Bible Dictionary: Livelihood

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Means of subsistence or living; as, to earn a livelihood; as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.

2. (n.) Liveliness; appearance of life.

Greek

979. bios -- life, living
... living. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: bios Phonetic Spelling:
(bee'-os) Short Definition: life, manner of life, livelihood Definition: (a ...
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4200. porismos -- a providing, a means of gain
... Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: porismos Phonetic Spelling: (por-is-mos')
Short Definition: a source of gain Definition: a source of gain, livelihood. ...
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Library

Other Arts Made Subservient to Idolatry. Lawful Means of Gaining a ...
... Chapter VIII."Other Arts Made Subservient to Idolatry. Lawful Means of Gaining
a Livelihood Abundant. There are also other species ...
/.../tertullian/on idolatry/chapter viii other arts made subservient.htm

On the Duty of Working for a Livelihood.
... constitutions of the holy apostles. Book II. Of Bishops, Presbyters, and
Deacons. Sec. VIII."On the Duty of Working for a Livelihood. ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec viii on the duty of.htm

Whether it is Lawful to Give and Receive Money for Spiritual ...
... Reply to Objection 1: As Jerome says in his commentary on Mic.3:9, certain gifts
were freely offered to the good prophets, for their livelihood, but not as a ...
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A Notice of Aetius, Eunomius' Master in Heresy, and of Eunomius ...
... did not attempt to teach his monstrous doctrines, but only after some interval of
time put forth these novelties as a trick to gain his livelihood; that having ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 6 a notice of.htm

Whether Religious are Bound to Manual Labor?
... without it. Consequently he who has no other means of livelihood is bound
to work with his hands, whatever his condition may be. This ...
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Whether it is Lawful for Religious to Live on Alms?
... For the Apostle (1:Tim.5:16) forbids those widows who have other means of livelihood
to live on the alms of the Church, so that the Church may have "sufficient ...
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Whether it is Lawful for Religious to Beg?
... says: "He wishes the servants of God to work with the body, so as to gain a livelihood,
and not be compelled by want to ask for necessaries." Now this is to beg ...
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The Public School and the Boy
... certain related courses of study which will make him a better citizen by fitting
him in a measure for the procuring of an intelligent and adequate livelihood. ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/ii the public school and.htm

Restoration of Peter.
... They lack sufficient inward impulse to go and proclaim Christ to men; they have
no plans; the one inevitable thing is that they must earn a livelihood. ...
/.../the expositors bible the gospel of st john vol ii/xxv restoration of peter.htm

Whether the Old Law Enjoined Fitting Precepts Concerning Rulers?
... But certain things were allotted as a means of livelihood for the priests and Levites
of the Law: such as the tithes and first-fruits, and many like things. ...
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Thesaurus

Livelihood (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Means of subsistence or living; as, to earn a livelihood; as dependent
on some means of support; support of life; maintenance. ...
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Lively (5 Occurrences)

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Younger (39 Occurrences)
... Luke 15:12 The younger of them said to his father,'Father, give me my share
of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them. ...
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Vagabond (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A wanderer with no fixed dwelling, and usually
without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp. ...
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Lived (1214 Occurrences)

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Live (3203 Occurrences)
... or faith. 8. (vi) To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to
subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils. 9. (vi ...
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Independent (1 Occurrence)
... few men are wholly independent. 2. (a.) Affording a comfortable livelihood;
as, an independent property. 3. (a.) Not subject to ...
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Estate (40 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Luke 15:12 The younger of them said to his father,'Father, give me my share
of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them. (See NAS NIV). ...
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Education (4 Occurrences)
... Their chief interest centered in the flocks and herds from which they gained a
livelihood, and in the simple, useful arts that seem gradually to have become ...
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Divided (102 Occurrences)
... Luke 15:12 The younger of them said to his father,'Father, give me my share
of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them. ...
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Bible Concordance

Livelihood (3 Occurrences)

Luke 15:12 The younger of them said to his father,'Father, give me my share of your property.' He divided his livelihood between them.
(WEB)

Deuteronomy 24:6 No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
(See NIV)

Zechariah 13:5 but he will say,'I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground; for I have been made a bondservant from my youth.'
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Livelihood

Related Terms

Lively (5 Occurrences)

Younger (39 Occurrences)

Vagabond (4 Occurrences)

Lived (1214 Occurrences)