Bible Dictionary: Threat

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.

2. (n.) To threaten.

Greek

547. apeile -- a threat
... a threat. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: apeile Phonetic Spelling:
(ap-i-lay') Short Definition: a threatening, threat Definition: a threatening ...
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1286. diaseio -- to shake violently, to intimidate
... shake violently, to manhandle (literally, "shake someone to-and-fro"); intimidate,
coerce (blackmail, extort), forcing someone to comply under threat (of being ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1606. gearah -- a rebuke
... Word Origin from gaar Definition a rebuke NASB Word Usage rebuke (13), threat (2).
rebukeing, reproof. From ga'ar; a chiding -- rebuke(-ing), reproof. ...
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8573. tenuphah -- a swinging, waving, wave offering, offering
... From nuwph; a brandishing (in threat); by implication, tumult; specifically, the
official undulation of sacrificial offerings -- offering, shaking, wave ...
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Library

How the Threat of the Destruction of the Ninevites is to be ...
... Chapter 44."How the Threat of the Destruction of the Ninevites is to Be Understood
Which in the Hebrew Extends to Forty Days, While in the Septuagint It is ...
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Wesley's Threat to Deptford
... Collects Money for the Poor; Visits the House of Lords; His Reasons for his Long
Life; "How is the Tide Turned;" Last Entries Wesley's Threat to Deptford. 1787. ...
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Eternal Punishment not a Mere Threat.
... Chapter IX."Eternal punishment not a mere threat. And that no one may say
what is said by those who are deemed philosophers, that ...
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Concerning those who have Yielded Merely Upon Threat of Penalties ...
... Canon VI. Concerning those who have yielded merely upon threat of penalties
and of the confiscation of� Concerning those who have ...
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Whether the Precepts of the Decalogue are Suitably Formulated?
... Objection 4: Further, the Old Law is called "the law of fear," in so far as it induced
men to observe the precepts, by means of the threat of punishments. ...
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Micah
... the leaders of the people"officials, judges, priests, prophets"accuses them of being
mercenary and time-serving, and ends with the terrible threat that the ...
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Significance of Compulsory Service.
... Nothing can oblige a man to do what he does not choose except physical force, or
the threat of it, that is"deprivation of freedom, blows, imprisonment, or ...
/.../the kingdom of god is within you/chapter vii significance of compulsory.htm

Philemon i. 17-19
... But if He does punish, and still you say it is a matter of threat, and on that account
become more slothful, if it were really but a threat, would you not ...
/.../homily iii philemon i 17-19.htm

A Manifestation of God in Answer to Prayer
... The church cannot cope with the menacing threat of worldliness except the company
of believers pray for power to meet the insidious threat. ...
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1 Thessalonians iv. 15-17
... Then it is written in vain! No, you say, but only as a threat, that we may
become wise! ... And were those things also said by way of threat? ...
/.../homily viii 1 thessalonians iv.htm

Thesaurus

Threat (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) To threaten. Multi-Version Concordance Threat (7 Occurrences). ... (Root in WEB
JPS ASV NIV). Isaiah 30:17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. ...
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Immanuel (3 Occurrences)
... 3. Was It a Promise or a Threat?: The question as to whether the sign given
to Ahaz was favorable or not presents many difficulties. ...
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Thunder (48 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) An alarming or startling threat or denunciation. ... 8. (vt) To emit with noise
and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish, as a threat or denunciation. ...
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Beacon (3 Occurrences)
... (See JPS). Isaiah 30:17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At
the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like ...
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Shall (64703 Occurrences)
... promise your going. It thus ordinarily expresses, in the second and third
persons, a command, a threat, or a promise. If the auxiliary ...
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Swear (99 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth
of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also ...
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Rehoboam (42 Occurrences)
... might have won. The threat of the king was met by the Marseillaise of the
people: "What portion have we in David? neither have we ...
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Banner (20 Occurrences)
... When the trumpet is blown, listen! (WEB DBY NIV). Isaiah 30:17 One thousand
will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five ...
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Prophets (270 Occurrences)
... and elsewhere). In other cases it is only later generations who can judge
of the correctness of a prediction or of a threat. In ...
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Threads (13 Occurrences)

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Bible Concordance

Threat (7 Occurrences)

Acts 9:1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Ezra 4:22 Take heed that you not be slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?
(See NIV)

Nehemiah 4:9 But we made our prayer to our God, and set a watch against them day and night, because of them.
(See NIV)

Psalms 64:1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Hear my voice, God, in my complaint. Preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 13:8 The ransom of a man's life is his riches, but the poor hear no threats.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV NIV)

Isaiah 30:17 One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Lamentations 2:17 The LORD hath done that which He devised; He hath performed His word that He commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down unsparingly; and He hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Threat

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