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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

2. (v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.

Greek

440. anthrax -- coal, charcoal
... coal, charcoal. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: anthrax Phonetic
Spelling: (anth'-rax) Short Definition: a coal Definition: coal, charcoal, a ...
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439. anthrakia -- a heap of burning coals
... burning coals. Word Origin from anthrax Definition a heap of burning coals
NASB Word Usage charcoal fire (2). fire of coals. From ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6352. pecham -- coal
... Short Definition: coals. Word Origin from an unused word Definition coal
NASB Word Usage charcoal (1), coals (2). coals. Perhaps from ...
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Library

Examples from Nature Proving that Bodies May Remain Unconsumed and ...
... Then what wonderful properties do we find in charcoal, which is so brittle that
a light tap breaks it and a slight pressure pulverizes it, and yet is so strong ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 4 examples from nature proving.htm

The Beauty and Glory of the Risen Body.
... It is nothing more than crystallized carbon, or charcoal. ... In scientific language
they are called carbon or charcoal, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. ...
/.../boudreaux/the happiness of heaven/chapter v the beauty and.htm

National Wealth
... Then they found that there was iron, principally down south, in Sussex and Surrey;
and they worked it, clumsily enough, with charcoal; and for more than twelve ...
/.../kingsley/the gospel of the pentateuch/sermon xvi national wealth.htm

He Essays to Speak of the Well-Nigh Divine Endowments of Origen in ...
... whether as never having been possessed of them, or, it may be, as having lost
them"are under the necessity of using, as it were, only charcoal and tiles ...
/.../argument ii he essays to speak.htm

In Reply to those who Say "If Christ Has Two Natures, Either Ye do ...
... just as wood in itself [2258] is not of such a nature that it cannot be touched,
but becomes so when fire is applied to it, and it becomes charcoal, and yet ...
/.../john/exposition of the orthodox faith/chapter iii in reply to those.htm

The Transformation of Each Believer into the Image of Our ...
... Scientists tell us that the little sparkling diamond which we admire so much, was
once a piece of carbon, a fragment of charcoal which has undergone a ...
/.../pink/the redeemers return/4 the transformation of each.htm

The Apostles Chosen
... "The Charcoal Carrier." One Sunday afternoon ... As she sat reading, a man, well known
in that neighborhood as Jacob, the charcoal carrier, came by with his donkey. ...
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The Disciple, -- O Master, Fountain of Life! Why Dost Thou Hide ...
... 9. Take a piece of charcoal, and however much you may wash it its blackness will
not disappear, but let the fire enter into it and its dark colour vanishes. ...
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The Disciple, -- Master, Some People Say that the Comfort and Joy ...
... As in charcoal there is a natural fitness to receive fire, but without oxygen the
fire cannot enter it, so unless the oxygen of the Holy Spirit finds an ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/singh/at the masters feet/section ii the disciple 3.htm

Peter Thrice Denies the Lord.
... fire of coals; for it was cold; and they were warming themselves: and Peter also
was with them [they were gathered around a little smokeless charcoal fire], ^c ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/cxxvii peter thrice denies the.htm

Thesaurus

Charcoal (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
Multi-Version Concordance Charcoal (3 Occurrences). ...
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Coal (7 Occurrences)
... Their common fuel was dried dung of animals and wood charcoal. ... 3. (vt) To burn to
charcoal; to char. 4. (vt) To mark or delineate with charcoal. ...
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Botany
... At a greater distance, as for example in the once extensive forests East of the
Jordan, a terrible destruction is being wrought by the charcoal burners. ...
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Juniper (7 Occurrences)
... "The Bedawin of Sinai still burn this very plant into a charcoal which throws
out the most intense heat.". Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Fuel (13 Occurrences)
... excrements (Ezek. 4:12-15; 15:4, 6; 21:32). Wood or charcoal is much used
still in all the towns of Syria and Egypt. It is largely ...
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Burn (206 Occurrences)
... for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay
in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn ...
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Fire (602 Occurrences)
... For the sacrificial fire wood was used as fuel (Genesis 22:3, 1 Leviticus 6:12);
for ordinary purposes, also charcoal (Proverbs 25:22 Isaiah 6:6, the Revised ...
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Landed (10 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). John 21:9 As soon as they landed, they saw a charcoal fire burning
there, with fish broiling on it, and bread close by. (WEY NIV). ...
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Lighted (36 Occurrences)
... John 18:18 Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted a charcoal
fire, and were standing and warming themselves; and Peter too remained ...
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Finery (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought
iron, or into iron suitable for puddling. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Bible Concordance

Charcoal (3 Occurrences)

John 18:18 Now because it was cold the servants and the police had lighted a charcoal fire, and were standing and warming themselves; and Peter too remained with them, standing and warming himself.
(WEY NAS RSV)

John 21:9 As soon as they landed, they saw a charcoal fire burning there, with fish broiling on it, and bread close by.
(WEY NAS RSV)

Proverbs 26:21 Like breath on coals and wood on fire, so a man given to argument gets a fight started.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Charcoal

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