Bible Dictionary: Somber

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Gloomy; bleak; sad.

Greek

4768. stugnazo -- to have a gloomy appearance
... Speech: Verb Transliteration: stugnazo Phonetic Spelling: (stoog-nad'-zo) Short
Definition: I am gloomy Definition: I am gloomy, have a somber countenance, am ...
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Library

Whether it is Lawful for Religious to Wear Coarser Clothes than ...
... clothes. Objection 2: Further, Jerome says (Ep. 52 ad Nepotian.): "Avoid
somber," ie black, "equally with glittering apparel. Fine ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether it is lawful for 17.htm

His Unconscious Preparation for his Work
... had persecuted the Church of God. But these somber sentiments are only
partially justifiable. God's purposes are very deep, and ...
/.../stalker/the life of st paul/chapter ii his unconscious preparation.htm

Yea, Though I Walk in the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Will ...
... And within these shadowy valleys and somber ravines there dwell not infrequently
wild and ferocious animals that will, if aroused, attack and kill the tender ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/callan/the shepherd of my soul/vii yea though i walk.htm

Felicitous Phrases
... augmenting, furthering, and reenforcing. austere, calm, and somber. authority,
leadership, and command. avarice, pride, and revenge. awakened, girded, and active ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iii felicitous phrases.htm

Close of the Colonial Era --The German Churches --The Beginnings ...
... more vividly illustrative of the times and the men than the page in which Samuel
Hopkins recites the story of the sufferings of his own somber and ponderous ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter xii close of the.htm

In the Course of this Crude Study we Shall have to Touch on what ...
... is surely quite clear that this modern notion that woman is a mere "pretty clinging
parasite," "a plaything," etc., arose through the somber contemplation of ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 8 in the course.htm

Whom the Lady Miriam Sent
... one recollection remained"a recollection of another figure on the eminence, and
by the flash of white upthrown arms, and the blowing of a somber cloud of hair ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xlvi whom the lady.htm

The Immutability of Christ
... Nay, the whole world hath changed; earth hath doffed its green, and put on its somber
garment of Autumn, and soon expects to wear its ermine robe of snow. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the immutability of christ.htm

A Retreat, or a Rout?
... repent and believe, and our hearts may be made as pure as though we had never sinned;
but the stain of it lies ever upon our memory, and its somber shadow lies ...
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Blowing the Clouds Away
... So those spiritual clouds that were hanging so low above me and wrapping me in their
somber shadows could not be blown away by my feeble breath. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/naylor/heart talks/talk forty blowing the clouds.htm

Thesaurus

Somber (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (a.) Gloomy; bleak; sad. Multi-Version Concordance Somber (1 Occurrence). Matthew
6:16 "Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. ...
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Some (3429 Occurrences)

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Mourning (85 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge
of somber black. 4. (a.) Grieving; sorrowing; lamenting. ...
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Colors (12 Occurrences)
... yellow. A peasant chooses without hesitation a flaring magenta or yellow
or green zun-nar (girdle), rather than one of somber hues. ...
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Solving (1 Occurrence)

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Sad (73 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Sated; satisfied; weary; tired. 2. (superl.) Heavy; weighty; ponderous;
close; hard. 3. (superl.) Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors. ...
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Color (18 Occurrences)
... yellow. A peasant chooses without hesitation a flaring magenta or yellow
or green zun-nar (girdle), rather than one of somber hues. ...
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Eve (5 Occurrences)
... But not even in the somber complaints of 2 Esdras concerning the woe that Adam's
transgression brought upon the race is there any hint of Eve's part in the ...
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Crafts (2 Occurrences)
... The otherwise somber effect produced by expansive plain walls was overcome by
sculpturing, either in relief or intaglio, on a coating of stucco, and then ...
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Retribution (14 Occurrences)
... So too the somber ruminations of the Preacher upon the contradictions arid anomalies
and mysteries of human life, "under the sun," close in the reflection ...
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Bible Concordance

Somber (1 Occurrence)

Matthew 6:16 "Moreover when you fast, don't be like the hypocrites, with sad faces. For they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen by men to be fasting. Most certainly I tell you, they have received their reward.
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Subtopics

Somber

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Some (3429 Occurrences)

Mourning (85 Occurrences)

Colors (12 Occurrences)

Solving (1 Occurrence)

Sad (73 Occurrences)

Color (18 Occurrences)

Eve (5 Occurrences)

Crafts (2 Occurrences)

Retribution (14 Occurrences)