a blow causing his death, and then goes in flight to one ...
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Shiloah (1 Occurrence)
... Pool of Siloam": The water from the Siloam aqueduct, emerging at `Ain Silwan, flows
today into a narrow shallow pool, approached by a steep flight of modern ...
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Siloah (1 Occurrence)
... Pool of Siloam": The water from the Siloam aqueduct, emerging at `Ain Silwan, flows
today into a narrow shallow pool, approached by a steep flight of modern ...
biblethesaurus.org/s/siloah.htm - 17k

Unpeopled (38 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 50:3 For out of the north a nation is coming up against her, which will
make her land waste and unpeopled: they are in flight, man and beast are gone. ...
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