Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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a.) Physically competent; having a sound, strong body; robust.
Strong's Hebrew
2571. chamushim -- in battle array... armed men, harnessed. Passive participle of the same as chomesh; staunch, ie
Able-
bodied soldiers -- armed (men), harnessed. see HEBREW chomesh. 2570, 2571.
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Whether it is Lawful for Religious to Live on Alms?
... and incur the guilt of sacrilege, and by the abuse of such things they eat and drink
judgment to themselves." Now religious if they be able-bodied can support ...
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Whether it is Lawful for Religious to Beg?
... shall be no poor nor beggar among you," and (Ps.36:25): "I have not seen the just
forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread." Moreover an able-bodied mendicant is ...
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Meditation on God
... it may be well enough for those who are in poverty and deep trial; but that it is
at all congruous with the condition of a healthy, able-bodied, successful and ...
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The Changed Life
... suddenly stopped. Something had gone wrong with the engines. There were five
hundred able-bodied men on board the ship. Do you think ...
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Life at Herrnhut.
... of labour. For rich and poor, for Catholic and Protestant, for all
able-bodied men and women, the same stern rule held good. If ...
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"He that Sleepeth in Harvest is a Son that Causeth Shame. " ...
... It is harvest-time, and the old folks have been depending on their able-bodied son
getting in all their corn, but they are doomed to disappointment. ...
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Ambrose Answers those who Press the Words of the Lord to the ...
... devout in her zeal, deprived of consolation; who at that time, when she might have
been helped and supported by the aid of her able bodied offspring, suffered ...
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Chapter thirty-one
... Is it not a matter of personal suffering in some form for you that thousands of
able-bodied, willing men tramp the streets of this city and all cities, crying ...
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Power "In" and "Upon. "
... Suppose a battle going on, and I were a general and had a hundred thousand men,
great, able-bodied men, full of life, but they could not one of them handle a ...
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Who was Nicholas?
... to the year 1218. Some of these houses were places where able-bodied people
out of work found regular employment. We do not find ...
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Thesaurus
Able-bodied (4 Occurrences)Able-
bodied. Able,
Able-
bodied. Ablution . Noah Webster's Dictionary (a
... Multi-Version Concordance
Able-
bodied (4 Occurrences). Deuteronomy
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Ethiopia (26 Occurrences)
... The settled population was also small, since in ancient as in modern times Egypt
naturally drew away most of the able-bodied and energetic youth as servants ...
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Census (24 Occurrences)
... 21:5). (4.) Solomon made a census of the foreigners in the land, and found
153,600 able-bodied workmen (2 Chronicles 2:17, 18). (5 ...
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Able (730 Occurrences)
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Moabites (26 Occurrences)
... Judges 3:29 And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all
strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped. (DBY NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Tabernacle (333 Occurrences)
... But (1) does any intelligent person believe that 9 months was too short a time for
600,000 able-bodied men, to say nothing of their women and children, to ...
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Bible Concordance
Able-bodied (4 Occurrences)Deuteronomy 3:18 I commanded you at that time, saying, "Yahweh your God has given you this land to possess it: you shall pass over armed before your brothers the children of Israel, all the men of valor.
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Judges 3:29 And they killed at that time about ten thousand of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.
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2 Samuel 24:9 And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.
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1 Chronicles 5:18 The sons of Reuben, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, as many as were valiant men, men able to bear buckler and sword, and to shoot with bow, and skilful in war, were forty and four thousand seven hundred and threescore, that were able to go forth to war.
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Subtopics
Able-bodied
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Ablution
Ethiopia (26 Occurrences)
Census (24 Occurrences)
Able (730 Occurrences)
Moabites (26 Occurrences)
Tabernacle (333 Occurrences)
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