Bible Dictionary: Rapine

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away by force; spoliation; pillage; plunder.

2. (n.) Ravishment; rape.

3. (v. t.) To plunder.

Strong's Hebrew

6563. pereq -- parting of ways, plunder
... crossway, robbery. From paraq; rapine; also a fork (in roads) -- crossway, robbery.
see HEBREW paraq. 6562, 6563. pereq. 6564 . Strong's Numbers.
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2863. chetheph -- prey
... Word Origin from chathaph Definition prey NASB Word Usage robber (1). prey. From
chathaph; properly, rapine; figuratively, robbery -- prey. see HEBREW chathaph. ...
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Library

Philippians ii. 11-May
... And generally speaking, they who have aught by rapine are afraid to lay it by, or
hide it, or not to keep constantly in that state which they have assumed. ...
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Whether Since Christ's Passion the Legal Ceremonies Can be ...
... namely, that the prohibition of blood signifies the prohibition of murder; the
prohibition of things strangled, that of violence and rapine; the prohibition of ...
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Of Querulousness.
... When therefore, we ravingly execrate the rapine of one man, the deceit of another
for our impoverishment, when we angrily charge our defamation on the malice ...
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2 Timothy ii. 20, 21
... it is not the root of the thorn but of the olive that produces the oil [1389] ;
so it is not the root of covetousness, of iniquity, or of rapine, that produces ...
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1 Timothy iv. 3-Jan
... But when the possessors of these things are guilty of fraud and rapine, shall we
call them good? ... Let your riches be justly gained, and without rapine. ...
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Concerning John of Gischala. Concerning the Zealots and the High ...
... And, in the first place, all the people of every place betook themselves to rapine;
after which they got together in bodies, in order to rob the people of the ...
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Matt. xiii. 53
... But if ye are able to keep clear of drunkenness, yet are ye partakers of another
most grievous sin; such revels being also full of much rapine. ...
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John iv. 28, 29
... For instance: hast thou been grasping and covetous? Abstain from rapine, and
apply almsgiving to the wound. Hast thou been a fornicator? ...
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Treatise v. An Address to Demetrianus.
... itself and disease the crimes of individuals are either detected or increased, while
mercy is not manifested to the weak, and avarice and rapine are waiting ...
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Matt. v. 1, 2
... [613] For since He is about to give commandment concerning mercy, to show how we
must show mercy, as, for instance, not of rapine or covetousness, He blesses ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xv matt v 1.htm

Thesaurus

Rapine (5 Occurrences)
...Rapine (5 Occurrences). ... Philippians 2:6 who, subsisting in the form of God, did not
esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; (DBY). ...
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Raven (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness. 3.
(n.) Rapine; rapacity. 4. (n.) Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence. ...
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Rapidly (7 Occurrences)

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Rapture (6 Occurrences)

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Intemperance (1 Occurrence)
... 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside
of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance ...
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Incontinence (2 Occurrences)
... hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate,
and within they are full of rapine and incontinence. (YLT). ...
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Tearing (11 Occurrences)
... 2:12 The lion is tearing parts 'for' his whelps, And is strangling for his lionesses,
And he doth fill 'with' prey his holes, And his habitations 'with' rapine...
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Rapacity (2 Occurrences)
... hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and
within they are full of rapine and incontinence. (See RSV). ...
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Ravin (1 Occurrence)
... rav'-n, rav'-in: "Raven" (verb) is from "rapine," "violent plundering, used for
Taraph, in Genesis 49:27 Psalm 22:13 Ezekiel 22:25, 27, while "ravin" (noun) is ...
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Esteem (25 Occurrences)
... (KJV DBY WBS). Philippians 2:6 who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem
it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God; (DBY). ...
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Bible Concordance

Rapine (5 Occurrences)

Matthew 23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.
(DBY YLT)

Luke 11:39 And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;
(YLT)

Philippians 2:6 who, subsisting in the form of God, did not esteem it an object of rapine to be on an equality with God;
(DBY)

Nahum 2:12 The lion is tearing parts 'for' his whelps, And is strangling for his lionesses, And he doth fill 'with' prey his holes, And his habitations 'with' rapine.
(YLT)

Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.
(See JPS ASV)

Subtopics

Rapine

Related Terms

Raven (7 Occurrences)

Rapidly (7 Occurrences)

Rapture (6 Occurrences)

Intemperance (1 Occurrence)

Incontinence (2 Occurrences)

Tearing (11 Occurrences)

Rapacity (2 Occurrences)

Ravin (1 Occurrence)