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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula.

Strong's Hebrew

7704. sadeh -- field, land
... battlefield* (1), country (14), countryside (1), countryside* (1), field (235),
fields (32), ground (3), ground* (1), land (16), lands (1), mainland (2), soil ...
/hebrew/7704.htm - 6k

Library

At the Foot of the Bamboos
... We also have a pleasant view of the mainland beyond the harbor. From our
house we can count a number of villages on the mainland ...
//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/v at the foot of.htm

His Missionary Travels
... The Mainland of Asia Minor. 83. ... The Mainland of Asia."The next move was as obviously
the choice of the new leader as the first one had been due to Barnabas. ...
/.../stalker/the life of st paul/chapter vi his missionary travels.htm

Providential Preparations for the Discovery of America --Spiritual ...
... unmistakable traces are now discovered of enterprises, not only of exploration and
trade, but also of evangelization, reaching along the mainland southward to ...
/.../a history of american christianity/chapter i providential preparations for.htm

The Blossoming Desert.
... preaching of Doty and Talmage in the chapels and on the streets of Amoy city, among
the towns and villages of Amoy Island and the mainland; the apostolic ...
/.../fagg/forty years in south china/vii the blossoming desert.htm

The Last Two Decades.
... means 'Gospel boat.' Mr. Stronach embarked on one of these 'Gospel boats.' He expected
to land at one of the Mission stations on the mainland northeast from ...
/.../fagg/forty years in south china/xi the last two decades.htm

The Savanna of Aripo
... and the most I could do was to see at Aripo a small specimen of that peculiar Savanna
vegetation, which occupies thousands of square miles on the mainland. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xii the savanna of.htm

The Gospel According to St. Mark
... At any rate, the Greek can be so interpreted. After crossing from Paphos to the
mainland of Asia Minor, the missionaries arrived at Perga. Here St. ...
/.../pullan/the books of the new testament/chapter iv the gospel according.htm

The Sympathy of the Two Worlds
... We seem as if we dwelt in an isle cut off from the mainland. This world, like a
fair planet, swims in a sea of ether unnavigated by mortal ship. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the sympathy of the two.htm

The Legend of La Brea {331A}
... Told how"'Once that loathly Pitch Lake Was a garden bright and fair; How
the Chaymas off the mainland Built their palm ajoupas there. ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/the legend of la brea.htm

Marcus, My Son
... We know how he left the Apostles, when they crossed from Cyprus to the mainland,
and retreated to his mother's house at Jerusalem. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/marcus my son.htm

Thesaurus

Mainland (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to
island, or peninsula. Multi-Version Concordance Mainland (3 Occurrences). ...
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Tyre (59 Occurrences)
... Tyre consisted of two distinct parts, a rocky fortress on the mainland, called
"Old Tyre," and the city, built on a small, rocky island about half-a-mile ...
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Chios (1 Occurrence)
... Mentioned in Acts 20:15, an island in the Aegean Sea, about 5 miles distant from
the mainland, having a roadstead, in the shelter of which Paul and his ...
/c/chios.htm - 11k

Corinth (13 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary A Grecian city, on the isthmus which joins the Peloponnesus
to the mainland of Greece. It is about 48 miles west of Athens. ...
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Samos (1 Occurrence)
... It is situated at the mouth of the bay of Ephesus, between the cities of EPHESUS
and MILETUS (which see), and separated from the mainland of Ionia by the ...
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Land (19790 Occurrences)
... land. 5. (n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people. 6. (n.) The mainland,
in distinction from islands. 7. (n.) The ground or floor. ...
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Trogyllium (1 Occurrence)
... From the coast near Miletus the promontory projects into the sea toward the island
of Samos; the strait separating the mainland from the island is scarcely a ...
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Tongue (160 Occurrences)
... into a groove. 15. (n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting
from the mainland into a sea or a lake. 16. (n.) The ...
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Mainsail (1 Occurrence)

/m/mainsail.htm - 7k

Melita (1 Occurrence)
... islands including Gozo and the islets Comino, Cominotto and Filfla, lying about
56 miles from the southern extremity of Sicily, 174 from the mainland of Italy ...
/m/melita.htm - 10k

Bible Concordance

Mainland (3 Occurrences)

Ezekiel 26:6 Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 26:8 He shall kill your daughters in the field with the sword; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 26:17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Mainland

Related Terms

Tyre (59 Occurrences)

Chios (1 Occurrence)

Corinth (13 Occurrences)

Samos (1 Occurrence)

Land (19790 Occurrences)

Trogyllium (1 Occurrence)

Tongue (160 Occurrences)

Mainsail (1 Occurrence)

Melita (1 Occurrence)