Bible Dictionary: Resolution

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of analyzing a complex notion, or solving a vexed question or difficult problem.

2. (n.) The state of being relaxed; relaxation.

3. (n.) The state of being resolved, settled, or determined; firmness; steadiness; constancy; determination.

4. (n.) That which is resolved or determined; a settled purpose; determination. Specifically: A formal expression of the opinion or will of an official body or a public assembly, adopted by vote; as, a legislative resolution; the resolutions of a public meeting.

5. (n.) The state of being resolved or firm in opinion or thought; conviction; assurance.

6. (n.) The act or process of solving; solution; as, the resolution of an equation or problem.

7. (n.) A breaking up, disappearance; or termination, as of a fever, a tumor, or the like.

8. (n.) The passing of a dissonant into a consonant chord by the rising or falling of the note which makes the discord.

Greek

4824. sumboulion -- counsel, by impl. a council
... Definition: a council, advice Definition: (a) a body of advisers (assessors) in
a court, a council, (b) abstr: consultation, counsel, advice; resolution, decree ...
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2212. zeteo -- to seek
... demand. 2212 -- properly, to seek by ; to investigate to reach a () resolution;
to search, "getting to the bottom of a matter.". ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2711. cheqeq -- decree, thought
... Word Origin the same as choq, qv. decree, thought From chaqaq; an enactment, a
resolution -- decree, thought. see HEBREW chaqaq. 2710, 2711. cheqeq. 2712 . ...
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3335. yatsar -- to form, fashion
... the squeezing into shape); ((compare yatsa')); to mould into a form; especially
as a potter; figuratively, to determine (ie Form a resolution) -- X earthen ...
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Library

A Resolution.
... Homily I. Chapter V."A Resolution. What, then, am I to do, unless this?
I shall go into Egypt, and I shall become friendly with ...
/.../unknown/the clementine homilies/chapter v a resolution.htm

The Resolution of the Difficulty Set Forth for Consideration is ...
... Book II. Chapter VII. The resolution of the difficulty set forth for
consideration is again taken in hand.� The resolution of ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter vii the resolution of.htm

A Third Motive to Resolution is the Danger of Tepidity...
... THE NATURE AND END THEREOF, AND GENERAL DISPOSITION REQUIRED THERETO. CHAPTER V.
A third motive to resolution is the danger of tepidity� Sec. Sec. ...
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Resolution of the Army to Confer Thence-Forward the Title of ...
... Book IV. Chapter LXVIII."Resolution of the Army to confer thence-forward
the Title of Augustus on his Sons. Meanwhile the tribunes ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter lxviii resolution of the army.htm

A Strong Resolution Necessary in the Beginning. ...
... CHAPTER IV. A strong resolution necessary in the beginning.� Sec. Sec. 1, 2,
3, 4. A strong resolution necessary in the beginning. Sec. Sec. ...
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Remembrance and Resolution. --Ps. Lxii.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN LXVI. Remembrance and Resolution."Ps. lxii. 8.8.8.8 James
Montgomery. Remembrance and Resolution."Psalm 62.p>. O God! ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn lxvi remembrance and resolution ps.htm

Resolution: the Song of Hylobaris Concerning Divine Providence
... The Treasury of Sacred Song. Book First CXLVII RESOLUTION: THE SONG OF HYLOBARIS
CONCERNING DIVINE PROVIDENCE. H. More. Where's now the object of thy fears; ...
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Peter's Resolution to Follow.
... Homily III. Chapter LIX."Peter's Resolution to Follow. Peter, hearing
this, on the following night assembled the multitude of ...
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A Confirmation of what Hath Been Said, Particularly of the ...
... CHAPTER VI. A confirmation of what hath been said, particularly of the
necessity of a strong resolution� A confirmation of what ...
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It was the Fifth Anniversary of that Resolution of the Senate ...
... CHAPTER 9 It was the fifth anniversary of that resolution of the senate
fathers to consecrate the� It was the fifth anniversary ...
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Thesaurus

Resolution (1 Occurrence)
... A formal expression of the opinion or will of an official body or a public assembly,
adopted by vote; as, a legislative resolution; the resolutions of a public ...
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Resolve (3 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare
or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house ...
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Weakness (25 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack
of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. ...
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Take (11064 Occurrences)
... to indulge or engage in; to yield to; to have or feel; to enjoy or experience, as
rest, revenge, delight, shame; to form and adopt, as a resolution; -- used in ...
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Solution (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration. ...
6. (n.) The termination of a disease; resolution. 7. (n.) A crisis. ...
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Resolutely (5 Occurrences)

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Vote (3 Occurrences)
... into office. 8. (vt) To enact, establish, grant, determine, etc., by a formal
vote; as, the legislature voted the resolution. 9. (vt ...
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Nerve (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under
suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution. ...
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Obstinacy (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) Stubbornness; persistency; a fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that
can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually ...
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Law (670 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision,
usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority. ...
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Bible Concordance

Resolution (1 Occurrence)

Acts 20:3 And having spent three months there, a treacherous plot against him having been set on foot by the Jews, as he was going to sail to Syria, the resolution was adopted of returning through Macedonia.
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Subtopics

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