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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A sailor; a seaman.

2. (n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.

3. (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.

Greek

1543. hekatontarches -- a centurion, a captain of one hundred men
... a captain of one hundred men. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration:
hekatontarches or hekatontarchos Phonetic Spelling: (hek-at-on-tar'-khace) Short ...
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5020. tartaroo -- to cast into hell
... to cast into hell. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: tartaroo Phonetic Spelling:
(tar-tar-o'-o) Short Definition: I thrust down to Tartarus Definition: I ...
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1613. ektarasso -- to throw into great trouble
... to throw into great trouble. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: ektarasso Phonetic
Spelling: (ek-tar-as'-so) Short Definition: I disturb greatly Definition ...
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5018. Tarseus -- of Tarsus
... of Tarsus. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Tarseus Phonetic Spelling:
(tar-syoos') Short Definition: belonging to Tarsus Definition: belonging ...
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5017. tarachos -- disturbance, trouble
... disturbance, trouble. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: tarachos
Phonetic Spelling: (tar'-akh-os) Short Definition: a disturbance, commotion ...
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5019. Tarsos -- Tarsus, a city of Cilicia
... Tarsus, a city of Cilicia. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: Tarsos
Phonetic Spelling: (tar-sos') Short Definition: Tarsus Definition: Tarsus, the ...
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842. autarkes -- self-sufficient, sufficient
... self-sufficient, sufficient. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: autarkes
Phonetic Spelling: (ow-tar'-kace) Short Definition: self-sufficient, contented ...
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708. Aristarchos -- "best leader," Aristarchus, a Christian of ...
... "best leader," Aristarchus, a Christian of Thessalonica. Part of Speech: Noun,
Masculine Transliteration: Aristarchos Phonetic Spelling: (ar-is'-tar-khos) Short ...
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5015. tarasso -- to stir up, to trouble
... to stir up, to trouble. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: tarasso Phonetic Spelling:
(tar-as'-so) Short Definition: I agitate, stir up, trouble Definition ...
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5016. tarache -- a disturbance, stirring up
... a disturbance, stirring up. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: tarache
Phonetic Spelling: (tar-akh-ay') Short Definition: a disturbance, tumult ...
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Strong's Hebrew

2564. chemar -- bitumen, asphalt
... 2563c, 2564. chemar. 2565 . bitumen, asphalt. Transliteration: chemar
Phonetic Spelling: (khay-mawr') Short Definition: tar. Word ...
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8634. Taralah -- a city in Benjamin
... Taralah. 8635 . a city in Benjamin. Transliteration: Taralah Phonetic Spelling:
(tar-al-aw') Short Definition: Taralah. ... see HEBREW tar'elah. 8633, 8634. ...
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8649. tormah -- perhaps treachery
... deceitful, privily And tarmuwth {tar-mooth'}; or tarmiyth {tar-meeth'}; from ramah;
fraud -- deceit(-ful), privily. see HEBREW ramah. 8648, 8649. ...
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332. atar -- to shut up, close, bind
... 331, 332. atar. 333 . to shut up, close, bind. Transliteration: atar Phonetic
Spelling: (aw-tar') Short Definition: shut. Word Origin a prim. ...
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8635. tarbuth -- an increase, brood
... 8634, 8635. tarbuth. 8636 . an increase, brood. Transliteration: tarbuth
Phonetic Spelling: (tar-booth') Short Definition: brood. ...
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4305. matar -- to rain
... 4304, 4305. matar. 4306 . to rain. Transliteration: matar Phonetic Spelling:
(maw-tar') Short Definition: rain. Word Origin denominative ...
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8639. tardemah -- deep sleep
... 8638, 8639. tardemah. 8640 . deep sleep. Transliteration: tardemah Phonetic
Spelling: (tar-day-maw') Short Definition: sleep. Word ...
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8653. tarelah -- a reeling
... 8652, 8653. tarelah. 8654 . a reeling. Transliteration: tarelah Phonetic
Spelling: (tar-ay-law') Short Definition: reeling. Word ...
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8648. teren -- two
... second, twelve, two. (Aramaic) feminine tarteyn {tar-tane'}; corresponding to shnayim;
two -- second, + twelve, two. see HEBREW shnayim. 8647, 8648. ...
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2967. tarpelaye -- official (a Pers. title)
... 2966, 2967. tarpelaye. 2968 . official (a Pers. title). Transliteration: tarpelaye
Phonetic Spelling: (tar-pel-ah'-ee) Short Definition: officials. ...
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Library

Betar
... by Christians, Bitter, or Bither: but I find it written in the Jerusalem Talmud
pretty often in the same page, to be read, as it seems Beth-Tar; and casting ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 52 betar.htm

Thou Anointest My Head with Oil; My Cup Runneth Over.
... He has olive oil and cedar-tar to use as healing ointments for their wounds, and
he has cool, refreshing water for those that are worn and weary. ...
/.../callan/the shepherd of my soul/x thou anointest my head.htm

Off to vienna
... aurochs. And the tar burners in the forests looked up from under their matted
brows at the fair oval face of the Polish boy, and said: ...
/.../chapter iv off to vienna.htm

Special Efforts
... When she took charge of Hythe, the corps fought its battles in a miserable
little barn known as 'The Tar-Tub,' located in a back lane. ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/vi special efforts.htm

Choosing the Tens
... In the open spaces were covered heaps of sand, and tons of lime, in sacks; layers
of paint and hogsheads of tar; ingots of copper and pigs of bronze. ...
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Vanished Hopes
... Out of the suffocating sallow smoke from the tuns of burning tar heaved over the
fortification upon the engines and their managers, the stones from the ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter xxii vanished hopes.htm

The Fulfilment
... weapons from kitchens, from hardware booths and from armories; anything that one
man or a body of men could wield; torches and kettles of tar; chains and ropes ...
/.../miller/the city of delight/chapter xxiii the fulfilment.htm

Visit to Ceylon and Return to Benares.
... The name of the tree in the native language is "Tar"; this intoxicating juice is
called "Taree," and by a well-known custom of linguistic transposition it is ...
/.../life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter xviii visit to ceylon.htm

Joshua Kocherthal.
... They were ordered to engage in the production of tar and pitch, and were treated
as slaves and Redemptioners, ie, emigrants, shamefully defrauded by "the ...
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John Christopher Hartwick.
... Church constitution. His parish included the congregations at Rheinbeck,
Camp, Staatsburg, Ancrum, and Tar Bush. The capriciousness ...
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Thesaurus

Tar (3 Occurrences)
... it. 3. (vt) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.
Multi-Version Concordance Tar (3 Occurrences). Genesis ...
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Tar'alah (1 Occurrence)
Tar'alah. Taralah, Tar'alah. Tare . Multi-Version Concordance Tar'alah (1
Occurrence). Joshua 18:27 and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah; (See RSV). ...
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Taralah (1 Occurrence)
...tar'-a-la (tar'alah; Codex Vaticanus Thareela; Codex Alexandrinus Tharala): A town
in the territory of Benjamin named between Irpeel and Zelah (Joshua 18:27). ...
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Tarah (2 Occurrences)
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. TARAH. ta'-ra, tar'-a (Numbers 33:27 the King
James Version). See TERAH. Multi-Version Concordance Tarah (2 Occurrences). ...
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Tarry (62 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like
tar. 2. (vi) To stay or remain behind; to wait. 3. (vi ...
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Pitch (25 Occurrences)
... character. (see SLIME.). Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A thick, black, lustrous,
and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It ...
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Tare (4 Occurrences)

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Olives (30 Occurrences)
... To the natives of Palestine today it is usually known as Jebel et Tar ("mountain
of the elevation," or "tower"), or, less commonly, as Jebel Tur ez zait ...
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Last (1087 Occurrences)
... each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve
dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of ...
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Bible Concordance

Tar (3 Occurrences)

Genesis 11:3 They said one to another, "Come, let's make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
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Genesis 14:10 Now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell there, and those who remained fled to the hills.
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Exodus 2:3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
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Subtopics

Tar

Related Terms

Tar'alah (1 Occurrence)

Taralah (1 Occurrence)

Tarah (2 Occurrences)

Tarry (62 Occurrences)

Pitch (25 Occurrences)

Tare (4 Occurrences)

Olives (30 Occurrences)

Last (1087 Occurrences)

Wicker (1 Occurrence)