Bible Dictionary: Sweepings

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n. pl.) Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.

Greek

4657. skubalon -- refuse
... from 2965 , "dog" and 906 , "throw") -- properly, thrown to dogs, like filthy scraps
of garbage (table-scraps, dung, muck, sweepings); (figuratively), what is ...
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Library

Elucidation.
... great predecessor in Patristic research (Bishop Pearson), the learned and indefatigable
Bishop Lightfoot will leave us gold-dust in the mere sweepings of his ...
/.../urbanus/the extant writings of asterius urbanus/elucidation.htm

Protest of the Princes
... Said Melanchthon: "We are the execration and the sweepings of the world; but Christ
will look down on His poor people, and will preserve them.""Ibid., b.13 ...
/.../white/the great controversy/chapter 11 protest of the.htm

Protest of the Princes.
... Said Melanchthon, "We are the execration and the sweepings of the world; but Christ
will look down on His poor people, and will preserve them."(284) The ...
/.../the great controversy between christ and satan /11 protest of the princes.htm

The Angel
... They remained in the great city; they floated about there in a small street, where
lay whole heaps of straw, ashes, and sweepings, for it had been removal-day. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/wells/bible stories and religious classics/the angel.htm

The Old Store an the New
... True, we are often brought very low; there may not be much in the barn but
sweepings, and a few stray grains scattered over the floor. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the old store an the.htm

Of the Affectionate Languishing of the Heart Wounded with Love.
... [315] As though he had said we are so abject that if the world be a palace we are
held the sweepings thereof, if the world be an apple we are its parings. ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xv of the affectionate.htm

The "Sayings" of Pythagoras.
... severed. [665] Saron. This word also signifies "sweepings" or "refuse."
Some say it means a Chaldean or Babylonian measure. The ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xxii the sayings of pythagoras.htm

February 7. "Faithful in that which is Least" (Luke xvi. 10).
... the cuttings of his master's great work. The sweepings of the British mint
are worth millions. The little pivots on which the works ...
/.../simpson/days of heaven upon earth /february 7 faithful in that.htm

The Box of Ointment.
... Not as many, to give Him the mere dregs and sweepings of existence"the wrecks of
a "worn and withered love""but, like Mary, anxious to take every ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/macduff/memories of bethany/xvii the box of ointment.htm

To-Morrow
... he is everything; he is perfection." To-days"they are nothing; they are the very
sweepings of the floors; but to-morrows "they are the solid gold. ...
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Thesaurus

Sweepings (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n. pl.) Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the
sweepings of a street. Multi-Version Concordance Sweepings (2 Occurrences). ...
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Sweeps (10 Occurrences)

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Filth (21 Occurrences)
... doings, sin, "the filth of the daughters of Zion"; compare Proverbs 30:12); in the
New Testament we have perikatharma "cleansings" "sweepings," offscourings (1 ...
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Filthiness (16 Occurrences)
... doings, sin, "the filth of the daughters of Zion"; compare Proverbs 30:12); in the
New Testament we have perikatharma "cleansings" "sweepings," offscourings (1 ...
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Filthy (22 Occurrences)
... doings, sin, "the filth of the daughters of Zion"; compare Proverbs 30:12); in the
New Testament we have perikatharma "cleansings" "sweepings," offscourings (1 ...
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Dunggate
... south-west quarter. "The gate outside of which lay the piles of sweepings
and offscourings of the streets," in the valley of Tophet. ...
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Dung-gate (4 Occurrences)
... "The gate outside of which lay the piles of sweepings and offscourings of the
streets," in the valley of Tophet. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Shakings (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n. pl.) Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas,
etc. Multi-Version Concordance Shakings (1 Occurrence). ...
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Sweeping (3 Occurrences)

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Pair (18 Occurrences)
... Amos 8:6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes,
and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'" (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV ...
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Bible Concordance

Sweepings (2 Occurrences)

Isaiah 33:12 And peoples have been 'as' burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.
(YLT)

Amos 8:6 that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?'"
(WEB NIV)

Subtopics

Sweepings

Related Terms

Sweeps (10 Occurrences)

Filth (21 Occurrences)

Filthiness (16 Occurrences)

Filthy (22 Occurrences)

Dunggate