Bestead (1 Occurrence)

Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
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Bestead (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (imp. & pp) of Bestead. 2. (vt) To put in a certain situation or condition; to
circumstance; to place. ... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BESTEAD. ...
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Bestiality

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Deborah (10 Occurrences)
... the nation's cause. And the nation was sore bestead because it had become
faithless to the Lord and chosen new gods. Out of the ...
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Fret (9 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall
come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves ...
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Hardly (26 Occurrences)
... hardly let us go," qashah, literally, "hardened to let us go," the Revised Version
margin "hardened himself against letting us go"; "hardly bestead" (Isaiah 8 ...
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Best (252 Occurrences)

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Hard-pressed (4 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 8:21 And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall
come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves ...
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Hunger (52 Occurrences)
... "Hard bestead and hungry" in Isaiah 8:21 means bested (that is, placed) in a condition
of hardship, "sore distressed," the American Standard Revised Version. ...
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Harddiness
... hardly let us go," qashah, literally, "hardened to let us go," the Revised Version
margin "hardened himself against letting us go"; "hardly bestead" (Isaiah 8 ...
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Hardiness
... hardly let us go," qashah, literally, "hardened to let us go," the Revised Version
margin "hardened himself against letting us go"; "hardly bestead" (Isaiah 8 ...
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The rendering in Isaiah 8:21, where alone it occurs, of a Hebrew word meaning to oppress, or be in circumstances of hardship. 1. (imp. & p. p.) of Bestead.

2. (v. t.) To put in a certain situation or condition; to circumstance; to place.

3. (v. t.) To put in peril; to beset.

4. (v. t.) To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail.

BESTEAD

be-sted' (niqsheh, "caught in a snare," "entrapped"; as Judah hard pressed in their own land by the Assyrians (Isaiah 8:21 the King James Version)): Found only here. Old English word steden meaning "place," hence, "set," "beset"; usually with "ill," "sorely bested." In the Revised Version (British and American) rendered "sore distressed."

Stephen's vision
... vision swept into his soul, as on a mighty wave, the fact, overwhelming if it had
not been so transcendently strengthening to the sorely bestead prisoner, that ...
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Acts ii. 22
... [155] It shows that death itself in holding Him had pangs as in travail, and was
sore bestead: [156] whereas, by pains, or, travail-pangs, of death, the Old ...
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The Baptism of Jesus: Its Higher Meaning.
... as the Bath-Qol,' or Daughter-Voice,' of which we read in Rabbinic writings, as
bringing heaven's testimony or decision to perplexed or hardly bestead Rabbis. ...
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Funeral Oration on the Great S. Basil, Bishop of Cæsarea in ...
... or partisans, nor was it his part to fight, or rend the body of the Church, which
was from other reasons the subject of attack, and hardly bestead, from the ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xliii funeral oration on.htm

Bestead

Bestiality

Deborah (10 Occurrences)

Fret (9 Occurrences)

Hardly (26 Occurrences)

Best (252 Occurrences)

Hard-pressed (4 Occurrences)

Hunger (52 Occurrences)

Harddiness

Hardiness

Hard (733 Occurrences)

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