Bible Dictionary: Tenant

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant; a renter.

2. (n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Tenement.

3. (v. t.) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.

Library

Of Agreement as to Tithe, Composition, Notice, &C.
... decided, that they are analogous to leases from year to year between landlord and
tenant; and, if they are paid without or beyond an agreement for a limited ...
/.../prideaux/directions to church-wardens/2 of agreement as to.htm

The Economic Challenge to the Church
... as shown by studies in typical areas, the landowner does not live on a neighboring
farm, nor is he a retired parent or other relative of the tenant farmer. ...
/.../church cooperation in community life/chapter iii the economic challenge.htm

There Is, Let us Say, a Certain Filthy Rookery in Hoxton...
... Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain trivial advantages,
as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 9 there is let.htm

The Old House and the New
... But you can pull down the tent, and pluck up its pegs, and roll up its canvas,
and put it away in a dark corner, and the tenant is untouched. ...
/.../maclaren/romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/the old house and the.htm

1 Timothy iii. 10-Aug
... For we are all sojourners; and the tenant of the house is more truly perchance the
owner of it, for the owner dies, and the tenant lives, and still enjoys the ...
/.../homily xi 1 timothy iii.htm

"Because of his Importunity. "
... But I was not discouraged by this difficulty; for I expected, through prayer, to
make happy and satisfactory arrangements with the tenant, being willing to ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/muller/answers to prayer/because of his importunity.htm

Christ Cleansing the Temple
... The house may be emptied of the evil tenant in some measure by our own
resolution and self-reformation. But if it is not occupied ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/christ cleansing the temple.htm

The Christian Business World
... 8). Man is a Tenant at the Will of God."No man really owns the goods in
which he deals or the lands to which he holds the deeds. ...
/.../sell/studies in the life of the christian/study xi the christian business.htm

The Ascent of the Body
... millions of cells, in which to-day each adult carries on the varied work of life,
it is certain that when he first began to be he was the simple tenant of a ...
/.../drummond/the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter i the ascent of.htm

The Struggle for the Life of Others
... rudiments of Mind. But Man is not a Body, nor a Mind. The temple still
awaits its final tenant"the higher human Soul. With a Body ...
/.../the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter vii the struggle for.htm

Thesaurus

Tenant (1 Occurrence)
... landlord. See Tenement. 3. (vt) To hold, occupy, or possess as a tenant.
Multi-Version Concordance Tenant (1 Occurrence). Leviticus ...
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Lease (2 Occurrences)
... another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to
let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with ...
/l/lease.htm - 7k

Rent (76 Occurrences)
... chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly,
a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord ...
/r/rent.htm - 32k

Relief (32 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord
for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles ...
/r/relief.htm - 16k

Base (127 Occurrences)
... not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and
the tenant, a base tenant. 11. (n.) The bottom of anything ...
/b/base.htm - 45k

Tenants (18 Occurrences)

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Homage (51 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Special honor or respect; a symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant
to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or ...
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Vassal (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A feudal tenant; a slave; a bondman.
2. (n.) A subject; a dependent; a servant; a slave. 3. (a ...
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Villain (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) One who holds lands by a base, or servile, tenure, or in villenage;
a feudal tenant of the lowest class, a bondman or servant. ...
/v/villain.htm - 7k

Kain (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in
kind by a tenant to his landlord. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. KAIN (1). ...
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Bible Concordance

Tenant (1 Occurrence)

Leviticus 22:10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
(See JPS)

Subtopics

Tenant

Related Terms

Lease (2 Occurrences)

Rent (76 Occurrences)

Relief (32 Occurrences)

Base (127 Occurrences)

Tenants (18 Occurrences)

Homage (51 Occurrences)

Vassal (4 Occurrences)

Villain (1 Occurrence)

Kain (2 Occurrences)