Bible Dictionary: Department

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) Act of departing; departure.

2. (n.) A part, portion, or subdivision.

3. (n.) A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.

4. (v. i.) Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.

5. (n.) A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.

6. (n.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.

Library

The Boys' Department in the Sunday School
... XI THE BOYS' DEPARTMENT IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. The Boys' Department in the
Sunday school is the grouping together of organized classes ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/xi the boys department in.htm

The Sunday School or Church School
... Cradle Roll " (A) " Adult " Missionary (1-Minute-3 " Intermediate " Bible "
years) " Department " Class " """" 13-16 years) " Department ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/iv the sunday school or.htm

Justification.
... to a right understanding of gospel justification, to inquire whether it be an act
of the judicial, the executive, or the legislative department of government ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xxxvi justification.htm

The Separation of the Provinces, 1857-1899.
... Fratrum in Anglia; the administrators of the Church's estates in Pennsylvania and
North Carolina; the Director of the Warden's Department; the Director of the ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter vii the separation of.htm

The Church and Other Rural Agencies
... Home Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Young Men's Christian Association,
Young Women's Christian Association, United States Department of Agriculture ...
/.../vogt/church cooperation in community life/chapter ix the church and.htm

Introductory Essay.
... The opinions of Augustin's ability as an exegete, and the worth of his labors in
the department of connected Biblical exposition, have greatly differed. ...
/.../augustine/our lords sermon on the mount/introductory essay .htm

Plato an Imitator of Moses in Framing Laws.
... to do justly. Of politics, he says there are two kinds,"the department
of law, and that of politics, strictly so called. And he ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter xxv plato an imitator of.htm

Introduction
... He goes from department to department, considering the methods pursued,
checking the expenditure on this, on that, on the other. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/jackson/the message and the man/introduction.htm

To the Rev. J. Jowett
... He spoke twice to Mr. Bludoff upon the subject; and I shortly afterwards received
a summons to appear at the Asiatic Department, whither I went, and found that ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev j jowett 7.htm

Schools.
... neglected. Some have done much more in this department than others, but
all have devoted to it a measure of attention and effort. ...
/.../kennedy/life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter xii schools.htm

Thesaurus

Department (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (vi) Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal
divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war ...
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Language (112 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge;
as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology. ...
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Prefect (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge,
department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp ...
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Adoniram (4 Occurrences)
... In the American Standard Revised Version it is uniformly "over the men subject to
taskwork." Adoniram was at the head of the department of forced labor for the ...
/a/adoniram.htm - 10k

Secretary (34 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs
of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of ...
/s/secretary.htm - 18k

Evolution
... Until the time of Herbert Spencer, the scientific use of the word evolution
was limited to the narrow department of embryology. ...
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Beauty (98 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 6 2 Chronicles 3). It is a common understanding that the civilization of
Solomon's day was drawn upon to its utmost in every department of aesthetics ...
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Departing (20 Occurrences)

/d/departing.htm - 12k

Departs (16 Occurrences)

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Kingdom (409 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An extensive scientific division distinguished by leading or ruling
characteristics; a principal division; a department; as, the mineral kingdom. Int. ...
/k/kingdom.htm - 101k

Bible Concordance

Department (1 Occurrence)

Acts 19:27 and not only is this department in danger for us of coming into disregard, but also, that of the great goddess Artemis the temple is to be reckoned for nothing, and also her greatness is about to be brought down, whom all Asia and the world doth worship.'
(YLT)

Subtopics

Department

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Language (112 Occurrences)

Prefect (2 Occurrences)

Adoniram (4 Occurrences)

Secretary (34 Occurrences)

Evolution

Beauty (98 Occurrences)

Departing (20 Occurrences)

Departs (16 Occurrences)

Kingdom (409 Occurrences)