Bible Dictionary: Tragedy

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species of drama which represents the sad or terrible phases of character and life.

2. (n.) A fatal and mournful event; any event in which human lives are lost by human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence.

Greek

2351. thorubos -- an uproar
... times. They performed public lamentations so the haunting sound of the flute
became synonymous with death (tragedy, mourning). [Professional ...
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Topical Bible Verses

John 16:33
These things I have spoken to you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
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Romans 10:13
For whoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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Romans 12:19
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place to wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, said the Lord.
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Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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Library

A Soul's Tragedy
... VOLUME II: ST. LUKE Chaps. XIII to XXIV A SOUL'S TRAGEDY. 'Then Herod questioned
with Him in many words; but He answered him nothing.'"Luke 23:9. ...
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A Soul's Tragedy
... THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL A SOUL'S TRAGEDY. 'And David went out whithersoever
Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul ...
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The Story of a Divine Tragedy
... Chapter X THE STORY OF A DIVINE TRAGEDY. The following morning, there was
a rap at the door of the chamber to which Laodice had been ...
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Fellow-Followers
... man, and through his free consent. The tragedy of sin has intensified God's
need tremendously. It has intensified everything, man's ...
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The Anvil of Experience.
... These greater experiences were tragic until the great tragedy was past. ... Calvary was
the tragedy when love yielded to hate and, yielding, conquered. ...
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The Soul of Prayer
... The moors lie round it, and the heights face it; and below the village drowses;
while far, far afield, the world agonizes in a solemn tragedy of righteousness ...
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The Main Current of the Reformation
... of forces in the supreme spiritual undertakings of the race is of course confined
to no one century and to no one movement; it is a very ancient tragedy. ...
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Reception Christ Met With.
... us. This reception forms the great tragedy of human history. ... history. But what
is that outrage when compared with the theocratic tragedy? ...
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One Hank Over for the Candle.
... A need, nobody to meet it; the need passing into an emergency; and that into the
tragedy of an unmet emergency; a heart sore torn to bleeding by the tragedy ...
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The Sophistical Arts Useless.
... They disguise, so that they do not seem what they ought to seem,". says the tragedy. ...
Accordingly I wholly approve of the tragedy, when it says:". ...
/.../the stromata or miscellanies/chapter viii the sophistical arts useless.htm

Thesaurus

Tragedy (1 Occurrence)
... human violence, more especially by unauthorized violence. Multi-Version
Concordance Tragedy (1 Occurrence). 1 Kings 17:20 He cried to ...
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Play (61 Occurrences)
... 20. (n.) A dramatic composition; a comedy or tragedy; a composition in which
characters are represented by dialogue and action. 21. ...
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Trail (5 Occurrences)

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Quotations
... grace with men, their rejection of it and the consequent vicarious immolation of
the Divine Friend and Shepherd, which came to its climax in the tragedy of the ...
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Innocents (2 Occurrences)
... Irenaeus (died 202 AD) calls these children "martyrs," and in a very beautiful passage
interprets the tragedy which ended their brief lives as a gracious and ...
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Tragacanth (2 Occurrences)

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Trial (45 Occurrences)
... of its inherent importance, but more particularly on account of its immediately
preceding, and leading directly up to what is the greatest tragedy in human ...
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Rehearse (5 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement,
before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy. ...
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Dionysus
... Dionysus. Greek tragedy is a form of worship, the ritual cult of the god
of wine, who makes the initiate wise and the ungodly mad. ...
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Massacre (1 Occurrence)
... Irenaeus (died 202 AD) calls these children "martyrs," and in a very beautiful passage
interprets the tragedy which ended their brief lives as a gracious and ...
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Bible Concordance

Tragedy (1 Occurrence)

1 Kings 17:20 He cried to Yahweh, and said, "Yahweh my God, have you also brought evil on the widow with whom I sojourn, by killing her son?"
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Subtopics

Tragedy

Related Terms

Play (61 Occurrences)

Trail (5 Occurrences)

Quotations

Innocents (2 Occurrences)

Tragacanth (2 Occurrences)

Trial (45 Occurrences)

Rehearse (5 Occurrences)

Dionysus

Massacre (1 Occurrence)