Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
2. (n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
3. (n.) To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
Greek
4311. propempo -- to send before, send forth ... accompany, send forth. From pro and pempo; to send forward, ie
Escort or aid in
travel -- accompany, bring (forward) on journey (way), conduct forth.
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4311.htm - 7kStrong's Hebrew
7971. shalach -- to send... let the go (1), delivered (1), direct (1), dismissed (2), dispatch (1), divorce
(3), divorces (1), drive (1), driving them away (1),
escort (1), escorted him
... /hebrew/7971.htm - 7kLibrary
On the Arrival of Gregory at Alexandria, Tended by a Military ...
... Book II. Chapter XI."On the Arrival of Gregory at Alexandria, tended by
a Military Escort, Athanasius flees. After these things ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of scholasticus/chapter xi on the arrival of.htm
Dragged on his Way
... resignation of St. Paul, to alleviate the sorrows of Philip, of Olympias, and
his other friends. Then the escort started. No sooner had ...
/.../chapter liii dragged on his.htm
Philip visits St. Nilus
... and God's own darkness veiled her awful height."Heber. Briso and the escort
were to start with the letter to St. Nilus in ten days. ...
/.../chapter lxii philip visits st.htm
Letter Xciv. To Elias, Governor of the Province.
... to the bishop, and others underneath, allotted to the officers of the Church in
order, the use of both being open to you of the magistracy and your escort. ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter xciv to elias governor.htm
The Gathering Storm
... The party of officials, surrounded by their small but glittering escort, made
its way to the Prætorium, which was at no great distance. ...
/.../chapter i the gathering storm.htm
The Capture of Chrysostom
... oaks and laurels. Asterius was walking with Chrysostom, and Philip followed
them, a little in front of the escort. But no sooner ...
/.../chapter xv the capture of.htm
The Martyrdom
... already too late. When the news reached Philip the escort which was to remove
Chrysostom had set out upon its way. The only course ...
/.../chapter lxviii the martyrdom.htm
To the Rev. A. Brandram.
... in the hands of Pollillos and his banditti, who whenever it pleases them, stop the
courier, burn the vehicle and letters, murder the paltry escort which attends ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev a brandram 59.htm
The Faithful Servant
... But before the arrow next strung to overtake him could fly, Titus, Carus and Nicanor,
accompanied by their escort, rode between the fugitive and the men he had ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter xxi the faithful servant.htm
Samson Conquered
... to be still so strong, that any other kind of fetter would have been insufficient"
you see him walking along in the midst of a small escort towards Gaza. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/samson conquered.htm
Thesaurus
Escort (4 Occurrences)... 2. (n.) Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel
under the
escort of a friend.
... Multi-Version Concordance
Escort (4 Occurrences).
.../e/escort.htm - 8kConduct (93 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Skillful guidance or management; generalship. 3. (n.) Convoy; escort;
guard; guide. ... 7. (n.) To lead, or guide; to escort; to attend. ...
/c/conduct.htm - 35k
Vashti (10 Occurrences)
... Nor can it be said that there was any lack of recognition of Vashti's high dignity;
the seven highest officials of the palace were sent to escort her. ...
/v/vashti.htm - 12k
Nehemiah (9 Occurrences)
... He went up in the spring of BC 446 (eleven years after Ezra), with a strong escort
supplied by the king, and with letters to all the pashas of the provinces ...
/n/nehemiah.htm - 24k
Usher (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (vt) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; --
sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher ...
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Escheweth (2 Occurrences)
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Escorted (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Escort. Multi-Version Concordance Escorted
(6 Occurrences). Acts 16:39 and they came and begged them. ...
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Bring (1372 Occurrences)
... 27:1; "before the decree bring forth," Zephaniah 2:2); `anan = "to cloud over,"
"to darken" (Genesis 9:14); shalach = "to send on," "to escort" (Genesis 18:16 ...
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Adria (1 Occurrence)
... After leaving Crete the vessel in which the apostle Paul was sailing under military
escort was "driven to and fro in the sea of Adria" fourteen days (Acts 27:27 ...
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Ahava (3 Occurrences)
... Ezra had expressed to the king his faith in the protection of God; being, therefore,
ashamed to ask for a military escort he proclaimed a fast to seek of God ...
/a/ahava.htm - 9k
Bible Concordance
Escort (4 Occurrences)Acts 16:37 But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!"
(See NIV)
2 Samuel 19:31 Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
(See NAS RSV)
Psalms 45:14 She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
(See RSV)
Daniel 11:6 At the end of years they shall join themselves together; and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the strength of her arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm; but she shall be given up, and those who brought her, and he who became the father of her, and he who strengthened her in those times.
(See NIV)
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