Bible Dictionary: Thumbs

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Strong's Hebrew

931. bohen -- thumb, great toe
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition thumb, great toe NASB Word Usage big
toe (6), big toes (1), thumb (6), thumbs (1), thumbs and their big (1), thumbs ...
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Library

Preface
... Vociferated logic kills me quite; A noisy man is always in the right" I twirl my
thumbs, fall back into my chair, Fix on the wainscot a distressful stare ...
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The Foundations of Good Citizenship.
... contain ten decalogues, that is a decalogue of decalogues, suggesting that originally
a decalogue was associated with each of the fingers and thumbs of the two ...
/.../kent/the making of a nation/study x the foundations of.htm

The Builders
... his tools. Our informant described him as aged, starved, and infirm, "truly
pitiable," and strung up by his thumbs to a beam. The ...
/.../cable/the fulfilment of a dream of pastor hsis/chapter xv the builders.htm

Meditation ix. Private Instruction and Consecrations.
... Then he laid his hands on their shoulders and heads, while they, on their part,
joined their hands and crossed their thumbs, bowing down profoundly before him ...
/.../meditation ix private instruction and.htm

The Gate of Nicanor, or the East Gate of the Court of Israel.
... when will it be in my power, to lay them waste!" But when the Asmonean family prevailed,
they subdued them, and slew him, and hung up his thumbs and great toes ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 30 the gate of.htm

The Deaf Stammerer Healed and Four Thousand Fed.
... He then touched with one or both his thumbs the man's tongue, and, speaking the
healing word, the cure was accomplished]; 34 and looking up to heaven, he sighed ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/lxix the deaf stammerer healed.htm

The Origin of Species.
... like their mother, though the hands and feet of George were slightly deformed; the
last, a girl, had five fingers and five toes, but the thumbs were slightly ...
/.../huxley/lay sermons addresses and reviews/xii the origin of species.htm

A Letter from a West Indian Cottage Ornee
... which has developed, at one end, a body about twice as big as a hare's; four arms
(call them not legs), of which the front ones have no thumbs, nor rudiments ...
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A God-Given Field (1894-1900)
... early years. She witnessed a good confession in 1900"being strung up
by her thumbs when refusing to deny her Lord. Faithfully ...
/.../goforth/how i know god answers prayer/iv a god-given field 1894-1900.htm

The Pearl.
... When you have collected a sufficient store, sit down and open them one by one with
a knife, feeling carefully with your thumbs for the little hard round knots ...
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Thesaurus

Thumbs (4 Occurrences)
...Thumbs (4 Occurrences). ... Judges 1:6 But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after
him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. ...
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Thumb (7 Occurrences)
... See Pollex. 2. (vt) To handle awkwardly. 3. (vt) To play with the thumbs,
or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune. ...
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Toes (8 Occurrences)
... put the sheep to death, and take some of its blood and put it on the point of Aaron's
right ear, and of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their ...
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Adonibezek (2 Occurrences)
... that were around him, made an attack against the armies of Judah and Simeon, but
was defeated and brought as a captive to Jerusalem, where his thumbs and great ...
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Adoni-bezek (3 Occurrences)
... (WEB JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS NIV). Judges 1:6 But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued
after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. ...
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Big (21 Occurrences)
... (WEB NAS NIV). Judges 1:6 But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and
caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. (See NAS NIV). ...
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Overtook (35 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Judges 1:6 But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook
him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off. (BBE). ...
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Fleeth (54 Occurrences)
... Judges 1:6 And Adoni-Bezek fleeth, and they pursue after him, and seize him,
and cut off his thumbs and his great toes, (YLT). Judges ...
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Requited (12 Occurrences)
... Judges 1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great
toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God has ...
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Dropping (33 Occurrences)
... put the sheep to death, and take some of its blood and put it on the point of Aaron's
right ear, and of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their ...
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Bible Concordance

Thumbs (4 Occurrences)

Exodus 29:20 You are to put the sheep to death, and take some of its blood and put it on the point of Aaron's right ear, and of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands and the great toes of their right feet, dropping the rest of the blood on the sides of the altar.
(BBE NAS RSV NIV)

Leviticus 8:24 And he brought Aaron's sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of their right feet: and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.
(KJV BBE WBS RSV NIV)

Judges 1:6 But Adoni-Bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Judges 1:7 Adoni-Bezek said, "Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Thumbs

Related Terms

Thumb (7 Occurrences)

Toes (8 Occurrences)

Adonibezek (2 Occurrences)

Adoni-bezek (3 Occurrences)

Big (21 Occurrences)

Overtook (35 Occurrences)

Fleeth (54 Occurrences)

Requited (12 Occurrences)

Dropping (33 Occurrences)