Bible Dictionary: Score

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

2. (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.

3. (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

4. (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.

5. (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

6. (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.

7. (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

8. (n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

9. (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.

10. (v. t.) To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash.

11. (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

12. (v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

13. (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield.

14. (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.

15. (v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.

16. (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.

Greek

1440. hebdomekonta -- seventy
... seventy, three score and ten. From hebdomos and a modified form of deka; seventy --
seventy, three score and ten. see GREEK hebdomos. see GREEK deka. ...
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1501. eikosi -- twenty
... three* (1). twenty. Of uncertain affinity; a score -- twenty. (eikosi) -- 11
Occurrences. 1500, 1501. eikosi. 1502 . Strong's Numbers.
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Strong's Hebrew

8346. shishshim -- sixty
... sixty, three score. Multiple of shesh; sixty -- sixty, three score. see HEBREW
shesh. 8345, 8346. shishshim. 8347 . Strong's Numbers.
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5608. saphar -- to count, recount, relate
... A primitive root; properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, ie (by
implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, ie ...
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6242. esrim -- twenty
... twenty, twentyieth. From eser; twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth -- (six-)score,
twenty(-ieth). see HEBREW eser. 6241, 6242. esrim. 6243 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Names and Descent of Other Æons; First Half a Score, Then Two ...
... Chapter VIII."The Names and Descent of Other Æons; First Half a Score, Then Two
More, and Ultimately a Dozen Besides. These Thirty Constitute the Pleroma. ...
/.../tertullian/against the valentinians/chapter viii the names and descent.htm

How These Persons are to be Answered, who Find Fault with the ...
... Book XII. Chapter 12."How These Persons are to Be Answered, Who Find Fault
with the Creation of Man on the Score of Its Recent Date. ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 12 how these persons are.htm

He Does Wrong in Making the Being of the Father Alone Proper and ...
... a moment, for the sake of argument, that this was so, what superiority does the
being which is prior in time have over that which follows, on the score of pure ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 15 he does wrong.htm

The More the Wives, the Greater the Distraction of the Spirit.
... prayer; and will you offer for two; and will you commend those two (to God) by the
ministry of a priest ordained (to his sacred office) on the score of monogamy ...
/.../tertullian/on exhortation to chastity/chapter xi the more the wives.htm

The True Gentleman
... So those who, being poor, could not set themselves up above their neighbours on
the score of wealth, wanted to set themselves up on the score of their ...
/.../kingsley/sermons for the times/sermon xx the true gentleman.htm

2 Cor. viii. 16
... evil suspicion. However, let us see on what score he eulogizes this man
himself also. On what score then does he eulogize? First ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xviii 2 cor viii.htm

His Acknowledgment that the Divine Being is Single' is Only Verbal ...
... to be at fault in his names, and his mere form of expression in speaking of beings'
instead of persons:' for things that are identical on the score of being ...
/.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 19 his acknowledgment that.htm

Epistle Lvi. To John, Bishop.
... You acknowledge, then, that the custom of the Church in general is different, seeing
that you claim the right of doing what you do on the score of privilege. ...
/.../gregory/the epistles of saint gregory the great/epistle lvi to john bishop.htm

The Unjust Steward
... at once and be done with him: but never think to escape out of his clutches, as
too many wretched and foolish sinners do, by running up a fresh score with him ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon xlii the unjust steward.htm

Whether the Duties of Piety Towards One's Parents Should be ...
... Now in accordance with those observances they are hindered from supporting their
parents, both on the score of poverty, since they have nothing of their own ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the duties of piety.htm

Thesaurus

Score (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. 4. (n.) The number twenty, as being
marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number. ...
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Three-score (2 Occurrences)
Three-score. Threescore, Three-score. Three-stringed . Noah Webster's
Dictionary ... Multi-Version Concordance Three-score (2 Occurrences). ...
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Tally (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood
or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate. ...
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Tie (18 Occurrences)
... 13. (vt) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with. 14. (vi)
To make a tie; to make an equal score. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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System (3 Occurrences)
... a system in one's business. 4. (n.) The collection of staves which form
a full score. See Score, n. 5. (n.) An assemblage of parts ...
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Scorching (11 Occurrences)

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Hundred (526 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The product of ten multiplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a
collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. ...
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Vexation (36 Occurrences)
... It represents over a score of Hebrew and Greek words, most of them translated by
this word only once, and many of them changed in the Revised Version (British ...
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Vex (20 Occurrences)
... It represents over a score of Hebrew and Greek words, most of them translated by
this word only once, and many of them changed in the Revised Version (British ...
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Out (29154 Occurrences)
... relation. 7. (a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the
state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores. 8 ...
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Bible Concordance

Score (2 Occurrences)

Exodus 15:27 And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
(Root in KJV JPS ASV)

Numbers 3:46 And for those that are to be redeemed of the two hundred and threescore and thirteen of the firstborn of the children of Israel, which are more than the Levites;
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Subtopics

Score

Related Terms

Three-score (2 Occurrences)

Tally (1 Occurrence)

Tie (18 Occurrences)

System (3 Occurrences)

Scorching (11 Occurrences)

Hundred (526 Occurrences)

Vexation (36 Occurrences)

Vex (20 Occurrences)

Out (29154 Occurrences)