Bible Dictionary: Moist

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.

2. (a.) Fresh, or new.

3. (v. t.) To moisten.

Greek

5200. hugros -- wet, moist, of wood sappy
... wet, moist, of wood sappy. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: hugros Phonetic
Spelling: (hoo-gros') Short Definition: moist, green, full of sap ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3892. lach -- moist, fresh, new
... 3891, 3892. lach. 3893 . moist, fresh, new. Transliteration: lach Phonetic
Spelling: (lakh) Short Definition: fresh. ... green, moist. ...
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7372. ratob -- to be moist
... to be moist. Transliteration: ratob or rateb Phonetic Spelling: (raw-tab') Short
Definition: wet. ... root Definition to be moist NASB Word Usage wet (1). be wet. ...
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7373. ratob -- moist, juicy, fresh
... ratob. 7373a . moist, juicy, fresh. Transliteration: ratob Phonetic Spelling:
(raw-tobe') Short Definition: green. green From ratab; moist (with sap) -- green ...
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7373a. ratob -- moist, juicy, fresh
... moist, juicy, fresh. Transliteration: ratob Short Definition: thrives. Word Origin
from ratob Definition moist, juicy, fresh NASB Word Usage thrives (1). ...
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8398. tebel -- world
... confusion. From yabal; the earth (as moist and therefore inhabited); by extension,
the globe; by implication, its inhabitants; specifically, a partic. ...
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8248. shaqah -- cause to drink water, give to drink
... 1), give drink (2), given (1), given to drink (1), given us to drink (1), giving
him a drink (1), irrigate (1), made them to drink (1), moist (1), provided him ...
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2961. tari -- fresh
... new, putrefying. From an unused root apparently meaning to be moist; properly, dripping;
hence, fresh (ie Recently made such) -- new, putrefying. 2960, 2961. ...
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Library

Incredible Turpitudes in God Imagined by Manichæus.
... But now when they speak of that part of the nature of God as everywhere mixed up
in heaven, in earth, in all bodies dry and moist, in all sorts of flesh, in ...
/.../chapter 44 name turpitudes in.htm

The Heath in the Desert and the Tree by the River
... Dipping their boughs in the sparkling current, and driving their roots through the
moist soil, the bordering trees lift aloft their pride of foliage and bear ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the heath in the desert.htm

1 Thessalonians iv. 13
... And what is wonderful, here it is moist, there dry, here sweet there sour, here
astringent, elsewhere bitter. ... How into the cold and moist, the artery? ...
/.../homily vii 1 thessalonians iv.htm

Whether There was any Reasonable Cause for the Ceremonial ...
... like moles and mice and such like, live underground, whence they contract a certain
unpleasant smell; or because their flesh, through being too moist or too dry ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether there was any reasonable.htm

A Description Op Galilee, Samaria, and Judea.
... in extent, the greater part of it is desert and rough, and much less disposed for
the production of the milder kinds of fruits; yet hath it a moist soil [in ...
/.../chapter 3 a description op.htm

Influence of the Moon and Stars on Men.
... think that there is no impure spirit in the case, but a bodily disorder, and inquiring
into the nature of things let them say, that the moist humours which are ...
/.../origen/origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/6 influence of the moon.htm

Anaxagoras; his Theory of Mind; Recognises an Efficient Cause; his ...
... That, therefore, what was thick and moist, and dark and cold, and all things heavy,
came together into the centre, from the solidification of which earth ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter vii anaxagoras his theory of.htm

The Burning Æsculapius; Tricks with Fire.
... his hand upon the cauldron of pitch, [250] which is in, as it were, a boiling state;
and throwing in (at the same time) vinegar and nitre and moist pitch, he ...
/.../chapter xxxiii the burning aesculapius tricks.htm

The Doctrines of Apelles; Philumene, his Prophetess.
... (He maintains,) however, that (Christ) formed his body by taking portions of it
from the substance of the universe: that is, hot and cold, and moist and dry. ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xxvi the doctrines of apelles.htm

Allegorical Interpretation.
... [871] And since it was sunk from the top to the bottom, it gave place to the moist
element to flow together; and the grosser part, which is the earth, was laid ...
/.../unknown/recognitions of clement /chapter xxxii allegorical interpretation.htm

Thesaurus

Moist (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist
atmosphere or air. ... Multi-Version Concordance Moist (5 Occurrences). ...
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Green (72 Occurrences)
... withs, (yetharim lachim, margin "new bowstrings," the King James Version margin
"new (moist) cords" (Judges 16:7); Septuagint neura hugra): The material with ...
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Withes (3 Occurrences)
... withs, (yetharim lachim, margin "new bowstrings," the King James Version margin
"new (moist) cords" (Judges 16:7); Septuagint neura hugra): The material with ...
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Withs (3 Occurrences)
... withs, (yetharim lachim, margin "new bowstrings," the King James Version margin
"new (moist) cords" (Judges 16:7); Septuagint neura hugra): The material with ...
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Dew (35 Occurrences)
... The heat becomes intense, the ground hard, and vegetation would perish but
for the moist west winds that come each night from the sea. ...
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Moisten (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To make damp; to wet in a small degree. 2. (vt)
To soften by making moist; to make tender. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Slime (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive
quality; viscous mud. 2. (n.) Any mucilaginous substance ...
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Apostles'
... That He formed His Body by taking portions of it from the substance of the universe,
ie hot and cold, moist and dry; That He received cosmical powers in the ...
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Creed
... That He formed His Body by taking portions of it from the substance of the universe,
ie hot and cold, moist and dry; That He received cosmical powers in the ...
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Dry (217 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or
moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or ...
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Bible Concordance

Moist (5 Occurrences)

Numbers 6:3 He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
(KJV WBS YLT)

Deuteronomy 29:19 and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, "I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry."
(WEB ASV RSV)

Job 21:24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 17:24 And known have all trees of the field That I, Jehovah, have made low the high tree, I have set on high the low tree, I have dried up the moist tree, And I have caused the dry tree to flourish, I, Jehovah, have spoken, and have done 'it'!'
(YLT)

Ezekiel 20:47 and thou hast said to the forest of the south: Hear a word of Jehovah: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am kindling in thee a fire, And it hath devoured in thee every moist tree, and every dry tree, Not quenched is the glowing flames, And burnt by it have been all faces from south to north.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Moist

Related Terms

Green (72 Occurrences)

Withes (3 Occurrences)

Withs (3 Occurrences)

Dew (35 Occurrences)

Moisten (2 Occurrences)

Slime (6 Occurrences)

Apostles'

Creed

Dry (217 Occurrences)