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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overwhelm.

2. (a.) Overpowering; irresistible.

Greek

3791. ochleo -- to disturb, trouble
... destination. [3791 () is literally "having the effect of an uncontrolled mob"
which brings its overwhelming confusion (disturbance).]. Word ...
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1414. dunateo -- to be able, be powerful
... power, am able, am mighty. Cognate: 1414 -- to exert overwhelming unstoppable
power. See 1411 (). Word Origin from dunatos Definition ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4569. ma'abar -- a ford, pass, passing
... mah-ab-aw-raw'}; from abar; a crossing-place (of a river, a ford; of a mountain,
a pass); abstractly, a transit, ie (figuratively) overwhelming -- ford, place ...
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7857. shataph -- to overflow, rinse or wash off
... NASB Word Usage charging (1), engulfed (1), flooded away (1), flooding (2), flowed
(1), overflow (9), overflowing (6), overflows (1), overwhelming (2), rinsed ...
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Library

The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit as Revealed in his Names.
... When we really grasp this thought, it is overwhelming in its solemnity. ... The
moment was overwhelming, but as glorious as it was awful. ...
/.../torrey/the person and work of the holy spirit/chapter v the person and.htm

Altogether Lovely
... in these words, and the first which suggests itself is this: the words are evidently
uttered by one who is under the influence of overwhelming emotion. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/altogether lovely.htm

Fire! Fire! Fire!
... This represents the overwhelming influence of trial in which the soul is sometimes
so covered that it becomes like a man sinking in the waves. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/fire fire fire.htm

The Agony, and the Consoler
... was the sole barrier between them and the flood of barbarians which was already
beating with the first restless waves of an overwhelming tide against the ...
/.../chapter iii the agony and.htm

Intrigue Triumphant
... What if he should appear in person, and by his innocence, his eloquence, his popularity,
his array of overwhelming refutation, should scatter their trumpery ...
/.../chapter xlix intrigue triumphant.htm

Christ About his Father's Business
... I feel an all-controlling, overwhelming influence which constrains me at all times
and in every place to be about my Father's business; the spirit of high, holy ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/christ about his fathers business.htm

Sixth Sunday after Trinity Exhortation to Christian Living.
... For your baptism is simply an overwhelming by grace"a gracious overwhelming"whereby
sin in you is drowned; so may you remain subjects of grace and not be ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/sixth sunday after trinity exhortation.htm

Guilt of Neglecting the Heathen.
... what we can to save them. If these two points are substantiated, the
overwhelming conclusion is inevitable. It becomes us, then, to ...
/.../dibble/thoughts on missions/chapter iii guilt of neglecting.htm

Critical Review of the Johannean Problem.
... Synoptic as it is from the Johannean Christ; but it is also subversive of all history
and cannot be seriously maintained in the face of overwhelming facts and ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 84 critical review of.htm

The Advance of Xerxes into Greece.
... slowly coming down by land, and the fleet, scarcely less terrible, since its descents
upon the coast would be so fearfully sudden and overwhelming when they ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter viii the advance of.htm

Thesaurus

Overwhelming (5 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Overwhelming (5 Occurrences). Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel,
and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy? ...
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Ahab (85 Occurrences)
... In the following year, the Syrian army, in spite of its overwhelming superiority,
meets another defeat at the hands of Ahab in the valley, near Aphek. ...
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Nazarene (19 Occurrences)
... According to an overwhelming array of testimony (see Meyer, Commentary, in loc.),
the name Nazareth is derived from the same natsar, found in the text quoted ...
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Overwhelmingly (1 Occurrence)

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Overwhelmeth (1 Occurrence)

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Outrage (3 Occurrences)
... the adjective in Proverbs 27:4, the King James Version and the English Revised Version,
for sheTeph, "flood." "Anger is overwhelming" (American Standard ...
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Overwhelm (18 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To project or impend over threateningly. 3. (vt) To cause to surround, to
cover. 4. (n.) The act of overwhelming. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Outrageous (1 Occurrence)
... the adjective in Proverbs 27:4, the King James Version and the English Revised Version,
for sheTeph, "flood." "Anger is overwhelming" (American Standard ...
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Waters (386 Occurrences)
... when thou passest through the waters" (Isaiah 43:2); of force, "like the breach
of waters" (2 Samuel 5:20); of that which is overwhelming, "a tempest of mighty ...
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Feet (2931 Occurrences)
... But the objections to such an interpretation are overwhelming: (1) It is never referred
to in the Synoptic Gospels, the Acts or the Epistle; 1 Timothy 5:10 ...
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Bible Concordance

Overwhelming (5 Occurrences)

Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
(WEB JPS ASV RSV NIV)

Isaiah 10:22 For though thy people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them shall return; an extermination is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 28:15 Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, and with the nether-world are we at agreement; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood have we hid ourselves';
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 28:18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled and your agreement with the nether-world shall not stand; when the scouring scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it,
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Daniel 11:22 The overwhelming forces shall be overwhelmed from before him, and shall be broken; yes, also the prince of the covenant.
(WEB ASV NIV)

Subtopics

Overwhelming

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Outrageous (1 Occurrence)

Waters (386 Occurrences)