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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To enter into; to make way into the interior of; as, light penetrates darkness.

2. (v. t.) To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity.

3. (v. t.) To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand.

4. (v. i.) To pass; to make way; to pierce. Also used figuratively.

Greek

1338. diikneomai -- to go through, penetrate
... to go through, penetrate. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: diikneomai Phonetic
Spelling: (dee-ik-neh'-om-ahee) Short Definition: I pass through, pierce ...
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1358. diorusso -- to dig through (as of breaking into a house)
... break through. From dia and orusso; to penetrate burglariously -- break through
(up). see GREEK dia. see GREEK orusso. (diorussousin) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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4044. peripeiro -- to put on a spit, hence to pierce
... pierce through. From peri and the base of peran; to penetrate entirely, ie Transfix
(figuratively) -- pierce through. see GREEK peri. see GREEK peran. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1413. gadad -- to penetrate, cut
... 1412, 1413. gadad. 1414 . to penetrate, cut. Transliteration: gadad Phonetic
Spelling: (gaw-dad') Short Definition: cut. Word Origin a prim. ...
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2713. chaqar -- to search
... A primitive root; properly, to penetrate; hence, to examine intimately -- find out,
(make) search (out), seek (out), sound, try. 2712, 2713. chaqar. 2714 . ...
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3554. kavah -- to burn, scorch, brand
... burn. A primitive root; properly, to prick or penetrate; hence, to blister (as smarting
or eating into) -- burn. 3553, 3554. kavah. 3555 . Strong's Numbers
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5365. naqar -- to bore, pick, dig
... dig, pick out, pierce, put thrust out. A primitive root; to bore (penetrate, quarry) --
dig, pick out, pierce, put (thrust) out. 5364, 5365. naqar. 5366 . ...
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Library

The Father of Constantine Allows the Name of Christ to be Extended ...
... Book I. Chapter VI."The Father of Constantine allows the Name of Christ to be Extended;
Constantine the Great prepared it to Penetrate Everywhere. ...
/.../chapter vi the father of constantine.htm

How Charity Contains in it the Gifts of the Holy Ghost.
... 5°. Knowledge, to know the true good, to which we are to aspire, and the true evil
which we are to fly; 6°. Understanding, thoroughly to penetrate the first ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xv how charity contains.htm

Whether Understanding is a Gift of the Holy Ghost?
... 6. Now there are many kinds of things that are hidden within, to find which
human knowledge has to penetrate within so to speak. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether understanding is a gift.htm

Whether Mutual Indwelling is an Effect of Love?
... and vice versa. Objection 2: Further, nothing can penetrate within a whole,
except by means of a division of the whole. But it is ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether mutual indwelling is an.htm

Christ, to Perform the Office of Mediator, Behoved to Become Man.
... The Son of God behoved to come down. Man in innocence could not penetrate to
God without a Mediator, much less could he after the fall. ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 12 christ to perform.htm

The Method of Prayer
... Those who read fast reap no more advantage than a bee would by only skimming over
the surface of the flower, instead of waiting to penetrate into it, and ...
/.../guyon/a short and easy method of prayer/chapter ii the method of.htm

Thoughts on Mind and on Style
... of premises, and there is perhaps a kind of intellect that can search with ease
a few premises to the bottom and cannot in the least penetrate those matters in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pascal/pensees/section i thoughts on mind.htm

Whether the Gift of Understanding is Distinct from the Other Gifts ...
... in that wisdom is concerned with judgment, while understanding renders the mind
apt to grasp the things that are proposed, and to penetrate into their very ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the gift of understanding 5.htm

1875-1877. Mrs. Way's Sewing --Class for Jewesses --Bible Flower ...
... loveliness is clouded, when we turn to gloomy, stifling courts and lanes in the
crowded cities, where gleams of sunshine scarce ever penetrate; the lives of ...
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Walamir and St. Telemachus
... Speed, Alaric! Thou shalt penetrate to the City.". I suppose that the warrior
read the doubt in my face, for he smiled and said, "And ...
/.../chapter lix walamir and st.htm

Thesaurus

Penetrate (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (vt) To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling;
to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity. ...
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Pierce (30 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument. ... 3. (vt)
Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a mystery. ...
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Enter (372 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer
cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet ...
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Thrill (2 Occurrences)
... Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a
shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate...
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Profound (7 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) An abyss. 7. (vt) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate
far down. 8. (vi) To dive deeply; to penetrate. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Strike (168 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a
tree strikes its roots deep. 6. (vt) To punish; to afflict; to smite. ...
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Stick (47 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) To penetrate with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to stab; hence,
to kill by piercing; as, to stick a beast. 8. (n.) To ...
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Gore (9 Occurrences)
... fesse point. 6. (vt) To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with
a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. 7. (vt) To ...
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Willows (5 Occurrences)
... In many of the streams of Moab it forms a complete screen, which the sun's
rays can never penetrate to evaporate the precious moisture. ...
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Work (4564 Occurrences)
... 16. (n.) To make one's way slowly and with difficulty; to move or penetrate laboriously;
to proceed with effort; -- with a following preposition, as down, out ...
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Bible Concordance

Penetrate (1 Occurrence)

Job 41:13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Penetrate

Related Terms

Pierce (30 Occurrences)

Enter (372 Occurrences)

Thrill (2 Occurrences)

Profound (7 Occurrences)

Strike (168 Occurrences)

Stick (47 Occurrences)