Bible Dictionary: Rousing

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rouse.

2. (a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting.

3. (a.) Very great; violent; astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie.

Greek

1454. egersis -- a rousing, a rising (from death)
... a rousing, a rising (from death). Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration:
egersis Phonetic Spelling: (eg'-er-sis) Short Definition: a waking up ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/1454.htm - 6k

Library

The Swan-Neck
... When ye lived in wealth and glee Then ye scorned to look on me; God hath brought
the proud ones low After me afoot to go.' Rousing erne and sallow glede ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/andromeda and other poems/the swan-neck.htm

Against those who Think that what is Just is not Good.
... For the Instructor also, in virtue of His being good, with consummate art glides
into censure by rebuke; rousing the sluggishness of the mind by His sharp ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter viii against those who think.htm

It Shall not be Forgiven.
... With vivid flashes of life and truth his words invade our darkness, rousing us with
sharp stings of light to will our awaking, to arise from the dead and cry ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/macdonald/unspoken sermons/it shall not be forgiven.htm

A Strain of Jonah the Prophet.
... first. Admonish and knock oft at hardened hearts,. 20 Rousing with mind
august presaging seers. For to the merits of the Ninevites. ...
/.../fathers of the third century tertullian appendix/1 a strain of jonah.htm

DL Moody
... souls. He himself had found it rousing him to ten-fold more effort to save
all that could be rescued from the coming wreck.". In ...
/.../moody/that gospel sermon on the blessed hope/d l moody.htm

The Folly of Slander. Part 1.
... General declamations against vice and sin are indeed excellently useful, as rousing
men to consider and look about them: but they do often want effect, because ...
/.../barrow/sermons on evil-speaking by isaac barrow/the folly of slander part.htm

The Contrast
... And what a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the souls and wills
of men, and rousing them to lofty purposes and holy deeds. ...
/.../drummond/the greatest thing in the world and other addresses/the contrast.htm

Introductory Note
... faith. That this was Paul's judgment, I need no other proof, than this
rousing, heart-melting exhortation to the Ephesian elders. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/baxter/the reformed pastor/introductory note.htm

The Office of the Instructor.
... guide, the Word, was inviting [1035] men to salvation, the appellation of hortatory
was properly applied to Him: his same word was called rousing (the whole ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter i the office of.htm

From Fasts Absolute Tertullian Comes to Partial Ones and ...
... had been wont to satisfy him with "bread and flesh," [1069] why was it that afterwards,
at Beersheba of Judea, that certain angel, after rousing him from sleep ...
/.../chapter ix from fasts absolute tertullian.htm

Thesaurus

Rousing (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Having power to awaken or excite; exciting. 3. (a.) Very great; violent;
astounding; as, a rousing fire; a rousing lie. ...Rousing (3 Occurrences). ...
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Awakening (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity;
exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening ...
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Rout (6 Occurrences)

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Nearly (13 Occurrences)
... Acts 21:27 But, when the seven days were nearly over, the Jews from the province
of Asia, having seen Paul in the Temple, set about rousing the fury of all the ...
/n/nearly.htm - 10k

Incentive (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (a.) Inciting; rousing to action; stimulative. 3. (a.) Serving to kindle or
set on fire. Multi-Version Concordance Incentive (1 Occurrence). ...
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Fury (152 Occurrences)
... Acts 21:27 But, when the seven days were nearly over, the Jews from the province
of Asia, having seen Paul in the Temple, set about rousing the fury of all the ...
/f/fury.htm - 37k

Rouses (2 Occurrences)

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Erection (1 Occurrence)
... or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing,
as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement ...
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Exciting (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Excite. 2. (a.) Calling or rousing into action; producing
excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. Multi-Version Concordance ...
/e/exciting.htm - 6k

Beat (85 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made
by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game. ...
/b/beat.htm - 35k

Bible Concordance

Rousing (3 Occurrences)

Acts 21:27 But, when the seven days were nearly over, the Jews from the province of Asia, having seen Paul in the Temple, set about rousing the fury of all the people against him.
(WEY)

Romans 11:14 trying whether I can succeed in rousing my own countrymen to jealousy and thus save some of them.
(WEY)

Habakkuk 1:6 For see, I am sending the Chaldaeans, that bitter and quick-moving nation; who go through the wide spaces of the earth to get for themselves living-places which are not theirs.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Rousing

Related Terms

Awakening (2 Occurrences)

Rout (6 Occurrences)

Nearly (13 Occurrences)

Incentive (1 Occurrence)

Fury (152 Occurrences)

Rouses (2 Occurrences)

Erection (1 Occurrence)

Exciting (1 Occurrence)

Beat (85 Occurrences)