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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) First in order of time; original; primeval; primitive; primary.

2. (a.) First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister.

3. (a.) First in excellence; of highest quality; as, prime wheat; a prime quality of cloth.

4. (a.) Early; blooming; being in the first stage.

5. (a.) Lecherous; lustful; lewd.

6. (a.) Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark.

7. (n.) The first part; the earliest stage; the beginning or opening, as of the day, the year, etc.; hence, the dawn; the spring.

8. (n.) The spring of life; youth; hence, full health, strength, or beauty; perfection.

9. (n.) That which is first in quantity; the most excellent portion; the best part.

10. (n.) The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds.

11. (n.) The first of the chief guards.

12. (a.) Any number expressing the combining weight or equivalent of any particular element; -- so called because these numbers were respectively reduced to their lowest relative terms on the fixed standard of hydrogen as 1.

13. (n.) A prime number. See under Prime, a.

14. (n.) An inch, as composed of twelve seconds in the duodecimal system; -- denoted by [']. See 2d Inch, n., 1.

15. (v.) To apply priming to, as a musket or a cannon; to apply a primer to, as a metallic cartridge.

16. (v.) To lay the first color, coating, or preparation upon (a surface), as in painting; as, to prime a canvas, a wall.

17. (v.) To prepare; to make ready; to instruct beforehand; to post; to coach; as, to prime a witness; the boys are primed for mischief.

18. (v.) To trim or prune, as trees.

19. (v.) To mark with a prime mark.

20. (v. i.) To be renewed, or as at first.

21. (v. i.) To serve as priming for the charge of a gun.

22. (v. i.) To work so that foaming occurs from too violent ebullition, which causes water to become mixed with, and be carried along with, the steam that is formed; -- said of a steam boiler.

Greek

187. akmazo -- to be at the prime
... to be at the prime. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: akmazo Phonetic Spelling:
(ak-mad'-zo) Short Definition: I reach maturity, become ripe Definition: I ...
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5230. huperakmos -- past the bloom of youth
... From huper and the base of akmen; beyond the "acme", ie Figuratively (of a daughter)
past the bloom (prime) of youth -- + pass the flower of (her) age. ...
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136. ainos -- praise (noun)
... praise. Apparently a prime word; properly, a story, but used in the sense of epainos;
praise (of God) -- praise. see GREEK epainos. (ainon) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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3494. neanias -- a young man
... Transliteration: neanias Phonetic Spelling: (neh-an-ee'-as) Short Definition: a
young man, youth Definition: a young man, youth; a man in his prime (used even ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7839. shacharuth -- blackness
... Word Origin from shachar Definition blackness NASB Word Usage prime of life (1).
youth. From shachar; a dawning, ie (figuratively) juvenescence -- youth. ...
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2779. choreph -- harvest time, autumn
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition harvest time, autumn NASB Word Usage
autumn (1), prime (1), winter (5). cold, winter house, youth. ...
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376. ish -- man
... men* (1), no* (1), none* (10), one (89), one of men (1), one's (1), oppressor*
(1), ordinary (1), own (1), people (3), person (5), persons (2), prime (1), rank ...
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Library

On Monday, or at Prime.
... THE THIRD PART. ONE HUNDRED MEDITATIONS AND PRAYERS, COMPRISED IN FEW WORDS.
ON MONDAY, OR AT PRIME. Ah, tender Lord! 1. When Thy ...
/.../suso/a little book of eternal wisdom/on monday or at prime.htm

Joseph, the Prime Minister
... GENESIS JOSEPH, THE PRIME MINISTER. ... At seventeen years of age Joseph was sold for
a slave; at thirty he was prime minister of Egypt (Genesis 37, 2; xli.46). ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/joseph the prime minister.htm

The Incarnation as Prime Example of the Action of God's Grace
... CHAPTER XI. The Incarnation as Prime Example of the Action of God's Grace.
36. In this the grace of God is supremely manifest, commended ...
/.../augustine/handbook on faith hope and love/chapter xi the incarnation as.htm

Death of a Christian in his Prime.
... MOURNING AND CONSOLATION. 592. " Death of a Christian in his prime. 592.
10s. M. Montgomery. Death of a Christian in his prime. ...
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To the Same
... Let us, therefore, abstract mentally for a moment the presence of the Prime Good,
whose Being is admitted by the universal consensus of learned and unlearned ...
//christianbookshelf.org/boethius/the theological tractates/to the same.htm

How no Change was Made by the Elders in the Ancient System of ...
... Footnotes: [741] Ie, Prime. Some confusion is likely to be caused by the fact that
Cassian speaks of both "Lauds" and "Prime" by the same title of Mattins. ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter vi how no change.htm

Of the Attributes Assigned by Hilary to Each Person. The Trinity ...
... in respect to this image he has named form, I believe on account of the quality
of beauty, where there is at once such great fitness, and prime equality, and ...
/.../augustine/on the holy trinity/chapter 10 of the attributes assigned.htm

How the Mattin Office was not Appointed by an Ancient Tradition ...
... [736] Psalm 118.(cxix.) 164. [737] This second "Mattins" of which Cassian has been
speaking is the service which the later Church called Prime, Cassian's first ...
/.../cassian/the works of john cassian /chapter iv how the mattin.htm

Missionary Programs and Rural Community Service
... e. In determining what denomination has prime responsibility in a given community
of under 1,500 inhabitants the following shall be considered. ...
/.../vogt/church cooperation in community life/chapter x missionary programs and.htm

Obadiah
... He was, it seems, King Ahab's vizier, or prime minister; the second man in the country
after the king; and a prime minister in those eastern kingdoms had, and ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon ix obadiah.htm

Thesaurus

Prime (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) First in rank, degree, dignity, authority, or importance; as, prime minister. ...
6. (a.) Marked or distinguished by a mark (') called a prime mark. ...
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Machine (2 Occurrences)
... parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their
supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or ...
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Second (2060 Occurrences)
... place. 9. (a.) In the duodecimal system of measurement, the twelfth part
of an inch or prime; a line. See Inch, and Prime, n., 8. 10. ...
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Joseph (248 Occurrences)
... OF JOSEPH, A BIOGRAPHY 1. A Bedouin Prince in Canaan 2. A Bedouin Slave in Egypt
3. The Bedouin Slave Becomes Again the Bedouin Prince 4. The Prime Minister 5 ...
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Tobit
... ancient nations. The substance of the legend is briefly that Achiqar was
prime minister in Assyria under Sennacherib. Being childless ...
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Anaharath (1 Occurrence)
... ancient nations. The substance of the legend is briefly that Achiqar was
prime minister in Assyria under Sennacherib. Being childless ...
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Zaphnathpaaneah (1 Occurrence)
... The name which Pharaoh gave to Joseph when he raised him to the rank of prime
minister or grand vizier of the kingdom (Genesis 41:45). ...
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Zaphnath-paaneah (1 Occurrence)
... The name which Pharaoh gave to Joseph when he raised him to the rank of prime
minister or grand vizier of the kingdom (Genesis 41:45). ...
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Nuts (2 Occurrences)
... These nuts, known in Arabic as fistuq, are prime favorites with the people of Palestine.
They are oblong, 3/4 inches long, with green, oily cotyledons. ...
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Obadiah (21 Occurrences)
... o-ba-di'-a (`obhadhyah, more fully `obhadhyahu, "servant of Yahweh"): (1) The steward
or prime minister of Ahab, who did his best to protect the prophets of ...
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Bible Concordance

Prime (3 Occurrences)

1 Samuel 2:33 The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall be to consume your eyes, and to grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
(See NAS NIV)

Job 29:4 as I was in the ripeness of my days, when the friendship of God was in my tent,
(See NAS NIV)

Ecclesiastes 11:10 So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Prime

Related Terms

Machine (2 Occurrences)

Second (2060 Occurrences)

Joseph (248 Occurrences)

Tobit

Anaharath (1 Occurrence)

Zaphnathpaaneah (1 Occurrence)

Zaphnath-paaneah (1 Occurrence)

Nuts (2 Occurrences)

Obadiah (21 Occurrences)