Bible Dictionary: Attraction

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

2. (n.) The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.

3. (n.) The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.

4. (n.) That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.

Topical Bible Verses

1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
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Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be on them.
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Romans 1:26-27
For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
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1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
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Leviticus 18:22
You shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
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Library

Attraction of the Cross.
... 247. " Attraction of the Cross. 247. SM Doddridge. Attraction of the Cross.
1 Behold th' amazing sight, The Saviour lifted high! ...
/.../adams/hymns for christian devotion/247 attraction of the.htm

Letter xvii. --Attraction to the Interior Life.
... SECOND BOOK: ON THE EXERCISE OF THE VIRTUE OF ABANDONMENT Letter XVII."Attraction
to the Interior Life. To Mother Marie-Anne-Sophie de Rottembourg (1738). ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/letter xvii attraction to the interior.htm

Of Perfect Conversion, which is an Effect of this Method of Prayer ...
... OF PERFECT CONVERSION, WHICH IS AN EFFECT OF THIS METHOD OF PRAYER"TWO OF ITS AIDS,
THE ATTRACTION OF GOD, AND THE CENTRAL INCLINATION OF THE SOUL. ...
/.../chapter ix of perfect conversion.htm

And Thus Your Difficulty is Removed: Attraction or Drawing is ...
... [Way-3-20] And thus your difficulty is removed: attraction or drawing is
rightly ascribed to the desire� And thus your difficulty ...
/.../law/the way to divine knowledge/way-3-20 and thus your difficulty.htm

John and Andrew, Disciples of John, Attach Themselves to Jesus. ...
... DISCIPLES. Section 113. John and Andrew, Disciples of John, attach themselves
to Jesus."Gradual Attraction of others. These words ...
/.../section 113 john and andrew.htm

Letter xiii. --Peace and Confidence.
... Then one feels neither taste for, nor attraction to virtue, but, on the contrary,
disgust and discouragement of which the devil does not fail to take advantage ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/letter xiii peace and confidence.htm

Letter xvi. --The Operations of Grace.
... Your great attraction towards simplicity is a grace that can have no other effect
than to unite you more closely with God, for simplicity tends to unity, and ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/letter xvi the operations of grace.htm

What Yokes are For
... The weight of a load depends upon the attraction of the earth. But suppose
the attraction of the earth were removed? A ton on some ...
/.../the greatest thing in the world and other addresses/what yokes are for.htm

Causes of Corruption Chiefly Intentional.
... INTENTIONAL. III. ATTRACTION. Sec. 1. ... disappear. Let this be called the error of
Attraction. The phenomena of Assimilation' are entirely distinct. ...
/.../chapter ix causes of corruption.htm

To Estimate Degrees of Excellence.
... Their state of life and their attraction show this clearly enough. ... An attraction
and inspiration are then the signs of the divine approval. ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/section viii to estimate degrees of.htm

Thesaurus

Attraction (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation
of attraction. ... Multi-Version Concordance Attraction (3 Occurrences). ...
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Affinity (4 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) That attraction which takes place, at an insensible distance, between the
heterogeneous particles of bodies, and unites them to form chemical compounds ...
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Link (2 Occurrences)
... Cf. Chain, n., 4. 8. (n.) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between
atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction. ...
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Gravity (3 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the
tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation. ...
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Gihon (6 Occurrences)
... Miriam ("the spring of the lady Mary"), or commonly as the "Virgin's Fount." It
is the one true spring of Jerusalem, the original source of attraction to the ...
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Witch (2 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or
bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or ...
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Wick (10 Occurrences)
... n.) A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually
made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a ...
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Irresistible (1 Occurrence)
... (a.) That can not be successfully withstood or opposed; superior to opposition;
resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. ...
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Maccabaeus
... Even before his reign many Jews had yielded to the attraction of Greek thought and
custom, and the accession of a ruler like Antiochus Epiphanes greatly ...
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Power (862 Occurrences)
... capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as,
a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power. ...
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Bible Concordance

Attraction (3 Occurrences)

James 1:14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.
(BBE)

2 Peter 2:18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;
(BBE)

Nahum 3:4 Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.
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Subtopics

Attraction

Related Terms

Affinity (4 Occurrences)

Link (2 Occurrences)

Gravity (3 Occurrences)

Gihon (6 Occurrences)

Witch (2 Occurrences)

Wick (10 Occurrences)

Irresistible (1 Occurrence)

Maccabaeus

Power (862 Occurrences)