Bible Dictionary: Alert

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.

2. (a.) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

3. (n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.

Greek

1127. gregoreo -- to be awake, to watch
... gray-gor-yoo'-o) Short Definition: I am awake, am vigilant, watch Definition: (a)
I am awake (in the night), watch, (b) I am watchful, on the alert, vigilant. ...
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69. agrupneo -- to be sleepless, wakeful
... 69 (from 1 , "not" and 5258 , "sleep") -- properly, no sleeping; (figuratively)
staying vigilant (alert, attentive), ie without any unnecessary "time off.". ...
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991. blepo -- to look (at)
... spiritual results (perception)." That is, it carries into the non-physical (immaterial)
realm so a person can take the needed action (respond, beware, be alert ...
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Strong's Hebrew

553. amets -- to be stout, strong, bold, alert
... 552, 553. amets. 554 . to be stout, strong, bold, alert. Transliteration: amets
Phonetic Spelling: (aw-mats') Short Definition: courageous. Word Origin a prim ...
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2782. charats -- to cut, sharpen, decide
... A primitive root; properly, to point sharply, ie (literally) to wound; figuratively,
to be alert, to decide -- bestir self, decide, decree, determine, maim ...
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8245. shaqad -- to watch, wake
... A primitive root; to be alert, ie Sleepless; hence to be on the lookout (whether
for good or ill) -- hasten, remain, wake, watch (for). 8244, 8245. ...
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Library

Book iii when She Finished Her Lay, Its Soothing Tones Left Me ...
... BOOK III When she finished her lay, its soothing tones left me spellbound
with my ears alert� When she finished her lay, its soothing ...
/.../boethius/the consolation of philosophy/book iii when she finished.htm

To Polycarp
... Ask for increasing insight. Be ever on the watch by keeping your spirit alert.
Take a personal interest in those you talk to, just as God does. ...
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Alone.
... So He approaches this great crisis. There is a friendly word spoken to these men
that they be keenly alert, and pray, lest they yield to temptation. ...
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Whether Solicitude Belongs to Prudence?
... x), a man is said to be solicitous through being shrewd [solers] and alert [citus],
in so far as a man through a certain shrewdness of mind is on the alert to ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether solicitude belongs to prudence.htm

The Right to Regulate My Private Affairs as I Wish
... To learn a new language, the ear must be alert to hear just that little turn with
which a sound is pronounced that makes all the difference between a foreign ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/williamson/have we no rights/chapter 4 the right to.htm

Of the Remedy for the Fourth Source of Weariness.
... Whatever we thus say may be all the better if it affects himself more immediately,
so that the quick sense of self-concern may keep his attention on the alert. ...
/.../on the catechising of the uninstructed/chapter 13 of the remedy for.htm

Now There were Few Barriers Between the Emperor and the People. .. ...
... Therefore he put it only as a trifling after-thought. But he had a way of
talking with his eyes, and the alert youth read them well. ...
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Felicitous Phrases
... alarmed, anxious, and uneasy. alert, hopeful, and practical. amazement, resentment,
and indignation. ... equable, animated, and alert. erect, elastic, and graceful. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iii felicitous phrases.htm

Whether Prophecy Can be Natural?
... Therefore the soul can acquire prophecy naturally. Objection 2: Further, the human
soul's knowledge is more alert while one wakes than while one sleeps. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether prophecy can be natural.htm

The Equipment of the Servants
... the concentration and the detachment are needful"viz. alert readiness
for service. The servant who stands before his lord with ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/the equipment of the servants.htm

Thesaurus

Alert (19 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Alert (19 Occurrences). Matthew 24:42 Be on the alert
therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming. (WEY NAS). ...
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Unwearied (5 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 6:18 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion
in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so ...
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Unceasing (11 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 6:18 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion
in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so ...
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Opportunities (4 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 6:18 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion
in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so ...
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Occasions (8 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 6:18 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion
in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so ...
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Fitting (29 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 6:18 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion
in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so ...
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Ruthless (21 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 29:20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and
all those who are alert to do evil are cut off- (WEB NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Entreaty (12 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 6:18 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion
in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so ...
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Energetic (1 Occurrence)
... He who gives should be liberal; he who is in authority should be energetic and alert;
and he who succours the afflicted should do it cheerfully. (WEY). ...
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Erect (17 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Directed upward; raised; uplifted. 3. (a.) Bold; confident; free
from depression; undismayed. 4. (a.) Watchful; alert. 5 ...
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Bible Concordance

Alert (19 Occurrences)

Matthew 24:42 Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.
(WEY NAS)

Matthew 24:43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
(See NAS)

Matthew 25:13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
(See NAS)

Mark 13:33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.
(WEB WEY NAS NIV)

Mark 13:34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
(See NAS)

Mark 13:37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."
(See NAS)

Luke 12:37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
(See NAS)

Luke 21:36 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
(See NAS)

Acts 20:31 Therefore be on the alert; and remember that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.
(WEY NAS RSV)

Romans 12:8 The teacher must do the same in his teaching; and he who exhorts others, in his exhortation. He who gives should be liberal; he who is in authority should be energetic and alert; and he who succours the afflicted should do it cheerfully.
(WEY)

1 Corinthians 16:13 Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.
(WEY NAS)

Ephesians 6:18 Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,
(WEY NAS RSV NIV)

Colossians 4:2 Be earnest and unwearied in prayer, being on the alert in it and in your giving of thanks.
(WEY NAS)

1 Thessalonians 5:6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.
(See NAS NIV)

1 Peter 5:8 Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.
(WEY NAS NIV)

Joshua 8:4 He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don't go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
(See NIV)

Psalms 17:11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 21:7 And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 29:20 For the ruthless is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases, and all those who are alert to do evil are cut off-
(WEB)

Subtopics

Alert

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Unwearied (5 Occurrences)

Unceasing (11 Occurrences)

Opportunities (4 Occurrences)

Occasions (8 Occurrences)

Fitting (29 Occurrences)

Ruthless (21 Occurrences)

Entreaty (12 Occurrences)

Energetic (1 Occurrence)