Bible Dictionary: Enterprise

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise.

2. (n.) Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise.

3. (v. t.) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.

4. (v. t.) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

5. (v. i.) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.

Strong's Hebrew

8455. tothach -- (a weapon) perhaps club, mace
... enterprise, that which thing as it is, substance, sound wisdom, working. From an
unused root meaning to smite; a club -- darts. 8454, 8455. tothach. 8456 . ...
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8454. tushiyyah -- sound, efficient wisdom, abiding success
... to substantiate; support or (by implication) ability, ie (direct) help, (in purpose)
an undertaking, (intellectual) understanding -- enterprise, that which ...
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Library

Enterprise of Gainas, the Gothic Barbarian. Evils which He ...
... Book VIII. Chapter IV."Enterprise of Gaïnas, the Gothic Barbarian. Evils
which he perpetrated. A barbarian, named Gaïnas, [1588 ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of sozomenus/chapter iv enterprise of gainas the.htm

Making Haste to be Rich.
... There is a quicker road to fortune than that, and I am the man to walk in it.
'Enterprise' is the word. Yes, enterprise, enterprise, enterprise! ...
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Christian Stewardship.
... agonies of dying souls were coming peal after peal on every wave of the ocean; that
they must be turned aside from the perilous yet fond enterprise to which ...
/.../dibble/thoughts on missions/chapter ii christian stewardship.htm

Introductory Letter.
... "From the very commencement of your missionary life, cultivate a spirit of enterprise. ...
Shall not the same enterprise be seen in moral and religious things? ...
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Mission Work
... Vincent was delighted, but considering himself unfit to undertake the management
of such an enterprise, he proposed that it should be put into the hands of the ...
/.../forbes/life of st vincent de paul/chapter 5 mission work.htm

The Puritan Beginnings of the Church in virginia ---Its Decline ...
... mariner, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, had by many months of labor and "many a forgotten
pound" of expense succeeded in recruiting for the enterprise was made ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter v the puritan beginnings.htm

Preface
... Cardinal of the Church of Rome. His connection with the enterprise ceased
with his secession (1845). The Oxford Library was undertaken ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/the confessions and letters of st/preface.htm

The Builders on the Wall
... their hands for this good work.". Nehemiah's whole soul was in the enterprise
he had undertaken. His hope, his energy, his enthusiasm ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 53 the builders on.htm

Instructions for Fishermen
... Which, being translated, is this"The same spirit of daring enterprise, which is
a condition of success in secular matters, is no less potent a factor in the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/instructions for fishermen.htm

Knox's Writings from Abroad: Beginning of the Scottish Revolution ...
... He had received, he said, at Dieppe two private letters of a discouraging sort;
one correspondent said that the enterprise was to be reconsidered, the other ...
/.../lang/john knox and the reformation/chapter viii knoxs writings from.htm

Thesaurus

Enterprise (1 Occurrence)
... work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous,
or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike ...
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Expedition (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike
enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a ...
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Difficulty (12 Occurrences)
... n.) The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed
to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work ...
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Adventure (3 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold
undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon ...
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Achieve (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to
accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise. ...
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Phoenicians
... The colonial enterprise of the Phoenicians was remarkable for the age, and was only
surpassed in ancient times by the Greeks who came later, the former being ...
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Phoenicia (6 Occurrences)
... The colonial enterprise of the Phoenicians was remarkable for the age, and was only
surpassed in ancient times by the Greeks who came later, the former being ...
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Exploration
... ERA OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION 1. Period of Individual Enterprise (1) First Trained
Explorers (2) The Climax of Individual Exploration 2. Scientific Cooperative ...
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Enters (44 Occurrences)

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Army (401 Occurrences)
... themselves in Canaan. But it was largely through the enterprise of the several
tribes after that the conquest was achieved. The progress ...
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Bible Concordance

Enterprise (1 Occurrence)

Job 5:12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
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Subtopics

Enterprise

Related Terms

Expedition (2 Occurrences)

Difficulty (12 Occurrences)

Adventure (3 Occurrences)

Achieve (7 Occurrences)

Phoenicians

Phoenicia (6 Occurrences)