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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.

2. (n.) A bellowing; a shouting; noise; clamor; uproar; disturbance; tumult.

3. (v. t.) To scoop out with a gouge or other tool; to furrow.

4. (v. i.) To search or root in the ground, as a swine.

5. (n.) A troop; a throng; a company; an assembly; especially, a traveling company or throng.

6. (n.) A disorderly and tumultuous crowd; a mob; hence, the rabble; the herd of common people.

7. (n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete.

8. (n.) A disturbance of the peace by persons assembled together with intent to do a thing which, if executed, would make them rioters, and actually making a motion toward the executing thereof.

9. (n.) A fashionable assembly, or large evening party.

10. (v. t.) To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout.

11. (v. i.) To assemble in a crowd, whether orderly or disorderly; to collect in company.

Greek

1287. diaskorpizo -- generally to separate, spec. to winnow, fig. ...
... From dia and skorpizo; to dissipate, ie (genitive case) to rout or separate; specially,
to winnow; figuratively, to squander -- disperse, scatter (abroad ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5086. nadaph -- to drive, drive asunder
... root Definition to drive, drive asunder NASB Word Usage drive away (1), driven
(2), driven away (2), drives away (1), fleeting (1), rout (1). ...
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Library

A Retreat, or a Rout?
... TALK TWENTY-FOUR. A RETREAT, OR A ROUT? Armies often suffer defeat, but
there is a great difference in the way they take defeat. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk twenty-four a retreat or.htm

Moreover, --To Touch Briefly Some of the More Recondite Topics ...
... had set over mankind, having become contumacious and tyrannical, took in hand to
assail the men who had been committed to their charge and to rout them utterly ...
/.../15 moreoverto touch briefly some.htm

For There were Even in the Apostles' Times Some who Preached the ...
... Why then do we not rout out heretics, in order to their being caught, by the flesh
committing lasciviousness in adultery, and yet think right to rout them out ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/against lying/section 16 for there were.htm

The Son of the Murket
... The tables had been removed; the musicians and tumblers common to such occasions
were not present, for the rout was small and sufficient unto itself for ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xvii the son of.htm

On all the Saints.
... And even as Goliath had his head cut off with his own sword, so also is the devil,
who has been the father of death, put to rout through death; and he finds ...
/.../dubious or spurious writings of gregory thaumaturgus/on all the saints.htm

At the Well
... countrymen. Next, descending with a volley of yells, a rout of the nomad
tribes, mounted on horses, came from the southwest. They ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxxvii at the well.htm

Sin Slain
... picture to you the sinner growing uneasy in his bondage and thinking about rebellion
against his oppressors; secondly, the sinner putting to rout his sins and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/sin slain.htm

The Best Things Work for Good to the Godly
... How easily can He rout all the forces of the wicked! "It is nothing for thee, Lord,
to help" (2 Chronicles 14:11). God's power is on the side of His church. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a divine cordial/the best things work for.htm

The Invasion of Greece and the Battle of Marathon.
... State of Athens."The Greek army."Miltiades and his colleagues."Position of the
armies."Miltiades's plan of attack."Onset of the Greeks."Rout of the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/darius the great/chapter xi the invasion of.htm

Introduction, by the American Editor.
... "God of our fathers what is man? Nor do I name of men the common rout,. That,
wandering loose about,. Grow up and perish as the summer fly,. ...
/.../the prescription against heretics/introduction by the american editor.htm

Thesaurus

Rout (6 Occurrences)
... of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also,
the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy ...
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Discomfiture (6 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The act of discomfiting, or the state of being
discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection. Int. ...
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Discomfit (6 Occurrences)
... 3. (a.) Discomfited; overthrown. 4. (n.) Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.
Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. DISCOMFIT; DISCOMFITURE. ...
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Benhadad (24 Occurrences)
... of the people, and acting on the counsel of a prophet, Ahab made a sortie and falling
upon the carousing Syrians put them so completely to rout that Benhadad ...
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Route (7 Occurrences)

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Zobah (15 Occurrences)
... Damascus, however, came to the rescue and fresh resistance was made, but a complete
rout followed and great spoil fell to the victor, as well as access to the ...
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Nebuchadnezzar (90 Occurrences)
... 1:1). The Egyptians met him at Carchemish, where a furious battle was fought, resulting
in the complete rout of the Egyptians, who were driven back (Jeremiah 46 ...
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Judith (1 Occurrence)
... The 8th and following chapters of the book describe her actions which resulted in
the cutting off of the head of Holofernes, the rout of the Assyrian army, and ...
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Rousing (3 Occurrences)

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Drum
... 8. (n.) See Drumfish. 9. (n.) A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people
at a private house; a rout. 10. (n.) A tea party; a kettledrum. 11. ...
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Bible Concordance

Rout (6 Occurrences)

Judges 1:5 They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
(See NIV)

1 Samuel 4:3 When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies."
(See RSV)

Job 32:13 Beware lest you say,'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'
(See NAS)

Psalms 78:66 He struck his adversaries backward. He put them to a perpetual reproach.
(See RSV)

Psalms 92:11 My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me.
(See NIV)

Psalms 144:6 Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Subtopics

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