Bible Dictionary: Remit

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.

2. (v. t.) To restore.

3. (v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.

4. (v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen. Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.

5. (v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.

6. (v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.

7. (v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.

8. (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.

9. (v. i.) To send money, as in payment.

Greek

863. aphiemi -- to send away, leave alone, permit
... alone, permit. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: aphiemi Phonetic Spelling:
(af-ee'-ay-mee) Short Definition: I send away, release, remit, forgive, permit ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8058. shamat -- to let drop
... A primitive root; to fling down; incipiently to jostle; figuratively, to let alone,
desist, remit -- discontinue, overthrow, release, let rest, shake, stumble ...
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5203. natash -- to leave, forsake, permit
... as if beating out, and thus expanding) to disperse; also, to thrust off, down, out
or upon (inclusively, reject, let alone, permit, remit, etc.) -- cast off ...
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5382. nashah -- to forget
... forget, deprive, exact. A primitive root; to forget; figuratively, to neglect;
causatively, to remit, remove -- forget, deprive, exact. 5381, 5382. ...
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Library

Whether a Priest Can Remit Sin as to the Punishment?
... OF THE EFFECT OF THE KEYS (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether a priest can remit sin as to the
punishment? ... Therefore the priest does not remit the punishment in any way. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether a priest can remit.htm

Whether the Judge Can Lawfully Remit the Punishment?
... OF THE INJUSTICE OF A JUDGE, IN JUDGING (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether the judge
can lawfully remit the punishment? Objection 1: It would ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the judge can lawfully.htm

Whether an Indulgence Can Remit any Part of the Punishment Due for ...
... OF INDULGENCES (THREE ARTICLES) Whether an indulgence can remit any part of
the punishment due for the satisfaction of sins? Objection ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether an indulgence can remit.htm

That when we have Received a Wrong, we must Remit and Forgive It.
... Third Book. 22. That when we have received a wrong, we must remit and forgive
it. In the Gospel, in the daily prayer: "Forgive us ...
/.../cyprian/three books of testimonies against the jews/22 that when we have.htm

Whether Indulgences are as Effective as they Claim to Be?
... Now by the power of the keys, he who has that power can only remit some fixed part
of the punishment due for sin, after taking into account the measure of the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether indulgences are as effective.htm

The Sick Person Ought Now to Send for Some Godly and Religious ...
... and whatsoever ye loose in earth, shall be loosed in heaven" (Matthew 18:18.) And
again, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose soever sins ye remit, they are ...
/.../bayly/the practice of piety/the sick person ought now.htm

Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences
... 5. The pope does not intend to remit, and cannot remit any penalties other than
those which he has imposed either by his own authority or by that of the Canons ...
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Chapter viii.
... I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise die." [304] Here,
therefore, it is not a money claim that one is pressed to remit, but whatever ...
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Whether the Priest Can Bind and Loose According to his Own ...
... of the adulterous woman (Jn.8). Therefore it seems that the priest also, who is
the vicar of Christ, can, according to his own judgment, remit the punishment ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the priest can bind 2.htm

The Lord Seen by the Apostles.
... Pentecost, after the Lord ascended. 23. Whose soever sins ye remit, they
are remitted unto them, etc. There is hardly a passage ...
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Thesaurus

Remit (3 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To forgive; to pardon; to remove. 7. (vt) To refrain from exacting or enforcing;
as, to remit the performance of an obligation. ...Remit (3 Occurrences). ...
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Remitted (4 Occurrences)
... (imp. & pp) of Remit. ... Luke 6:37 And judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn
not, and ye shall not be condemned. Remit, and it shall be remitted to you. ...
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Relax (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in
respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to ...
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Remission (18 Occurrences)

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Loose (219 Occurrences)
... 14. (v.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence,
to absolve; to remit. 15. (v.) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict. 16. ...
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Forgive (81 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or
wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act ...
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Excuse (13 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To free from an impending obligation or duty; hence, to disengage; to dispense
with; to release by favor; also, to remit by favor; not to exact; as, to ...
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Persons (156 Occurrences)
... (WEY WBS). John 20:23 If you remit the sins of any persons, they remain remitted
to them. If you bind fast the sins of any, they remain bound." (WEY). ...
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Pardon (31 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; --
applied to offenses. 7. (vt) To refrain from exacting as a penalty. ...
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Cover (254 Occurrences)
... defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat. 7. (vt) To remove from remembrance;
to put away; to remit. 8. (vt) To extend over; to be ...
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Bible Concordance

Remit (3 Occurrences)

Luke 6:37 And judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned. Remit, and it shall be remitted to you.
(DBY)

Luke 11:4 and remit us our sins, for we also remit to every one indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation.
(DBY)

John 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
(KJV WEY DBY WBS)

Subtopics

Remit

Related Terms

Remitted (4 Occurrences)

Relax (5 Occurrences)

Remission (18 Occurrences)

Loose (219 Occurrences)