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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

2. (n.) The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation; form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart.

3. (n.) A substance formed or deposited.

4. (n.) Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.

5. (n.) A group of beds of the same age or period; as, the Eocene formation.

6. (n.) The arrangement of a body of troops, as in a square, column, etc.

Greek

3446. morphosis -- a forming, a form
... form. From morphoo; formation, ie (by implication), appearance (semblance or
(concretely) formula) -- form. see GREEK morphoo. (morphosin) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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2938. ktisma -- a creature
... creature. From ktizo; an original formation (concretely), ie Product (created
thing) -- creature. see GREEK ktizo. (ktisma) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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2937. ktisis -- creation (the act or the product)
... From ktizo; original formation (properly, the act; by implication, the thing, literally
or figuratively) -- building, creation, creature, ordinance. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6186a. arak -- to arrange or set in order
... NASB Word Usage arrange (5), arranged (5), array (1), arrayed (13), battle lines
(2), comparable (1), compare (2), draw (2), draw up in formation (3), draw up ...
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786. ish -- a questionable reading found in Masoretic text.
... are there, none can Identical (in origin and formation) with 'esh; entity, used
only adverbially, there is or are -- are there, none can. Compare yesh. ...
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4634. maarakah -- row, rank, battle line
... Word Origin from arak Definition row, rank, battle line NASB Word Usage armies
(3), army (3), arrangement (1), battle array (1), battle formation (1), battle ...
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7753. suk -- to hedge or fence up or about
... fence, make an hedge up. A primitive root; to entwine, ie Shut in (for formation,
protection or restraint) -- fence, (make an) hedge (up). 7752, 7753. ...
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Library

The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI
The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI. <. ...
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The Formation of Habits.
... LXIV. THE FORMATION OF HABITS. School Sermon. Proverbs 22:6. "Train up a child in
the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.". ...
/.../the village pulpit volume ii trinity to advent/lxiv the formation of habits.htm

On the Formation and State of the Embryo. Its Relation with the ...
... Chapter XXXVII."On the Formation and State of the Embryo. Its Relation
with the Subject of This Treatise. Now the entire process ...
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The Formation of the CIM
... CHAPTER XIX THE FORMATION OF THE CIM. IT was thus that in the year 1865 the
CHINA INLAND MISSION was organised; and the workers already ...
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The Formation and Order of the Primitive Church.
... LECTURES LECTURE III. THE FORMATION AND ORDER OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH. Chap.
ii.37-47. As the passage now read refers to the preceding ...
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The Formation of Man by the Demiurge Human Flesh not Made of the ...
... Chapter XXIV."The Formation of Man by the Demiurge Human Flesh Not Made
of the Ground, But of a Nondescript Philosophic Substance. ...
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On the Formation of the Character of Believers, and on Giving of ...
... Initiation into Christ. Sec. II."On the Formation of the Character of
Believers, and on Giving of Thanks to God. That We Ought ...
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Formation and History of the Hebrew Canon.
... FIRST DIVISION, GENERAL INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER XV. FORMATION AND HISTORY
OF THE HEBREW CANON. 1. The Greek word canon (originally ...
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The Formation of the Old Testament Canon
... XIII THE FORMATION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT CANON. [Sidenote: Israel's literature
at the beginning of the fourth century before Christ] ...
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Formation and History of the New Testament Canon.
... PART III. FIRST DIVISION, GENERAL INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER XXVII. FORMATION
AND HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CANON. 1. Respecting the ...
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Thesaurus

Formation (11 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction; conformation;
form; as, the peculiar formation of the heart. ...Formation (11 Occurrences). ...
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Lebanon (66 Occurrences)
... thick, consisting of hard limestone containing few fossils, the most characteristic
of which is Cidaris glandaria, from which the formation has been named ...
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Dew (35 Occurrences)
... 1. Formation of Dew: Two things are necessary for the formation of dew, moisture
and cold. ... The ice pitcher furnishes an example of the formation of dew. ...
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Birds (125 Occurrences)
... The first known traces of birds appear in the formation of the Triassic period,
and are found in the shape of footprints on the red sandstone of the ...
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Gilead (130 Occurrences)
... 3. Geology: The geological formation is the same as that of Western Palestine, but
the underlying sandstone, which does not appear West of the Jordan, forms ...
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Geology
... 4. Nubian Sandstone (N): This name was given by Russegger, who in the middle of
the 19th century followed and studied this formation from the Sudan to Syria. ...
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Generation (150 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Origination by some process, mathematical, chemical, or vital; production;
formation; as, the generation of sounds, of gases, of curves, etc. ...
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Gospels
... into the Lower World (c) Other Fabrications LITERATURE The apocryphal gospels form
a branch of the apocryphal literature that attended the formation of the New ...
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Wanderings (7 Occurrences)
... The surface formation (Hull, Memoir on the Geology and Geography of Arabia-Petraea,
etc., 1886) consists of Cretaceous limestones of the Eocene and Chalk ages ...
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Graecia
... 6. Geology: The western half of Greece, in which the mountain ranges run generally
from North to South, consists of a formation of grayish and yellowish-white ...
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Bible Concordance

Formation (11 Occurrences)

2 Samuel 10:8 And the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position at the way into the town: and the Aramaeans of Zobah and of Rehob, with the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 12:35 Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred.
(See NAS)

1 Chronicles 12:36 And of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in array, forty thousand.
(See NAS)

1 Chronicles 12:38 All these being men of war, who could order the battle array, came with a perfect heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
(See NAS)

1 Chronicles 19:9 So the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position on the way into the town; and the kings who had come were stationed by themselves in the field.
(See NIV)

1 Chronicles 19:17 And word of this was given to David; and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam and put his forces in position against them. And when David's forces were in position against the Aramaeans, the fight was started.
(See NAS)

2 Chronicles 13:3 And Abijah directeth the war with a force of mighty men of war, four hundred thousand chosen men, and Jeroboam hath set in array with him battle, with eight hundred thousand chosen men, mighty of valour.
(See NAS)

2 Chronicles 14:10 and Asa goeth out before him, and they set battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.
(See NAS)

Jeremiah 6:23 They lay hold on bow and spear, they are cruel, and have no compassion; their voice is like the roaring sea, and they ride upon horses; set in array, as a man for war, against thee, O daughter of Zion.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 50:42 Bow and halbert they seize, Cruel 'are' they, and they have no mercy, Their voice as a sea soundeth, and on horses they ride, Set in array as a man for battle, Against thee, O daughter of Babylon.
(See NIV)

Habakkuk 2:18 What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?
(YLT)

Subtopics

Formation

Related Terms

Lebanon (66 Occurrences)

Dew (35 Occurrences)

Birds (125 Occurrences)

Gilead (130 Occurrences)

Geology

Generation (150 Occurrences)

Gospels

Wanderings (7 Occurrences)

Graecia