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9061 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Naboth.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
The history of Naboth, compared with that of Ahab and Jezebel, furnishes a remarkable illustration of the law of a retributive providence, a law which runs through all history (comp. Psalm 109:17, Psalm 109:18 ).
9062 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Olves, Mount of.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… Bethany runs as of old over this mount. It was on this mount that Jesus stood when he wept over Jerusalem. “No name in Scripture,” says Dr. Porter, “calls up associations …
9063 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Partridge.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… “by running, in preference to flight, unless when suddenly started. It is not an inhabitant of the plain or the corn-field, but of rocky hill-sides” (Tristram’s …
9064 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Prophecy.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… which runs like a golden thread through the whole contents of the Old Testament is that regarding the coming and work of the Messiah; and the great use of prophecy …
9065 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Puteoli.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… bay running north from the Bay of Naples, at which Paul landed on his way to Rome, from which it was distant 170 miles. Here he tarried for seven days ( Acts 28:13 …
9066 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Redemption.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… idea running through all these texts, however various their reference, is that of payment made for our redemption. The debt against us is not viewed as simply …
9067 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. River.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
… to run for my life, and with great difficulty succeeded in saving my tent and goods; my boots, which I had not time to pick up, were washed away. In less than two hours …
9068 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Sermon on the mount.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ridge running east and west, not far from Capernaum. It was afterwards called the “Mount of Beatitudes.”
9069 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Shepherd.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… some running stream or to wells dug in the wilderness and furnished with troughs. At night he brought the flock home to the fold, counting them as they passed …
9070 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Street.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… street, running from east to west, about a mile in length, and forming the principal thoroughfare in the city.” In Oriental towns streets are usually narrow …
9071 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Taverns, The three.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… roads run into the Via Appia, that from Tusculum, that from Alba Longa, and that from Antium; so necessarily here would be a halting-place, which took its name …
9072 Etymology dictionary, p. abound (v.).2
… "overflow, run over," from Latin ab "off, away from" (see ab- ) + undare "rise in a wave," from unda "a wave" (from PIE *unda-, nasalized form of root *wed- (1) "water; wet"). Related: Abounded …
9073 Etymology dictionary, p. absquatulate (v.).2
"run away, make off," 1840, earlier absquotilate (1837), "Facetious U.S. coinage" [Weekley], perhaps based on a mock-Latin negation of squat (v.) "to settle." Said to have been …
9074 Etymology dictionary, p. academy (n.).3
… schools run by dissenters, and the name is often found attached to the public schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland" [ Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1941]; hence …
9075 Etymology dictionary, p. Adrastea.2
… "not running away," from a- "not, without" (see a- (3)) + stem of drasmos "a running away," related to dromos "course" (see dromedary ).
9076 Etymology dictionary, p. aerodrome (n.).2
1902, "hangar for airships," from aero- on analogy of hippodrome. From 1909 as "airport." Earlier (1891) a name for a flying machine, from Greek aerodromos "a running through the air."
9077 Etymology dictionary, p. affect (v.1).2
… derivatives, run into each other, and cannot be completely separated" [Century Dictionary].
9078 Etymology dictionary, p. afoul (adv.).2
1809, originally nautical, "in a state of collision or entanglement," from a- (1) + foul (adj.). From 1833 in general sense of "in violent or hostile conflict," mainly in phrases such as run afoul of .
9079 Etymology dictionary, p. amok (adv.).2
in run amok a verbal phrase recorded by 1670s, from Malay (Austronesian) amuk "attacking furiously." Earlier the word was used as a noun or adjective meaning "a frenzied Malay," originally in the Portuguese form amouco or amuco .
9080 Etymology dictionary, p. Amtrak.2
U.S. government-run railway corporation, 1971, contraction of American Track .