1. (n.) An absolute or irresponsible ruler or sovereign.

2. (n.) One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.

1203. despotes -- lord, master
... Lord, master. Perhaps from deo and posis (a husband); an absolute ruler ("despot") --
Lord, master. see GREEK deo. (despota) -- 2 Occurrences. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1203.htm - 7k352c. ayil -- a leader, chief
... Word Origin from the same as ulam Definition a leader, chief NASB Word Usage despot
(1), leaders (1), mighty (2), ram (1). 352b, 352c. ayil. 352d . ...
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Simeon's Swan-Song
... If you clip the Greek termination off it, it is the English word 'despot,' and it
conveys all that that word conveys to us, not only a lord in the sense of a ...
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Harmless Fires
... jealousy. The form of the accusation was skilfully calculated to rouse a despot's
rage. ... thwarted! It is the true portrait of an Eastern despot. ...
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The Net Broken
... The danger was not past, though she was queen and beloved; for a despot's love is
a shifting sand-bank, which may yield anchorage to-day, and to-morrow may be ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the net broken.htm

Herod --A Startled Conscience
... He was the very type of an Eastern despot, exactly like some of those half-independent
Rajahs, whose dominions march with ours in India; capricious, crafty, as ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/heroda startled conscience.htm

The Owner and his Slaves
... The word that is here rendered rightly enough, 'Lord,' is the word which has been
transferred into English as 'despot,' and it carries with it some suggestion ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/the owner and his slaves.htm

Home-Discipline.
... wisdom of the wise man. They suppose the term rod, must mean the iron
rod of the unfeeling and unloving despot. Not so; God has ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xix home-discipline.htm

The Hardening in the Sacred Scripture.
... terrible judgment of hardening is not the individual Pharaoh in his private life,
but the king, the mighty prince and sovereign, the ruler and despot, who in ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/xxxiii the hardening in the.htm

The Image and the Stone
... unreasonable demand that the 'Chaldeans' should show the dream as well as interpret
it, fits the character of the king, as an imperious despot, intolerant of ...
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Chapter x
... If this be so, then gibbor must be rendered "tyrant," or "despot""a use of the word
found also Psalm 52:1, 3; and Psalm 120:4, for which passages KW justly ...
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Youthful Confessors
... lads, and had ample means at his disposal; and if they lost their health in this
chase after what he could only think a superstitious fad, the despot whom he ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/youthful confessors.htm

Despot (1 Occurrence)
... sovereign. 2. (n.) One who rules regardless of a constitution or laws; a tyrant.
Multi-Version Concordance Despot (1 Occurrence). Ezekiel ...
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Desolation (131 Occurrences)
... He was by nature a despot; eccentric and unreliable; sometimes a spendthrift in
his liberality, fraternizing in an affected manner with those of lower station ...
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Desponding (1 Occurrence)

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Dessau

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Amphipolis (1 Occurrence)
... In 497 BC Aristagoras, ex-despot of Miletus, tried to settle there, and a second
vain attempt was made in 465-464 by the Athenians, who succeeded in founding a ...
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Pontus (3 Occurrences)
... Mithradates VI, surnamed Eupator. Mithradates was a typical oriental despot,
gifted, unscrupulous, commanding. Born at Sinope 136 ...
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Macedonia (23 Occurrences)
... In 1204 it became a Latin kingdom under Boniface, marquis of Monferrat, but 20 years
later Theodore, the Greek despot of Epirus, founded a Greek empire of ...
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Abomination (78 Occurrences)
... He was by nature a despot; eccentric and unreliable; sometimes a spendthrift in
his liberality, fraternizing in an affected manner with those of lower station ...
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Psalms (44 Occurrences)
... Of Constantine it has been said that he "was by turns the docile believer and the
cruel despot, devotee and murderer, patron saint and avenging demon." David ...
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Solomon (277 Occurrences)
... But Solomon would probably have usurped the crown if he had not inherited
it, and once on the throne he became a thoroughgoing despot. ...
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