Bible Dictionary: Pleadings

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n. pl.) The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some single point.

Library

God's Patient Pleadings
... GOD'S PATIENT PLEADINGS. ... It suggests". I. God's antagonism to sin. II. The great
purpose of all His pleadings. III. God's tender and unwearied efforts. IV. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/gods patient pleadings.htm

The Last Discourses of Christ - the Prayer of Consecration.
... To the guidance and pleadings of that Advocate they could implicitly trust themselves,
for He was the Spirit of Truth.' The world, indeed, would not listen to ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xi the last discourses.htm

Knowledge and Self-Confidence
... thought proper to lay before the judges: yet what shall become of him when unforeseen
questions arise, which often are suddenly started on the back of pleadings ...
/.../kleiser/the training of a public speaker/knowledge and self-confidence.htm

The Pleading Note in Prayer
... So much so, that a young advocate could study no finer model of the loftiest rhetoric
of his great profession than just the passionate pleadings and appeals of ...
/.../whyte/lord teach us to pray/xviii the pleading note in.htm

The Dismissal of Judas
... Thus, when we determine to set ourselves against the pleadings and the beseechings
of divine love, the truest kindness is to fling the reins upon our necks ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/the dismissal of judas.htm

In Memoriam.
... And this feature marked him all over his course. You felt as you listened to his
pleadings that sin and salvation were terms brimful of meaning to him. ...
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Constant, Instant, Expectant
... To such the Lord sendeth down his angel to strengthen them or in some way heareth
their pleadings in that concerning which they were filled with anguish. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 25 1879/constant instant expectant.htm

The Entreaties of God
... is an awful and a solemn power that every poor little speck of humanity has, to
lift itself up in God's face, and say, in answer to all His pleadings, 'I will ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/the entreaties of god.htm

A Kingdom's Epitaph
... Refuse to hear God's pleadings, and you will sell your freedom, and become
the lowest and only real kind of slave"the bondsman of evil. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/a kingdoms epitaph.htm

A Doomed People
... There was no other power by which they could be delivered. The Jewish nation was
a symbol of the people of all ages who scorn the pleadings of Infinite Love. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 64 a doomed people.htm

Thesaurus

Pleadings (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Pleadings (2 Occurrences). Job 13:6 Hear now my reasoning.
Listen to the pleadings of my lips. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV). ...
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Pleading (12 Occurrences)

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Pleads (9 Occurrences)

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Jethro (10 Occurrences)
... of Moses to detain him (Exodus 18:27), whereas Hobab, though at first he refused
to remain with the Israelites, seems to have yielded to the pleadings of Moses ...
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Traverse (5 Occurrences)
... work. 8. (n.) A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite
party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical ...
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Rostrum (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) A stage or elevated platform for public speaking; the platform in the forum
where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so ...
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Pleader (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in
the widest sense; as, a special pleader. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Brief (7 Occurrences)
... 12. (vt) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief
pleadings. Multi-Version Concordance Brief (7 Occurrences). ...
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Contentions (20 Occurrences)
... known shall serve me. (See JPS NAS). Job 13:6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen
to the pleadings of my lips. (See NAS). Psalms 18:43 Thou ...
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Answer (2099 Occurrences)
... 23. (n.) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of
what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in ...
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Bible Concordance

Pleadings (2 Occurrences)

Job 13:6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Lamentations 3:58 Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.
(YLT)

Subtopics

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Related Terms

Pleading (12 Occurrences)

Pleads (9 Occurrences)

Jethro (10 Occurrences)

Traverse (5 Occurrences)

Rostrum (1 Occurrence)