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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.

2. (a.) Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.

Greek

5467. chalepos -- hard (to do or bear)
... fierce, perilous. Perhaps from chalao through the idea of reducing the strength;
difficult, ie Dangerous, or (by implication) furious -- fierce, perilous. ...
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2371. thumomacheo -- to fight desperately
... be highly displeased. From a presumed compound of thumos and machomai; to be in
a furious fight, ie (figuratively) to be exasperated -- be highly displeased. ...
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2970. komos -- a village festival, revel
... the original meaning, " 'a carousal,' such as a party of revelers parading the
streets, or revels held in religious ceremonies, wild, furious, and ecstatic ...
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2341. theriomacheo -- to fight with wild beasts
... From a compound of therion and machomai; to be a beast-fighter (in the gladiatorial
show), ie (figuratively) to encounter (furious men) -- fight with wild ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7108. qetsaph -- to be angry
... 7107, 7108. qetsaph. 7109 . to be angry. Transliteration: qetsaph Phonetic
Spelling: (kets-af') Short Definition: furious. ... be furious. ...
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2734. charah -- to burn or be kindled with anger
... root Definition to burn or be kindled with anger NASB Word Usage angered (1), angry
(18), angry* (5), became (1), became angry (4), became furious (1), became ...
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2534. chemah -- heat, rage
... Or (Dan. 11:44) chemac {khay-maw'}; from yacham; heat; figuratively, anger, poison
(from its fever) -- anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat ...
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7107. qatsaph -- to be angry
... root Definition to be angry NASB Word Usage angry (21), became angry (1),
became...angry (1), become wrathful (1), enraged (1), furious (3), provoked (1 ...
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1167. baal -- owner, lord
... this latter sense) -- + archer, + babbler, + bird, captain, chief man, + confederate, +
have to do, + dreamer, those to whom it is due, + furious, those that ...
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Library

If Some One, Despising the Deities, and Furious with a Savagely ...
... Book V. 8 If some one, despising the deities, and furious with a savagely
sacrilegious spirit� If some one, despising the deities ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/8 if some one despising.htm

Whether it was Desirable that the Roman Empire Should be Increased ...
... Chapter 10."Whether It Was Desirable that The Roman Empire Should Be Increased by
Such a Furious Succession of Wars, When It Might Have Been Quiet and Safe ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 10 whether it was desirable.htm

The Scourging of Jesus.
... The guards were therefore ordered to conduct him through the midst of the furious
multitude to the forum, which they did with the utmost brutality, at the same ...
/.../the dolorous passion of our lord jesus christ/chapter xxii the scourging of.htm

How the Meek and the Passionate are to be Admonished.
... by any consideration, and, like Asahel, cease not to pursue and to be mad, it is
necessary that those who endeavour to repress these furious ones should by no ...
/.../leo/writings of leo the great/chapter xvi how the meek.htm

Diocletian, as Being of a Timorous Disposition, was a Searcher ...
... either from guess or from his own observation, said, "There are profane persons
here, who obstruct the rites." Then Diocletian, in furious passion, ordered not ...
/.../of the manner in which the persecutors died/chap x diocletian as being.htm

How to Keep the Heart
... of the walls thereof he will be sure to bring out his great guns, yet the place
against which he levels his deadliest malice, and his most furious strength, is ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/how to keep the heart.htm

To the Rev. A. Brandram
... similar for some little time, on account of the late change of Ministry, the present
head of the Cabinet, Ofalia, being one of the most furious bigots in Spain ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev a brandram 35.htm

Then Midas, King of Pessinus, Wishing to Withdraw the Youth from ...
... 4323] Gallus cuts off her breasts; Attis snatches the pipe borne by him who was
goading them to frenzy; and he, too, now filled with furious passion, raving ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/7 then midas king of.htm

The Family of a Saint
... Sometimes this indolent man was overcome by a sudden passion for work; or again
he was seized by furious rages. He was violent and brutal. ...
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Petilianus Said: "But if Authority had Been Given by Some Law for ...
... Indeed, should we not certainly be driven on all sides from the country by the furious
attacks of your Circumcelliones, who fight under your command in furious ...
/.../chapter 84 183 petilianus.htm

Thesaurus

Furious (28 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent;
as, a furious animal. ... Multi-Version Concordance Furious (28 Occurrences). ...
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Reproofs (5 Occurrences)
... An instruction and an astonishment, To nations that 'are' round about thee, In My
doing in thee judgments, In anger and fury, and in furious reproofs, I ...
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Mad (22 Occurrences)
... 8. (superl.) Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals;
as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog. ...
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Hornet (3 Occurrences)
... They "attack human beings in a very furious manner." "The furious attack of a swarm
of hornets drives cattle and horses to madness, and has even caused the ...
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Furiously (9 Occurrences)

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Vehement (10 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty;
as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat. Int. ...
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Violent (151 Occurrences)
... or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong
feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as ...
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North-east (2 Occurrences)
... Acts 27:14 But it was not long before a furious north-east wind, coming down from
the mountains, burst upon us and carried the ship out of her course. (WEY). ...
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Neighbourhood (9 Occurrences)
... Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, finding that the Magi had trifled with him, was furious,
and sent and massacred all the boys under two years of age, in Bethlehem and ...
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Nebuchadnezzar (90 Occurrences)
... 1:1). The Egyptians met him at Carchemish, where a furious battle was fought, resulting
in the complete rout of the Egyptians, who were driven back (Jeremiah 46 ...
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Bible Concordance

Furious (28 Occurrences)

Matthew 2:16 Then Herod, finding that the Magi had trifled with him, was furious, and sent and massacred all the boys under two years of age, in Bethlehem and all its neighbourhood, according to the date he had so carefully ascertained from the Magi.
(WEY RSV NIV)

Matthew 8:24 Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.
(See NIV)

Luke 4:28 They were all filled with wrath in the synagogue, as they heard these things.
(See NIV)

Acts 22:23 And when they continued their furious shouts, throwing their clothes into the air and flinging dust about,
(WEY)

Acts 26:11 And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to cities out of our own land.
(DBY NAS)

Acts 27:14 But it was not long before a furious north-east wind, coming down from the mountains, burst upon us and carried the ship out of her course.
(WEY)

Genesis 40:2 Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker.
(See NAS)

Genesis 41:10 Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.
(See NAS)

2 Samuel 13:21 But when king David heard of all these things, he was very angry.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 5:11 But Naaman was angry, and went away, and said, "Behold, I thought,'He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leper.'
(See NAS)

2 Chronicles 25:10 Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that had come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: therefore their anger was greatly kindled against Judah, and they returned home in fierce anger.
(See NIV)

Nehemiah 4:1 But it happened that when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.
(See NAS)

Esther 1:12 and the queen Vashti refuseth to come in at the word of the king that 'is' by the hand of the eunuchs, and the king is very wroth, and his fury hath burned in him.
(See NIV)

Job 19:29 Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious 'are' the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that 'there is' a judgment.
(YLT)

Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy 'is' the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 15:18 A furious man stirreth up contention; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
(DBY)

Proverbs 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
(KJV DBY WBS)

Proverbs 29:22 An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Isaiah 30:30 And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
(See JPS RSV)

Isaiah 34:2 For the LORD hath indignation against all the nations, and fury against all their host; He hath utterly destroyed them, He hath delivered them to the slaughter.
(See RSV)

Isaiah 64:9 Don't be furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.
(WEB)

Jeremiah 32:37 Lo, I am gathering them out of all the lands whither I have driven them in Mine anger, and in My fury, and in great wrath, and I have brought them back unto this place, and have caused them to dwell confidently;
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 5:15 So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Ezekiel 25:17 And I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT)

Daniel 2:12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NAS RSV NIV)

Daniel 3:13 Then Nebuchadnezzar, in anger and fury, hath said to bring in Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. Then these men have been brought in before the king.
(See RSV NIV)

Daniel 3:19 Then Nebuchadnezzar hath been full of fury, and the expression of his face hath been changed concerning Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego; he answered and said to heat the furnace seven times above that which it is seen to be heated;
(See NIV)

Nahum 1:2 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
(KJV WBS)

Subtopics

Furious

Related Terms

Reproofs (5 Occurrences)

Mad (22 Occurrences)

Hornet (3 Occurrences)

Furiously (9 Occurrences)

Vehement (10 Occurrences)

Violent (151 Occurrences)

North-east (2 Occurrences)

Neighbourhood (9 Occurrences)

Nebuchadnezzar (90 Occurrences)