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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

2. (v. t.) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.

3. (v. t.) To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.

4. (v. t.) To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.

5. (v. t.) To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.

6. (v. t.) To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt or misery.

7. (v. t.) To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.

8. (v. t.) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times; as, a quantity involved to the third or fourth power.

Greek

1707. empleko -- to weave in, to entwine, ie to involve with
... to weave in, to entwine, ie to involve with. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration:
empleko Phonetic Spelling: (em-plek'-o) Short Definition: I enfold, entangle ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1980. halak -- to go, come, walk
... fro (1), goes down (1), going (30), gone (39), grew (2), grew steadily (1),
grew...continually (1), grow (1), growing* (1), indeed gone (1), involve (1), lead ...
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943. buk -- to perplex, confuse
... be entangled, perplexed. A primitive root; to involve (literally or figuratively) --
be entangled, (perplexed). 942, 943. buk. 944 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Whether a Religious Sins Mortally Whenever He Transgresses the ...
... But if every transgression of the things contained in his rule were to involve a
religious in mortal sin, the religious life would be fraught with danger of ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether a religious sins mortally.htm

Sanctions of Moral Law, Natural and Governmental.
... his parent? Which would involve the most guilt, for a man to smite his neighbor
and his equal, or his lawful sovereign? The higher ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture xix sanctions of moral.htm

The Epistle to the Hebrews
... It does not in the least involve any charge of forgery, such as is involved in a
consideration of St. John's Gospel or of St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians. ...
/.../pullan/the books of the new testament/chapter xviii the epistle to.htm

The Relation of Home to the Church.
... As the civil and political relations of home involve the duty of parents to train
up their children for efficient citizenship in the state, so its moral and ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter iv the relation of.htm

That the Eyes of the Soul must be Purged Ere God Can be Seen.
... All these things, then, involve you in darkness, as when a filmy defluxion on the
eyes prevents one from beholding the light of the sun: thus also do iniquities ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter ii that the eyes of.htm

More Special Advices Touching the Exercise of Affections of Divine ...
... yea, all direct representations of God are excluded) be in themselves more perfect
and unitive than are acts of Resignation, which involve in themselves images ...
/.../chapter iii more special advices.htm

Concerning what is Voluntary and what is Involuntary.
... Notice also that children and irrational creatures perform voluntary actions, but
these do not involve the exercise of choice: further, all our actions that ...
/.../exposition of the orthodox faith/chapter xxiv concerning what is voluntary.htm

Whether Despair is the Greatest of Sins
... from God. But other sins involve inordinately turning to other things, as
well as inordinately turning away from God. Hence despair ...
/.../aquinas/nature and grace/article three whether despair is.htm

Whether to Believe is to Think with Assent
... Fid. Orth.1). It follows that the act of faith does not involve thinking. 2 ...
soul. [52] It follows that faith does not involve thinking. 3 ...
/.../aquinas/nature and grace/article one whether to believe.htm

Appendix xvii. The Ordinances and Law of the Sabbath as Laid Down ...
... And, lastly, how many different sins might one such act involve? To give an instance
of the kind of questions that were generally discussed. ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/appendix xvii the ordinances and.htm

Thesaurus

Involve (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness
or obscurity. ... Multi-Version Concordance Involve (2 Occurrences). ...
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Entangle (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To involve in such complications as to render extrication a bewildering
difficulty; hence, metaphorically, to ensnare; to perplex; to bewilder; to ...
/e/entangle.htm - 11k

Wrap (9 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds. 3. (vt) To cover by winding
or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to enfold; -- often with up. ...
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Involved (10 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & pp) of Involve. 2. (a.) Same as Involute.
Multi-Version Concordance Involved (10 Occurrences). ...
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Entrap (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (vt) To catch in a trap; to ensnare; hence, to catch,
as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch ...
/e/entrap.htm - 8k

Exaltation (9 Occurrences)
... He is thus dynamically present to all His people." This form of doctrine seems to
involve as the result of the incarnation of the Son of God His complete and ...
/e/exaltation.htm - 27k

Accommodation (1 Occurrence)
... A bald and literal statement of fact may involve a general principle which is capable
of broad and effective application in other spheres than that originally ...
/a/accommodation.htm - 39k

Authority (326 Occurrences)
... Their solution is assumed in this discussion of authority, although different
theories of authority no doubt involve different ideas of God. ...
/a/authority.htm - 69k

Religion (23 Occurrences)
... Their solution is assumed in this discussion of authority, although different
theories of authority no doubt involve different ideas of God. ...
/r/religion.htm - 101k

Earth (10501 Occurrences)
... that have been made," in 12:27, do not assign their created character as the reason
why heaven and earth can be shaken, an exegesis which would involve us in ...
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Bible Concordance

Involve (2 Occurrences)

John 2:4 Jesus said to her, "Woman, what does that have to do with you and me? My hour has not yet come."
(See NIV)

Psalms 131:1 <A Song of the going up. Of David.> Lord, there is no pride in my heart and my eyes are not lifted up; and I have not taken part in great undertakings, or in things over-hard for me.
(See NAS)

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