Urn
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A vessel of various forms, usually a vase furnished with a foot or pedestal, employed for different purposes, as for holding liquids, for ornamental uses, for preserving the ashes of the dead after cremation, and anciently for holding lots to be drawn.

2. (n.) Fig.: Any place of burial; the grave.

3. (n.) A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a haft, wine measure. It was haft the amphora, and four times the congius.

4. (n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.

5. (n.) A tea urn. See under Tea.

6. (v. t.) To enclose in, or as in, an urn; to inurn.

Greek
4673. soros -- a cinerary urn, by anal. a coffin
... 4672, 4673. soros. 4674 . a cinerary urn, by anal. ... Word Origin a prim. word
Definition a cinerary urn, by anal. a coffin NASB Word Usage coffin (1). ...
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Library

Classification.
... and rows. Each tiny urn is chiselled into the most faultless proportion,
and the whole presents a vision of magic beauty. Judged ...
/.../drummond/natural law in the spiritual world/classification.htm

Another Method of Fixing the Horoscope at Birth; Equally Futile ...
... And again, it is said that one born under the urn of Aquarius will suffer shipwreck:
(yet) how is it that so many [177] of the Greeks that returned from Troy ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter v another method of fixing.htm

Book iv. --Of Marcion's Antitheses.
... 150 The tablets of the Law; here is the urn. Replete with manna; here is Aaron's
rod. ... Of the Lord's flesh, again,. The urn, golden and full, a type doth bear. ...
/.../book iv of marcions antitheses.htm

The Memories of Home. [A]
... farewell!". CHIEF JUSTICE GIBSON. The bereavements of home fill up the urn
of memory with its most hallowed treasures. Though these ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xxvii the memories of.htm

Pagan Cemeteries.
... These inferiae, or rites, could be celebrated easily if the loculus and the cinerary
urn were near the ground, while ladders were required to reach the upper ...
/.../lanciani/pagan and christian rome/chapter vi pagan cemeteries.htm

Transcriber's Notes:
... times changed to "Winckelmann" (Fea and Winckelmann assert and Winckelmann attributes
their rapid decay) Page 185, "in" changed to "is" (the urn of Agrippina ...
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[Harvard Classics Introduction]
... are "Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Enquiries into Vulgar Errors" (1646), a treatise
of vast learning and much entertainment; "Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial," a ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/browne/religio medici/harvard classics introduction.htm

Time Changes Nations' Dresses --And Fortunes.
... [4] But when the urn of worldly [5] lots varied, and God favoured the Romans, the
sister State, indeed, of her own choice hastened to effect a change; in order ...
/.../tertullian/on the pallium/chapter i time changes nations dressesand.htm

The Preface.
... when GOD had touched me in so tender a Part, and (to allude to a celebrated ancient
Story,) called me out to appear on a publick Stage, as with an Urn in my ...
/.../submission to divine providence in the death of children/the preface.htm

section iii.
... deplore the combustion of the Library of Alexandria: for my own part, I think there
be too many in the World, and could with patience behold the urn and ashes ...
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Thesaurus
Urn (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained;
a spore case; a theca. 5. (n.) A tea urn. ...Urn (1 Occurrence). ...
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Uruah

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Burial (25 Occurrences)
... The following instance is aptly cited in DB (art. "Burial"): Electra believing Orestes
to be dead and his ashes placed in the sepulchral urn (Soph. ...
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Urine (2 Occurrences)

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Iron (104 Occurrences)
... i'-urn (barzel; sideros): It is generally believed that the art of separating iron
from its ores and making it into useful forms was not known much earlier ...
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Basin (37 Occurrences)
... 7:2) and "cups" (Isaiah 22:24). (2.) A covered dish or urn (Hebrews k'for) among
the vessels of the temple (1 Chronicles 28:17; Ezra 1:10; 8:27). ...
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Religion (23 Occurrences)
... circumstances. Ea's wife is called Damkina. 4. Sin: Sin was the city god
of Urn (Ur of the Chaldeans in the Old Testament). He was ...
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Babylonia (17 Occurrences)
... circumstances. Ea's wife is called Damkina. 4. Sin: Sin was the city god
of Urn (Ur of the Chaldeans in the Old Testament). He was ...
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Assyria (124 Occurrences)
... circumstances. Ea's wife is called Damkina. 4. Sin: Sin was the city god
of Urn (Ur of the Chaldeans in the Old Testament). He was ...
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Bible Concordance
Urn (1 Occurrence)

Hebrews 9:4 Having a vessel of gold in it for burning perfumes, and the ark of the agreement, which was covered with gold and which had in it a pot made of gold for the manna, and Aaron's rod which put out buds, and the stones with the writing of the agreement;
(Root in BBE RSV)

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Uruah

Burial (25 Occurrences)

Urine (2 Occurrences)

Iron (104 Occurrences)

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Assyria (124 Occurrences)

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