Palaestra
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(n.) See Palestra.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PALAESTRA, PALESTRA

pa-les'-tra.

See GAMES, II, 3, (i).

Greek
1129. gumnasia -- exercise
... (cf. ). ["The words are to be taken in their literal sense as referring to physical
training in the palaestra -- boxing, racing, etc. Compare 1 Cor 9:24-27. ...
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Composition and Style
... In feats of arms, and in all the exercises of the palaestra, is not his attitude
best calculated for defense or offense, who uses a certain art in all his ...
/.../kleiser/the training of a public speaker/composition and style.htm

The Sixth Book
... For Minerva is worshipped and honored in the gymnasia, Venus in the theaters, Neptune
in the circuses, Mars in the arena, Mercury in the palaestra, and thus ...
//christianbookshelf.org/salvian/on the government of god/the sixth book.htm

The Preface to the Commandments
... Such a family as Cranmer's, which was palaestra pietatis, a nursery of piety, a
Bethel, of which it may be said, The church which is in his house.' Col.4: 15. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/the ten commandments/1 3 the preface to the.htm

Thesaurus
Palaestra
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) See Palestra. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
PALAESTRA, PALESTRA. pa-les'-tra. See GAMES, II, 3, (i). ...
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Palaces (37 Occurrences)

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Jason (5 Occurrences)
... in Jerusalem, so that even the priests neglected the altars and the sacrifices,
and hastened to be partakers of the "unlawful allowance" in the palaestra. ...
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Discus
... It was introduced into Jerusalem by Jason the high priest in the time of Antiochus
Epiphanes, 175-164 BC, in the Palaestra he had formed there in imitation of ...
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Palestra
... 2. (n.) A wrestling; the exercise of wrestling. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia.
PALAESTRA, PALESTRA. pa-les'-tra. See GAMES, II, 3, (i). ...
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Palal (1 Occurrence)

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Desolation (131 Occurrences)
... exercised themselves in the gymnastic art of the Greeks, and even priests left their
services at the altar to take part in the contest of the palaestra. ...
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Body (562 Occurrences)
... Hence, the expression, "buffet my body" (1 Corinthians 9:27, hupopiazo, a word adopted
from the prize-ring, palaestra), the body being considered as the lurking ...
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Abomination (78 Occurrences)
... exercised themselves in the gymnastic art of the Greeks, and even priests left their
services at the altar to take part in the contest of the palaestra. ...
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Body (562 Occurrences)

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