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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.

2. (a.) Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood.

3. (a.) Containing life; living.

4. (a.) Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal.

5. (a.) Very necessary; highly important; essential.

6. (a.) Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.

7. (n.) A vital part; one of the vitals.

Greek

5590. psuche -- breath, the soul
... Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: psuche Phonetic Spelling: (psoo-khay') Short
Definition: the soul, life, self Definition: (a) the vital breath, breath ...
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4994. sophronizo -- to recall one to his senses, admonish
... sides of a matter. Doing this is vital to counseling young women (mothers)
in the will of God (Tit 2:4). [4994 () and 4993 () are ...
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970. bia -- strength, force
... violence. Probably akin to bia (through the idea of vital activity); force -- violence.
see GREEK bia. (bian) -- 1 Occurrence. (bias) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
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4151. pneuma -- wind, spirit
... a current of air, ie Breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit,
ie (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental ...
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226. aletheuo -- to speak the truth
... 226 (literally, "to truth") includes Spirit-led confrontation where it is vital
to tell the truth so others can live in God's rather than personal . ...
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4102. pistis -- faith, faithfulness
... 7:31, 12:42 and 4102/ ("believe"). As in the Gospels, a person's believing
(belief) is vital (cf. Heb 11:6). But a personal encounter ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5397. neshamah -- breath
... blast, that breaths, inspiration, soul, spirit. From nasham; a puff, ie
Wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect. ...
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5396. nishmah -- breath
... breath. (Aramaic) corresponding to nshamah; vital breath -- breath. see HEBREW
nshamah. 5395, 5396. nishmah. 5397 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Eunomius Displays Much Folly and Fine Writing, but Very Little ...
... Book I. Section 4. Eunomius displays much folly and fine writing, but very
little seriousness about vital points. In these and such ...
/.../gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 4 eunomius displays much.htm

Concerning "Life. "
... And, as, in thinking of the title "Existent," we said that It is an Eternity of
very Being, so do we now say that the Supra-Vital or Divine Life is the ...
/.../rolt/dionysius the areopagite/chapter vi concerning life.htm

The Domain or Province of Science.
... The Christian, recognizing spiritual substance also, finds his ultimate or resting
place in God, who is the last element in vital and mental analysis, and also ...
/.../the domain or province of.htm

The Obedience of Christ.
... this? There was a twofold connection between Adam and his descendants"the
judicial and the vital. JUDICIAL AND VITAL CONNECTION. ...
/.../murray/the school of obedience/ii the obedience of christ.htm

Our Death.
... Hence it is plain that the human body has no vital principle in itself, but receives
it from the soul. The arm is motionless until moved by the soul. ...
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A Divided Heart
... It affects a vital part, it is not merely a disease of the hand, that reformation
might cure; it is not merely a disease of the foot, that restraint might ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/a divided heart.htm

Concerning Passion and Energy.
... The faculties of knowledge are mind, thought, notion, presentation, sensation:
and the vital or appetitive faculties are will and choice. ...
/.../exposition of the orthodox faith/chapter xxii concerning passion and energy.htm

Early English Interpreters of Spiritual Religion: John Everard ...
... His influence was marked upon the early English Humanists, Linacre, Grocyn, Colet,
and More, and he was a vital influence in the new revival, which occurred in ...
/.../chapter xiii early english interpreters.htm

Family Habits.
... Feeding, toiling, sleeping, an insensate weary round; The plough, or the ledger,
or the trade, with animal cares and indolence, Make the mass of vital years a ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xvii family habits.htm

Perfect in Parts, Imperfect in Degrees.
... small. This gradual increase is the expanding force of an inherent vital
principle, pervading all the members and every part. This ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/x perfect in parts imperfect.htm

Thesaurus

Vital (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Belonging or relating to life, either animal or
vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions. ...
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Breathing (25 Occurrences)
... Yet in general one may say that of the two neshamah is employed preferably of breath
regarded physiologically: "vital breath," hence, the vital principle ...
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Breathe (17 Occurrences)
... Yet in general one may say that of the two neshamah is employed preferably of breath
regarded physiologically: "vital breath," hence, the vital principle ...
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Breath (95 Occurrences)
... Yet in general one may say that of the two neshamah is employed preferably of breath
regarded physiologically: "vital breath," hence, the vital principle ...
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Spirit (706 Occurrences)
... (Hebrews ruah; Gr. pneuma), properly wind or breath. In 2 Thessalonians 2:8 it means
"breath," and in Ecclesiastes 8:8 the vital principle in man. ...
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Evolution
... The latter is given in his vital impetus (elan vital); the former in his concept
of duration.) As an orderly change of the form of things, evolution may be ...
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Life (6001 Occurrences)
... by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance
of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether ...
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Vitality (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) Physical or mental strength and health; power to
live and thrive; vital force; animation; as, the vitality of eggs or vegetable ...
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Disease (213 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting
or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or ...
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Demonology
... the Biblical doctrine of demons. (3) This theory breaks down in another
still more vital particular. The demonology of the Bible ...
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Bible Concordance

Vital (2 Occurrences)

Romans 4:19 And, without growing weak in faith, he could contemplate his own vital powers which had now decayed--for he was nearly 100 years old--and Sarah's barrenness.
(WEY)

Colossians 2:6 As therefore you have received the Christ, even Jesus our Lord, live and act in vital union with Him;
(WEY)

Subtopics

Vital

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Disease (213 Occurrences)