Bible Dictionary: March

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

2. (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.

3. (v. i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.

4. (v. i.) To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.

5. (v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.

6. (v. t.) TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.

7. (n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.

8. (n.) Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.

9. (n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.

10. (n.) A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

MARCH; MARCHES

march, march'-iz.

See ARMY; WAR.

Greek

4748. stoicheo -- to be in rows, fig. to walk by rule
... From a derivative of steicho (to range in regular line); to march in (military)
rank (keep step), ie (figuratively) to conform to virtue and piety -- walk ...
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812. atakteo -- to be out of order, be remiss
... remiss. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: atakteo Phonetic Spelling:
(at-ak-teh'-o) Short Definition: I behave disorderly Definition: (lit: I march out ...
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1545. ekbasis -- an exit, outcome
... 1545 (from 1537 , " and " and , "move forward, march") -- properly, moving out from
and to the (new destination); departure; (figuratively) "the (successful ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6805. tsaad -- to step, march
... 6804, 6805. tsaad. 6806 . to step, march. Transliteration: tsaad Phonetic Spelling:
(tsaw-ad') Short Definition: marched. ... bring, go, march through, run over ...
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1869. darak -- to tread, march
... 1868, 1869. darak. 1870 . to tread, march. Transliteration: darak Phonetic
Spelling: (daw-rak') Short Definition: tread. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6585. pasa -- to step, march
... pasa. 6586 . to step, march. Transliteration: pasa Phonetic Spelling: (paw-sah')
Short Definition: step. ... root Definition to step, march NASB Word Usage step (1 ...
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1979. halikah -- a going, way, traveling company
... Word Origin from halak Definition a going, way, traveling company NASB Word Usage
march (1), procession (2), travelers (1), ways (2). company, going, walk, way. ...
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4900. mashak -- to draw, drag
... 1), drags (1), draw (3), drawn (2), draws (1), drew (2), extend (1), follow (1),
go (1), led (1), long blast (2), make a long blast (1), march (1), prolong (1 ...
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1980. halak -- to go, come, walk
... grow (1), growing* (1), indeed gone (1), involve (1), lead (2), leads (1), leave
(1), leave* (3), led (14), left (2), live (1), living (1), march (4), marches ...
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4550. massa -- a pulling up, breaking (camp), setting out, a ...
... Word Origin from nasa Definition a pulling up, breaking (camp), setting out, a journey
NASB Word Usage journey (1), journeys (7), order of march (1), set (2 ...
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2287. chagag -- to make a pilgrimage, keep a pilgrim feast
... A primitive root (compare chagra', chuwg); properly, to move in a circle, ie
(specifically) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival; by ...
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5265. nasa -- to pull out or up, set out, journey
... the tent-pins, ie Start on a journey -- cause to blow, bring, get, (make to) go
(away, forth, forward, onward, out), (take) journey, march, remove, set aside ...
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6807. ts'adah -- a marching
... going, ornament of the legs Feminine of tsa'ad; a march; (concretely) an (ornamental)
ankle-chain -- going, ornament of the legs. see HEBREW tsa'ad. ...
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Library

March
... March. March, Daniel, an American Congregational minister, was born at Millbury,
Mass., in 1816. ... He died at Woburn, Mass., March 2, 1909. ...
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March.
... March. Early in ... Ah! dreary March month, is this then a time for building wearily?
Sad, sad, to think that the year is but begun! Late ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/daily thoughts /march.htm

March 4:
... 4-Mar. March 4th. Violent efforts to grow are right in earnestness, but
wholly wrong in principle. There is but one principle of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful thoughts/march 4 0.htm

March 9:
... 9-Mar. March 9th. We hear much of love to God; Christ spoke much of love to man.
We make a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ spoke much of peace on earth. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful thoughts/march 9 0.htm

March 1:
... 1-Mar. March 1st. "Consider the lilies of the field how they grow." Christ made
the lilies and He made me"both on the same broad principle. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful thoughts/march 1 0.htm

March 3:
... 3-Mar. March 3d. The lilies grow, Christ says, of themselves; they toil not,
neither do they spin. They grow, that is, automatically ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful thoughts/march 3 0.htm

March 2:
... 2-Mar. March 2d. Our efforts after Christian growth seem only a succession
of failures, and, instead of rising into the beauty of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful thoughts/march 2 0.htm

March 7:
... 7-Mar. March 7th. We have all felt the brazenness of words without emotion,
the hollowness, the unaccountable unpersuasiveness of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful thoughts/march 7 0.htm

March 5:
... 5-Mar. March 5th. Earnest souls who are attempting sanctification by struggle,
instead of sanctification by faith, might be spared ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful thoughts/march 5 0.htm

March 8:
... 8-Mar. March 8th. Patience; kindness; generosity; humility; courtesy;
unselfishness; good-temper; guilelessness; sincerity"these ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful thoughts/march 8 0.htm

Thesaurus

March (41 Occurrences)
... 9. (n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty
miles. 10. ... Standard Bible Encyclopedia. MARCH; MARCHES. march, march'-iz. ...
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Marches (5 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia MARCH; MARCHES. march, march'-iz. See ARMY;
WAR. Multi-Version Concordance Marches (5 Occurrences). ...
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Rain (118 Occurrences)
... Then the heavy "winter rains" fall from the middle of December to March. There is
no prolonged fair weather in Palestine between October and March. ...
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Encamp (108 Occurrences)
... The manner in which the Israelites encamped during their march through the wilderness
is described in Numbers 2 and 3. The order of the encampment (see CAMP ...
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Megiddo (13 Occurrences)
... Many years after this (BC 610), Pharaohnecho II., on his march against the king
of Assyria, passed through the plains of Philistia and Sharon; and King Josiah ...
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Easter (1 Occurrence)
... By some it was kept as early as March 21, and by others as late as April
25, and others followed dates between. The rule was finally ...
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Astronomy
... "They march every one on his ways, and they break not their ranks. Neither
doth one thrust another; they march every one in his ...
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Sinai (38 Occurrences)
... At length, in the second month of the second year of the Exodus, they move
their camp and march forward according to a prescribed order. ...
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Great (10383 Occurrences)
... 5. Battle of Issus and March through Syria to Egypt: What he had done in symbol
he had to make a reality; he had to settle the question of supremacy in Asia by ...
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Battle (282 Occurrences)
... to the Sun and Moon 4. The Astronomical Relations of the Sun and Moon 5. The "Silence"
of the Sun 6. "Yahweh Fought for Israel" 7. The Afternoon's March 8. The ...
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Bible Concordance

March (41 Occurrences)

John 19:3 Then they began to march up to Him, saying in a mocking voice, "Hail King of the Jews!" And they struck Him with the palms of their hands.
(WEY)

Acts 7:40 They said to Aaron, "'Make gods for us, to march in front of us; for as for this Moses who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.'
(WEY)

Acts 23:23 Then, calling to him two of the Captains, he gave his orders. "Get ready two hundred men," he said, "to march to Caesarea, with seventy cavalry and two hundred light infantry, starting at nine o'clock to-night."
(WEY)

Numbers 2:9 All who were numbered of the camp of Judah were one hundred eighty-six thousand four hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out first.
(See RSV)

Numbers 2:24 "All who were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were one hundred eight thousand one hundred, according to their divisions. They shall set out third.
(See RSV)

Numbers 10:28 Thus were the travels of the children of Israel according to their armies; and they went forward.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Numbers 12:15 Miriam was shut up outside of the camp seven days, and the people didn't travel until Miriam was brought in again.
(See RSV)

Numbers 20:18 Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."
(See NIV)

Joshua 6:3 All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 6:4 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 6:7 They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Joshua 10:9 Joshua therefore came on them suddenly. He went up from Gilgal all night.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 5:4 "Yahweh, when you went forth out of Seir, when you marched out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, the sky also dropped. Yes, the clouds dropped water.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 5:21 The river Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. My soul, march on with strength.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 29:6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, "As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the army is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords don't favor you.
(See RSV)

2 Samuel 15:22 David said to Ittai, "Go and pass over." Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 18:2 David sent forth the people, a third part under the hand of Joab, and a third part under the hand of Abishai the son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third part under the hand of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the people, "I will surely go forth with you myself also."
(See NIV)

2 Kings 3:8 He said, "Which way shall we go up?" He answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom."
(See RSV)

2 Kings 3:9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey. There was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.
(See RSV NIV)

2 Kings 18:25 Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me,'Go up against this land, and destroy it.'"'"
(See NIV)

2 Kings 24:7 The king of Egypt didn't come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 20:16 Tomorrow go down against them: behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and you shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 25:7 But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, don't let the army of Israel go with you; for Yahweh is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
(See NIV)

Job 18:14 He shall be rooted out of his tent where he trusts. He shall be brought to the king of terrors.
(See NAS NIV)

Psalms 68:7 God, when you went forth before your people, when you marched through the wilderness... Selah.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Proverbs 30:27 The locusts have no king, but they all go out in bands;
(See RSV)

Proverbs 30:29 "There are three things which are stately in their march, four which are stately in going:
(WEB JPS ASV NAS)

Isaiah 27:4 Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
(WEB ASV DBY NIV)

Isaiah 36:10 And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 46:3 Prepare the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle!
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 46:9 Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 46:22 The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Daniel 11:11 The king of the south shall be moved with anger, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king of the north; and he shall set forth a great multitude, and the multitude shall be given into his hand.
(See NIV)

Joel 2:7 They run like mighty men. They climb the wall like warriors. They each march in his line, and they don't swerve off course.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Joel 2:8 Neither does one jostle another; they march everyone in his path, and they burst through the defenses, and don't break ranks.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Nahum 2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
(See NAS)

Nahum 2:5 He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
(ASV DBY JPS NAS)

Habakkuk 1:6 For, behold, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, that march through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Habakkuk 3:12 You marched through the land in wrath. You threshed the nations in anger.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS)

Zechariah 9:8 I will encamp around my house against the army, that none pass through or return; and no oppressor will pass through them any more: for now I have seen with my eyes.
(See RSV)

Zechariah 9:14 And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning; and the Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet, and will march with whirlwinds of the south.
(DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

March

Related Terms

Marches (5 Occurrences)

Rain (118 Occurrences)

Encamp (108 Occurrences)

Megiddo (13 Occurrences)

Easter (1 Occurrence)

Astronomy

Sinai (38 Occurrences)

Great (10383 Occurrences)

Battle (282 Occurrences)