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Greek

1630. ekphobos -- terrified
... 1630 (an adjective, derived from 1537 , "wholly ," intensifying 5401 , "fear") --
properly, wholly frightened (literally of one's wits), ie with the outcome of ...
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3525. nepho -- to be sober, to abstain from wine
... 3525 ("uninfluenced by intoxicants") means to have "one's wits (faculties) about
them," which is the opposite of being . Word Origin a prim. ...
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1629. ekphobeo -- to frighten away
... Definition: I frighten away, terrify. Cognate: 1629 -- properly, (one's wits),
used only in 2 Cor 10:9. See 1630 (). Word Origin from ek ...
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1839. existemi -- to displace, to stand aside from
... From ek and histemi; to put (stand) out of wits, ie Astound, or (reflexively) become
astounded, insane -- amaze, be (make) astonished, be beside self (selves ...
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639. aporeo -- to be at a loss, be perplexed
... be perplexed. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: aporeo Phonetic Spelling:
(ap-or-eh'-o) Short Definition: I am in difficulties, am at my wits end Definition ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2451. chokmah -- wisdom
... Word Origin from chakam Definition wisdom NASB Word Usage skill (5), skill* (1),
wisdom (143), wisely (3), wits' (1). skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit. ...
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Library

That Right as by the Defailing of Our Bodily Wits we Begin More ...
... HERE BEGINNETH THE SEVENTIETH CHAPTER That right as by the defailing of our bodily
wits we begin more readily to come to knowing of ghostly things, so by the ...
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One Has Succeeded in Finding Definite Truth, when He Believes ...
... Chapter X."One Has Succeeded in Finding Definite Truth, When He Believes Heretical
Wits are Always Offering Many Things for Vain Discussion, But We are Not ...
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How These Young Presumptuous Disciples Misunderstand this Word "In ...
... They read and hear well said that they should leave outward working with their wits,
and work inwards: and because that they know not which is inward working ...
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Sensuality is a Power of Our Soul
... SENSUALITY is a power of our soul, recking and reigning in the bodily wits, through
the which we have bodily knowing and feeling of all bodily creatures ...
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That Nowhere Bodily, is Everywhere Ghostly; and How Our Outer Man ...
... AND on the same manner, where another man would bid thee gather thy powers and thy
wits wholly within thyself, and worship God there"although he say full ...
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Third Part of the Book.
... and says "the world surrounded me and weighed me down": that is "The world has besieged
me on every side; and through the gates of my five wits it shot at me ...
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No Compromise
... Blunders might very readily occur before he was aware of it; and he needed to have
all his wits about him, and something more than his wits, too, for so ...
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Of the Shortness of this Word, and How it May not be Come to by ...
... For whoso heareth this work either be read or spoken of, and weeneth that it may,
or should, be come to by travail in their wits, and therefore they sit and ...
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Of the Powers of a Soul in General, and How Memory in Special is a ...
... Imagination and Sensuality work beastly in all bodily things, whether they
be present or absent, in the body and with the bodily wits. ...
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How God Will be Served Both with Body and with Soul, and Reward ...
... Of the which, some be not coming from without into the body by the windows of our
wits, but from within; rising and springing of abundance of ghostly gladness ...
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Thesaurus

Wits (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Wits (1 Occurrence). Psalms 107:27 They reel back and
forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. ...
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Wit (28 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in
the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end ...
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Wit's (1 Occurrence)

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Witty (1 Occurrence)
... see Do), has become in the Revised Version (British and American) "We make known
unto you." The noun "wit" is found in Psalm 107:27, "at their wits' (the King ...
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Wist (13 Occurrences)
... see Do), has become in the Revised Version (British and American) "We make known
unto you." The noun "wit" is found in Psalm 107:27, "at their wits' (the King ...
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Wot (10 Occurrences)
... see Do), has become in the Revised Version (British and American) "We make known
unto you." The noun "wit" is found in Psalm 107:27, "at their wits' (the King ...
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Witnessings (1 Occurrence)

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Reel (6 Occurrences)
... (See RSV). Psalms 107:27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man,
and are at their wits' end. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Reeled (3 Occurrences)
... angry. (See RSV). Psalms 107:27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken
man, And are at their wits end. (See JPS NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Drunken (38 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV). Psalms 107:27 They reel back and forth, and
stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end. ...
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Bible Concordance

Wits (1 Occurrence)

Psalms 107:27 They reel back and forth, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

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