Bible Dictionary: Defiant

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Boldly resisting; insolent; as, a defiant spirit or act.

Greek

3845. parabaino -- to go by the side of, to go past
... Cognate: 3845 (from 3844 , "beside, contrary to" and , "go") -- properly, to transgress
in a willful (defiant) way, deliberately a known line, ie as a . See ...
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506. anupotaktos -- not subject to rule
... unruly), unwilling to come under Christ's Lordship; refusing to "fall in line with"
(fit in with) God's plan; uncooperative, with a defiant attitude towards ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7295. rahab -- proud, defiant
... 7294, 7295. rahab. 7296 . proud, defiant. Transliteration: rahab Phonetic
Spelling: (raw-hawb') Short Definition: proud. Word Origin ...
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Library

Thou Shalt not Steal.
... the poor are daily overcharged, new burdens and high prices are imposed, and every
one uses the market according to his caprice, and is even defiant and brags ...
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The Triumph of Faith
... It is but translating into words the symbol of spreading the letter before
God. He asks God to behold and to hear the defiant words. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the triumph of faith.htm

Chapter xi
... De 1:28; 9:1; Psalm 107:26) a hyperbole is plainly involved, yet, if we take into
consideration the defiant spirit of the rest of the statement, we can hardly ...
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The Growth and Power of Sin
... gratified our inclinations wrongly. 7. Cain's defiant answer teaches us how
a man hardens himself against God's voice. It also shows us ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the growth and power of.htm

Elucidations.
... much to admire. Strange that this defiant hero should have died (as we may
infer) in his bed, and in extreme old age. Great man, how ...
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And Now we Can Turn at Last to See in Our Picture...
... and beautiful is withdrawn and shrouded in the "bare grain" when we strip off the
sheath and hold it in our hand: everything has gone down in defiant faith to ...
/.../trotter/parables of the christ-life/section 5 and now we.htm

The Sovereignty of God in Salvation
... 11:19). Then is it because some are so stubborn, so intractable, so defiant
that God is unable to woo them to Himself? Before we ...
/.../pink/the sovereignty of god/chapter four the sovereignty of.htm

The Middle Colonies: the Jerseys, Delaware, and Pennsylvania --The ...
... Hitherto it had been publicly known by the fierce and defiant and often outrageous
protests of its representatives against existing governments and dignities ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter ix the middle colonies .htm

Behind the Door
... many other things. The women stood out in the street in defiant groups
and would not let us near enough to explain. The men sat ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter xxii behind the door.htm

O Christ, when on the Shameful Tree,
... Thy face, O Christ, vile spittings bore,. And cruel hands, O action base! Smote
Thee, defiant, in the face. III. When in Thy thirst, men heard Thee call,. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/brownlie/hymns from the east/o christ when on the.htm

Thesaurus

Defiant (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Boldly resisting; insolent; as, a defiant spirit
or act. Multi-Version Concordance Defiant (2 Occurrences). ...
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Defiance (9 Occurrences)

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Look (1874 Occurrences)
... or cast, a look. 14. (n.) Expression of the eyes and face; manner; as, a
proud or defiant look. 15. (n.) Hence; Appearance; aspect ...
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Rebellious (63 Occurrences)
... (a.) Disposed to rebel; insubordinate; defiant; of the nature of rebels or of
rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force. ...
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Defiantly (2 Occurrences)

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Proverb (24 Occurrences)
... a root meaning "to be like," "parable." Rendered "proverb" in Isaiah 14:4; Habakkuk
2:6; "dark saying" in Psalm 49:4, Numbers 12:8. Ahab's defiant words in ...
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Provokes (4 Occurrences)
... Provokes (4 Occurrences). 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Therefore a defiant spirit in such
a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts. ...
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Cain (18 Occurrences)
... He was "a sullen, self-willed, haughty, vindictive man; wanting the religious element
in his character, and defiant even in his attitude towards God." It came ...
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Atheism
... It takes the form often of complete indifference to the claims of the Divine Being
or again of outbroken and defiant wickedness (Psalm 14:1). That this form of ...
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Brick (10 Occurrences)
... In the defiant assertion of Isaiah 9:10 the superiority of hewn stone over bricks
implied a greater difference in cost and stability than exists between a ...
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Bible Concordance

Defiant (2 Occurrences)

1 Thessalonians 4:8 Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts.
(WEY)

Proverbs 7:11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
(WEB NIV)

Subtopics

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