Afflicting
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Afflict.

2. (a.) Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Afflictingly, adv.

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We See How the Husbandmen have a Method for Separating the Chaff.. ...
... affect the body, that they can no longer walk in their heavenly freedom and gaze
above; their only inclination is to this tormenting and afflicting of the flesh ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter xxii we see how.htm

Naturally we Love Ourselves Only. ...
... of sense, which are quite contrary to those of the Divine Spirit, which ought to
be our chief and only principle; for by such crossing and afflicting of the ...
/.../chapter iii naturally we love.htm

Whether Religious are Bound to Manual Labor?
... he be not idle, for idleness hath taught much evil." Thirdly, it is directed to
the curbing of concupiscence, inasmuch as it is a means of afflicting the body ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether religious are bound to.htm

Of the Great Desolation Usually Following an Intellectual Passive ...
... this most afflicting martyrdom oftentimes continues many months, yea, in some persons
several years (not always in extremity, but with some intercisions), so ...
/.../chapter v of the great.htm

The Barley Field on Fire
... Frequently it is poverty,"poverty too which is not brought on by idleness or vice,
but real poverty and most distressing and afflicting poverty too, because ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/the barley field on fire.htm

Spiritual Desolation.
... prayer our own: "Lord, here cut, here burn and spare me not, but spare me in eternity!"
Let us say with Job: "Let this be my comfort, that afflicting me with ...
/.../de liguori/uniformity with gods will/6 spiritual desolation.htm

Prayer and Trouble
... life. Not that He is personally responsible for every painful and afflicting
thing which comes into the lives of His people. But ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/bounds/the essentials of prayer/v prayer and trouble.htm

The Second Season
... 2. Though God has reserved to himself a liberty of afflicting his people, yet he
has tied up his own hands by promise never to take away his loving kindness ...
//christianbookshelf.org/flavel/on keeping the heart/ii the second season.htm

The Second Continental Journey.
... London. My heart is much affected in having to commence my journal on a
foreign shore by recording such an afflicting event. And ...
/.../chapter viii the second continental.htm

The Way of Death.
... not knowing Him that made them, murderers of children, destroyers of the handiwork
of God, turning away from him that is in want, afflicting him that is ...
/.../various/the teaching of the twelve apostles/chapter v name way of.htm

Thesaurus
Afflicting (8 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Afflict. 2. (a.) Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an
afflicting event. ... Multi-Version Concordance Afflicting (8 Occurrences). ...
/a/afflicting.htm - 9k

Threshing (57 Occurrences)
... the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build
an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people ...
/t/threshing.htm - 28k

Floor (69 Occurrences)
... the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build
an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people ...
/f/floor.htm - 32k

Stopped (134 Occurrences)
... the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build
an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people ...
/s/stopped.htm - 35k

Ornan (10 Occurrences)
... floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price you shall
give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people. ...
/o/ornan.htm - 10k

Outcast (6 Occurrences)
... Zephaniah 3:19 Lo, I am dealing with all afflicting thee at that time, And I have
saved the halting one, And the driven out ones I do gather, And have set them ...
/o/outcast.htm - 9k

Wretched (14 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress,
as from want, anxiety, or grief; calamitous; woeful; very afflicting. ...
/w/wretched.htm - 10k

Token (24 Occurrences)
... 1:6 A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since it is a righteous thing
for Him to requite with affliction those who are now afflicting you; (WEY). ...
/t/token.htm - 16k

Relieve (14 Occurrences)
... 4. (vt) To raise or remove, as anything which depresses, weighs down, or crushes;
to render less burdensome or afflicting; to alleviate; to abate; to mitigate ...
/r/relieve.htm - 11k

Requite (42 Occurrences)
... 1:6 A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since it is a righteous thing
for Him to requite with affliction those who are now afflicting you; (WEY). ...
/r/requite.htm - 18k

Resources
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Concordance
Afflicting (8 Occurrences)

2 Thessalonians 1:6
A plain token of God's righteous judgement, I say, since it is a righteous thing for Him to requite with affliction those who are now afflicting you;
(WEY)

2 Samuel 24:16
When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, "It is enough. Now stay your hand." The angel of Yahweh was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
(See NIV)

2 Samuel 24:21
Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?" David said, "To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people."
(WEB)

1 Chronicles 21:22
Then David said to Ornan, Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh: for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.
(WEB)

Isaiah 51:23
And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting thee, Who have said to thy soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And thou makest as the earth thy body, And as the street to those passing by!'
(YLT)

Isaiah 58:5
Like this is the fast that I choose? The day of a man's afflicting his soul? To bow as a reed his head, And sackcloth and ashes spread out? This dost thou call a fast, And a desirable day -- to Jehovah?
(YLT)

Isaiah 60:14
And come unto thee, bowing down, Have sons of those afflicting thee, And bowed themselves to the soles of thy feet Have all despising thee, And they have cried to thee: 'City of Jehovah, Zion of the Holy One of Israel.'
(YLT)

Zephaniah 3:19
Lo, I am dealing with all afflicting thee at that time, And I have saved the halting one, And the driven out ones I do gather, And have set them for a praise and for a name, In all the land of their shame.
(YLT)

Subtopics

Afflicting

Related Terms

Threshing (57 Occurrences)

Floor (69 Occurrences)

Stopped (134 Occurrences)

Ornan (10 Occurrences)

Outcast (6 Occurrences)

Wretched (14 Occurrences)

Token (24 Occurrences)

Relieve (14 Occurrences)

Requite (42 Occurrences)

Exorcism

Exorcist (1 Occurrence)

Despising (25 Occurrences)

Araunah (14 Occurrences)

Afflicteth (3 Occurrences)

Averted (5 Occurrences)

Site (19 Occurrences)

Desirable (49 Occurrences)

Dealing (36 Occurrences)

Bowing (35 Occurrences)

Makest (68 Occurrences)

Judgement (68 Occurrences)

Plague (142 Occurrences)

Buy (71 Occurrences)

Sell (58 Occurrences)

Reed (41 Occurrences)

Thereon (90 Occurrences)

Halting (8 Occurrences)

Affliction (120 Occurrences)

Build (242 Occurrences)

Plain (113 Occurrences)

Job (60 Occurrences)

Backslide

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