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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

2. (n.) A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

3. (n.) A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd.

4. (n.) An any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack.

5. (n.) Any limit or boundary; a line of separation.

Greek

5313. hupsoma -- height, that which is lifted up
... which is lifted up. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: hupsoma Phonetic
Spelling: (hoop'-so-mah) Short Definition: height, barrier, bulwark Definition ...
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5418. phragmos -- a fencing in, a fence
... partition. Word Origin from phrasso Definition a fencing in, a fence NASB Word
Usage barrier (1), hedges (1), wall (2). hedge, partition. ...
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714. arkeo -- to assist, suffice
... Apparently a primary verb (but probably akin to airo through the idea of raising
a barrier); properly, to ward off, ie (by implication) to avail (figuratively ...
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3320. mesotoichon -- a middle wall
... mesotoichon Phonetic Spelling: (mes-ot'-oy-khon) Short Definition: a middle wall,
partition wall Definition: a middle wall, partition wall, barrier. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1366. gebul -- border, boundary, territory
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition border, boundary, territory NASB Word
Usage area (1), barrier (1), border (144), borders (10), boundary (13 ...
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4535. massach -- perhaps repulse, defense
... broken down. From nacach in the sense of staving off; a cordon, (adverbially) or
(as a) military barrier -- broken down. see HEBREW nacach. 4534, 4535. ...
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Library

Self-Made Barriers
... Or sometimes they are not willing to do their duty, and they begin at once to build
a barrier of "I can't" between themselves and their opportunity. ...
/.../naylor/heart talks/talk forty-four self-made barriers.htm

Death to Sin's Penalty is the Way Out into a Life of Justification ...
... picked off one of the dead leaves and examined the leaf-stalk through a microscope,
you would find that the old channel is silted up by a barrier invisible to ...
/.../trotter/parables of the cross/death to sins penalty is.htm

The Way of Fellowship
... God. Everything that comes as a barrier between us and another, be it
never so small, comes as a barrier between us and God. We ...
//christianbookshelf.org/hession/the calvary road/chapter 3 the way of.htm

The Blessed Hope and Its Power
... To both schools, spirit was good, matter was evil. By both therefore the body was
viewed not as a subject of redemption, but as a barrier in its way. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/moule/philippian studies/chapter x the blessed hope.htm

Our Reception at Hwochow
... Failure to readjust your mind to such conditions during the first years of your
missionary life may prove an eventual fatal barrier to mutual sympathetic ...
/.../cable/the fulfilment of a dream of pastor hsis/chapter vi our reception at.htm

Justice Satisfied
... The justice of God is in itself a great barrier to the salvation of sinners.
There is no possibility for that barrier to be surmounted ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/justice satisfied.htm

Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock
... Here are our lives, shut in, limited, self-absorbed; and here are the messages of
God, knocking at our door; and between the two only one barrier, the barrier ...
/.../peabody/mornings in the college chapel/xliii behold i stand at.htm

I Withdrew the Bolt of My Door for My Beloved; but He had Turned ...
... This is as though the soul were to say, I have removed the barrier which hindered
my total loss and the consummation of my marriage; for that can only take ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/guyon/song of songs of solomon/6 i withdrew the bolt.htm

But Seeing that Paradise is the Home of Living Spirits...
... line of death, and by their own deed have checked his advance; they have made
themselves, in fact, a frontier between life and death, and a barrier too, which ...
/.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter xiii but seeing that.htm

Biogenesis
... his extraordinary dividing-line severing the visible universe eternally into two;
those who in watching the progress of science have seen barrier after barrier ...
/.../drummond/natural law in the spiritual world/biogenesis.htm

Thesaurus

Barrier (4 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Barrier (4 Occurrences). Ephesians ... guard. So you shall
keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier. (WEB JPS ASV). ...
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Middle (169 Occurrences)
... par-tish'-un, par-tish'-un (to mesotoichon tou phragmou (Ephesians 2:14)): 1. The
Barrier in the Temple What Paul here asserts is that Christ is our peace, the ...
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Partition (4 Occurrences)
... par-tish'-un, par-tish'-un (to mesotoichon tou phragmou (Ephesians 2:14)): 1. The
Barrier in the Temple What Paul here asserts is that Christ is our peace, the ...
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Wall (227 Occurrences)
... par-tish'-un, par-tish'-un (to mesotoichon tou phragmou (Ephesians 2:14)): 1. The
Barrier in the Temple What Paul here asserts is that Christ is our peace, the ...
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Bar (27 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
4. (n.) A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. ...
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Barricade (5 Occurrences)

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Reconciliation (11 Occurrences)
... (d) The Manward Side: By this propitiation, therefore, the barrier was removed,
and, God having assumed a gracious attitude toward the sinner, it is possible ...
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Reconcile (10 Occurrences)
... (d) The Manward Side: By this propitiation, therefore, the barrier was removed,
and, God having assumed a gracious attitude toward the sinner, it is possible ...
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Negeb (37 Occurrences)
... It formed an additional barrier to the wilderness beyond it; against all who would
lead an army from the South, this southern frontier of Judah was always ...
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Negev (39 Occurrences)
... It formed an additional barrier to the wilderness beyond it; against all who would
lead an army from the South, this southern frontier of Judah was always ...
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Bible Concordance

Barrier (4 Occurrences)

Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
(See NAS NIV)

2 Kings 11:6 A third part shall be at the gate Sur; and a third part at the gate behind the guard. So you shall keep the watch of the house, and be a barrier.
(WEB JPS ASV)

Jeremiah 5:22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 40:12 and a border before the lodges, one cubit on this side, and a border, one cubit on that side; and the lodges, six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
(See NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Barrier

Related Terms

Middle (169 Occurrences)

Partition (4 Occurrences)

Wall (227 Occurrences)

Bar (27 Occurrences)

Barricade (5 Occurrences)

Reconciliation (11 Occurrences)

Reconcile (10 Occurrences)

Negeb (37 Occurrences)

Negev (39 Occurrences)