Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
2. (n.) Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.
Greek
887. achlus -- a mist ... a mist. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: achlus Phonetic Spelling:
(akh-looce') Short Definition: a mist,
dimness Definition: a mist,
dimness ... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/887.htm - 6k4653. skotia -- darkness
... darkness. From skotos; dimness, obscurity (literally or figuratively) -- dark(-ness).
see GREEK skotos. (skotia) -- 15 Occurrences. (skotias) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
4155. muaph -- gloom... dimness. From uwph; properly, covered, ie Dark; abstractly, obscurity, ie Distress --
dimness. see HEBREW uwph. 4154, 4155. muaph. 4156 . Strong's Numbers.
/hebrew/4155.htm - 6k 4588. mauph -- gloom
... dimness. From uwph in the sense of covering with shade (compare muw'aph); darkness --
dimness. see HEBREW uwph. see HEBREW muw'aph. 4587, 4588. mauph. 4589 > ...
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5774. uwph -- to fly
... A primitive root; to cover (with wings or obscurity); hence (as denominative from
owph) to fly; also (by implication of dimness) to faint (from the darkness of ...
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Library
Whether Angels and Man had Faith in their First State
... the knowledge of faith is dark and dim, according to I:Cor.13:12: "now we see through
a glass, darkly." But in their first state there was dimness neither in ...
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Whether Purification of the Heart is an Effect of Faith
... But faith does not purify the intellect of dimness, since it knows things
darkly. Hence faith does not purify the heart in any way. ...
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Christ the Arrester of Incipient Evil and the Nourisher of ...
... Keep near Him that His hand may nourish your smoking dimness into a pure
flame, leaping heavenward and illuminating your lives. III. ...
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Hope for the Heathen
... of the promised Messiah. At first he beheld only "trouble and darkness,
dimness of anguish." Isaiah 8:22. Many who were longing ...
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Alive or Dead --Which?
... That work may be prospering within them, but through the turmoil of their spirits
and the dimness of their mental vision, they do not at once perceive it, and ...
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Sharing Christ's Life
... The eye may sometimes gather dimness, but the light shall yet return. Where Christ
hath opened a blind eye, blindness comes not back again. ...
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The Ark of his Covenant
... of God was opened in heaven." When our Lord Jesus died, He rent the veil of the
temple, and so He laid open the Holy of Holies but such is our dimness of sight ...
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Abraham, the Man of Prayer
... In the simplicity and dimness of the patriarchal dispensation, as illustrated by
him, we learn the worth of prayer, as well as discover its antiquity. ...
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Impressive Phrases
... D. daring, cordial, discerning, and optimistic. darkness, dimness, dulness,
and blackness. deadly, destructive, fatal, and implacable. ...
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Against Embellishing the Body.
... But in the evening this spurious beauty creeps out to candle-light as out of a hole;
for drunkenness and the dimness of the light aid what they have put on. ...
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Thesaurus
Dimness (2 Occurrences)... 2. (n.) Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception.
Multi-Version Concordance
Dimness (2 Occurrences).
.../d/dimness.htm - 7kAttentively (35 Occurrences)
... darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not
the dimness for which she is in distress! (YLT). Isaiah ...
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Adversity (54 Occurrences)
... darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not
the dimness for which she is in distress! (YLT). Isaiah ...
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Grievously (17 Occurrences)
... (WBS). Isaiah 9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation,
when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of ...
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Eyes (6285 Occurrences)
... The frequency of such senile dimness of sight made the case of Moses the more
remarkable that at the age of 120 his eye was not dim (Deuteronomy 34:7). Tobit's ...
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Dullness (1 Occurrence)
... (n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness;
obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness. ...
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Dimon (1 Occurrence)
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Dimnah (1 Occurrence)
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Type (12 Occurrences)
... economy. "Shadow" implies dimness and transitoriness; but it also implies
a measure of resemblance between the one and the other. ...
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Diseases (38 Occurrences)
... The frequency of such senile dimness of sight made the case of Moses the more
remarkable that at the age of 120 his eye was not dim (Deuteronomy 34:7). Tobit's ...
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Bible Concordance
Dimness (2 Occurrences)Isaiah 8:22 And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
(KJV WBS YLT)
Isaiah 9:1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.
(KJV WBS)
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Dimness
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Attentively (35 Occurrences)
Adversity (54 Occurrences)
Grievously (17 Occurrences)
Eyes (6285 Occurrences)
Dullness (1 Occurrence)
Dimon (1 Occurrence)
Dimnah (1 Occurrence)
Type (12 Occurrences)
Diseases (38 Occurrences)
Lightly (31 Occurrences)
Vexation (36 Occurrences)
Afflict (55 Occurrences)
Grievous (73 Occurrences)
Afterward (113 Occurrences)
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