Bible Dictionary: Rat

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.

2. (n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair.

3. (n.) One who deserts his party or associates; hence, in the trades, one who works for lower wages than those prescribed by a trades union.

4. (v. i.) In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union.

5. (v. i.) To catch or kill rats.

Greek

3841. pantokrator -- almighty
... almighty. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: pantokrator Phonetic
Spelling: (pan-tok-rat'-ore) Short Definition: ruler of the universe Definition ...
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193. akrates -- powerless, impotent
... powerless, impotent. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akrates Phonetic
Spelling: (ak-rat'-ace) Short Definition: lacking self-control, inclined to ...
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194. akratos -- unmixed
... unmixed. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: akratos Phonetic Spelling:
(ak'-rat-os) Short Definition: unmixed, undiluted Definition: unmixed, undiluted ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7569. rattoq -- a chain
... 7568, 7569. rattoq. 7570 . a chain. Transliteration: rattoq Phonetic
Spelling: (rat-toke') Short Definition: chain. Word Origin ...
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780. Ararat -- a district in E. Armenia
... 779, 780. Ararat. 781 . a district in E. Armenia. Transliteration: Ararat
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-aw-rat') Short Definition: Ararat. ...
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7572. rattiqah -- chain
... 7571, 7572. rattiqah. 7573 . chain. Transliteration: rattiqah Phonetic Spelling:
(rat-tee-kaw') Short Definition: chain. Word Origin see rattoq. chain ...
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6527. parat -- perhaps divide
... 6526, 6527. parat. 6528 . perhaps divide. Transliteration: parat Phonetic Spelling:
(paw-rat') Short Definition: improvise. Word Origin a prim. ...
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2661. chaphor -- mole
... which ought rather to be joined as one word, thus chapharperah {khaf-ar- pay-raw'};
by reduplication from chaphar; a burrower, ie Probably a rat -- + mole. ...
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3399. yarat -- to be precipitate, to precipitate
... yarat. 3400 . to be precipitate, to precipitate. Transliteration: yarat Phonetic
Spelling: (yaw-rat') Short Definition: contrary. Word Origin a prim. ...
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4803. marat -- to make smooth, bare or bald, to scour, polish
... 4802, 4803. marat. 4804 . to make smooth, bare or bald, to scour, polish.
Transliteration: marat Phonetic Spelling: (maw-rat') Short Definition: polished. ...
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8295. sarat -- to incise, scratch
... 8294, 8295. sarat. 8296 . to incise, scratch. Transliteration: sarat Phonetic
Spelling: (saw-rat') Short Definition: cuts. Word Origin a prim. ...
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Library

Ranee Khet Mission.
... I have mentioned rats. In their division of common rat and musk-rat, they are
troublesome enough in the plains, but they are a plague in the hills. ...
/.../chapter xxii ranee khet mission.htm

Enoch, the Deathless
... The prisoner in the Bastille, when his reason reeled through prolonged silence and
loneliness, was saved from mental collapse by the friendship of a rat; and a ...
/.../milligan/men of the bible some lesser-known/enoch the deathless.htm

Letter iv. You Reply to the Conclusion of My Letter: "What have we ...
... What, I say, could have tempted grave and pious men thus to disturb the foundation
of the Temple, in order to repair a petty breach or rat-hole in the wall, or ...
/.../coleridge/confessions of an inquiring spirit etc/letter iv you reply to.htm

Lovely to a Poet or an Artist's Eye is the Unevenly-Built and ...
... "He is a rat"a rat!" exclaimed Henri, suddenly executing a sort of reasonless
war-dance round the kitchen""One wants a cat to catch him!". ...
//christianbookshelf.org/corelli/the master-christian/ii lovely to a poet.htm

On the Way to Thebes
... Kenkenes climbed over a chaos of prostrate columns, fallen architraves and broken
colossi, and the sounds of his advance stirred the rat, the huge spider, the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxi on the way.htm

Preaching the Gospel, Healing the Sick
... A child whose arm has been badly scalded months before, and who has received no
treatment during that period but an application of rat oil and charred matting ...
/.../the fulfilment of a dream of pastor hsis/chapter xxii preaching the gospel.htm

By Far the Ablest of These Seven Essays is from the Pen of the " ...
... excites perhaps only a smile of pity." (p.265.) You shall be shewn Bentley in his
attack on Collins the freethinker, enjoying "rare sport,"""rat-hunting in ...
/.../burgon/inspiration and interpretation/vi by far the ablest.htm

A Question for the Beginning
... the older of us have seen, men with their bones full of the iniquity of their youth,
or drifted away from the city to die, down in the country like a rat in a ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/a question for the beginning.htm

Fearlessness.
... irksome, and so the women who might be the mothers of John Wesleys and Fenelons
and Metchers and Inskips and Cookmans are petting poodle-dogs and rat-terriers. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/rees/the heart-cry of jesus/chapter vi fearlessness.htm

Down the Islands
... well-marked effect which Dr. Davy could hear of, apart from damage to artificial
structures, was the partial sinking of a causeway leading to Rat Island, in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter ii down the islands.htm

Thesaurus

Rat (1 Occurrence)
... of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest
houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus ...
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Mole (2 Occurrences)
... The Hebrews holed (Leviticus 11:29), rendered "weasel," was probably the
mole-rat. The true mole (Talpa Europoea) is not found in Palestine. ...
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Lizard (3 Occurrences)
... On the same grounds, choledh, English Versions of the Bible "weasel," Septuagint
gale, might be the mole-rat. See CHAMELEON; TORTOISE; WEASEL. ...
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Weasel (1 Occurrence)
... rendering. In spite of this array of authorities, it is worth while to consider
the claims of the mole-rat, Spalax typhlus, Arabic khuld. ...
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Emerods (8 Occurrences)
... In the light of the modern research which has proved that the rat-flea (Pulex cheopis)
is the most active agent in conveying the virus of plague to the human ...
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Rate (23 Occurrences)

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Zoology
... 3) Camelidae, Camel PROBOSCIDEA: Elephant HYRACOIDEA: Coney SIRENIA: Dugong (sv
BADGER) CETACNA: Whale, Dolphin, Porpoise RODENTIA: Mouse, Mole-Rat (sv MOLE ...
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Levirate
... brother.". Noah Webster's Dictionary. (a.) Alt. of Leviratical. Int. Standard
Bible Encyclopedia. LEVIRATE; LAW. lev'-i-rat. See MARRIAGE. ...
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Gopher (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and
Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat...
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Rasses

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Bible Concordance

Rat (1 Occurrence)

Leviticus 11:29 "'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,
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Subtopics

Rat

Related Terms

Mole (2 Occurrences)

Lizard (3 Occurrences)

Weasel (1 Occurrence)

Emerods (8 Occurrences)

Rate (23 Occurrences)

Zoology

Levirate

Gopher (1 Occurrence)

Rasses