Bible Dictionary: Precipice

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) A steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; a cliff.

Greek

2630. katakremnizo -- to throw over a precipice
... to throw over a precipice. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: katakremnizo Phonetic
Spelling: (kat-ak-rame-nid'-zo) Short Definition: I cast down headlong ...
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2911. kremnos -- a steep bank
... a steep bank. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: kremnos Phonetic
Spelling: (krame-nos') Short Definition: a crag, precipice Definition: a crag ...
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3790. ophrus -- an eyebrow
... optanomai (through the idea of the shading or proximity to the organ of vision);
the eye-"brow" or forehead, ie (figuratively) the brink of a precipice -- brow ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1327. battah -- a precipice
... 1326, 1327. battah. 1328 . a precipice. Transliteration: battah Phonetic
Spelling: (bat-taw') Short Definition: steep. Word Origin ...
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4136. mul -- front, in front of
... Or mowl (Deuteronomy 1:1) {mole}; or mowtl (Nehemiah 12:38) {mole}; or mul (Numbers
22:5) {mool}; from muwl; properly, abrupt, ie A precipice; by implication ...
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4051. Migron -- an area near Gibeah, also a place North of ...
... Migron. From magar; precipice; Migron, a place in Palestine -- Migron. see HEBREW
magar. 4050, 4051. Migron. 4052 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

A Father's Mistake.
... No response! Then going to a precipice at some distance, he looked down, and there,
upon the rocks and briars, he saw the mangled form of his loved child. ...
/.../moody/moodys anecdotes and illustrations/a fathers mistake.htm

The Gadarene Demoniac. --Christ's Treatment of Him after the Cure. ...
... It is certain, at any rate, that they did cast themselves over the precipice into
the sea, as if driven by an invisible power, and that many of them perished. ...
/.../section 132 the gadarene demoniac.htm

When Diamond Got Round the Corner of the Hay...
... There was just one great, jagged, black and gray cloud in the sky, with a steep
side to it like a precipice; and the moon was against this side, and looked as ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 2 when diamond got.htm

Hiring a Coachman
... to choose. Finally he hit upon this scheme. There was a road near his house
that ran along the edge of a precipice. The man asked ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/hiring a coachman.htm

Petilianus Said: "Here You have the Fullest Possible Proof that a ...
... Withhold not then your pardon, if our ancestors were unable to restrain the men
by whom you complain that Marculus was thrown down a precipice; for neither is ...
/.../chapter 89 194 petilianus.htm

Celsus, Moreover, Thinks that we have Invented this "Tree of Life" ...
... give an allegorical meaning to the cross; and in consequence of his error upon this
point, he adds: "If he had happened to be cast down a precipice, or shoved ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xxxvii celsus moreover thinks.htm

After Finishing the Foregoing, and those Analogous Matters which ...
... because, I imagine, their teacher was nailed to a cross, and was a carpenter by
craft; so that if he had chanced to have been cast from a precipice, or thrust ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xxxiv after finishing the.htm

On God and his Perfections
... Now while one of these men is hanging over the fearful precipice, his life
is entirely in the hands of those holding the rope above. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 2 on god and.htm

Essay i. Fortuna Plerumque Est Veluti Galaxia Quarundam Obscurarum ...
... sight of a narrow bridge, over which they had ridden, the night before, in perfect
safety; or at tracing the footmarks along the edge of a precipice which the ...
/.../confessions of an inquiring spirit etc/essay i fortuna plerumque est.htm

How St Francis Converted Certain Robbers and Assassins, who Became ...
... No sooner had he laid down his head than he was rapt in spirit and led up into a
very high mountain, on the side of which was a deep precipice bordered with ...
/.../the little flowers of st francis of assisi/chapter xxvi how st francis.htm

Thesaurus

Precipice (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place;
a cliff. Multi-Version Concordance Precipice (3 Occurrences). ...
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Kenath (2 Occurrences)
... eski Sham, the Bostra of the Romans, on both sides of Wady Kanawat, where, descending
from the slopes of Jebel ed-Druze, it plunges over a precipice, forming a ...
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Nazareth (29 Occurrences)
... his public ministry in the synagogue (Matthew 13:54), at which the people were so
offended that they sought to cast him down from the precipice whereon their ...
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Jericho (59 Occurrences)
... The wall is not far from the foot of the great precipice of Quarantania and its
numerous caverns, and the spies of Joshua could easily have fled from the city ...
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Ladder (1 Occurrence)
... of armies, or even caravans, since the approach is precipitous on either side, and
at Ras el-`Abyadh the road skirts the edge of a sheer precipice, where a ...
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Gerar (10 Occurrences)
... Jurf means usually "steep declivity," or "precipice," and at the place mentioned
many fragments of pottery were found, but this does not necessarily indicate ...
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Gezer (14 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary A precipice, an ancient royal Canaanitish city
(Joshua 10:33; 12:12). It was allotted with its suburbs ...
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Golgotha (4 Occurrences)
... The skull-like appearance of the rock in the southern precipice of the hillock is
very remarkable. Noah Webster's Dictionary. (n.) Calvary. Int. ...
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Torrent (49 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like;
a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice. ...
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Roll (57 Occurrences)
... unevenly; the snow rolls well. 14. (vi) To fall or tumble; -- with over;
as, a stream rolls over a precipice. 15. (vi) To perform a ...
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Bible Concordance

Precipice (3 Occurrences)

Luke 4:29 and rising up they cast him forth out of the city, and led him up to the brow of the mountain upon which their city was built, so that they might throw him down the precipice;
(DBY)

Luke 8:33 And the demons, going out from the man, entered into the swine, and the herd rushed down the precipice into the lake, and were choked.
(DBY)

Song of Songs 2:14 My dove, in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the precipice, Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Precipice

Related Terms

Kenath (2 Occurrences)

Nazareth (29 Occurrences)

Jericho (59 Occurrences)

Ladder (1 Occurrence)

Gerar (10 Occurrences)

Gezer (14 Occurrences)

Golgotha (4 Occurrences)

Torrent (49 Occurrences)

Roll (57 Occurrences)