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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.

2. (a.) Capable of being extended.

Greek

3850. parabole -- to expose oneself to danger
... necessarily). [For extensive notes and commentary on Jesus' "Kingdom-parables"
see 932 ().]. comparison, figure, parable, proverb. ...
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4681. Spania -- Spain, a peninsula of SW Europe
... of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Spania Phonetic Spelling: (span-ee'-ah)
Short Definition: Spain Definition: Spain, roughly co-extensive with the ...
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3624. oikos -- a house, a dwelling
... Of uncertain affinity; a dwelling (more or less extensive, literal or figurative);
by implication, a family (more or less related, literally or figuratively ...
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4753. strateuma -- an expedition, an army, a company of soldiers
... From strateuomai; an armament, ie (by implication) a body of troops (more or less
extensive or systematic) -- army, soldier, man of war. see GREEK strateuomai. ...
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5561. chora -- a space, place, land
... Feminine of a derivative of the base of chasma through the idea of empty expanse;
room, ie A space of territory (more or less extensive; often including its ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1633. garam -- to cut off, reserve
... A primitive root; to be spare or skeleton-like; used only as a denominative from
gerem; (causative) to bone, ie Denude (by extensive, craunch) the bones ...
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7458. raab -- famine, hunger
... dearth, famine, famished, hunger. From ra'eb; hunger (more or less extensive) --
dearth, famine, + famished, hunger. see HEBREW ra'eb. 7457, 7458. raab. 7459 ...
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3497. Yithnan -- a city in the desert of Judah
... Ithnan. From the same as tanniyn; extensive; Jithnan, a place in Palestine -- Ithnan.
see HEBREW tanniyn. 3496, 3497. Yithnan. 3498 . Strong's Numbers.
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7342. rachab -- wide, broad
... Word Origin from rachab Definition wide, broad NASB Word Usage arrogant (2), broad
(7), broader (1), extensive (1), large* (2), liberty (1), proud (1 ...
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1610. gaph -- body, self, height, elevation
... highest places, himself. From an unused root meaning to arch; the back; by extensive
the body or self -- + highest places, himself. 1609, 1610. gaph. 1611 ...
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1465. gevah -- the back
... of gev Definition the back NASB Word Usage back (1). body. Feminine of gev; the
back, ie (by extensive) the person -- body. see HEBREW gev. 1464, 1465. ...
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Library

Introduction.
... is an attempt so inviting as to seem not unworthy of the application of the greatest
diligence and care, and the most varied and extensive resources of the ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/introduction.htm

Editions and Versions.
... and Constantine's Oratio ad Sanctorum coetum, also accompanied with critical apparatus
and indices; the third volume contains an extensive commentary upon the ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/section 4 editions and versions.htm

Light and Shade.
... But few Europeans have visited the city. The city has an extensive wall, wider
and I think more cleanly streets, and is larger than Amoy. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/iv light and shade.htm

The Universality of Actual Grace
... c) The theological argument may be briefly summarized as follows: God's will to
save is co-extensive with the grace of adoptive sonship (filiatio adoptiva ...
/.../pohle/grace actual and habitual/section 3 the universality of.htm

Preface to the American Edition.
... republication. Our limits will not allow the insertion of an extensive Biography,
but only of a few of the prominent events in his history. ...
/.../preface to the american edition.htm

Estimates of Salvian's Work
... of his own age, and commented sagely on them in the course of his account." [62]
Zschimmer cites a long list of historians who have made extensive use of him ...
/.../salvian/on the government of god/vii estimates of salvians work.htm

Canons and Monks
... were wealthy, for the cathedral chapters claimed to share with the bishop in the
administration of the diocese, and both kinds of chapters owned extensive lands ...
/.../medley/the church and the empire/chapter v canons and monks.htm

Translator's Preface. In the Providence of God
... souls, and have been the means of leading multitudes into a pure and higher knowledge
of the way of Jesus Christ.Of these by far the most extensive was her ...
/.../guyon/song of songs of solomon/translators preface in the providence.htm

Concerning Æon or Age.
... movement and course of the sun, that is to say, composed of days and nights, but
the sort of temporal motion and interval that is co-extensive with eternity ...
/.../john/exposition of the orthodox faith/chapter i concerning aeon or age.htm

Wesleyan or English Methodist Missionary Society.
... Finding a number of serious persons there, he preached Jesus to them, and
by his labors laid the foundation for extensive missions. ...
/.../hayward/the book of religions/wesleyan or english methodist missionary.htm

Thesaurus

Extensive (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive sphere
of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness. ...
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Forest (67 Occurrences)
... Thus all the great primeval forests of Syria (Ecclesiastes 2:6; Isaiah 44:14; Jeremiah
5:6; Micah 5:8). The most extensive was the trans-Jordanic forest of ...
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Aramaic (12 Occurrences)
... original home may have been in Mesopotamia (Aram), but it spread North and West,
and, as below shown, became the principal tongue throughout extensive regions. ...
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Geology
... and from the "Carte geologique internationale de l'Europe" (1:1,500,000).) It will
be noted that Crystalline, or Archean, rocks (A) occupy extensive areas in ...
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Troas (6 Occurrences)
... The ruins of Troas, now bearing the name of Eski Stambul, are extensive, giving
evidence of the great size and importance of the ancient city. ...
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Puteoli (1 Occurrence)
... arches constructed in solid masonry (Strabo v.245). Extensive remains of
this mole still exist. The shore line devoted to purposes of ...
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Cappadocia (2 Occurrences)
... kap-a-do'-shi-a (he Kappadokia): An extensive province in eastern Asia Minor, bounded
by the Taurus mountains on the South, the Anti-Taurus and the Euphrates ...
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Side (4225 Occurrences)
... 11. (n.) Long; large; extensive. ... The ruins of the city, which are now very extensive,
bear the name Eski Adalia, but among them there are no occupied houses. ...
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Solomon (277 Occurrences)
... As soon as he had settled himself in his kingdom, and arranged the affairs of his
extensive empire, he entered into an alliance with Egypt by the marriage of ...
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Scribes (85 Occurrences)
... existence of law leads necessarily to a profession whose business is the study and
knowledge of the law; at any rate, if the law is extensive and complicated. ...
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Bible Concordance

Extensive (3 Occurrences)

1 Chronicles 22:5 David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 27:3 He built the upper gate of the house of Yahweh, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
(See NAS NIV)

Nehemiah 4:19 I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, one far from another:
(See NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Extensive

Related Terms

Forest (67 Occurrences)

Aramaic (12 Occurrences)

Geology

Troas (6 Occurrences)

Puteoli (1 Occurrence)

Cappadocia (2 Occurrences)

Side (4225 Occurrences)

Solomon (277 Occurrences)

Scribes (85 Occurrences)