Bible Dictionary: Morbid

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant.

2. (a.) of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.

Greek

3552. noseo -- to be sick
... disease. Word Origin from nosos Definition to be sick NASB Word Usage has
a morbid interest (1), morbid interest (1). dote. From ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3552.htm - 6k

Library

Egg-Shell Christians
... feel things more keenly than others, but it is not this natural nervous sensitiveness
that leads to the results above mentioned, it is a morbid and unnatural ...
//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk seven egg-shell christians.htm

Self-Examination
... are only two texts in the whole Bible that speak of self-examination, and that neither
of these can at all be made to countenance the morbid self-analysis that ...
/.../smith/the god of all comfort/chapter 10 self-examination.htm

Egotism of Melancholy. October 16.
... Egotism of Melancholy. October 16. Morbid melancholy results from
subjectivity of mind. The self-contemplating mind, if it be a ...
/.../kingsley/daily thoughts /egotism of melancholy october 16.htm

The Christian view of Sorrow
... It would be apt to produce a morbid and ghastly piety; the 'bright lamps' of which
Taylor speaks would still be irradiating only a tomb." (Edinburgh Review No ...
/.../chapin/the crown of thorns/the christian view of sorrow.htm

And it Should be Remarked in Passing that this Force Upon a Man to ...
... the child's, were all truly and almost terribly fruitful; so tragically real that
nothing but her universality and balance prevented them being merely morbid. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 18 and it should.htm

Sober Thinking
... Much self-investigation is morbid, because it is self-absorbed; and much is morbid
because it is undertaken only for the purpose of ascertaining one's ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/sober thinking.htm

Memory in Another World
... And, there are instances, too, of a still more striking kind, familiar to some of
us how in what people call morbid states, men remember their childhood, which ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/memory in another world.htm

The Maniac
... Moreover, it is worthy of remark that when a poet really was morbid it was commonly
because he had some weak spot of rationality on his brain. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/orthodoxy/ii the maniac.htm

Watkinson -- the Transfigured Sackcloth
... than the Egyptian or the Christian dragging the corpse through the banquet; but
we confidently contend that the recognition by Christ of the morbid phases of ...
/.../the worlds great sermons volume 8/watkinson the transfigured sackcloth.htm

The Exile --Continued.
... which was to surround him with a privacy of protection in trouble, and to be as
the munitions of rocks about him"was something else than a morbid desire for ...
//christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/the life of david/vi the exilecontinued.htm

Thesaurus

Morbid (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (a.) Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased;
sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the ...
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Inflammation (6 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A morbid condition of any part of the body, consisting in congestion of
the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid...
/i/inflammation.htm - 9k

Demonology
... except in in the disorders which they cause-there are no materializations, no grotesque
narratives of appearances and disappearances, no morbid dealing with ...
/d/demonology.htm - 24k

Demoniac (7 Occurrences)
... except in in the disorders which they cause-there are no materializations, no grotesque
narratives of appearances and disappearances, no morbid dealing with ...
/d/demoniac.htm - 26k

Demon (26 Occurrences)
... except in in the disorders which they cause-there are no materializations, no grotesque
narratives of appearances and disappearances, no morbid dealing with ...
/d/demon.htm - 32k

Vegetation (18 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially upon the valves
of the heart. Multi-Version Concordance Vegetation (18 Occurrences). ...
/v/vegetation.htm - 11k

Jealous (43 Occurrences)
... in matters of interest and affection; apprehensive regarding the motives of possible
rivals, or the fidelity of friends; distrustful; having morbid fear of ...
/j/jealous.htm - 20k

Long (2810 Occurrences)
... 17. (v.) To feel a strong or morbid desire or craving; to wish for something with
eagerness; -- followed by an infinitive, or by after or for. 18. ...
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Longing (40 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Long. 2. (n.) An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest
wish; an aspiration. Multi-Version Concordance Longing (40 Occurrences). ...
/l/longing.htm - 18k

Irritation (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part
of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces ...
/i/irritation.htm - 7k

Bible Concordance

Morbid (1 Occurrence)

1 Timothy 6:4 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
(See NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Morbid

Related Terms

Inflammation (6 Occurrences)

Demonology

Demoniac (7 Occurrences)

Demon (26 Occurrences)

Vegetation (18 Occurrences)

Jealous (43 Occurrences)

Long (2810 Occurrences)

Longing (40 Occurrences)

Irritation (2 Occurrences)