Bible Dictionary: Despondency

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.

Strong's Hebrew

7115. qotser -- shortness
... 7114b, 7115. qotser. 7116 . shortness. Transliteration: qotser Phonetic
Spelling: (ko'-tser) Short Definition: despondency. Word ...
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7307. ruach -- breath, wind, spirit
... Definition breath, wind, spirit NASB Word Usage air (2), anger (1), blast (2), breath
(31), breathless* (1), cool (1), courage (1), despondency* (1), exposed (1 ...
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Library

Cheer for Despondency
... Cheer for Despondency. A sermon (No.3183) published on Thursday, February 3, 1910,
delivered by CH Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. ...
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In Despondency and Temptation.
... Songs of the Cross and Consolation. IN DESPONDENCY AND TEMPTATION. Look
up to thy God again, Soul, sunk in affliction! Shall He ...
/.../gerhardt/paul gerhardts spiritual songs/in despondency and temptation.htm

Despondency.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN CLXXXIV. Despondency. 8.6.8.6 James Montgomery. Despondency.
Him wilt Thou keep in perfect peace,. Whose mind is stay'd on Thee; ...
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The Escape from Despondency
... LXXV THE ESCAPE FROM DESPONDENCY. 1 Kings xix.1-13. ... The way out of your despondency
is in going straight on with the work now ready to your hand. ...
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Despondency Self-Corrected. --Ps. Lxxvii.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN CLXXXV. Despondency Self-Corrected."Ps. lxxvii. ... James Montgomery.
Despondency Self-Corrected."Psalm 77.p>. In time of tribulation,. ...
/.../sacred poems and hymns/hymn clxxxv despondency self-corrected ps lxxvii.htm

Hebrews xii. 13-Nov
... For such is virtue, such is vice. In the latter there is first the pleasure, then
the despondency: in the former first the despondency, and then the pleasure. ...
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Weak Hands and Feeble Knees
... man is born to trouble even as the sparks fly upwards." It is the duty then of those
of us who are more free than others from despondency of spirit, to be very ...
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Philippians iii. 3-Jan
... And therefore Paul relieves the Philippians, who were in great despondency, and
they were in despondency because they did not know how matters were with Paul ...
/.../homily x philippians iii 3-jan.htm

Valentinus, Ptolemy and Secundus, Heracleon.
... to wit,"sent to invigorate him, strengthened him by pronouncing the word "Iao."
[8387] This Æon, moreover, which was thus reduced to despondency, he calls ...
/.../tertullian/against all heresies/chapter iv valentinus ptolemy and secundus.htm

Thanksgiving to God for Deliverance from the Evils Expected Owing ...
... the whole city was empty, and all had migrated to the deserts, and because those
who were left behind were overshadowed [1477] by the cloud of despondency. ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily xi thanksgiving to god.htm

Thesaurus

Despondency (1 Occurrence)
... discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. Multi-Version Concordance
Despondency (1 Occurrence). Exodus 6:9 Moses spoke so to ...
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Faint (76 Occurrences)
... `Alpah expresses the faintness from thirst in Amos 8:13, or from the heat of the
sun (Jonah 4:8), and figuratively, the despondency which was the result of the ...
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Despair (23 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Hopelessness; despondency; discouragement. ... 4.
(n.) Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency. ...
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Elijah (104 Occurrences)
... He therefore fled in alarm to Beersheba, and thence went alone a day's journey into
the wilderness, and sat down in despondency under a juniper tree. ...
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Jabin (8 Occurrences)
... The whole population were paralyzed with fear, and gave way to hopeless despondency
(Judges 5:6-11), till Deborah and Barak aroused the national spirit, and ...
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Fortitude (5 Occurrences)
... enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain
or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage ...
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Despondent (1 Occurrence)

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Despoils (1 Occurrence)

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Decline (10 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or
hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend. ...
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Dump (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits;
despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural. ...
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Bible Concordance

Despondency (1 Occurrence)

Exodus 6:9 Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn't listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

Despondency

Despondency: At the Red Sea

Despondency: Cain, when God Pronounced Judgment Upon Him for the Murder of Abel

Despondency: Comfort In

Despondency: Elijah, when he Fled from Jezebel to the Wilderness and Sat Under the Juniper Tree

Despondency: General Scriptures Concerning

Despondency: Hagar, when Cast out of the Household of Abraham on Account of the Jealousy of Sarah

Despondency: Jonah After he had Preached to the Ninevites