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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity.

2. (v. t.) To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.

3. (v. t.) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition.

4. (v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.

5. (v. t.) To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.

6. (v. i.) To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.

7. (v. i.) To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.

Greek

2427. hikanoo -- to make sufficient
... of Speech: Verb Transliteration: hikanoo Phonetic Spelling: (hik-an-o'-o) Short
Definition: I make sufficient Definition: I make sufficient, render fit, qualify ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1961. hayah -- to fall out, come to pass, become, be
... marry* (4), marrying* (1), numbered (1), occur (7), occurred (3), occurs (3), own
(3), placed (1), possessed* (1), present (1), pressed* (1), qualify (2), ran ...
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Library

Question Lxxxii of Devotion
... But some argue that devotion is not a special kind of act, thus: 1. That which
serves to qualify other acts cannot be itself a special act. ...
/.../aquinas/on prayer and the contemplative life/question lxxxii of devotion.htm

Whether the Just Man Alone May Eat Christ Sacramentally?
... sacramental species, he would receive Christ's body under the sacrament: hence he
would eat Christ sacramentally, if the word "sacramentally" qualify the verb ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the just man alone.htm

Whether an Angel Loves Another with Natural Love as He Loves ...
... Reply to Objection 1: The expression 'as himself' can in one way qualify the knowledge
and the love on the part of the one known and loved: and thus one angel ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether an angel loves another.htm

Grace for Service.
... We are not going to have the grace we need to qualify us for work until we launch
out into the deep, and begin to use the abilities and the opportunities we ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/moody/sovereign grace/chapter vii grace for service.htm

Whether the Four Cardinal virtues Differ from one Another?
... temperance." But this would not be so, if the above virtues were distinct from one
another: since the different species of one genus do not qualify one another ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the four cardinal virtues.htm

The Truth of God
... Romans 9:22. (1.) We must qualify the term world. ... (2.) We must qualify also Christ's
dying for the world. Christ died sufficiently for all, not effectually. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/10 the truth of god.htm

The Choice of Pursuits.
... The Athenians expressed their sense of this duty in the enactment of a law that,
if parents did not qualify their children for securing a livelihood by having ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/philips/the christian home/chapter xxi the choice of.htm

Believe and be Saved
... It is not faith, as a work or exercise of our minds, which must be properly
performed in order to qualify or fit us for pardon. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/bonar/gods way of peace/chapter viii believe and be.htm

Moral Government.
... It must, therefore, be his right and duty to govern, whose attributes, physical
and moral, best qualify him to secure the end of government. ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture ii moral government.htm

Concerning Justification.
... especially before Luther, though most of their modern writers, especially in their
controversies with Protestants, do partly deny it, partly qualify it, and ...
/.../proposition vii concerning justification.htm

Thesaurus

Qualify (2 Occurrences)
... from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form;
to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement ...
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Qualities (7 Occurrences)

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Qualified (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. 3. (imp. & pp) of Qualify.
Multi-Version Concordance Qualified (5 Occurrences). ...
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Justify (19 Occurrences)
... 7. (vi) To take oath to the ownership of property sufficient to qualify one's self
as bail or surety. Multi-Version Concordance Justify (19 Occurrences). ...
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Fit (47 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify;
to put into a condition of readiness or preparation. ...
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Temper (14 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding
some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to ...
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Manifold (23 Occurrences)
... multiplied; complicated. 2. (a.) Exhibited at divers times or in various
ways; -- used to qualify nouns in the singular number. 3. (n ...
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Mollify
... 1. (vt) To soften; to sooth; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness,
or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. ...
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Prepare (199 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make
ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for ...
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Condition (38 Occurrences)
... 8. (n.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by
a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of. ...
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Bible Concordance

Qualify (2 Occurrences)

Exodus 40:15 You shall anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may minister to me in the priest's office. Their anointing shall be to them for an everlasting priesthood throughout their generations."
(See NAS)

Numbers 8:11 and Aaron shall offer the Levites before Yahweh for a wave offering, on the behalf of the children of Israel, that it may be theirs to do the service of Yahweh.
(See NAS)

Subtopics

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