Bible Dictionary: Cliffs

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Strong's Hebrew

6178. aruts -- dreadful
... cliffs. Passive participle of arats; feared, ie (concretely) a horrible place or
chasm -- cliffs. see HEBREW arats. 6177, 6178. aruts. 6179 . Strong's Numbers
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5553. sela -- a crag, cliff
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition a crag, cliff NASB Word Usage cliff
(4), cliffs (4), crag (2), crags (3), mountain* (1), Rock (1), rock (39), rocks ...
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Library

Arria and Her Brother were Far from the Shores of Hellas and Near ...
... Tepas knew that a few leagues more would bring him in sight of the familiar cliffs. ...
I know not why, unless he meant to beach her under the cliffs yonder.". ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bacheller/vergilius/chapter 21 arria and her.htm

A Foreshadowing
... Across the harbor the marble tower of the great lighthouse soared up into the clear
Eastern sky, white as the white cliffs of the Island of Pharos from which ...
//christianbookshelf.org/forbes/saint athanasius/chapter 1 a foreshadowing.htm

Be for Thou Art'
... The great cliffs rise up, and the river glides at their base"it is a type of mutability,
and of the fleeting generations of men, who are as the drops and ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/be for thou art.htm

David the Outcast.
... He had escaped again and again from the hand of Saul, and now he was down in the
desert country by the Dead Sea, hiding among the cliffs and caves of Engedi. ...
/.../lathbury/childs story of the bible/chapter xxii david the outcast.htm

Naparima and Montserrat
... of which Trinidad was perhaps several times as large as it is now, and has gradually
been eaten away by the surf, as fresh pieces of the soft cliffs have been ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter x naparima and montserrat.htm

Athor, the Golden
... fragments of rough stone. The tracks of heavy sledges had crushed the young
grain across the field toward the cliffs. Kenkenes stood up ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter vii athor the golden.htm

Egypt and Greece.
... Greece was a picturesque and ever-changing scene of mountains and valleys; of
precipitous cliffs, winding beaches, rocky capes, and lofty headlands. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter ii egypt and greece.htm

Feeding in the Ways
... There are bare, savage cliffs, from which every particle of soil has been washed
by furious torrents, or the scanty vegetation has been burnt up by the fierce ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/feeding in the ways.htm

Love for Hate, the True Quid Pro Quo
... Saul was alone, and David could easily escape among the cliffs, if the king summoned
his men; but he risks capture, in the gush of ancient friendship. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/love for hate the true.htm

Andromeda
... Deep in the wane of the night, as the moon sank low to the westward, They by the
shade of the cliffs, with the horror of darkness around them, Stole, as ashamed ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/andromeda and other poems/andromeda.htm

Thesaurus

Cliffs (10 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Cliffs (10 Occurrences). ... (DBY NAS). Job 30:6 To dwell in
the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. (KJV). ...
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Edomites (22 Occurrences)
... of the Dead Sea in the bottom of the valley we have first the stretch of salt marsh
land called es-Sebkha; then, beyond the line of white cliffs that crosses ...
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Sela (5 Occurrences)
... The ruins lie along the sides of a spacious hollow surrounded by the many-hued cliffs
of Edom, just before they sink into the Arabah on the West. ...
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Edom (108 Occurrences)
... of the Dead Sea in the bottom of the valley we have first the stretch of salt marsh
land called es-Sebkha; then, beyond the line of white cliffs that crosses ...
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Dove (27 Occurrences)
... lustrous feathers. The rock dove swarmed over, through, and among the cliffs
of mountains and the fissures of caves and ravines. The ...
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Lebanon (66 Occurrences)
... below the summit, bordered on the eastern side by the mountain wall of Anti-Lebanon,
corresponding to the cliffs of Moab East of the Jordan valley, opposite ...
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Cliff (11 Occurrences)

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Mount (311 Occurrences)
... Gerizim was certainly "this mountain" pointed to by the woman of Samaria in her
conversation with Jesus (John 4:20 f); the cliffs of the mountain almost ...
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Valley (187 Occurrences)
... sections. "First the portion between Banias and the Huleh, where it is
some 5 miles broad, with steep cliffs some 2,000 ft. high ...
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Palestine (1 Occurrence)
... district, widening gradually southward, while between this region and the sea the
plains of Sharon and Philistia stretch to the sandhills and low cliffs of a ...
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Bible Concordance

Cliffs (10 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 13:6 And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed); and the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in cliffs, and in strongholds, and in pits.
(DBY NAS)

Job 30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
(KJV)

Psalms 104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats; the cliffs, a refuge for the rock-badgers.
(DBY NAS)

Psalms 141:6 When destruction comes to their judges by the side of the rock, they will give ear to my words, for they are sweet.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 2:21 to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.
(DBY NAS RSV)

Isaiah 7:19 And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and all the watering-places.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 57:5 Inflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the cliffs of the rocks?
(WBS)

Jeremiah 4:29 From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.
(YLT)

Jeremiah 51:25 Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 38:20 so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
(See RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Cliffs

Related Terms

Edomites (22 Occurrences)

Sela (5 Occurrences)

Edom (108 Occurrences)

Dove (27 Occurrences)

Lebanon (66 Occurrences)

Cliff (11 Occurrences)

Mount (311 Occurrences)

Valley (187 Occurrences)

Palestine (1 Occurrence)