Bible Dictionary: Sticky

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

Strong's Hebrew

2916. tit -- mud, mire, clay
... mire (7), mud (3). clay, dirt, mire. From an unused root meaning apparently
to be sticky (rath. Perb. A demon. From tuw', through ...
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3910. lot -- myrrh
... myrrh. Probably from luwt; a gum (from its sticky nature), probably ladanum -- myrrh.
see HEBREW luwt. 3909, 3910. lot. 3911 . Strong's Numbers.
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1707. dabbesheth -- a hump
... hunch of a camel. Intensive from the same as dbash; a sticky mass, ie The hump of
a camel -- hunch (of a camel). see HEBREW dbash. 1706, 1707. ...
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Library

Man's Bad Break.
... It is cunningly implied with a sticky, slimy cunning that, by not eating, that
likeness and knowledge would not come. That was the lie. ...
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Hugh the Builder
... gives not only his wealth and the labour of his people, but the help of his own
sweat; and often he carries in a pannier the carved stones and the sticky lime. ...
/.../marson/hugh bishop of lincoln/chapter viii hugh the builder.htm

The Valleys --Experiences of Suffering and Sacrifice
... speaking of finds some strange shuttle-threads to be woven into the pattern, gray
black, ugly black threads, and red threads almost wet and sticky in their ...
/.../quiet talks on following the christ/3 the valleysexperiences of suffering.htm

The Builders
... not leave until the last streak of daylight had faded, except for the brief space
allowed for breakfast and dinner, when huge cauldrons of a sticky mass of ...
/.../cable/the fulfilment of a dream of pastor hsis/chapter xv the builders.htm

Our Brother.
... He was their Brother. He would get down alongside, and pull up with them side
by side out of the ditch of sticky mud up to good footing. ...
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The Ideal Devout Life
... Plod, plod, plod, in a heavy-footed, spiritless grind, like that with which the
ploughman toils down the sticky furrows of a field, with a pound of clay at ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the ideal devout life.htm

In the High Priest's Palace
... Once the tiniest wing tip is in the spider's web, before long the whole
body will be wrapped round by its filthy, sticky threads. ...
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The Elf
... Thy grace." Praise for mercies followed in order: the cardboard box, the lump of
sugar-candy, the spoils from the waste-paper basket, those sticky honey-cakes ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter xx the elf.htm

Off Duty
... Some small children make a fuss if only their lips are washed after a meal; they
do not seem to care how sticky they are; but my mice do, they like to be clean ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/xiv off duty.htm

La Brea
... mud and water. It may be kneaded for an hour before the mud be sufficiently
driven out of it to make it sticky. This very abundance ...
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Thesaurus

Sticky (5 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Sticky (5 Occurrences). Genesis ... well. And they had bricks
for stone, putting them together with sticky earth. (BBE). ...
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Sticks (25 Occurrences)

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Stiff (23 Occurrences)

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Gum (3 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or
a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance. ...
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Water-plants (7 Occurrences)
... Exodus 2:3 And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket
out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the ...
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Daub (3 Occurrences)
... 6. (vi) To smear; to play the flatterer. 7. (n.) A viscous, sticky application;
a spot smeared or dabbed; a smear. 8. (n.) A picture coarsely executed. Int. ...
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Myrrh (22 Occurrences)
... species of cistus, especially C. creticus in the Greek Isles, where it is collected
by threshing the plants by a kind of flail from which the sticky mass is ...
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Pasting (1 Occurrence)
... Exodus 2:3 And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket
out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the ...
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Plow (11 Occurrences)
... Luke 17:7; compare `abhadh, Deuteronomy 21:4). Plowing cannot be done before the
rains (Jeremiah 14:4); on the other hand the soil is too sticky to plow in the ...
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Pitch (25 Occurrences)
... character. (see SLIME.). Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A thick, black, lustrous,
and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It ...
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Bible Concordance

Sticky (5 Occurrences)

Genesis 11:3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
(BBE)

Genesis 14:10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of holes of sticky earth; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were put to flight and came to their end there, but the rest got away to the mountain.
(BBE)

Exodus 2:3 And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.
(BBE)

Psalms 40:2 He took me up out of a deep waste place, out of the soft and sticky earth; he put my feet on a rock, and made my steps certain.
(BBE)

Psalms 69:14 Take me from the grip of the sticky earth, so that I may not go down into it; let me be lifted up from the deep waters.
(BBE)

Subtopics

Sticky

Related Terms

Sticks (25 Occurrences)

Stiff (23 Occurrences)

Gum (3 Occurrences)

Water-plants (7 Occurrences)

Daub (3 Occurrences)

Myrrh (22 Occurrences)

Pasting (1 Occurrence)