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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid.

2. (a.) Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished.

3. (a.) Conferring luster or honor; renowned; as, illustrious deeds or titles.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ILLUSTRIOUS, THE

i-lus'-tri-us (thaumastos): A title of rank and merit attached to the name of Bartacus, the father of Apame (1 Esdras 4:29, the King James Version "the admirable). Instead of "the illustrious" we should possibly read "colonel" (Ant., XI, iii, 5; EB, under the word).

See BARTACUS; APAME.

Greek

2016. epiphanes -- notable
... Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: epiphanes Phonetic Spelling:
(ep-if-an-ace') Short Definition: manifest, glorious, illustrious Definition: manifest ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8038. Shemeber -- "name of pinion," king of Zeboiim
... Shemeber. Apparently from shem and 'eber; name of pinion, ie Illustrious; Shemeber,
a king of Zeboim -- Shemeber. see HEBREW shem. see HEBREW 'eber. 8037, 8038 ...
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Library

Jerome and Gennadius Lives of Illustrious Men.
Jerome and Gennadius Lives of Illustrious Men. . Jerome and Gennadius
Lives of Illustrious Men. Various. Ernest Cushing ...
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Letter Xlii to the Illustrious Youth, Geoffrey De Perrone, and his ...
... LETTER XLII To the Illustrious Youth, Geoffrey de Perrone, and His Comrades. To
the Illustrious Youth, Geoffrey de Perrone, and His Comrades. ...
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Jerome and Gennadius Lives of Illustrious Men.
Jerome and Gennadius Lives of Illustrious Men. . ... Jerome and Gennadius Lives
of Illustrious Men. Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by. ...
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Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men. Preface.
Jerome and Gennadius Lives of Illustrious Men. . ... II. Jerome. Lives
of Illustrious Men. Preface. You have urged me, Dexter ...
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The Illustrious Bishops of that Time.
... Book VII. Chapter XXVIII."The Illustrious Bishops of that Time. 1. Of these ...
city. [2388] But these were the most illustrious. 2. When ...
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"There was Also an Illustrious Name of Another Anchorite in those ...
... Dialogues of Sulpitius Severus. Chapter XVI. "There was also an illustrious
name of another anchorite in those regions� "There ...
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Enumeration of the Illustrious Men in the Church who in their ...
... BIBLION. Chapter XXIX. Enumeration of the illustrious men in the Church
who in their writings have used the word "with.". 71. In ...
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The Illustrious Celsus, Taking Occasion I Know not from What...
... Chapter V. The illustrious Celsus, taking occasion I know not from what�
The illustrious [3697] Celsus, taking occasion I know ...
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The Most Illustrious Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus.
... A Treatise on the predestination of the saints, Chapter 30 [XV.]"The Most
Illustrious Instance of Predestination is Christ Jesus. ...
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O Thou who Art Made Priest after Thy Master, the Illustrious after ...
... O thou who art made priest after thy master, the illustrious after the excellent,
the chaste after the grave, the watchful after the abstinent, thy master from ...
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Thesaurus

Illustrious (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (a.) Conferring luster or honor; renowned; as, illustrious deeds or titles.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ILLUSTRIOUS, THE. ...
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Illustrate (1 Occurrence)
... 5. (vt) To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify. 6. (a.)
Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Bartacus
... of Apame. He is called "the illustrious," probably because of rank and merits.
The family ... of his wife Apame. Compare APAME; ILLUSTRIOUS. ...
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Hero (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An illustrious man, supposed to be exalted,
after death, to a place among the gods; a demigod, as Hercules. ...
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Honorable (42 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded;
estimable; illustrious. 2. (a.) High-minded; actuated ...
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Antiochus
... the kingdom.". (2.) Antiochus IV., surnamed "Epiphanes" ie, the Illustrious,
succeeded his brother Seleucus (BC 175). His career ...
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Apame
... APAME. a-pa'-me, ap'-a-me (Apame): A concubine of Darius and a daughter of Bartacus
the Illustrious, whose behavior to the king is referred to in a speech of ...
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Nero
... Germanicus. His father was Enaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ("Brazen-beard"), a man
sprung from an illustrious family and of vicious character. ...
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Latin (2 Occurrences)
... down to us. The church of North Africa early received a baptism of blood,
and could point to an illustrious roll of martyrs. It had ...
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Zichri (12 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Remembered; illustrious. (1.) A Benjamite chief (1 Chronicles
8:19). (2.) Another of the same tribe (1 Chronicles 8:23). Int. ...
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Bible Concordance

Illustrious (1 Occurrence)

Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, to usher in the day of the Lord-- that great and illustrious day;
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Subtopics

Illustrious

Related Terms

Illustrate (1 Occurrence)

Bartacus

Hero (7 Occurrences)

Honorable (42 Occurrences)

Antiochus

Apame