Bible Dictionary: Competency

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power.

2. (n.) Property or means sufficient for the necessaries and conveniences of life; sufficiency without excess.

3. (n.) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness or of a evidence.

4. (n.) Right or authority; legal power or capacity to take cognizance of a cause; as, the competence of a judge or court.

Greek

1849. exousia -- power to act, authority
... From exesti (in the sense of ability); privilege, ie (subjectively) force, capacity,
competency, freedom, or (objectively) mastery (concretely, magistrate ...
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Library

Whether Intention is Within the Competency of Irrational Animals?
... OF INTENTION (FIVE ARTICLES) Whether intention is within the competency of
irrational animals? Objection 1: It would seem that irrational ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether intention is within the.htm

The Children's Patrimony.
... the child comes into possession of this invaluable blessing, there is given to him
more than earthly treasure, more than pecuniary competency, more than a good ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xxiv the childrens patrimony.htm

The Evolution of Early Congregationalism the Stone which the ...
... common-sense, assisted but never controlled by all other sources of knowledge;
interprets that book as teaching the reality and independent competency of the ...
/.../chapter i the evolution of.htm

The Life of Constantine.
... requires brief examination of 1. The proposed scope of the work.2. The character
of the sources.3. The intellectual and moral competency of Eusebius on the ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/section 1 the life of.htm

Letter cxxx. (AD 412. )
... and for their kindred the competent portion of necessary things, of which the apostle
speaks when he says: "Godliness with a competency [contentment in English ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter cxxx a d 412.htm

That the Employing Of, and Associating with the Malignant Party ...
... He gives not such a strict rule for the competency of number, as for the
qualifications of the persons, as being the principal thing. ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/section iii that the employing.htm

Christ's Nativity Both Possible and Becoming the Heretical Opinion ...
... Since [6970] you think that this lay within the competency of your own arbitrary
choice, you must needs have supposed that being born [6971] was either ...
/.../ on the flesh of christ/chapter iii christs nativity both possible.htm

Responsibilities of the Christian Home.
... life; they notice the interest they take in their health and education, and the
self-denial with which they seek to secure for them a temporal competency. ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter vii responsibilities of the.htm

Plato's Inconsistency He Supposes the Soul Self-Existent, yet ...
... In the second place, my objection to him will stand thus: (Plato,) do you endow
the soul with a natural competency for understanding those well-known ideas of ...
/.../a treatise on the soul/chapter xxiv platos inconsistency he supposes.htm

The Flesh Will be Associated with the Soul in Enduring the Penal ...
... In respect, indeed, of those sins, such as concupiscence, and thought, and wish,
which it has a competency of its own to commit, it at once [7380] pays the ...
/.../tertullian/on the resurrection of the flesh/chapter xvii the flesh will be.htm

Thesaurus

Competency (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) Legal capacity or qualifications; fitness; as, the competency of a witness
or of a evidence. ... Multi-Version Concordance Competency (1 Occurrence). ...
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Competent (9 Occurrences)
... (WEY). 2 Corinthians 3:5 not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything
by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God. (WEY DBY RSV NIV). ...
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Incompetent (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (a.) Not lying within one's competency, capacity, or authorized power; not
permissible. Multi-Version Concordance Incompetent (1 Occurrence). ...
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Reasonings (12 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 3:5 not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything by
our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God. (WEY). ...
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Decide (33 Occurrences)
... (WEB WEY ASV DBY NAS RSV). 2 Corinthians 3:5 not that of ourselves we are competent
to decide anything by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God. ...
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May (14936 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) An auxiliary verb qualifying the meaning of another verb, by expressing:
(a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can. ...
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Character (27 Occurrences)
... give one a bad character. 8. (n.) A written statement as to behavior,
competency, etc., given to a servant. 9. (n.) A unique or ...
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Capacity (5 Occurrences)
... character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying,
for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. ...
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Competence (1 Occurrence)

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Rome (12 Occurrences)
... exclusiveness in gaining admission to the consulship, the highest regular magistracy,
the necessity for another magistrate with general competency afforded an ...
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Bible Concordance

Competency (1 Occurrence)

2 Corinthians 3:5 not that of ourselves we are competent to decide anything by our own reasonings, but our competency comes from God.
(WEY DBY)

Subtopics

Competency

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Competent (9 Occurrences)

Incompetent (1 Occurrence)

Reasonings (12 Occurrences)

Decide (33 Occurrences)

May (14936 Occurrences)

Character (27 Occurrences)