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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind.

2. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind.

3. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wind.

4. (n.) A call by the boatswain's whistle.

5. (a.) Twisting from a direct line or an even surface; circuitous.

6. (n.) A turn or turning; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream.

7. (n.) A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature of an electric motor or generator.

Greek

4646. skolios -- curved, winding, hence crooked
... curved, winding, hence crooked. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: skolios
Phonetic Spelling: (skol-ee-os') Short Definition: crooked, perverse, unfair ...
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2750. keiria -- a bandage, grave-clothes
... graveclothes. Of uncertain affinity; a swathe, ie Winding-sheet -- graveclothes.
(keiriais) -- 1 Occurrence. 2749, 2750. keiria. 2751 . Strong's Numbers.
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Strong's Hebrew

3883. lul -- a shaft or enclosed space with steps or ladder
... Word Origin of uncertain derivation Definition a shaft or enclosed space with steps
or ladder NASB Word Usage winding stairs (1). winding stair. ...
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4141. musab -- perhaps encompassing, surrounding
... winding about. From cabab; a turn, ie Circuit (of a building) -- winding about.
see HEBREW cabab. 4140b, 4141. musab. 4142 . Strong's Numbers.
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6128. aqalqal -- crooked
... 1). byway, crooked way. From aqal; winding -- by(-way), crooked way. see HEBREW
aqal. 6127, 6128. aqalqal. 6129 . Strong's Numbers.
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7028. Qishon -- a wadi in the plain of Megiddo
... Kishon, Kison. From qowsh; winding; Kishon, a river of Palestine -- Kishon, Kison.
see HEBREW qowsh. 7027, 7028. Qishon. 7029 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Night of Resurrection.
... The sacred body of our Blessed Redeemer was wrapped in the winding-sheet, and
surrounded with light, while two angels sat in an attitude of adoration, the one ...
/.../the dolorous passion of our lord jesus christ/chapter lxii the night of.htm

The Holy Women at the Sepulchre.
... I could see the linen cloth in which the body of Jesus had been wrapped scattered
about in the tomb, and the large winding-sheet lying in the same place as ...
/.../the dolorous passion of our lord jesus christ/chapter lxiv the holy women.htm

Ruth, the Gleaner
... So together they journeyed on again, and at last came to the winding road which
led up to the town of Bethlehem, nestling like a white bird upon the long ridge ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/steedman/the babe in the bulrushes/ruth the gleaner.htm

The Practical Side of Religion
... way up the rugged hillside. As I ascended the winding path ever higher
and higher, my horizon broadened. When at length I reached ...
/.../naylor/heart talks/talk thirty-five the practical side.htm

Appendix 1 Massecheth Middoth
... If an accident befell one of them, he went out and had to go by the winding stair
which went under the house, and lights were burning on either side, till he ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/appendix 1 massecheth middoth.htm

Egypt and Greece.
... reposed, as it were, in the bosom of the sea, consisting, as it did, of an endless
number of islands, promontories, peninsulas, and winding coasts, laved on ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter ii egypt and greece.htm

The Story of David
... It lay out of the beaten track, and any one wanting to visit it must needs climb
the long winding road that led from the plain beneath, through olive groves ...
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Whether Christ was Buried in a Becoming Manner?
... the sacrifice of the altar to be offered not upon silk, nor upon dyed cloth, but
on linen of the earth; as the Lord's body was buried in a clean winding-sheet ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether christ was buried in.htm

The Joint Heirs and their Divine Portion
... to illustrate the full meaning of the joint heirship"suppose, after the via had
been proved and acknowledged to be right, it shall be found in winding up the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/the joint heirs and their.htm

The Northern Mountains
... crystal-clear, bedded with gray pebbles, broken into rapids by rock-ledges or great
white quartz boulders, swirling under steep cliffs, winding through flats ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xi the northern mountains.htm

Thesaurus

Winding (4 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Winding (4 Occurrences). Judges 5:6 "In the days of Shamgar
the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. ...
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Twist (5 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To unite by winding one thread, strand, or other flexible substance, round
another; to form by convolution, or winding separate things round each other ...
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Shroud (6 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. ... 8. (n.) To cover with
a shroud; especially, to enclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave. ...
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Wind (180 Occurrences)
... 9. (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding. 10.
(n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air. 11. ...
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Twine (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) The act of twining or winding round. 4. (n.) To twist together; to form
by twisting or winding of threads; to wreathe; as, fine twined linen. ...
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Enlarging (1 Occurrence)
... Ezekiel 41:7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the
side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round ...
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Lowest (28 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 41:7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the
side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round ...
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Vine (76 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant
that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by ...
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Kishon (6 Occurrences)
...Winding, a winter torrent of Central Palestine, which rises about the roots of Tabor
and Gilboa, and passing in a northerly direction through the plains of ...
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Leviathan (5 Occurrences)
... marg. `winding'] serpent," the word may probably denote the two empires,
the Assyrian and the Babylonian. Noah Webster's Dictionary. ...
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Bible Concordance

Winding (4 Occurrences)

Judges 5:6 "In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied. The travelers walked through byways.
(See NIV)

1 Kings 6:8 The door for the middle side chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Jeremiah 2:23 How sayest thou, 'I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,
(YLT)

Ezekiel 41:7 And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.
(KJV JPS WBS)

Subtopics

Winding

Related Terms

Twist (5 Occurrences)

Shroud (6 Occurrences)

Wind (180 Occurrences)

Twine (1 Occurrence)

Enlarging (1 Occurrence)

Lowest (28 Occurrences)

Vine (76 Occurrences)

Kishon (6 Occurrences)

Leviathan (5 Occurrences)