Bible Dictionary: Apace

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(adv.) With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

APACE

a-pas' ("at a pace"): With "come," 2 Samuel 18:25; "flee," Jeremiah 46:5, for "rapidly," "hastily," "fast," corresponding to a Hebrew idiom that adds emphasis or intensity to an idea by repetition of the word or its equivalent.

Strong's Hebrew

5074. nadad -- to retreat, flee, depart, stray, wander, flutter
... chase away, could not, depart, flee apace, away, remove, thrust away, wander
abroad,. A primitive root; properly, to wave to and ...
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1980. halak -- to go, come, walk
... 1), went* (1). all along, apace, behave self, come, on continually, be
conversant, depart, be eased,. Akin to yalak; a primitive ...
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4498. manos -- flight, place of escape or refuge
... escape, way to flee, flight, refuge. From nuwc; a retreat (literally or figuratively);
abstractly, a fleeing -- X apace, escape, way to flee, flight, refuge. ...
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Library

The Christian Race.
... "Your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may
devour." And I will assure you the devil is nimble; he can run apace, he is ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the riches of bunyan/xiii the christian race.htm

Happy Mary.
... marked with the complaint which she first saw herself, and was greatly rejoiced
to think that she was marked out for the Lord, and was now going apace to Christ ...
/.../wesley/stories of boys and girls who loved the saviour/happy mary.htm

1 John ii. 18-27
... Whoso knows that he is born, let him hear that he is an infant; let him eagerly
cling to the breasts of his mother, and he grows apace. ...
/.../ten homilies on the epistle of john to the parthians/homily iii 1 john ii.htm

Asa
... We have embodied this truth in a familiar proverb""Ill weeds grow apace." If we
neglect a garden, we are soon confronted with weeds, not with flowers. ...
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Heavenly Contemplation Exemplified, and the Whole Work Concluded.
... in him! 2. "How near is that most blessed, joyful day! It comes apace.
He that shall come will come, and will not tarry! Though ...
/.../the saints everlasting rest/chapter xvi heavenly contemplation exemplified.htm

Textual Condition of the Lxx. , and Problems Arising Out of It.
... Accidental corruptions [966] , however, and variations of reading and rendering
grew apace, and in the third century Origen complains of the uncertainty of the ...
/.../chapter v textual condition of.htm

Hymn after Fasting
... Nine hours have run their course away, The sun sped three parts of its
race: And what remains of the short day Fadeth apace. The ...
/.../prudentius/the hymns of prudentius/viii hymn after fasting.htm

Contentment
... of man. Ill weeds grow apace; covetousness, discontent, and murmuring,
are as natural to man as thorns are to the soil. You have ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/contentment.htm

The Date of the Beginning of Noonday.
... The ancient contest, which was for the faith once delivered unto the saints, declined
apace, and a strife for worldly honor, fleshly gratification, and ...
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The Worship of the Church. The Religion of the Primitive ...
... When the Emperor Gallienus, about AD260, issued an edict of toleration, church
architecture advanced apace, and many of the old buildings, which were now ...
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Thesaurus

Apace (5 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. APACE. ... Multi-Version Concordance Apace (5 Occurrences).
2 Samuel 18:25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. ...
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Nearer (9 Occurrences)
... 2 Samuel 18:25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said: 'If
he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.' And he came apace, and drew near. ...
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Josephus
... Hellenistic world. During his absence in the desert, the misgovernment
of the Roman procurators at Jerusalem had grown apace. And ...
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Long (2810 Occurrences)
... 11. (adv.) To a great extent in apace; as, a long drawn out line. 12.
(adv.) To a great extent in time; during a long time. 13. ...
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Flavius
... Hellenistic world. During his absence in the desert, the misgovernment
of the Roman procurators at Jerusalem had grown apace. And ...
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Runs (28 Occurrences)
... (WEB). Psalms 58:7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth
his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. (See NAS RSV). ...
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Retreating (1 Occurrence)
... they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down,
and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh ...
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Apame

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Anywise (3 Occurrences)

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Aims (3 Occurrences)
... Psalms 58:7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his
arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. (See NAS). ...
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Bible Concordance

Apace (5 Occurrences)

2 Samuel 18:25 And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.
(KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Psalms 58:7 Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
(ASV JPS)

Psalms 68:12 Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.
(KJV WBS)

Jeremiah 46:5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Jeremiah 48:16 The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Apace

Related Terms

Nearer (9 Occurrences)

Josephus

Long (2810 Occurrences)

Flavius

Runs (28 Occurrences)

Retreating (1 Occurrence)

Apame

Anywise (3 Occurrences)