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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (adv.) Alt. of Downwards.

2. (a.) Moving or extending from a higher to a lower place; tending toward the earth or its center, or toward a lower level; declivous.

3. (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of descent.

4. (a.) Tending to a lower condition or state; depressed; dejected; as, downward thoughts.

Greek

2678. kataseio -- to shake
... beckon. From kata and seio; to sway downward, ie Make a signal -- beckon. see
GREEK kata. see GREEK seio. (kataseisas) -- 3 Occurrences. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4295. mattah -- downwards
... mattah. 4296 . downwards. Transliteration: mattah Phonetic Spelling: (mat'-taw)
Short Definition: downward. ... beneath, downward, less, very low, underneath. ...
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6202. araph -- to break the neck
... A primitive root (identical with araph through the idea of sloping); properly, to
bend downward; but used only as a denominative from oreph, to break the neck ...
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5921. al -- upon, above, over
... often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon,
or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a ...
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Library

A Downward Step.
... THE VALUE OF A PRAYING MOTHER CHAPTER VII. A DOWNWARD STEP. "I have good
news for you, Bessie," said Mrs. Worthington as Bessie ...
/.../byrum/the value of a praying mother/chapter vii a downward step.htm

Two Ways of Rising
... TWO WAYS OF RISING. The human passions are like water: left unconfined, their tendency
is always downward. ... When they are not, they carry the whole man downward. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk fifty-four two ways of.htm

Gravity Upward.
... Man's true gravity is toward a center upward. Sin's gravity is toward a center downward. ...
He is overcome by the moral gravity downward of His sin. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks about jesus/gravity upward.htm

Hippolytus on the Twelve Apostles:
... the Gospel in Pontus, and Galatia, and Cappadocia, and Betania, and Italy, and Asia,
and was afterwards crucified by Nero in Rome with his head downward, as he ...
/.../hippolytus on the twelve apostles .htm

A Treatise against Eutyches and Nestorius
... And what I mean by "movement properly inherent and not accidentally attached" is
seen by the example of a wooden bed which is necessarily borne downward and is ...
/.../boethius/the theological tractates/a treatise against eutyches and.htm

Earnest Expostulation
... infatuation. Sin is always on the downward grade, so that when a man proceeds
a certain length he inevitably goes beyond it. The ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 29 1883/earnest expostulation.htm

Letter iii. True Religion a Work of Grace in the Heart; but it ...
... "And the remnant that is escaped out of the house of Judah shall again take root
downward, and bear fruit upward." Here is first a taking deep root downward ...
/.../letter iii true religion a.htm

Wherein is a Partial Inquiry into the Nature of the World, and a ...
... are betook itself to its own separate place, when the body of heaven compassed all
things round, and those bodies which are heavy and of downward tendency, the ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/i wherein is a partial.htm

But was not Either the Father, or the Son...
... The body by its own weight strives towards its own place. Weight makes not downward
only, but to his own place. Fire tends upward, a stone downward. ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter ix but was not.htm

Of the First Covenant Made with Man
... Now the soul is crooked and bends downward towards those base earthly things that
are the abasement of the soul, then it looked upright towards God,"had no ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/lecture xxi of the first.htm

Thesaurus

Downward (10 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Descending from a head, origin, or source; as, a downward line of
descent. ... Multi-Version Concordance Downward (10 Occurrences). ...
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Descent (22 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the
like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the ...
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Decline (10 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or
hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. ...
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Stoop (10 Occurrences)
... 4. (vi) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean
forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a ...
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Stamp (25 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting
the foot downward. ... 9. (vi) To strike the foot forcibly downward. 10. ...
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Upward (74 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). 2 Kings 19:30 The remnant that has escaped of the
house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. ...
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Lapse (9 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward,
backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. ...
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Gleaming (9 Occurrences)
... metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his
waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as ...
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Glowing (14 Occurrences)
... metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his
waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as ...
/g/glowing.htm - 11k

Dogma
... but with the one exception of Acts 16:4, in a sense widely different from that which
ecclesiastical usage has given to it from the 2nd century downward. ...
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Bible Concordance

Downward (10 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 28:13 Yahweh will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do them,
(See RSV)

Joshua 18:16 And the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lieth before the Valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the Valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel.
(See RSV)

1 Samuel 5:3 When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
(See RSV)

1 Samuel 5:4 When they arose early on the next day morning, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands lay cut off on the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
(See RSV)

2 Kings 19:30 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Proverbs 15:24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
(WEB)

Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Isaiah 37:31 The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 1:27 I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it all around, from the appearance of his waist and upward; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 8:2 Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Subtopics

Downward

Related Terms

Descent (22 Occurrences)

Decline (10 Occurrences)

Stoop (10 Occurrences)

Stamp (25 Occurrences)

Upward (74 Occurrences)

Lapse (9 Occurrences)

Gleaming (9 Occurrences)

Glowing (14 Occurrences)

Dogma