Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
a.) Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
2. (a.) Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
Strong's Hebrew
7146. qarachath -- baldness of head... From qarach; a bald spot (on the back of the head); figuratively, a
threadbare spot (on the back side of the cloth) -- bald head, bare within.
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The Fifth Beatitude
... That is a very threadbare thought, brother, but the way to invest commonplace with
startling power is to bring it into immediate connection with our own life ...
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Salvation: Grace: Faith
... Here are three of the key-words of the New Testament"'grace,' 'saved,' 'faith.'
Once these terms were strange and new; now they are old and threadbare. ...
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A New Years Message
... briefly. I. The journey. That is a threadbare metaphor for life. But
threadbare as it is, its significance is inexhaustible. But ...
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John Mark
... This is very 'threadbare' morality, very very familiar and old- fashioned teaching;
but I am accustomed to believe that no teaching is threadbare until it is ...
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Man Summoned by God's Glory and Energy
... Threadbare and consequently vague as the expression is in the minds of a great many
people who have heard it with their ears ever since they were little ...
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The Gift and the Giver
... 'Oh!' you say, 'commonplace, threadbare pulpit rhetoric.' Yes! Do you live
as if it were true? It will never be too threadbare to ...
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Two Kinds of Riches
... was never more needed in Manchester than to-day, that we should preach and preach
and preach, over and over again, this old-fashioned threadbare truth, which ...
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The Bread of the Presence
... 'Ah,' you say, 'that is a threadbare commonplace.' Yes, it is, dear friends; it
is a commonplace just because it is needful at every turn, if we are to make ...
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The Light and the Lamps
... Brethren, it is threadbare truth, that the condition of Christian vitality and radiance
is close and unbroken contact with Jesus Christ, the Source of all light ...
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The Waves of Time
... casting down.' It is the same thought of life, and its successive epochs of opportunity
never returning, which finds expression in the threadbare lines about ...
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Thesaurus
Threadbare (1 Occurrence)... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn
off;
threadbare clothes.
... Multi-Version Concordance
Threadbare (1 Occurrence).
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Thread (32 Occurrences)
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Nap (1 Occurrence)
... not changed its appearance, and the sore have not spread, it is unclean: thou shalt
burn it with fire: it is a fretting sore on what is threadbare or where the ...
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Fretting (6 Occurrences)
... not changed its appearance, and the sore have not spread, it is unclean: thou shalt
burn it with fire: it is a fretting sore on what is threadbare or where the ...
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Bare (250 Occurrences)
... 6. (a.) Threadbare; much worn. 7. (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything
else; as, a bare majority. 8. (n.) Surface; body; substance. ...
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Appearance (126 Occurrences)
... not changed its appearance, and the sore have not spread, it is unclean: thou shalt
burn it with fire: it is a fretting sore on what is threadbare or where the ...
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Sore (156 Occurrences)
... not changed its appearance, and the sore have not spread, it is unclean: thou shalt
burn it with fire: it is a fretting sore on what is threadbare or where the ...
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Bible Concordance
Threadbare (1 Occurrence)Leviticus 13:55 And the priest shall look on the sore after the washing, and behold, if the sore have not changed its appearance, and the sore have not spread, it is unclean: thou shalt burn it with fire: it is a fretting sore on what is threadbare or where the nap is gone.
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Threadbare
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Threads (13 Occurrences)
Thread (32 Occurrences)
Nap (1 Occurrence)
Fretting (6 Occurrences)
Bare (250 Occurrences)
Appearance (126 Occurrences)
Sore (156 Occurrences)
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