Bible Dictionary: Gigantic

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Of extraordinary size; like a giant.

2. (a.) Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarily; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.

Library

The Mildness of the Yellow Press
... The editors use this gigantic alphabet in dealing with their readers, for exactly
the same reason that parents and governesses use a similar gigantic alphabet ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chesterton/heretics/viii the mildness of the.htm

Unsound Spiritual Trading
... devoid of principle. The fiery trial has been too much for the wood, hay,
and stubble of many a gigantic firm. Houses of business ...
/.../spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/unsound spiritual trading.htm

The Great Stone Face
... True it is, that if the spectator approached too near, he lost the outline of the
gigantic visage, and could discern only a heap of ponderous and gigantic rocks ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/the great stone face.htm

The Epistle to the Hebrews.
... reprint, 1869], "a work of gigantic strength as well as gigantic size," as Chalmers
called it, and containing a whole system of Puritan theology); Jac. ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 100 the epistle to.htm

The Transfiguration.
... and His disciples had not left the neighborhood of Cæsarea, [3680] and hence, that
the mountain' must have been one of the slopes of gigantic, snowy Hermon. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter i the transfiguration.htm

A Letter from a West Indian Cottage Ornee
... apples in the open air, and a low green tree just like an apple, which is a Guava;
and a tall stick, thirty feet high, with a flat top of gigantic curly horse ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter v a letter from.htm

Success.
... THE GIGANTIC LANDSLIDE. ... Smooth, insipid preachers talk to shallow, giddy audiences,
and the whole thing is on a gigantic landslide. Lord, save! ...
//christianbookshelf.org/rees/the heart-cry of jesus/chapter x success.htm

Waiting Only Upon God
... Perhaps there never was a mind more gigantic than the mind of Sir Walter Scott:
a man whose soul was as fertile as the newly broken soil of the land of gold. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/waiting only upon god.htm

To the Rev. Andrew Brandram
... which divide the two Castiles, may be seen gangs of fives and sixes of these people
lolling or sleeping beneath the broiling sun on their gigantic and heavily ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev andrew brandram 2.htm

And it Should be Remarked in Passing that this Force Upon a Man to ...
... Two gigantic facts of nature fixed it thus: first, that the woman who frequently
fulfilled her functions literally could not be specially prominent in ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 18 and it should.htm

Thesaurus

Gigantic (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (a.) Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarily;
as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness. ...Gigantic (1 Occurrence). ...
/g/gigantic.htm - 6k

Trachonitis (1 Occurrence)
... Curious rounded rocks were occasionally seen by the wayside, like gigantic black
soap bubbles blown up by the subterranean steam and gases of the active ...
/t/trachonitis.htm - 13k

Samaria (123 Occurrences)
... the work of Ahab and of Herod (probably here was Ahab's ivory palace), on the western
end of the hill, while on the western slope the gigantic gateway, flanked ...
/s/samaria.htm - 63k

Gihon (6 Occurrences)

/g/gihon.htm - 16k

Herod (45 Occurrences)
... He spent 12 years in this gigantic work, building a theater and amphitheater, and
above all in achieving the apparently impossible by creating a harbor where ...
/h/herod.htm - 57k

Nephilim (2 Occurrences)
... In the second case they clearly represent men of gigantic stature, in comparison
with whom the Israelites felt as if they were "grasshopers." This agrees with ...
/n/nephilim.htm - 8k

Og (22 Occurrences)
...Gigantic, the king of Bashan, who was defeated by Moses in a pitched battle at Edrei,
and was slain along with his sons (Deuteronomy 1:4), and whose kingdom ...
/o/og.htm - 17k

Infinite (8 Occurrences)
... God; -- opposed to finite. 3. (a.) Indefinitely large or extensive; great;
vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious. 4. (a.) Greater than ...
/i/infinite.htm - 15k

Talmai (6 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TALMAI. (1) A clan, possibly of Aramean origin,
generally reputed to be of gigantic height; resident in Hebron at the time of ...
/t/talmai.htm - 9k

Rhodes (2 Occurrences)
... In the popular mind-both before and after Shakespeare represented Caesar as bestriding
the world like a colossus-this gigantic figure is conceived as an image ...
/r/rhodes.htm - 13k

Bible Concordance

Gigantic (1 Occurrence)

Revelation 9:2 He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Gigantic

Related Terms

Trachonitis (1 Occurrence)

Samaria (123 Occurrences)

Gihon (6 Occurrences)

Herod (45 Occurrences)

Nephilim (2 Occurrences)

Og (22 Occurrences)

Infinite (8 Occurrences)

Talmai (6 Occurrences)

Rhodes (2 Occurrences)