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741 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1008.5 (Matthew Henry)
… profitable, tame and tractable, to the shepherd, and sociable one with another, and much used in sacrifices. (2.) The church of God in the world is a sheepfold, into …
742 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1009.104 (Matthew Henry)
… we tamely yield up the ground we have got in the affections of the people? Shall we see our authority brought into contempt, and the craft by which we get our …
743 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1016.5 (Matthew Henry)
… fall tamely. Those who aim at honour from men value themselves upon a resolution to sell their lives as dearly as they can; but those who know that their blood …
744 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1020.19 (Matthew Henry)
… design, tamely gave up the kingdom to Caesar, and owned themselves his subjects. What! Shall those that hate and persecute thee and us be trusted with power …
745 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1029.15 (Matthew Henry)
… only tame beasts, but wild. Here were no fishes of the sea, because there were none of them in particular unclean, but whatever had fins and scales was allowed …
746 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1036.33 (Matthew Henry)
… philosophers tamely submitted to this, rested in their speculations, disputed them among themselves, and taught them to their scholars, but never made the …
747 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1069.3 (Matthew Henry)
… injury tamely, without stirring for our own relief; but, in matters of small consequence, it is better to put up with the wrong. Christians should be of a forgiving …
748 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1106.4 (Matthew Henry)
… to tame the most fierce, and mollify the hardest, heart. (5.) Another argument he insinuates is the comfort it would be to him: Fulfil you my joy. It is the joy of ministers …
749 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1150.6 (Matthew Henry)
… tamed, but is tamed of mankind. Yet the tongue is worse than these, and cannot be tamed by the power and art which serves to tame these things. No man can tame the …
750 Matthew Henry's Complete Bible Commentary, p. 1151.6 (Matthew Henry)
… a tame yielding to the will and providence of God as what will bring calamities, and expose to contempt and misery, we must resist these suggestions of fear …
751 Strong's Hebrew Concordance, p. TAME.1 (James Strong)
(2930) tame'
752 Strong's Hebrew Concordance, p. TAME.1 (James Strong)
(2931) tame'
753 Torrey's Topical Index, Birds.12
Birds, Can all be tamed James 3:7;
754 Torrey's Topical Index, Serpents.12
Serpents, All kinds of, can be tamed James 3:7;
755 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. אַלּוּף.2
… adj. tame — א׳ abs. Mi 7:5 +; cstr. Pr 2:17 +; sf. אַלּוּפִי ψ 55:14; pl. אַלֻּפִים Je 13:21, sf. אַלּוּפֵינוּ ψ 144:14, etc.;— 1. tame, docile, כֶּבֶשׂ אַלּוּף a docile (gentle) lamb Je 11 …
756 Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon, p. חָטַם.2
… , of taming wild beasts ) — Qal Impf. אֶחֱטָם־לָ֑ךְ לְבִלְתִּי הַכְרִיתֶֽךָ׃ Is 48:9 I will restrain for thee (mine anger), not to cut thee off (‖ אַאֲרִיךְ אַפִּי ).
757 Etymology dictionary, p. abusive (adj.).2
… abusious ("Taming of the Shrew," 1594). Abuseful "abounding in reproaches" was in use 17c.-19c. Related: Abusively; abusiveness .
758 Etymology dictionary, p. adamant (n.).3
… , to tame," from PIE root *deme- "to constrain, force, break (horses)," for which see tame (adj.). "But semantically, the etymology is rather strange," according to Beekes, who …
759 Etymology dictionary, p. boar (n.).3
Originally of either wild or tame animals; wild boar is from c. 1200. The chase of the wild boar was considered one of the most exciting sports. Applied by c. 1300 to persons of boar-like character.
760 Etymology dictionary, p. break (v.).2
… subdue, tame" (class IV strong verb; past tense bræc, past participle brocen ), from Proto-Germanic *brekanan (source also of Old Frisian breka, Dutch breken, Old …