Bible Dictionary: Pace

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

2. (n.) The length of a step in walking or marching, reckoned from the heel of one foot to the heel of the other; -- used as a unit in measuring distances; as, he advanced fifty paces.

3. (n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop, and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace.

4. (n.) A slow gait; a footpace.

5. (n.) Specifically, a kind of fast amble; a rack.

6. (n.) Any single movement, step, or procedure.

7. (n.) A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.

8. (n.) A device in a loom, to maintain tension on the warp in pacing the web.

9. (v. i.) To go; to walk; specifically, to move with regular or measured steps.

10. (v. i.) To proceed; to pass on.

11. (v. i.) To move quickly by lifting the legs on the same side together, as a horse; to amble with rapidity; to rack.

12. (v. i.) To pass away; to die.

13. (v. t.) To walk over with measured tread; to move slowly over or upon; as, the guard paces his round.

14. (v. t.) To measure by steps or paces; as, to pace a piece of ground.

15. (v. t.) To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

PACE

pas (tsa`adh): A step in 2 Samuel 6:13, hence, about one yard.

Greek

4748. stoicheo -- to be in rows, fig. to walk by rule
... walk by. 4748 (from , "a , , or ") -- properly, walk , in strict accordance
to a particular pace ("stride");, "keep in step.". Word ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4748.htm - 7k

939. basis -- a foot
... foot. From baino (to walk); a pace ("base"), ie (by implication) the foot -- foot.
(baseis) -- 1 Occurrence. 938, 939. basis. 940 . Strong's Numbers.
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Strong's Hebrew

6806. tsaad -- a step, pace
... 6805, 6806. tsaad. 6807 . a step, pace. Transliteration: tsaad Phonetic
Spelling: (tsah'-ad) Short Definition: steps. ... pace, step. ...
/hebrew/6806.htm - 6k

7272. regel -- foot
... 1), foot (60), footstep* (1), footsteps (1), footstool* (6), four-footed* (1), haunt
(1), heels (1), hoof* (1), journey (1), legs (5), pace (2), relieve* (1 ...
/hebrew/7272.htm - 6k

7392. rakab -- to mount and ride, ride
... NASB Word Usage carried (2), carried him in a chariot (1), chariot (1), drove (1),
harness (1), horseman* (2), lead (1), led (1), mounted (4), pace (1), placed ...
/hebrew/7392.htm - 6k

6805. tsaad -- to step, march
... A primitive root; to pace, ie Step regularly; (upward) to mount; (along) to march;
(down and causatively) to hurl -- bring, go, march (through), run over. ...
/hebrew/6805.htm - 6k

Library

A Man Can be Sinless, but Only by the Help of Grace. In the Saints ...
... Only by the Help of Grace. In the Saints This Possibility Advances and
Keeps Pace with the Realization. "Well, be it so," says he ...
/.../augustine/anti-pelagian writings/chapter 49 xlii a man can.htm

The Saints' Rest is not to be Expected on Earth.
... afflictions is considered; 1. That they are the way to rest; 2. Keep us from mistaking
our rest; 3. From losing our way to it; 4. Quicken our pace toward it; 5 ...
/.../baxter/the saints everlasting rest/chapter x the saints rest.htm

The First Bible Pictures
... Above some of them words are faintly traced on stone slabs; a man or woman's name
perhaps, oftener still the Latin words, 'In Pace'"that is, 'In Peace.'. ...
/.../duff/the bible in its making/chapter xiii the first bible.htm

In Step with Jesus.
... The old worker sets the pace, and pulls evenly, steadily ahead, and by and by
the young undisciplined beast gradually comes to learn the pace. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on service/in step with jesus.htm

Ecce, Quomodo Moritur Justus
... A facie iniquitatis sublatus est justus: Et erit in pace memoria ejus Tanquam agnus
coram tondente se obmutuit, et non aperuit os suum; de angustia, et de ...
/.../no 176 ecce quomodo moritur justus.htm

Through the Red Sea
... cattle, was a marvel. The foremost ranks, moving in directly behind the leaders,
had adopted their pace. Furthermore, as the advance ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xlv through the red.htm

The Evangel Booklets
... Doctrine of future retribution. John G. Reid. 53. Pictures That Talk, Series
One. EJ Pace. 54. Pictures That Talk, Series Two. EJ Pace. 56. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/moody/moodys stories/the evangel booklets.htm

The Boy and the Sunday School
... No railway train or vehicle can keep pace with his speed. Morning sees him a million
miles farther on his way than night reckoned him but half a day before. ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/v the boy and the.htm

The Dark was Lifting as Vergilius Entered the Field of Mars. ...
... There were forty men riding in the troop, all lancers, saving a few slingers and
bowmen. They rattled over the hard Way at a pace of fifteen miles an hour. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bacheller/vergilius/chapter 11 the dark was.htm

High Mass, Requiems, Benediction
... Choir: R. Dignum et justum est. 9. AT THE END OF REQUIEM MASS. Choir: Requiescant
in pace. Amen. 10. ... (animas eorum). (b) V. Requiescat in pace. R. Amen. ...
/.../the st gregory hymnal and catholic choir book/no 259 high mass requiems.htm

Thesaurus

Pace (3 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Manner of stepping or moving; gait; walk; as, the walk, trot, canter, gallop,
and amble are paces of the horse; a swaggering pace; a quick pace. ...
/p/pace.htm - 8k

Walk (315 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace;
specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate ...
/w/walk.htm - 39k

Leisure (3 Occurrences)
... (WBS). Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will
lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and ...
/l/leisure.htm - 7k

Gently (19 Occurrences)
... Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on
gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and ...
/g/gently.htm - 12k

Ease (46 Occurrences)
... Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on
gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and ...
/e/ease.htm - 23k

Droves (17 Occurrences)
... Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on
gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and ...
/d/droves.htm - 11k

Apace (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. APACE. a-pas' ("at a ...
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Se'ir (36 Occurrences)
... Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on
gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and ...
/s/se'ir.htm - 16k

Seir (38 Occurrences)
... Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on
gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and ...
/s/seir.htm - 21k

Livestock (124 Occurrences)
... Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on
gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and ...
/l/livestock.htm - 38k

Bible Concordance

Pace (3 Occurrences)

2 Timothy 2:22 after righteousness, faith, love, pace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
(ASV)

Genesis 33:14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 4:24 Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, "Drive, and go forward! Don't slow down for me, unless I ask you to."
(See NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Pace

Related Terms

Walk (315 Occurrences)

Leisure (3 Occurrences)

Gently (19 Occurrences)

Ease (46 Occurrences)

Droves (17 Occurrences)

Apace (5 Occurrences)

Se'ir (36 Occurrences)

Seir (38 Occurrences)