Bible Dictionary: Usher

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.

2. (n.) An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

3. (v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.

Greek

4233. praktor -- one who does or accomplishes
... 4233 -- properly, a finance agent; "a bailiff or constable" working in a court
in antiquity (); "an officer (usher) of the court" (Souter). ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4233.htm - 7k

Library

A Plymouth Usher
... A PLYMOUTH USHER. It was ... that capacity. An usher has peculiar opportunities
to study human nature, both individually and collectively. ...
/.../griswold/sixty years with plymouth church/a plymouth usher.htm

The Incomparable Bridegroom and his Bride
... Archbishop Usher was once asked to write a treatise upon Sanctification; this he
promised to do, but six months rolled away, and the good Archbishop had not ...
/.../spurgeons sermons volume 42 1896/the incomparable bridegroom and his.htm

Introductory Note to the Martyrdom of Ignatius
... given entire in Jacobson (vol. ii. p.524), against the decision of Usher
for ad107. Pearson accepts ad116. Consult also the preface ...
/.../introductory note to the martyrdom.htm

Elucidations.
... Usher adopts ad447 as its date, and Beveridge assigns it to the fourth
century. Dupin gives it a later origin than Usher, and a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/dionysius/against the sabellians/elucidations.htm

Son of the Morning
... The "Morning Star" speaks of Christ coming to usher in the great Day of
rest for the earth. In blasphemous travesty of this Satan ...
//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the antichrist/15 son of the morning.htm

A Groaning Creation Can be Delivered Only by the Second Advent of ...
... The day when this groaning creation will be delivered is the day when Christ returns
to usher in the Millennium and when the saints shall be revealed in glory ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the redeemers return/4 a groaning creation can.htm

Capital Punishment
... For how else can they say, as I have known some say, that capital punishment is
wrong, because "we have no right to usher a man into the presence of his Maker ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon vi capital punishment.htm

The Conversion of Zaccheus
... Well might the evangelist usher in the relation of this man's conversion with the
word "behold!" For, according to human judgment, how many insurmountable ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the conversion of zaccheus.htm

The Limitations of Earth's Great Week.
... "Four days" from Adam to the first advent, "two days" of absence, making a total
of six (6,000 years) and then the Lord returns to usher in the "seventh day ...
/.../pink/the redeemers return/9 the limitations of earths.htm

Sixty years with Plymouth Church
... PAGE. I. Coming to New York 15. II. Early Plymouth 22. III. A Plymouth Usher 30.
IV. Plymouth Services 45. V. Plymouth Members 59. VI. Buying a Slave Girl 70. VII ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/griswold/sixty years with plymouth church/title page.htm

Thesaurus

Usher (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (vt) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; --
sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher...
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Useth (9 Occurrences)

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Vine (76 Occurrences)
... by Josephus (BJ, IV, viii, 4), which appear to have been an actual species of fruit,
probably either the colocynth or the fruit of the Usher tree, Calotropis ...
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Ushers (1 Occurrence)

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Illustrious (1 Occurrence)
... Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, to usher
in the day of the Lord-- that great and illustrious day; (WEY YLT). ...
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Introduce (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher
in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room. 2. (vt ...
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Sodom (49 Occurrences)
... by Josephus (BJ, IV, viii, 4), which appear to have been an actual species of fruit,
probably either the colocynth or the fruit of the Usher tree, Calotropis ...
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Sign (181 Occurrences)
... Nevertheless "signs," in the sense of displays of miraculous powers, are to accompany
the faith of believers (Mark 16:17 f), usher in and forthwith ...
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Patriarchs (6 Occurrences)
... (1) An interpretation, current at the time of Josephus (Ant., I, iii, 4) and adopted
by Archbishop Usher in 1650 in his attempt to fix the dates of the events ...
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Antediluvian
... (1) An interpretation, current at the time of Josephus (Ant., I, iii, 4) and adopted
by Archbishop Usher in 1650 in his attempt to fix the dates of the events ...
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Bible Concordance

Usher (1 Occurrence)

Acts 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, to usher in the day of the Lord-- that great and illustrious day;
(WEY)

Subtopics

Usher

Related Terms

Useth (9 Occurrences)

Vine (76 Occurrences)

Ushers (1 Occurrence)

Illustrious (1 Occurrence)

Introduce (3 Occurrences)

Sodom (49 Occurrences)