Cumbrous
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (a.) Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.

2. (a.) Giving trouble; vexatious.

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Significant Phrases
... crumbling and shapeless. crushed and bewildered. cultured and refined. cumbrous
and diffuse [cumbrous = cumbersome]. cunning and cruelty. curious and inexpressible ...
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Useful Phrases
... cultivated ferocity. cultured idleness. cumbrous fragments [cumbrous = cumbersome;
difficult to handle or use]. cumulative tendency. cunningly contrived. ...
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Peace, Love, and Faith
... as there has always been a great deal said, about the essence of all religion
consisting in love to God; and about men 'rejecting the cumbrous dogmas of the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/peace love and faith.htm

The Typical Significance of the Scriptures Declare their Divine ...
... His Sacrifice for sin and you cast reproach on the name and wisdom of God by suggesting
that He instituted the carnal ordinances, the cumbrous ceremonies, the ...
/.../the divine inspiration of the bible/chapter six the typical significance.htm

Prefatory Note.
... and with a light and lively pen, between the state of things fifty years ago and
that which now prevails: the exchange of slow and cumbrous means of conveyance ...
/.../kennedy/life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/prefatory note.htm

Who Can Tell?
... Our machinery would necessarily become cumbrous; we should find that we, unless
we had the full resources of an empire, could not even begin the work. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/who can tell.htm

The Great Revival
... they have more reason to fear my bare arm than I their scimitar." Men feel that
they are prepared for a work when they have cast away their cumbrous garments. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/the great revival.htm

That a Man Should not Presume to Work in this Work Before the Time ...
... And the whiles that a soul is dwelling in this deadly flesh, it shall evermore see
and feel this cumbrous cloud of unknowing betwixt him and God. ...
/.../anonymous/the cloud of unknowing/here beginneth the eight and.htm

The Meditation of the Lover in his Love: and the Forsaking of ...
... Truly feasting together in the mirth of love we would sing lovely songs, until we
be led from this outward and cumbrous prison and brought into the inward ...
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The Call of Matthew - the Saviour's Welcome to Sinners - Rabbinic ...
... Indeed, all the cumbrous observances of Rabbinism - its whole law - were only an
attempted answer to the question: How can a man be just with God? ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xvii the call of.htm

Thesaurus
Cumbrous (2 Occurrences)
... burdensome; clogging. 2. (a.) Giving trouble; vexatious. Multi-Version
Concordance Cumbrous (2 Occurrences). Matthew 23:4 Heavy and ...
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Load (22 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:4 Heavy and cumbrous burdens they bind together and load men's shoulders
with them, while as for themselves, not with one finger do they choose to ...
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Loads (12 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:4 Heavy and cumbrous burdens they bind together and load men's shoulders
with them, while as for themselves, not with one finger do they choose to ...
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Lumber (1 Occurrence)
... pledge, or pawn. 2. (n.) Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous,
or bulky and useless, or of small value. 3. (n.) Timber ...
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Expounders (4 Occurrences)
... Luke 11:46 "Alas too for you expounders of the Law!" replied Jesus, "for you load
men with cumbrous burdens which you yourselves will not touch with one of ...
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Cumi (1 Occurrence)

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Cumbrance (1 Occurrence)

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Alas (62 Occurrences)
... Luke 11:46 "Alas too for you expounders of the Law!" replied Jesus, "for you load
men with cumbrous burdens which you yourselves will not touch with one of ...
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Aramaic (12 Occurrences)
... contact with it, Aramaic is a fully formed alphabetical language, and has attained
a further stage of development than the Assyrian with its cumbrous cuneiform ...
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Uncleanness (56 Occurrences)
... 3. In the New Testament: By the days of Jesus the scribes and rabbis had wrought
out a most cumbrous system of ceremonial uncleanness and purification. ...
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Concordance
Cumbrous (2 Occurrences)

Matthew 23:4
Heavy and cumbrous burdens they bind together and load men's shoulders with them, while as for themselves, not with one finger do they choose to lift them.
(WEY)

Luke 11:46
"Alas too for you expounders of the Law!" replied Jesus, "for you load men with cumbrous burdens which you yourselves will not touch with one of your fingers.
(WEY)

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Load (22 Occurrences)

Loads (12 Occurrences)

Lumber (1 Occurrence)

Expounders (4 Occurrences)

Cumi (1 Occurrence)

Cumbrance (1 Occurrence)

Alas (62 Occurrences)

Aramaic (12 Occurrences)

Uncleanness (56 Occurrences)

Language (112 Occurrences)

Choose (116 Occurrences)

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