Bible Dictionary: Recede

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To move away; to retreat; to withdraw.

2. (v. i.) To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.

3. (v. i.) To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.

Strong's Hebrew

7368. rachaq -- to be or become far or distant
... A primitive root; to widen (in any direction), ie (intransitively) recede or
(transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation) -- (a-, ...
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Library

Whether the Rewards of the Beatitudes are Suitably Enumerated?
... Hence Our Lord assigns to these beatitudes rewards in correspondence with
the motives for which men recede from them. For there ...
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Psalm XCV.
... it meaneth, a bad life, bad habits; for if by good habits we approach God, by bad
habits we recede from God....If therefore by unlikeness we recede from God ...
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The Difference of Aeviternity and Time
... Now some things recede from permanence of being, so that their being is subject
to change, or consists in change; and these things are measured by time, as are ...
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Whether God is Altogether Immutable?
... 24). But God is wisdom itself; therefore God is movable. Objection 3: Further,
to approach and to recede signify movement. But these ...
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Whether Some Part of the Food is Changed into True Human Nature?
... Objection 5: Further, if the food is changed into true human nature, there is nothing
in man which may not recede or be repaired: for what is generated in a ...
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Whether to Live Belongs to all Natural Things?
... movement, in accordance with the disposition of their nature, but not by approaching
thereto, or by receding from it, for in so far as they recede from such ...
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Whether the Brave Man Makes Use of Anger in his Action?
... Because he that stands firm is so much the more praised, as he is more
strongly impelled to fall or recede. Now man is impelled ...
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Postscript. Meaning Op the Word Regeneration.
... great respect) had a very good excuse for this method of speaking: but whether they
were perfectly accurate in this, and whether they did not recede from the ...
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Of Lies are Many Sorts, which Indeed All...
... whoso believes shall perish, in order that we may catch the enemies of the same
doctrine, to the end we may bring them to the truth, while we recede from it ...
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Neither do they Confess that they are Awed by those Citations from ...
... For neither if the Jew should wish, where it would disturb no man, to recede from
Jewish observances, would he be prohibited by the Apostle, since the object ...
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Thesaurus

Recede (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been
proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition. ...
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Vail (44 Occurrences)
... 7. (vi) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering,
or the like. 8. (n.) Submission; decline; descent. Int. ...
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Lessen (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as,
the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care ...
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Give (13501 Occurrences)
... 16. (vi) To become soft or moist. 17. (vi) To move; to recede. 18. (vi) To shed
tears; to weep. 19. (vi) To have a misgiving. 20. (vi) To open; to lead. Int. ...
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Receded (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Recede. Multi-Version Concordance
Receded (6 Occurrences). Revelation 6:14 The sky was removed ...
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Retire (6 Occurrences)
... 7. (vi) To recede; to fall or bend back; as, the shore of the sea retires in bays
and gulfs. 8. (vi) To go to bed; as, he usually retires early. ...
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Recaptured (1 Occurrence)

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Ebb (1 Occurrence)
... flow. 5. (vi) To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline;
to decay; to recede. 6. (vt) To cause to flow back. ...
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Diminish (22 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To take away; to subtract. 5. (vi) To become or appear less or smaller;
to lessen; as, the apparent size of an object diminishes as we recede from it. ...
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Die (401 Occurrences)
... or to sin. 7. (vi) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible;
to vanish; -- often with out or away. 8. (vi) To disappear ...
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Bible Concordance

Recede (3 Occurrences)

Genesis 8:5 The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.
(Root in WEB NIV)

Job 14:11 The waters recede from the lake, and the river wasteth and drieth up:
(DBY)

Micah 7:11 In the day when thy walls shall be built, on that day shall the established limit recede.
(DBY)

Subtopics

Recede

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Recaptured (1 Occurrence)

Ebb (1 Occurrence)