Bible Dictionary: Impressive

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.

2. (a.) Capable of being impressed.

Greek

175. akarpos -- unfruitful
... By , decisions that are born "of faith " (Ro 14:23) -- which automatically renders
them ("a "). This is the case regardless of how impressive or acceptable ...
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4804. suzetetes -- a disputer
... 4804 ("ostentatious debater") is only used in 1 Cor 1:20 of someone who "sounds
off" to look important ("impressive") -- especially on subjects and without ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4758. mareh -- sight, appearance, vision
... sight, appearance, vision NASB Word Usage appear (1), appearance (48), appears
(7), desires (1), face (2), form (2), good-looking* (1), impressive (1), like (2 ...
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Library

Impressive Phrases
... SECTION IV IMPRESSIVE PHRASES. IMPRESSIVE PHRASES. A. able, skilful, thorough,
and genuine. absolute, complete, unqualified, and final. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iv impressive phrases.htm

Practical Hints for Speakers
... Cultivate as the most desirable thoughts those which are definite, clear, deep,
logical, profound, strong, precise, impressive, original, significant, explicit ...
/.../kleiser/talks on talking/practical hints for speakers.htm

At the Jordan
... Perhaps it is the most impressive. ... That stern seclusion from an evil world, that
peremptory denial of its charms, why are they so impressive? ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 1 7-11 at the jordan.htm

Confirmation.
... For this also our Church has made fitting arrangement. It is done at, or is
rather a part of, the impressive ceremony of confirmation. ...
/.../the way of salvation in the lutheran church/chapter xii confirmation.htm

Reverence in Worship.
... when we read the sacred narrative itself, in which his life is set before us, I
suppose those passages are the more striking and impressive which represent him ...
/.../newman/parochial and plain sermons vol viii/sermon i reverence in worship.htm

Natural Law in the Spiritual World
... LITERARY CHURCHMAN. "This is one of the most impressive and suggestive books
on religion that we have read for a long time. Indeed ...
/.../drummond/natural law in the spiritual world/natural law in the spiritual.htm

Whyte -- Experience
... And it gives a very fresh and a very impressive interest to many parts of the heavenly
Book when we see how much of its contents are made up of God's ways with ...
/.../kleiser/the worlds great sermons volume 8/whyte experience.htm

Conclusion.
... These were precious seasons. "How sweet their mem'ry still!" Then came
an hour of tender, impressive, and almost awful interest. ...
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Preface
... in 1766, an Abridgement of it; but though it was scarcely possible to present the
work in any form, without furnishing powerful and impressive appeals to the ...
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Twelfth Day. Fidelity in Rebuke.
... With what fidelity, when rebuke was needed, did He administer it: the withering
reprimand conveyed sometimes by an impressive word (Matthew 16:23); sometimes ...
/.../macduff/the mind of jesus/twelfth day fidelity in rebuke.htm

Thesaurus

Impressive (2 Occurrences)
... having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the
sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an ...
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Lap (12 Occurrences)
... The flowing garments of Orientals invite the use of the same, on the part of speakers,
in driving home certain truths enunciated by impressive gesticulation. ...
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Impression (2 Occurrences)

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Shoulder (72 Occurrences)
... King Saul's impressive personality is thus described: "There was not among the children
of Israel a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he ...
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Virgin (62 Occurrences)
... is a voluminous literature devoted to the discussion of the subject, but it is notably
jejune even for critical writing, and much more impressive for ingenuity ...
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Loud (222 Occurrences)
... thunder. 2. (superl.) Clamorous; boisterous. 3. (superl.) Emphatic; impressive;
urgent; as, a loud call for united effort. 4. (superl ...
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Galilee (73 Occurrences)
... Its present appearance is thus described: "The utter loneliness and absolute
stillness of the scene are exceedingly impressive. ...
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Imposing (8 Occurrences)
... n.) of Impose. 2. (a.) Laying as a duty; enjoining. 3. (a.) Adapted to impress forcibly;
impressive; commanding; as, an imposing air; an imposing spectacle. ...
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Impressiveness (1 Occurrence)

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Flowers (42 Occurrences)
... of the expression "flower of the field" for a type of the evanescence of human life
(Job 14:2 Psalm 103:15 Isaiah 40:6 James 1:10) is the more impressive in a ...
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Bible Concordance

Impressive (2 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 9:2 He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
(WEB NIV)

2 Samuel 23:21 He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Impressive

Related Terms

Lap (12 Occurrences)

Impression (2 Occurrences)

Shoulder (72 Occurrences)

Virgin (62 Occurrences)

Loud (222 Occurrences)

Galilee (73 Occurrences)

Imposing (8 Occurrences)

Impressiveness (1 Occurrence)

Flowers (42 Occurrences)