Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
2. (n.) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines. Used also adjectively; as, hammock land.
Strong's Hebrew
4412. melunah -- a lodge, hut... cottage, lodge. Feminine from luwn; a hut, a
hammock -- cottage, lodge. see HEBREW
luwn. 4411, 4412. melunah. 4413 . Strong's Numbers.
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The Legend of La Brea {331A}
... So he thought; and in his hammock Gnawed his junk of sugar-cane, Toasted plantains
at the fire-stick, Gnawed, and dozed, and gnawed again. ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/the legend of la brea.htm
On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small
... Everywhere men have made the way for us with sweat and submission. We may fling
ourselves into a hammock in a fit of divine carelessness. ...
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To the Rev. J. Jowett
... I was on the forecastle, discoursing with two of the sailors, [and] one of them
who had just left his hammock told me that he had had a most disagreeable dream ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev j jowett 17.htm
Through-The-Week Activities for Boys' Organized Classes
... Coal Mines, etc. Arts and Crafts: Drawing Bent Iron Work Clay Modeling
Basket Making Hammock Weaving, etc. Stamp Collecting Coin ...
/.../the boy and the sunday school/x through-the-week activities for boys.htm
A Common Mistake and Lame Excuse
... their Saviour. It is their hammock that they put between the bullets and
themselves; and many a good sleep they get upon it! Now ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/a common mistake and lame.htm
The Cocal
... camp, belonging to one of our party who was superintending the making of new roads
in that quarter, and there rested our weary limbs, some in hammock, some on ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xiii the cocal.htm
The Testament of Joseph Concerning Sobriety.
... For His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, which shall not be shaken; but my kingdom
among you shall come to an end as a watcher's [182] hammock, which after ...
/.../xi the testament of joseph concerning.htm
First Forgiveness, Then Healing
... If you could have looked into the face of that palsied man, whilst still palsied,
and lying there in that hammock, you would have seen a wonderful ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 41 1895/first forgiveness then healing.htm
Monos
... happens in the Tropics, was not altogether undisturbed; for, shortly after I had
become unconscious of the chorus of toads and cicadas, my hammock came down by ...
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Acts vii. 54
... Ai& 240;ra "a swing, swinging bed, hammock," or, as here, "litter," or rather,
"a swinging in such a conveyance: after the swinging motion in his litter ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xviii acts vii 54.htm
Thesaurus
Hammock (1 Occurrence)... 2. (n.) A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
Used also adjectively; as,
hammock land.
...Hammock (1 Occurrence).
.../h/hammock.htm - 7kLodge (64 Occurrences)
... A shed for a watchman in a garden (Isaiah 1:8). The Hebrew name melunah is rendered
"cottage" (qv) in Isaiah 24:20. It also denotes a hammock or hanging-bed. ...
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Reeleth (2 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro
like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it ...
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Drunken (38 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV). Isaiah 24:20 The earth will stagger like
a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. ...
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Cottage (2 Occurrences)
... It denotes a frail structure of boughs supported on a few poles, which is still
in use in the East, or a hammock suspended between trees, in which the watchman ...
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Stagger (20 Occurrences)
... (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV). Isaiah 24:20 The earth will stagger
like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. ...
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Swayeth (1 Occurrence)
... Isaiah 24:20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro
like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it ...
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Sway (7 Occurrences)
... field. (Root in WEB NIV). Isaiah 24:20 The earth will stagger like a drunken
man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its ...
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Hammolecheth (1 Occurrence)
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Hammiphkad (1 Occurrence)
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Bible Concordance
Hammock (1 Occurrence)Isaiah 24:20 The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on it, and it will fall and not rise again.
(WEB ASV)
Subtopics
Hammock
Related Terms
Lodge (64 Occurrences)
Reeleth (2 Occurrences)
Drunken (38 Occurrences)
Cottage (2 Occurrences)
Stagger (20 Occurrences)
Swayeth (1 Occurrence)
Sway (7 Occurrences)
Hammolecheth (1 Occurrence)
Hammiphkad (1 Occurrence)
Disobedience (49 Occurrences)
Heavy (110 Occurrences)
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