Bible Dictionary: Overgrown

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(p. p.) of Overgrow.

Strong's Hebrew

5927. alah -- to go up, ascend, climb
... 1), made (1), marching (1), mating (2), mount (9), mounted (2), offer (29), offered
(34), offering (10), offers (3), ornamented* (1), overgrown (1), placed (1 ...
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8311. sara -- to extend
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to extend NASB Word Usage deformed (1), overgrown
(1), stretch (1). stretch out self, have any superfluous thing. ...
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Library

The Sluggard's Garden
... self-command. If we do not carefully cultivate our little plot of garden
ground, it will soon be overgrown by weeds. 'Ill weeds ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the sluggards garden.htm

Introduction
... He first encountered and checked the overgrown power of the Crown, and laid down
limits and principles which resulted in the Church policy of John's reign and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/marson/hugh bishop of lincoln/introduction.htm

St. Gregory the Great.
... Roman pleasures"the chariot races"were no longer celebrated, stretched its long
lines beneath the imperial palace covered with dust and overgrown with grass ...
/.../allies/the formation of christendom volume vi/chapter v st gregory the.htm

The Battle of Thermopylae.
... The old wall had now fallen to ruins, but the miry ground remained. The place was
solitary and desolate, and overgrown with a confused and wild vegetation. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter ix the battle of.htm

Saint George Kills the Enchanter Osmond.
... Journeying along, great was their surprise to find every town and village desolate
of people; the fields untilled; and fields overgrown with weeds: nor man ...
/.../the seven champions of christendom/chapter thirteen saint george kills.htm

Spiritual Blindness.
... Paul expresses it in my text, while grieving for them with all the intensity of
his fervid affection, their life was overgrown with a sort of spiritual dulness ...
//christianbookshelf.org/percival/sermons at rugby/xvi spiritual blindness.htm

Communion with Christ and his People.
... and the table is an "altar." These are incrustations of superstition, whereby the
blessed ordinance of Christ is likely to be again overgrown and perverted. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/till he come/communion with christ and his.htm

Greek and Jew
... the beautiful; and in that neighboring high place the heart of the Singing King
had melted; to the north was a stretch of monotonous ground overgrown with a ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter viii greek and jew.htm

The Death of the Blessed virgin Mary at Ephesus
... Narrow paths lead southwards to a hill near the top of which is an uneven plateau,
some half-hour's journey in circumference, overgrown, like the hill itself ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/xviii the death of the.htm

Lovely to a Poet or an Artist's Eye is the Unevenly-Built and ...
... a rusty sconce fitted fast into the wall to support a lantern no longer needed in
these days of gas and electricity,"an ancient fountain overgrown with weed ...
//christianbookshelf.org/corelli/the master-christian/ii lovely to a poet.htm

Thesaurus

Overgrown (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (pp) of Overgrow. Multi-Version Concordance
Overgrown (5 Occurrences). Leviticus 22:23 Either a bull or ...
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Heath (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with
shrubs or coarse herbage. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. HEATH. heth. ...
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Nettles (5 Occurrences)
... and the translation "nettle" is very probable, as such neglected or deserted places
as described in the three references readily become overgrown with nettles ...
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Over-great (3 Occurrences)
Over-great. Over-full, Over-great. Overgrown . Multi-Version Concordance
Over-great (3 Occurrences). ... (BBE). Over-full, Over-great. Overgrown . Reference ...
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Overhang (1 Occurrence)

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Lodge (64 Occurrences)
... lodge in York Street. 10. (vi) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when
overgrown or beaten down by the wind. 11. (vi) To come ...
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Genneseret
... plain. It was largely overgrown with thorn-bushes, and it yielded one of
the finest crops of thistles in the country. Cultivation ...
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Gennesaret (3 Occurrences)
... plain. It was largely overgrown with thorn-bushes, and it yielded one of
the finest crops of thistles in the country. Cultivation ...
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Fallow-ground
... Land was allowed to lie fallow that it might become more fruitful; but when in
this condition, it soon became overgrown with thorns and weeds. ...
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Fallowground
... Land was allowed to lie fallow that it might become more fruitful; but when in
this condition, it soon became overgrown with thorns and weeds. ...
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Bible Concordance

Overgrown (5 Occurrences)

Leviticus 22:23 Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 15:19 Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 24:31 And, lo, it was all grown over with thistles, the face thereof was covered with nettles, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
(See NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 26:18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
(See NIV)

Micah 3:12 Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Overgrown

Related Terms

Heath (2 Occurrences)

Nettles (5 Occurrences)

Over-great (3 Occurrences)

Overhang (1 Occurrence)

Lodge (64 Occurrences)

Genneseret

Gennesaret (3 Occurrences)

Fallow-ground

Fallowground