Bible Dictionary: Rate

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently.

2. (n.) Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.

3. (n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.

4. (n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.

5. (n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.

6. (n.) Order; arrangement.

7. (n.) Ratification; approval.

8. (n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.

9. (n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc.

10. (n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.

11. (v. t.) To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.

12. (v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.

13. (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.

14. (v. t.) To ratify.

15. (v. i.) To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.

16. (v. i.) To make an estimate.

Greek

2274. hettaomai -- to be inferior
... be inferior, overcome. From the same as hetton; to make worse, ie Vanquish (literally
or figuratively); by implication, to rate lower -- be inferior, overcome. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1697. dabar -- speech, word
... adverbially, a cause -- act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because
of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment ...
/hebrew/1697.htm - 8k

Library

To the Rev. J. Jowett
... with decency in a plain language which they spoke and were accustomed to, have received
such instruction that with ease they can each compose at the rate of a ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev j jowett 12.htm

Although, Even if There Went Before no Testimonies Concerning ...
... language, whereof their voices are not heard; their sound went out into all the
earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." And this at any rate we see ...
/.../augustine/concerning faith of things not seen /10 although even if there.htm

Cadman -- a New Day for Missions
... They, at any rate, have not forgotten the forsaken Man in the night of awful silence
in the garden, nor His exceeding bitter agony, nor the perfect ending that ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume 10/cadman a new day.htm

Further Exposure of Transmigration, Its Inextricable Embarrassment ...
... not amount in such cases to life from the dead, because there is not the separate
restitution which individuals ought to have; although at this rate, (no doubt ...
/.../a treatise on the soul/chapter xxxi further exposure of transmigration.htm

The Consulship of Eutropius
... Henry VIII., iii.2. 'I have a piece of news for you,' said Eutyches to
his two young friends; quite a first-rate piece of news. ...
/.../chapter xxiv the consulship of.htm

To the Rev. J. Jowett
... likewise that I am much disposed to agree with him in his opinion of Amyot's Dictionary,
which he terms in his letter 'something not very first-rate,' for the ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev j jowett 2.htm

He Removes the Silent Objection of Heretics who Want to Recant the ...
... At any rate you grew up, and became a man, and were placed in the ministry of the
Church. ... At any rate you knew that you were His deacon and priest. ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter xi he removes the.htm

To the Rev. J. Jowett
... the necessary types and paper, the undersigned offer to supply the sheet consisting
of four pages with composition, clean and black printing, at the rate of 25 ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev j jowett 9.htm

To the Rev. A. Brandram
... I asked Mr. O'Shea if he did not think that, through his connections, he could procure
me such paper as I wanted at a much cheaper rate than it was possible ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev a brandram 19.htm

Justin Narrates the Manner of his Conversion.
... Wherefore it is necessary for every man to philosophize, and to esteem this the
greatest and most honourable work; but other things only of second-rate or third ...
/.../chapter iii justin narrates the manner.htm

Thesaurus

Rate (23 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank;
proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ...
/r/rate.htm - 15k

Usury (17 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The practice of lending money at an excessive rate of interest. 2. (vt)
Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money. ...
/u/usury.htm - 15k

Value (138 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) Valor. 8. (vt) To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain
price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc. ...
/v/value.htm - 37k

Usurer (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law;
one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money. ...
/u/usurer.htm - 7k

Longevity
... On the other hand the evidence of prehistoric archaeology shows that the rate of
development of the individual in the early Stone Age differed very little from ...
/l/longevity.htm - 9k

Log (12 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing. 3.
(n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water. ...
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War-carriage (11 Occurrences)
... 10:29 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver,
and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the ...
/w/war-carriage.htm - 9k

Time (7245 Occurrences)
... 10. (n.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical
division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time. 11. ...
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Mules (14 Occurrences)
... Kings 10:25 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of
gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by ...
/m/mules.htm - 11k

Mauzzim
... and American) translation, by setting the mind upon the general idea that the monarch
referred to would trust in mere force, gives us, at any rate, the general ...
/m/mauzzim.htm - 7k

Bible Concordance

Rate (23 Occurrences)

Matthew 7:20 So by their fruits at any rate, you will easily recognize them.
(WEY)

Luke 11:8 "I tell you that even if he will not rise and give him the loaves because he is his friend, at any rate because of his persistency he will rouse himself and give him as many as he requires.
(WEY DBY)

Luke 18:5 at any rate because this widow annoys me I will avenge her, that she may not by perpetually coming completely harass me.
(DBY)

John 14:11 Believe me, all of you, that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me; or at any rate, believe me because of what I do.
(WEY)

John 19:6 As soon then as the High Priests and the officers saw Him, they shouted "To the cross! To the cross!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate; "for I, at any rate, find no crime in him."
(WEY)

Acts 28:28 "Be fully assured, therefore, that this salvation--God's salvation--has now been sent to the Gentiles, and that they, at any rate, will give heed."
(WEY)

1 Corinthians 9:2 If to other men I am not an Apostle, yet at any rate I am one to you; for your very existence as a Christian Church is the seal of my Apostleship.
(WEY DBY)

2 Corinthians 11:16 To return to what I was saying. Let no one suppose that I am foolish. Or if you must, at any rate make allowance for me as being foolish, in order that I, as well as they, may boast a little.
(WEY)

Galatians 2:6 From those leaders I gained nothing new. Whether they were men of importance or not, matters nothing to me--God recognizes no external distinctions. To me, at any rate, the leaders imparted nothing new.
(WEY)

Philippians 1:18 What is it then? at any rate, in every way, whether in pretext or in truth, Christ is announced; and in this I rejoice, yea, also I will rejoice;
(DBY)

Genesis 33:14 Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.
(BBE)

Exodus 16:4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.
(KJV WBS)

Exodus 16:16 This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.
(BBE)

Leviticus 25:50 He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.
(See RSV NIV)

1 Samuel 6:3 And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, send it not empty; ye must at any rate return him a trespass-offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
(DBY)

1 Kings 10:25 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, and armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

1 Kings 10:29 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty; they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.
(BBE)

2 Kings 25:30 And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.
(KJV WBS)

2 Chronicles 1:17 A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
(KJV WBS)

2 Chronicles 9:24 They brought every man his tribute, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing, armor, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Nehemiah 5:15 But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.
(BBE)

Daniel 1:5 And the king doth appoint for them a rate, day by day, of the king's portion of food, and of the wine of his drinking, so as to nourish them three years, that at the end thereof they may stand before the king.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Rate

Related Terms

Usury (17 Occurrences)

Value (138 Occurrences)

Usurer (2 Occurrences)

Longevity

Log (12 Occurrences)

War-carriage (11 Occurrences)

Time (7245 Occurrences)

Mules (14 Occurrences)

Mauzzim