Bible Dictionary: Declining

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Decline.

Strong's Hebrew

6203. oreph -- back of the neck, neck
... stiff-necked. From araph; the nape or back of the neck (as declining); hence, the
back generally (whether literal or figurative) -- back ((stiff-)neck((-ed). ...
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Library

Of the Seven Phials; with the Beast and Babylon declining to their ...
... Of the Seven Phials; with the Beast and Babylon declining to their Fall. Of the
Seven Phials; with the Beast and Babylon declining to their Fall. ...
/.../mede/a key to the apocalypse/synchronism vii of the seven.htm

As Now the Sun's Declining Rays
... I. DAILY PRAYER: Morning Daily Prayer: Evening 30. As now the sun's declining rays.
CM ... John Chandler, 1837. As now the sun's declining rays. At eventide descend, ...
/.../daily prayer evening 30 as.htm

Whether to Decline from Evil and to do Good are Parts of Justice?
... Now declining from evil is implied in doing good: since no one does evil
and good at the same time. Therefore declining from evil ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether to decline from evil.htm

1 Cor. Ix. 24
... this is the highest perfectness, and that he himself having risen higher than all
towards perfection, or rather having gone beyond it by declining to receive ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xxiii 1 cor ix.htm

Letter Xlviii. (AD 398. )
... and if the Church, your Mother, calls you to active service, guard against accepting
it, on the one hand, with too eager elation of spirit, or declining it, on ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter xlviii a d 398.htm

Christ's Conversation with the Rich Ruler of the Synagogue (Young ...
... in his own morality, and was most of all lacking in humility; and it was precisely
these defects which Christ suggested to him, by declining for himself the ...
/.../section 226 christs conversation with.htm

The Sin of Omission.
... human and worldly point of view, it is not strange that the young ruler declined
to take it upon his shoulders; though he felt sad in declining, because he had ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/shedd/sermons to the natural man/the sin of omission.htm

Psalm LXXXIII.
... saith: for all enemies, by the working in them of the devil, their prince, "have
holpen the children of Lot," who is explained to mean "one declining." But the ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxxxiii.htm

Growth in Grace
... This is a sad presage that grace is on the declining hand; and thou art
in a deep consumption. It was a sign that David was near ...
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The Form of Concord. AD 1577.
... bodily infirmities, and his dissatisfaction with affairs in Wittenberg (which he
threatened to leave permanently in 1544), cast a cloud over his declining years ...
/.../creeds of christendom with a history and critical notes/ 45 the form of.htm

Thesaurus

Declining (3 Occurrences)
...Declining (3 Occurrences). Luke 24:29 And they constrained him, saying, Stay
with us, for it is toward evening and the day is declining. ...
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Decorate (5 Occurrences)

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Testaments
... Jews. Their return to the land of their fathers was marked by the last rays
of the declining sun of prophecy. With Malachi it set. ...
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Tigris (2 Occurrences)
... The flood season begins early in the month of March, reaching its climax
about May 1, declining to its natural level by midsummer. ...
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Tikvath (1 Occurrence)
... The flood season begins early in the month of March, reaching its climax
about May 1, declining to its natural level by midsummer. ...
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Tikvah (2 Occurrences)
... The flood season begins early in the month of March, reaching its climax
about May 1, declining to its natural level by midsummer. ...
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Evening (163 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or
glory. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. EVEN; EVENING; EVENTIDE. ...
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Decline (10 Occurrences)
... noun or an adjective. 9. (vt) To run through from first to last; to repeat
like a schoolboy declining a noun. 10. (n.) A falling ...
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Declineth (4 Occurrences)

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Between (2624 Occurrences)
... Jews. Their return to the land of their fathers was marked by the last rays
of the declining sun of prophecy. With Malachi it set. ...
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Bible Concordance

Declining (3 Occurrences)

Luke 24:29 And they constrained him, saying, Stay with us, for it is toward evening and the day is declining. And he entered in to stay with them.
(DBY)

Judges 19:9 And the man riseth to go, he and his concubine, and his young man, and his father-in-law, father of the young woman, saith to him, 'Lo, I pray thee, the day hath fallen toward evening, lodge all night, I pray thee; lo, the declining of the day! lodge here, and let thine heart be glad -- and ye have risen early to-morrow for your journey, and thou hast gone to thy tent.'
(YLT)

Isaiah 38:8 See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Declining

Related Terms

Decorate (5 Occurrences)

Testaments

Tigris (2 Occurrences)

Tikvath (1 Occurrence)

Tikvah (2 Occurrences)

Evening (163 Occurrences)

Decline (10 Occurrences)

Declineth (4 Occurrences)

Between (2624 Occurrences)