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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to enclose; to keep close.

2. (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.

3. (n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

4. (n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison.

Greek

4912. sunecho -- to hold together, to hold fast, pass. to be ...
... be seized (by illness). Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: sunecho Phonetic Spelling:
(soon-ekh'-o) Short Definition: I press together, confine, compel, am ...
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3181. methorion -- border.
... Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: methorion Phonetic Spelling:
(meth-or'-ee-os) Short Definition: confine, border Definition: confine, border ...
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2623. katakleio -- to shut up
... to shut up. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: katakleio Phonetic Spelling:
(kat-ak-li'-o) Short Definition: I shut up, confine Definition: I shut up, confine ...
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1196. desmeo -- bind, shackle
... desmeo. 1197 . bind, shackle. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: desmeo Phonetic
Spelling: (des-meh'-o) Short Definition: I bind Definition: I bind, confine ...
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4729. stenochoreo -- to be made narrow, to compress
... cramp, confine. From the same as stenochoria; to hem in closely, ie (figuratively)
cramp -- distress, straiten. see GREEK stenochoria. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6696a. tsur -- to confine, bind, besiege
... 6696, 6696a. tsur. 6696b . to confine, bind, besiege. Transliteration:
tsur Short Definition: besieged. Word Origin a prim. root ...
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6696. tsuwr -- to confine, bind, besiege
... 6695b, 6696. tsuwr. 6696a . to confine, bind, besiege. Transliteration:
tsuwr Phonetic Spelling: (tsoor) Short Definition: adversary. ...
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8104. shamar -- to keep, watch, preserve
... NASB Word Usage attend (4), being careful (1), beware (8), bodyguard* (1), careful
(32), careful to keep (1), cares (1), charge (4), confine (1), confined (1 ...
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7194. qashar -- to bind, league together, conspire
... A primitive root: to tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love,
league) -- bind (up), (make a) conspire(-acy, -ator), join together, knit ...
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6729. tsinoq -- pillory
... collar (1). stocks. From an unused root meaning to confine; the pillory --
stocks. 6728, 6729. tsinoq. 6730 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

But He Imbues their Minds, Above All, with Ethical Science; and He ...
... Argument IX."But He Imbues Their Minds, Above All, with Ethical Science; And He
Does Not Confine Himself to Discoursing on the Virtues in Word, But He Rather ...
/.../argument ix but he imbues their.htm

Purpose of Christ's Relatives to Confine Him as a Lunatic. --He ...
... Section 164. Purpose of Christ's Relatives to confine him as a Lunatic."
He declares who are his Relatives in the Spiritual Sense. ...
/.../section 164 purpose of christs.htm

That Although God is Always Judging, it is Nevertheless Reasonable ...
... Book XX. Chapter 1."That Although God is Always Judging, It is Nevertheless Reasonable
to Confine Our Attention in This Book to His Last Judgment. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 1 that although god is.htm

Your Apology Says that There are Three Opinions as to the Origin ...
... three is true. If there is some other possibility, why do you confine the
liberty of discussion within a close-drawn line? and why ...
/.../30 your apology says that.htm

Successful Methods of Public Speaking
... public speaking. Bear in mind, however, that this does not mean you are
always to confine yourself to a conversational level. There ...
/.../successful methods of public speaking/successful methods of public speaking.htm

Explanation of Ungenerate,' and a Study' of Eternity.
... ones; or else, if they are going to judge of it according to human tests, let the
future be more valued by them than the past, and let them confine the being ...
/.../section 42 explanation of ungenerate.htm

An Examination of the Question Where the Ruling Principle is to be ...
... 1. Let there be an end, then, of all the vain and conjectural discussion of those
who confine the intelligible energy to certain bodily organs; of whom some ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/xii an examination of the.htm

The World, Created by God, Still Cherished and Protected by Him. ...
... hand. But if the government of God thus extends to all his works, it is a
childish cavil to confine it to natural influx. [129] Those ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 16 the world created.htm

The Poet.
... The claim has been made not only to confine Jeremiah's genuine Oracles to the metrical
portions of the Book, but, by drastic emendations of the text, to reduce ...
//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/lecture ii the poet.htm

Antichrist in Daniel
... Let us now consider briefly what is revealed concerning the Antichrist under this
title of his, the "little horn." We confine ourself to Dan.8:23-25. ...
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Thesaurus

Confine (3 Occurrences)
... in the plural. 4. (n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison. Multi-Version
Concordance Confine (3 Occurrences). 2 Corinthians 10 ...
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Cage (3 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) The catcher's wire mask. 9. (vi) To confine in, or as in, a cage; to
shut up or confine. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. CAGE. ...
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Pinion (4 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To bind or confine the wings of; to confine by binding the wings. ... 10.
(vt) Hence, generally, to confine; to bind; to tie up. Int. ...
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Bind (68 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter;
to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner. ...
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Lock (6 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock. 5. (n.) The barrier
or works which confine the water of a stream or canal. ...
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Imprison (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain
in custody; to confine. 2. (vt) To limit, restrain, or confine in any way. ...
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Fold (23 Occurrences)
... 11. (n.) A boundary; a limit. 12. (vt) To confine in a fold, as sheep. 13. (vi)
To confine sheep in a fold. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. FOLD; FOLDING. ...
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Fetter (4 Occurrences)
... 3. (p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet
of with a chain; to bind. 4. (p. pr. & vb. n.) To restrain ...
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Dam (5 Occurrences)
... A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any
kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep ...
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Bound (175 Occurrences)
... real or imaginary, of any object or space; that which limits or restrains, or within
which something is limited or restrained; limit; confine; extent; boundary ...
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Bible Concordance

Confine (3 Occurrences)

2 Corinthians 10:13 But we will not boast beyond proper limits, but within the boundaries with which God appointed to us, which reach even to you.
(See NIV)

Exodus 21:29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.
(See NAS)

Numbers 12:14 Yahweh said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn't she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again."
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Confine

Related Terms

Cage (3 Occurrences)

Pinion (4 Occurrences)

Bind (68 Occurrences)

Lock (6 Occurrences)

Imprison (3 Occurrences)

Fold (23 Occurrences)

Fetter (4 Occurrences)

Dam (5 Occurrences)

Bound (175 Occurrences)