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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.

2. (n.) A place fitted or chosen for any certain permanent use or occupation; as, a site for a church.

3. (n.) The posture or position of a thing.

Greek

4760. stratopedon -- a military camp, ie an army
... Word Origin from the same as strateuo and pedon (ground, a site) Definition
a military camp, ie an army NASB Word Usage armies (1). army. ...
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137. Ainon -- Aenon, a place in the Jordan Valley
... Indeclinable Transliteration: Ainon Phonetic Spelling: (ahee-nohn') Short Definition:
Aenon Definition: Aenon; Eusebius and Jerome place this site 8 (Roman ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2708. chuqqah -- something prescribed, an enactment, statute
... 62), statutory (2). appointed, custom, manner, ordinance, site, statute. Feminine
of choq, and meaning substantially the same -- appointed ...
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870. athar -- a place
... Word Origin (Aramaic) a prim. root Definition a place NASB Word Usage after
(3), place (2), places (1), site (1), trace (1). after, place. ...
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4186. moshab -- a seat, assembly, dwelling place, dwelling ...
... Or moshab {mo-shawb'}; from yashab; a seat; figuratively, a site; abstractly, a
session; by extension an abode (the place or the time); by implication ...
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7675. shebeth -- seat, dwelling, place
... place. Word Origin from yashab Definition seat, dwelling, place NASB Word
Usage place (2), seat (1), seat* (2), site (1). place, seat. ...
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4725. maqom -- a standing place, place
... 1), ground (2), home (7), hometown (1), localities (1), place (348), place suitable
(1), places (16), position (1), room (3), seat* (2), site (4), sites (1 ...
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272. achuzzah -- a possession
... Word Origin from achaz Definition a possession NASB Word Usage possession
(40), possessions (2), property (19), site (5). possession. ...
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8478. tachath -- underneath, below, instead of
... foot (8), inasmuch* (1), instead (34), like (1), place (136), place* (1), places
(1), replace* (1), replaces* (1), return (4), right where (1), site (1), sites ...
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Library

To his Praise!
... On going there to get a site for our home, though we looked for more than a week,
we could find no place. ... When he heard we had failed to get a site, he said: ...
/.../goforth/how i know god answers prayer/ix to his praise.htm

Place of S. Cyril's Lectures.
... numerous passages in Cyril's Lectures that they were delivered in the great Basilica,
or Church of the Resurrection, built by Constantine on the site of the ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/chapter viii place of s cyrils.htm

The Last Siege of the Jews under Adrian.
... toward them. Indeed, it seems that he even went so far as to determine to
build upon the site of Jerusalem a purely heathen city. It ...
/.../pamphilius/church history/chapter vi the last siege of.htm

Discovery of the Most Holy Sepulchre.
... Footnotes: [3262] On the site of the sepulchre, compare Besant, Sepulchre,
the Holy, in Smith and Cheetham, 2((1880), 1881-1888. ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter xxviii discovery of the most.htm

From the Close of the General Conference of 1832 to the Beginning ...
... The society was unfortunate in the selection of the site for this important colony. ...
A site for a town was laid out between the Mesurado and St. ...
/.../chapter 12 from the close.htm

Death of Jesus.
... [Footnote 4: M. de Voguee has discovered, about 83 yards to the east of the traditional
site of Calvary, a fragment of a Jewish wall analogous to that of Hebron ...
//christianbookshelf.org/renan/the life of jesus/chapter xxv death of jesus.htm

The Old Testament and Archeology
... Company in Bagdad, in 1811, visited and studied the ruins of Babylon, and a little
later made similar investigations in the mounds marking the site of the ...
/.../the christian view of the old testament/chapter iv the old testament.htm

Christian Missions in Benares.
... He secured a site for a mission-house on the border of cantonment towards the city,
and erected on it a commodious and substantial structure; and since his day ...
/.../chapter iv christian missions in.htm

List of Illustrations.
... The site of the tomb of S. Peter and the Fenestella are indicated by the
author) 132. ... NEMI AND THE SITE OF THE TEMPLE OF DIANA 60. ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/list of illustrations.htm

Rondelet, {7} the Huguenot Naturalist {8}
... He contemplated long its site, its aspect, its neighbourhood, and resolved to establish
on this hill of Montpellier a temple for himself and his priests. ...
/.../kingsley/historical lectures and essays/rondelet 7 the huguenot naturalist.htm

Thesaurus

Site (19 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The place where anything is fixed; situation;
local position; as, the site of a city or of a house. ...Site (19 Occurrences). ...
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Manas'site (1 Occurrence)
Manas'site. Manasses, Manas'site. Manassites . Multi-Version
Concordance Manas'site (1 Occurrence). Deuteronomy 3:14 ...
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Bethesda (1 Occurrence)
... The name does not help as to the site, no such name occurs elsewhere in Jerusalem;
the mention of the sheep gate is of little assistance because the word "gate ...
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Pithom (1 Occurrence)
... In 1885 Dr. E. Naville discovered a Roman milestone of Maximian and Severus, proving
that the site of Heroopolis was at Tell el MachuTah ("the walled mound ...
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Kiriathjearim
... But it is open to doubt whether the reputed site of their day had any serious
claims. Any suggested site should fulfill the following ...
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Kiriath-jearim (17 Occurrences)
... But it is open to doubt whether the reputed site of their day had any serious
claims. Any suggested site should fulfill the following ...
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Gethsemane (2 Occurrences)
... be determined. The exact site of Gethsemane is still in question. Dr ... 50
yds. East of the bridge across the Kidron as the site. In ...
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Debir (12 Occurrences)
... a corruption of Kiriath-sepher; the Septuagint has here as in references to the
latter polis grammaton, "town of books." 2. The Site: Unfortunately this site...
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Millo (9 Occurrences)
... of Millo, on the way that goeth down to Silla," but possibly this may have been
in Shechem (compare Judges 9:6). 2. Identical with the Akra Site: The mention ...
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Mizpeh (24 Occurrences)
... Jerash, and Kal`at er-Rabad; but these seem all to lie South of any possible
site for Mahanaim. A ruined site was discovered by ...
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Bible Concordance

Site (19 Occurrences)

Genesis 12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.
(See NAS NIV)

Genesis 23:4 "I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."
(See NAS NIV)

Genesis 23:9 that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me among you for a possession of a burying-place."
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Genesis 23:20 The field, and the cave that is in it, were deeded to Abraham for a possession of a burying place by the children of Heth.
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Genesis 49:30 in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is opposite to Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite along with the field for a possession of a sepulchre.
(Root in DBY NAS)

Genesis 50:13 for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burial site, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
(WEB DBY NAS)

Numbers 21:15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."
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Judges 16:31 Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burial site of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
(WEB)

1 Kings 6:7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
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2 Kings 2:19 And the men of the city say unto Elisha, 'Lo, we pray thee, the site of the city 'is' good, as my lord seeth, and the waters 'are' bad, and the earth sterile.'
(YLT)

1 Chronicles 17:5 for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from one tent to another.
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1 Chronicles 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.
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1 Chronicles 21:25 So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.
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Ezra 2:68 Some of the heads of fathers' houses, when they came to the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to set it up in its place:
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Ezra 5:15 and he said to him, Take these vessels, go, put them in the temple that is in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be built in its place.
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Ezra 6:7 Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in its place.
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Isaiah 4:5 And over every living-place on Mount Zion, all over all her meetings, the Lord will make a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night, for over all, the glory of the Lord will be a cover and a tent;
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Nahum 1:8 But with an overflowing flood, he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
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Zechariah 14:10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.
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Subtopics

Site

Related Terms

Manas'site (1 Occurrence)

Bethesda (1 Occurrence)

Pithom (1 Occurrence)

Kiriathjearim

Kiriath-jearim (17 Occurrences)

Gethsemane (2 Occurrences)

Debir (12 Occurrences)

Millo (9 Occurrences)

Mizpeh (24 Occurrences)