Bible Dictionary: Adult

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.

2. (n.) A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

Greek

2245. helikos -- how great, how small
... 2245 (from , " comrade") -- properly, fully grown (adult); (figuratively) "great"
by "coming of age," ie ("grown up"). See also 5082 ("so great"). ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4962. math -- male, man
... From the same as mathay; properly, an adult (as of full length); by implication,
a man (only in the plural) -- + few, X friends, men, persons, X small. ...
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Library

For Christian Adult Schools. Bristol, 1813
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN CCCXLVIII. For Christian Adult Schools. Bristol, 1813. 8.8.8.8
James Montgomery. For Christian Adult Schools. Bristol, 1813. Lord! ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn cccxlviii for christian adult.htm

Inter-Sunday School Effort for Boys
... Something of this has been attempted in some places, but always under adult
rule. Adult supervision"not rule"is always necessary. ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/xii inter-sunday school effort for.htm

The Sunday School or Church School
... school. In Sunday school nomenclature the regimental battalions are
"Divisions""Elementary, Secondary, and Adult, by name. The ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/iv the sunday school or.htm

The Older Boys' Conference or Congress
... service thereby. The discussion at these conferences is also most intelligent,
being often above the grade of adult groups. The ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/xiii the older boys conference.htm

Regeneration the Work of God.
... This wonderful act of regeneration may be examined in two classes of persons:
in the infant and in the adult. It is the safest way ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxi regeneration the work of.htm

Profanations of Good and Truth
... But one who is in faith and in a life according to it from childhood to youth, and
afterward in adult age recedes from faith and from a life of faith, does not ...
/.../spiritual life and the word of god/part thirdprofanations of good and.htm

Presbyterian Worship Outside of the Established Church of Scotland ...
... in which the reading by ministers of their sermons in the public ministry of the
Word was condemned, as was also "the conduct of those adult persons who, in ...
/.../johnston/presbyterian worship/chapter viii presbyterian worship outside.htm

Hans Denck and the Inward Word
... and it would promote historical accuracy if we should confine the term to those
who opposed infant baptism and who insisted instead upon adult baptism, not as ...
/.../chapter ii hans denck and.htm

Infant Salvation
... We do no such thing; we believe that the infant fell in the first Adam, "for in
Adam all died." All Adam's posterity, whether infant or adult, were represented ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/infant salvation.htm

The Church and the Boy
... With the Adult Bible Class movement of the past few years, there has come a revival
in the Sunday school in adult life, so that the place of adults and ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/iii the church and the.htm

Thesaurus

Adult (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an
adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age. ...Adult (3 Occurrences). ...
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Reckoning (32 Occurrences)
... judgment; (YLT). Matthew 14:21 Those who had eaten were about 5,000 adult
men, without reckoning women and children. (WEY). Matthew ...
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Man (26072 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A human being; -- opposed to beast. 2. (n.) Especially: An adult male person;
a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child. ...
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Baptismal (1 Occurrence)
... our Lord, in the passage above cited, does not limit the possibility or the need
of "new birth" to those who have arrived at adult age, or "years of discretion ...
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Regeneration (2 Occurrences)
... our Lord, in the passage above cited, does not limit the possibility or the need
of "new birth" to those who have arrived at adult age, or "years of discretion ...
/r/regeneration.htm - 60k

Adulterer (6 Occurrences)

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Old (3966 Occurrences)
... where this leaves off, the evolution of the individual, from the first forth-putting
of individual initiative and choice toward the far-off adult and complete ...
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Nonimmersionist
... It is also interesting to remember that when most of the Anabaptists of the 16th
century insisted on adult baptism (re-baptism was their name for it) immersion ...
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Non-immersionist
... It is also interesting to remember that when most of the Anabaptists of the 16th
century insisted on adult baptism (re-baptism was their name for it) immersion ...
/n/non-immersionist.htm - 38k

View (86 Occurrences)
... It is also interesting to remember that when most of the Anabaptists of the 16th
century insisted on adult baptism (re-baptism was their name for it) immersion ...
/v/view.htm - 81k

Bible Concordance

Adult (3 Occurrences)

Matthew 14:21 Those who had eaten were about 5,000 adult men, without reckoning women and children.
(WEY)

John 6:10 "Make the people sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so they sat down, the adult men numbering about 5,000.
(WEY)

Acts 4:4 But many of those who had listened to their preaching believed; and the number of the adult men had now grown to be about 5,000.
(WEY)

Subtopics

Adult

Adult Children

Related Terms

Reckoning (32 Occurrences)

Man (26072 Occurrences)

Baptismal (1 Occurrence)

Regeneration (2 Occurrences)

Adulterer (6 Occurrences)

Old (3966 Occurrences)

Nonimmersionist