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Gradually (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (adv.) In degree. Multi-Version Concordance Gradually (2 Occurrences). Acts
20:9 and a youth of the name of Eutychus was sitting at the window. ...
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Drain (11 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow
gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of. ...
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Lampstand (38 Occurrences)
... This form continued into Jewish times, but was gradually changed until the spout
was formed by drawing the rim of the sides together, forming a narrow open ...
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Lamp (45 Occurrences)
... This form continued into Jewish times, but was gradually changed until the spout
was formed by drawing the rim of the sides together, forming a narrow open ...
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Ephesus (20 Occurrences)
... However, under Greek rule the Greek civilization gradually supplanted that of the
Orientals, the Greek language was spoken in place of the Asiatic; and the ...
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Waste (668 Occurrences)
... 5. (v.) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant
loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out. ...
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Wear (56 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion,
on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend ...
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Fade (16 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace. 2. (v.) To become fade; to grow weak;
to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. ...
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Decrease (4 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size,
degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as ...
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Memphis (8 Occurrences)
... Alexandria then gradually obscured it, but the governor of Egypt signed
the final capitulation to the Arabs in the old capital. ...
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Persians (6 Occurrences)
... known habitat the so-called Airyanem Vaejo ("Aryan germ"), a district between the
Jaxartes and the Oxus (Vendidad I), whence they migrated gradually to what ...
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Macedonia (23 Occurrences)
... entered into a good understanding from time to time with the states of Greece or
acknowledged temporarily Persian suzerainty, and thus gradually extended the ...
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Drunkenness (10 Occurrences)
... wisdom" writers. As might be expected, the national conscience was but
gradually quickened to the evil of immoderate drinking. In ...
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Samaritans (9 Occurrences)
... Luke 17:18) amalgamated with the Jews still remaining in the land, and gradually
abandoned their old idolatry and adopted partly the Jewish religion. ...
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Deutero-canonical
... These books had gradually gained in favor and the position of Jerome and Augustine
practically settled their canonicity for the orthodox churches. ...
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Deuterocanonical
... These books had gradually gained in favor and the position of Jerome and Augustine
practically settled their canonicity for the orthodox churches. ...
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Valley (187 Occurrences)
... Below this it gradually curves to the East and rapidly descends between
sides of bare rocky scarps, much steeper in ancient times. ...
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Palestine (1 Occurrence)
... all lands." Western Palestine, on the south of Gaza, is only about 40 miles in breadth
from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea, narrowing gradually toward the ...
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Birds (125 Occurrences)
... in searching longer distances for food or when driven by varying conditions of climate,
the wings were used more in flight, and the claws gradually joined in a ...
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Image (126 Occurrences)
... understood by the "image" the mental and moral endowments native to man, and by
the "likeness" the Divine perfections which man can only gradually acquire by ...
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Education (4 Occurrences)
... Their chief interest centered in the flocks and herds from which they gained a
livelihood, and in the simple, useful arts that seem gradually to have become ...
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Syria (73 Occurrences)
... of a broad strip of sand dunes covered by short grass and low bushes, followed by
a series of low undulating hills and wide valleys which gradually rise to a ...
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Dead (580 Occurrences)
... half of the lake on the East side the descent to the extreme depth is very rapid;
while from the western side the depth increases more gradually, especially at ...
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I-iii
... 18; Ezra 7:12-26 Jeremiah 10:11 Daniel 2:4-7:28, are in Aramaic (the so-called Chaldee),
a related dialect, which, after the Exile, gradually displaced Hebrew ...
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Introduction (3 Occurrences)
... 18; Ezra 7:12-26 Jeremiah 10:11 Daniel 2:4-7:28, are in Aramaic (the so-called Chaldee),
a related dialect, which, after the Exile, gradually displaced Hebrew ...
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Jordan (188 Occurrences)
... (see references above) which gradually disappeared by evaporation as present climatic
conditions came on. At an elevation of approximately 650 ft. ...
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Exodus (2 Occurrences)
... 430. During the forty years of Moses' sojourn in the land of Midian, the Hebrews
in Egypt were being gradually prepared for the great national crisis which was ...
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Judas (42 Occurrences)
... The evil of his nature probably gradually unfolded itself till "Satan entered into
him" (John 13:27), and he betrayed our Lord (18:3). Afterwards he owned his ...
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Accommodation (1 Occurrence)
... As they gradually deepened a sense of need which they could not satisfy, more and
more clearly they pointed away from themselves to that transaction which ...
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Know (8133 Occurrences)
... present, and future, and searching the inmost thoughts of the heart (Psalm 139:1,
23); whereas man's is partial, imperfect, relative, gradually acquired, and ...
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Knowledge
... present, and future, and searching the inmost thoughts of the heart (Psalm 139:1,
23); whereas man's is partial, imperfect, relative, gradually acquired, and ...
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Kidron (11 Occurrences)
... From this point it narrows and deepens gradually, bending slightly West of South,
and, after receiving the Tyropoeon valley, joins a little farther Southwest ...
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Kindness (295 Occurrences)
... affection and benevolence. It becomes gradually extended to kindred, and
to members of the same tribe or nation. And the Christian ...
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Nimrod (4 Occurrences)
... He was the first who claimed to be a "mighty one in the earth." Babel was the beginning
of his kingdom, which he gradually enlarged (Genesis 10:8-10). ...
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Unusual (4 Occurrences)
... This lad, gradually sinking into deep sleep while Paul preached at unusual length,
overcome at last by sleep, fell from the second floor and was taken up dead. ...
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Obelisk
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering
as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. ...
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Leprosy (51 Occurrences)
... This disease "begins with specks on the eyelids and on the palms, gradually spreading
over the body, bleaching the hair white wherever they appear, crusting ...
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Love (703 Occurrences)
... affection and benevolence. It becomes gradually extended to kindred, and
to members of the same tribe or nation. And the Christian ...
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Lad (66 Occurrences)
... This lad, gradually sinking into deep sleep while Paul preached at unusual length,
overcome at last by sleep, fell from the second floor and was taken up dead. ...
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Lawyer (5 Occurrences)
... By virtue of the first-named function, they gradually developed a large amount of
common law, for no code can go into such detail as to eliminate the necessity ...
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Leaf (20 Occurrences)
... (2) To a book (deleth), Jeremiah 36:23 (margin "columns"; see 36:2); as the parchment
was gradually unfolded the successive columns could be read. ...
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Lull (1 Occurrence)
... soothe; to quiet. 2. (vi) To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease
or abate for a time; as, the storm lulls. 3. (n.) The power ...
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Leaves (55 Occurrences)
... (2) To a book (deleth), Jeremiah 36:23 (margin "columns"; see 36:2); as the parchment
was gradually unfolded the successive columns could be read. ...
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Length (135 Occurrences)
... This lad, gradually sinking into deep sleep while Paul preached at unusual length,
overcome at last by sleep, fell from the second floor and was taken up dead. ...
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Gennesaret (3 Occurrences)
... (1.) A town of Naphtali, called Chinnereth (Joshua 19:35), sometimes in the plural
form Chinneroth (11:2). In later times the name was gradually changed to ...
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Graciousness (4 Occurrences)

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Gideon (45 Occurrences)
... The Midianites under Zebah and Zalmunna, their two greatest chiefs, accompanied
by other wild tribes of the eastern desert, had gradually encroached on the ...
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Galatia (6 Occurrences)
... crossed over from Europe at the invitation of Nikomedes, king of Bithynia; after
ravaging a great part of Western Asia Minor they were gradually confined to a ...
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Gaulonitis
... East. This plateau, which in the North is about 3,000 ft. high, slopes
gradually southward to a height of about 1,000 ft. It is ...
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Golan (4 Occurrences)
... East. This plateau, which in the North is about 3,000 ft. high, slopes
gradually southward to a height of about 1,000 ft. It is ...
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Worm (22 Occurrences)
... its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below. 15. (vi) To work
slowly, gradually, and secretly. 16. (vt) To effect, remove ...
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Wean
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (v.) To gradually transfer a child or other
young animal from mother's milk to other nourishment. 2 ...
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Work (4564 Occurrences)
... cloth. 21. (vt) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring
gradually into any state by action or motion. 22. (vt ...
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Illyricum (1 Occurrence)
... xlv.26). At this time it extended from the Drilo (modern Drin) to Dalmatia,
which was gradually subjugated by Roman arms. In 59 ...
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Italy (4 Occurrences)
... first confined as a name to the extreme southern part of the Italian peninsula in
the region now called Calabria, whence its application was gradually extended ...
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Fall (522 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the
force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the ...
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Floor (69 Occurrences)
... This lad, gradually sinking into deep sleep while Paul preached at unusual length,
overcome at last by sleep, fell from the second floor and was taken up dead. ...
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Features (3 Occurrences)
... of the Jordan-Dead Sea-Arabah depression, to the whole of which the name Ghaur
(Ghor) is applied by the Arabs, is a great table-land sloping gradually to the ...
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Fine (184 Occurrences)
... to fine the soil. 14. (v.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine
down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually. 15. ...
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Fasting (34 Occurrences)
... Many customs, purely secular in their origin, have gradually obtained a religious
significance, just as purely religious customs have been dissociated from ...
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Fishing (4 Occurrences)
... Long ropes fastened to the two ends are carried ashore many yards apart, and
from five to ten men on each rope gradually draw in the net. ...
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Tarsus (5 Occurrences)
...Gradually, however, the original bed was allowed to become choked, and now the Cydnus
flows wholly through Justinian's channel and passes to the East of the ...
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Thin (39 Occurrences)
... 10. (vi) To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.;
as, geological strata thin out, ie, gradually diminish in thickness until they ...
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Tubal (9 Occurrences)
... They are held (Winckler and Jeremias) to have been remnants of the old Hittite
population which were gradually driven (probably by the Cimmerian invasion) to ...
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Taanach (7 Occurrences)
... The Canaanites will have gradually assimilated the Israelites drawn to them from
the villages in the plain" (Driver, Schweich Lectures, 1908, 84). ...
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Reclining (25 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recline. 2. (a.) Bending or curving gradually back from
the perpendicular. 3. (a.) Recumbent. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Edomites (22 Occurrences)
... valley diagonally from Northwest to Southeast, a broad depression strewn with stones
and sandhills, the debris of an old sea bottom, rises gradually, and 60 ...
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Eagle (27 Occurrences)
... and then took a second and larger gyration, always rising toward the sun, and enlarging
their circle of flight so as to make a gradually ascending spiral. ...
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Edge (150 Occurrences)
... 10. (vi) To move sideways; to move gradually; as, edge along this way. 11. (vi)
To sail close to the wind. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. EDGE. ...
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Eat (690 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste
or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. ...
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Decay (18 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of
imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to ...
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Decision (174 Occurrences)
... The custom gradually lost in favor, and decisions, even of perplexing questions,
were formed by considering all the facts. See AUGURY, IV, 3; LOTS. AW Fortune. ...
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Desolation (131 Occurrences)
... fast to the strict ideal of the scribes. The former gradually came into
ascendancy. Judea was rapidly becoming Hellenistic in all ...
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Decease (2 Occurrences)
... in the realm of God's power (1 Samuel 2:6 Psalm 86:13; Psalm 139:8 Proverbs 15:11
Isaiah 7:11 Hosea 13:14 Amos 9:2; Tobit 13:2). Gradually the possibility of a ...
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Disappear (13 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly;
to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the ...
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Dance (18 Occurrences)
... From being reserved for occasions of religious worship and festivity, it came gradually
to be practised in common life on occasions of rejoicing (Jeremiah 31:4 ...
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Die (401 Occurrences)
... out or away. 8. (vi) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where
moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. 9. (vi) To ...
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Michmash (10 Occurrences)
... Their camp was probably pitched in a position East of Mukhmas, where the ground
slopes gradually northward from the edge of the gorge. ...
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Moabite (13 Occurrences)
... From Zoar, the cradle of this tribe, on the south-eastern border of the Dead Sea,
they gradually spread over the region on the east of Jordan. ...
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