Bible Dictionary: Impatient

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under.

2. (a.) Not to be borne; unendurable.

3. (a.) Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies.

4. (n.) One who is impatient.

Strong's Hebrew

3811. laah -- to be weary or impatient
... 3810, 3811. laah. 3812 . to be weary or impatient. Transliteration: laah Phonetic
Spelling: (law-aw') Short Definition: weary. Word Origin a prim. ...
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7114a. qatsar -- to be short
... 7114, 7114a. qatsar. 7114b . to be short. Transliteration: qatsar Short
Definition: impatient. Word Origin a prim. root Definition ...
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Library

How the Impatient and the Patient are to be Admonished.
... How the impatient and the patient are to be admonished. (Admonition 10.)
Differently to be admonished are the impatient and the patient. ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/chapter ix how the impatient.htm

Oh this Impatient Scholar! How Many Troubles do I Escape...
... [Way-2-3] Oh this impatient scholar! How many troubles do I escape�
Rusticus. Oh this impatient scholar! How many troubles ...
/.../law/the way to divine knowledge/way-2-3 oh this impatient scholar.htm

Do You Need Patience?
... In our sinful lives we cultivate impatience by acting out our feelings of impatience.
The more we put our feelings into action, the more impatient we become. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk thirty-six do you need.htm

As God is the Author of Patience So the Devil is of Impatience.
... What that angel of perdition [9053] first was"malicious or impatient"I scorn to
inquire: since manifest it is that either impatience took its rise together ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tertullian/of patience/chapter v as god is the.htm

Impressive Phrases
... ardent, impatient, keen, and vehement. argue, discuss, dispute, and prove. ... hasty,
superficial, impatient, and desultory [desultory = disconnected: haphazard]. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iv impressive phrases.htm

To Monna Agnese who was the Wife of Messer Orso Malavolti
... imperiously demand from God that He should give them consolations and tribulations
in their own way, and not in His; and so they become impatient, when they ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to monna agnese who was.htm

The Scriptures
... The earlier version of Ps.99:1, The Lord is King, be the people never so
impatient,' is remembered in the opening verse of a hymn". ...
/.../the hymns of methodism in their literary relations/chapter i the scriptures.htm

Further Reasons for Practising Patience. Its Connection with the ...
... And so to such, "consolation" and "laughter" are promised. "Blessed are the gentle:"
[9128] under this term, surely, the impatient cannot possibly be classed. ...
/.../tertullian/of patience/chapter xi further reasons for practising.htm

The Martyrdom of Stephen.
... ill success of the disputation to which they had challenged him; and that, with
the revenge natural to base and little minds, they were impatient to destroy by ...
/.../dick/lectures on the acts of the apostles/lecture ix the martyrdom of.htm

We Say Then that the Female Holds up with Two Strong Arms These ...
... Some impatient trader, some superficial missionary, walks across an island and sees
the squaw digging in the fields while the man is playing a flute; and ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 21 we say then.htm

Thesaurus

Impatient (7 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Prompted by, or exhibiting, impatience; as, impatient speeches or replies.
4. (n.) One who is impatient. ...Impatient (7 Occurrences). ...
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Impatience (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The quality of being impatient; want of endurance
of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for ...
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Impatiently (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) In an impatient manner. Multi-Version
Concordance Impatiently (2 Occurrences). Luke 20:20 So, after ...
/i/impatiently.htm - 7k

Saul (371 Occurrences)
... Saul now tarried for seven days in Gilgal before making any movement, as Samuel
had appointed (10:8); but becoming impatient on the seventh day, as it was ...
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Quick (49 Occurrences)
... 3. (superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick. 4. (superl.) Impatient;
passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. ...
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Jonah (30 Occurrences)
... them (ch. 3); (4) Jonah's displeasure at God's merciful decision, and the
rebuke tendered to the impatient prophet (ch. 4). Nineveh ...
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Weary (77 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To harass by anything irksome. 7. (vi) To grow tired; to become exhausted
or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Irritable (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) ill-tempered; impatient; easily inflamed
or exasperated; as, an irritable temper. 2. (a.) Very ...
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Folly (68 Occurrences)
... (2) 'ewil, one of the commonest, the idea conveyed by which is that of one who is
hasty, impatient, self-sufficient (Proverbs 12:15; Proverbs 15:5; Proverbs 16 ...
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Restive (1 Occurrence)
... drawing back. 2. (a.) Inactive; sluggish. 3. (a.) Impatient under coercion,
chastisement, or opposition; refractory. 4. (a.) Uneasy ...
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Bible Concordance

Impatient (7 Occurrences)

Numbers 21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to go round the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient on the way;
(DBY JPS NAS RSV NIV)

Job 4:2 "If someone ventures to talk with you, will you be grieved? But who can withhold himself from speaking?
(See NAS NIV)

Job 4:5 But now it is come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
(See NAS RSV)

Job 21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Micah 2:7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, Is Jehovah impatient? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
(DBY NAS RSV)

Zechariah 6:7 The strong went out, and sought to go that they might walk back and forth through the earth: and he said, "Go around and through the earth!" So they walked back and forth through the earth.
(See RSV)

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
(See JPS NAS RSV)

Subtopics

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Related Terms

Impatience (1 Occurrence)

Impatiently (2 Occurrences)

Saul (371 Occurrences)

Quick (49 Occurrences)

Jonah (30 Occurrences)

Weary (77 Occurrences)

Irritable (2 Occurrences)

Folly (68 Occurrences)