Bible Dictionary: Penetration

◄ Penetration ►

Jump to: Webster's • Concordance • Thesaurus • Library • Subtopics • Terms

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The act of piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.

2. (n.) Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration.

Library

Seventh Tractate. On Complete Transfusion.
... through? or " a difference of no importance if any such penetration occurs "
that one of them pass completely through the other? ...
/.../plotinus/the six enneads/seventh tractate on complete transfusion.htm

Whether Dulness of Sense is a Sin Distinct from Blindness of Mind?
... Now a bodily sense, by a kind of metaphor, is said to pierce the medium, in so far
as it perceives its object from a distance or is able by penetration as it ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether dulness of sense is.htm

Whether Subtlety is a Property of the Glorified Body?
... First, through smallness of quantity, especially in respect of depth and breadth,
but not of length, because penetration regards depth, wherefore length is not ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether subtlety is a property.htm

Bossuet -- the Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Grande Conde
... that what carries to the highest pitch worldly glory, worth, magnanimity, natural
goodness"all attributes of the heart; vivacity, penetration, grandeur and ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons vol 2/bossuet the funeral sermon.htm

Spiritual Diagnosis
... How few have penetration enough to diagnose our case, to observe our least apparent
symptoms, to get out of us what we had resolved not to tell them, to see ...
/.../berkhof/new evangelism and other papers/spiritual diagnosis.htm

The Letter of the Synod, Relative to Its Decisions: and the ...
... For this is becoming your penetration, faith and sanctity; that since the error
has been proved to be due to him who is an enemy to the truth, ye should return ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of scholasticus/chapter ix the letter of the.htm

Introduction
... Wesley was of the sweetest and most forgiving disposition, but when aroused he was
a man of the "keenest penetration with a gift of speech that bit like the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/prayer and praying men/introduction.htm

Contemporary Pagan and Heretical Hymns
... As that conquest proceeded and the penetration of new ideas into pagan thought
continued, a corresponding reaction of paganism upon the new faith took place. ...
/.../v contemporary pagan and heretical.htm

There is a Definite Moment at which the Seed is Ripe...
... Closer still the gimlet winds, and as it does so it bores down into the hardest
soil: and such is their strange power of penetration, as they are driven in ...
/.../trotter/parables of the christ-life/section 6 there is a.htm

The Will.
... subject to and directed by it. The mind has perhaps acquired greater vivacity
and penetration. The imagination, under the action ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter ix the will.htm

Thesaurus

Penetration (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular
penetration. Multi-Version Concordance Penetration (1 Occurrence). ...
/p/penetration.htm - 7k

Peniel (4 Occurrences)

/p/peniel.htm - 9k

Intimate (12 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 1:17 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father
most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an ...
/i/intimate.htm - 9k

Into (18988 Occurrences)
... 3. (prep.) Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the
inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an ...
/i/into.htm - 8k

Fathom (5 Occurrences)
... by soundings. 2. (n.) The measure or extant of one's capacity; depth, as
of intellect; profundity; reach; penetration. 3. (vt) To ...
/f/fathom.htm - 9k

Penetrating (2 Occurrences)

/p/penetrating.htm - 7k

Solid (13 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist
the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard ...
/s/solid.htm - 12k

Sagacious (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (a.) Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment;
discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a ...
/s/sagacious.htm - 7k

Asher (43 Occurrences)
... Sidon, touching Issachar, Zebulun and Naphtali on the East Asher seems to have taken
possession of the territory by a process of peaceful penetration, not by ...
/a/asher.htm - 26k

Glorious (91 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Ephesians 1:17 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the
Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an ...
/g/glorious.htm - 34k

Bible Concordance

Penetration (1 Occurrence)

Ephesians 1:17 For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,
(WEY)

Subtopics

Penetration

Related Terms

Peniel (4 Occurrences)

Intimate (12 Occurrences)

Into (18988 Occurrences)

Fathom (5 Occurrences)

Penetrating (2 Occurrences)

Solid (13 Occurrences)

Sagacious (1 Occurrence)

Asher (43 Occurrences)

Glorious (91 Occurrences)