Bible Dictionary: Expedition

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

2. (n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

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 body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.

Greek

4752. strateia -- a campaign, expedition, hence warfare
... a campaign, expedition, hence warfare. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
strateia Phonetic Spelling: (strat-i'-ah) Short Definition: warfare ...
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4753. strateuma -- an expedition, an army, a company of soldiers
... an expedition, an army, a company of soldiers. Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: strateuma Phonetic Spelling: (strat'-yoo-mah) Short Definition: ...
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Library

The Fort Sumter Expedition
... THE FORT SUMTER EXPEDITION. When it became evident that the North had won
the victory and that the defeat of the Confederacy was ...
/.../griswold/sixty years with plymouth church/the fort sumter expedition.htm

The Expedition of the Philistines against the Hebrews and the ...
... CHAPTER 2. The Expedition Of The Philistines Against The Hebrews And The Hebrews'
Victory Under The Conduct Of Samuel The Prophet, Who Was Their General. ...
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The Expedition against Elisha
... STORIES V THE EXPEDITION AGAINST ELISHA. Now the king of Syria warred against
Israel: and he took counsel with his servants, saying ...
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How Amaziah Made an Expedition against the Edomites and Amalekites ...
... CHAPTER 9. How Amaziah Made An Expedition Against The Edomites And Amalekites And
Conquered Them; But When He Afterwards Made War Against Joash, He Was Beaten ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 9 how amaziah made.htm

Of the Expedition of Valens against the Goths and How He Paid the ...
... Book IV. Chapter XXXII."Of the expedition of Valens against the Goths and
how he paid the penalty of his impiety. Valens, however ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/chapter xxxii of the expedition of.htm

Of the Expedition against the Persians.
... Book III. Chapter XVI."Of the expedition against the Persians. No sooner
had the Persians heard of the death of Constantius, than ...
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Hazael Makes an Expedition against the People of Israel and the ...
... From The Death Of Ahab To The Captivity Of The Ten Tribes. CHAPTER 8. Hazael Makes
An Expedition Against The People Of Israel And The Inhabitants Of Jerusalem. ...
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How Sennacherib Made an Expedition against Hezekiah; What
... From The Captivity Of The Ten Tribes To The First Year Of Cyrus. CHAPTER 1.
How Sennacherib Made An Expedition Against Hezekiah; What. ...
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How the Philistines Made Another Expedition against the Hebrews ...
... From The Death Of Eli To The Death Of Saul. CHAPTER 6. How The Philistines
Made Another Expedition Against The Hebrews And Were Beaten. ...
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How the Philistines Made Another Expedition against the Hebrews ...
... CHAPTER 9. How The Philistines Made Another Expedition Against The Hebrews Under
The Reign Of Saul; And How They Were Overcome By David's Slaying Goliath In ...
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Thesaurus

Expedition (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness;
haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition. ...
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Hammurabi
... Inauguration of His Image 4. The Capture of Rim-Sin 5. Various Works, and an Expedition
to Mesopotamia 6. His Final Years 7. No Record of His Expedition to ...
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Code (6 Occurrences)
... In December, 1901, and January, 1902, a French expedition under the leadership of
MJ de Morgan, the chief aim of which was the exploration of the old royal ...
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Arioch (6 Occurrences)
... name of the vassal king of Ellasar, under Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Amraphel,
king of Shinar (Babylonia), who took part in the expedition against Sodom ...
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Great (10383 Occurrences)
... during his occupancy of this post, Alexander, then only a youth of sixteen, had
to undertake a campaign against the Illyrians, probably a punitive expedition. ...
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Antiochus
... He was a "vile person." In a spirit of revenge he organized an expedition against
Jerusalem, which he destroyed, putting vast multitudes of its inhabitants to ...
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Ziklag (13 Occurrences)
... From this time it pertained to the kings of Judah (1 Samuel 27:6). During his absence
with his army to join the Philistine expedition against the Israelites (29 ...
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Nabathaeans
... but suffered a severe defeat East of the Jordan (Josephus, Ant, XIII, xiii, 5; BJ,
I, iv, 4). Antiochus XII of Coele-Syria next led an expedition against the ...
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Nabataeans
... but suffered a severe defeat East of the Jordan (Josephus, Ant, XIII, xiii, 5; BJ,
I, iv, 4). Antiochus XII of Coele-Syria next led an expedition against the ...
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Gaza (22 Occurrences)
... Thothmes III refers to it in the account of his expedition to Syria in 1479 BC,
and it occurs again in the records of the expedition of Seti I in 1313 BC ...
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Bible Concordance

Expedition (2 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 23:13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went wherever they could go. It was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he gave up going there.
(See RSV)

2 Samuel 3:22 And behold, the servants of David and Joab came from an expedition, and brought in a great spoil with them; but Abner was no longer with David in Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Expedition

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Nabathaeans

Nabataeans

Gaza (22 Occurrences)