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16341 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Jaaziel.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Jaaziel — comforted by God, a Levitical musician ( 1 Chronicles 15:18 ).
16342 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Job, Book of.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… of comfort and instruction, the patriarchal Bible, and a precious monument of primitive theology. It is to the Old Testament what the Epistle to the Romans …
16343 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Job, Book of.5 (Matthew G. Easton)
… ministers comfort and hope to tried believers of every age. It is a book of manifold instruction, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction …
16344 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. John, Gospel of.5 (Matthew G. Easton)
… the Comforter; (4) the prominence given to love as an element in the Christian character. It was obviously addressed primarily to Christians.
16345 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Maccabees, Books of the.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
The third does not hold a place in the Apocrypha, but is read in the Greek Church. Its design is to comfort the Alexandrian Jews in their persecution. Its writer was evidently an Alexandrian Jew.
16346 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Nehemiah.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Nehemiah — comforted by Jehovah. (1.) Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7. (2.) Nehemiah 3:16 .
16347 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Noah.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
The words of his father Lamech at his birth ( Genesis 5:29 ) have been regarded as in a sense prophetical, designating Noah as a type of Him who is the true “rest and comfort” of men under the burden of life ( Matthew 11:28 ).
16348 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Peter, First Epistle of.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… of comfort and encouragement fitted to sustain a “lively hope.” It contains about thirty-five references to the Old Testament.
16349 Easton’s Bible Dictionary, p. Witness of the Spirit.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… his comforting us, his stirring us up to prayer, his reproof of our sins, his drawing us to works of love, to bear testimony before the world,” etc.
16350 Etymology dictionary, p. accommodate (v.).3
From late 16c. as "make suitable," also "furnish (someone) with what is wanted," especially "furnish with suitable room and comfort" (1712). Related: Accommodated; accommodating .
16351 Etymology dictionary, p. alleviation (n.).2
… burden), comfort, console," from assimilated form of Latin ad "to" (see ad- ) + levis "light" in weight (from PIE root *legwh- "not heavy, having little weight").
16352 Etymology dictionary, p. alleviate (v.).2
… burden), comfort, console," from assimilated form of Latin ad "to" (see ad- ) + levis "light" in weight (from PIE root *legwh- "not heavy, having little weight"). Related: Alleviated …
16353 Etymology dictionary, p. amenities (n.).2
"creature comforts of a town, house, etc." 1908, plural of amenity. Latin amoena, plural of amoenus, also was used as a noun with a sense of "pleasant places."
16354 Etymology dictionary, p. brace (v.).2
… or comfort" someone (early 15c.), with a later extension to tonics, etc. that "brace" the nerves (compare bracer "stiff drink").
16355 Etymology dictionary, p. cheerless (adj.).2
"devoid of comfort, without joy," 1570s, from cheer (n.) + -less. Related: Cheerlessly; cheerlessness .
16356 Etymology dictionary, p. cloud nine (n.).2
… , most comfortable-looking. Shipley suggests the sense in this and other expressions might be because, "As the largest one-figure integer, nine is sometimes …
16357 Etymology dictionary, p. cocoon (n.).2
… interior comfort place" is from 1986. Also see -oon .
16358 Etymology dictionary, p. cold (adj.).5
… ). Cold comfort (by 1650s) is "little comfort, something which offers little cheer." To throw cold water on in the figurative sense of "discourage by unexpected …
16359 Etymology dictionary, p. comforter (n.).1
comforter (n.)
16360 Etymology dictionary, p. comforter (n.).2
… " (see comfort (v.)). As a kind of knitted, crocheted scarf fit for tying around the neck in cold weather, from 1817; as a kind of quilted coverlet, from 1832.