Bible Dictionary: Rural

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Of or pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country; suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a rural prospect.

2. (a.) of or pertaining to agriculture; as, rural economy.

Strong's Hebrew

6520. perazon -- perhaps rural population
... 6519, 6520. perazon. 6521 . perhaps rural population. Transliteration: perazon
Phonetic Spelling: (per-aw-zone') Short Definition: peasantry. ...
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6519. perazah -- an open region, hamlet
... 6518, 6519. perazah. 6520 . an open region, hamlet. Transliteration: perazah
Phonetic Spelling: (per-aw-zaw') Short Definition: rural. ...
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5656. abodah -- labor, service
... 2), construction work (1), job (2), kind of service (2), labor (9), laborious (12),
labors (1), ministry (2), office (1), rite (3), rural (1), service (79 ...
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6521. perazi -- hamlet dweller
... Word Origin from the same as perazah Definition hamlet dweller NASB Word
Usage country (1), rural areas (1), unwalled (1). village. ...
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Library

The Rural Sunday School
... XXI THE RURAL SUNDAY SCHOOL. The problem of the rural Sunday school is its
size and equipment. The average number in the school is ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/xxi the rural sunday school.htm

Outlying or Rural Parishes Shall in Every Province Remain Subject ...
... Canon XVII. Outlying or rural parishes shall in every province remain subject
to the bishops who now� Outlying or rural parishes ...
/.../schaff/the seven ecumenical councils/canon xvii outlying or rural.htm

The Church and Other Rural Agencies
... CHAPTER IX THE CHURCH AND OTHER RURAL AGENCIES. Since the arousal of interest
in rural welfare by the studies made by the Country ...
/.../vogt/church cooperation in community life/chapter ix the church and.htm

The Church and Rural Public Thought
... CHAPTER VI THE CHURCH AND RURAL PUBLIC THOUGHT. Many city pastors, and some rural
ones too, lament the fact that people do not come to listen to them preach. ...
/.../vogt/church cooperation in community life/chapter vi the church and.htm

Missionary Programs and Rural Community Service
... CHAPTER X MISSIONARY PROGRAMS AND RURAL COMMUNITY SERVICE. Long years of
experience in foreign missionary service has vitally affected ...
/.../vogt/church cooperation in community life/chapter x missionary programs and.htm

Preface
... PREFACE. Many books have been written during the past few years on the rural church. ...
Others have discussed the general rural church situation. ...
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Summary and Conclusion
... In the preceding chapters the effort has been made to outline some of the conditions
and principles involved in organizing the rural church for community ...
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Some Preliminary Definitions
... This is the sense in which the term will be used in this discussion. The term
"rural" likewise conveys a different thought to different people. ...
/.../church cooperation in community life/chapter i some preliminary definitions.htm

Adjusting the Local Church to the Community
... in those sections of the country that are not in the direct line of thought movements,
or where living conditions are such as to make rural life monotonous. ...
/.../vogt/church cooperation in community life/chapter vii adjusting the local.htm

Interdenominational Readjustment
... Rural progress under church leadership has been much like the first drops
of water on a placid lake at the beginning of a rain. ...
/.../chapter viii interdenominational readjustment.htm

Thesaurus

Rural (2 Occurrences)
... pertaining to the country, as distinguished from a city or town; living in the country;
suitable for, or resembling, the country; rustic; as, rural scenes; a ...
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Pastoral
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Pertaining to shepherds; relating to rural
life and scenes; as, a pastoral life. 2. (a.) Relating ...
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Country
... 2. (adv.) Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town. 3. (n.) The inhabitants
or people of a state or a region; the populace; the public. ...
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Lawyer (5 Occurrences)
... Such centers of legal lore, of course, would seldom be found in rural communities;
the authorities would naturally gather in large centers of population ...
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Runs (28 Occurrences)

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Jachin (8 Occurrences)
... course are included in the list of those who, having returned from Babylon, willingly
accepted the decision of the lot, and abandoned their rural retreats to ...
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Latin (2 Occurrences)
... In Palestine Aramaic was the vernacular in the rural districts and remoter towns,
while in the leading towns both Greek and Aramaic were spoken. ...
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Goat (92 Occurrences)
... They had an important place in their rural economy on account of the milk
they afforded and the excellency of the flesh of the kid. ...
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Wake (34 Occurrences)
... the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the
day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and ...
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Town (861 Occurrences)
... as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated
or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities. 4. (adv. ...
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Bible Concordance

Rural (2 Occurrences)

Nehemiah 10:37 and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, and our wave offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
(See NAS RSV)

Esther 9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
(See NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Rural

Related Terms

Pastoral

Country

Lawyer (5 Occurrences)

Runs (28 Occurrences)

Jachin (8 Occurrences)

Latin (2 Occurrences)

Goat (92 Occurrences)

Wake (34 Occurrences)

Town (861 Occurrences)