Bible Dictionary: Vent

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Sale; opportunity to sell; market.

2. (v. t.) To sell; to vend.

3. (n.) A baiting place; an inn.

4. (v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.

5. (n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent.

6. (n.) The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also, the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many fishes.

7. (n.) The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.

8. (n.) Sectional area of the passage for gases divided by the length of the same passage in feet.

9. (n.) Fig.: Opportunity of escape or passage from confinement or privacy; outlet.

10. (n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.

11. (v. t.) To let out at a vent, or small aperture; to give passage or outlet to.

12. (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint.

13. (v. t.) To utter; to report; to publish.

14. (v. t.) To scent, as a hound.

15. (v. t.) To furnish with a vent; to make a vent in; as, to vent. a mold.

Greek

4486. rhegnumi -- to break apart, by ext. to throw down
... not a reduction to the constituent particles, like luo) or disrupt, lacerate; by
implication, to convulse (with spasms); figuratively, to give vent to joyful ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5800a. azab -- to leave, forsake, loose
... 1), deserted (1), failed (1), fails (1), forsake (48), forsaken (56), forsakes
(2), forsaking (1), forsook (16), free (5), full* (1), give...vent (1), ignores ...
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6605. pathach -- to open
... begin, plough, carve -- appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-)grave(-
n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent ...
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Library

Forasmuch Then as the Letter Owed Its Origin to a False Story, and ...
... So easily is my conduct made matter of accusation by them, and so ready are they
to vent their calumnies in despite of that Scripture, which says, Love not to ...
/.../athanasius/select works and letters or athanasius/21 forasmuch then as the.htm

Wider Wooing.
... of the nation. But it is simply an opportunity for the coarseness of their
hate to vent itself upon His person. They pretend an ...
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"So Then they that are in the Flesh Cannot Please God. "
... and manifesting his favour to us, especially since the goodness of God is so
exundant,(190) as to overflow even to the wicked world, and vent itself as out of ...
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Motives to Holy Mourning
... When the heart is sad, weeping eases it by giving vent. The soul of a Christian
is most eased when it can vent itself by holy mourning. ...
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"But if Ye have Bitter Envying and Strife in Your Hearts, Glory ...
... they shall find as much esteem and affection among men, and so being like barrels
full of liquor, in our own conceit, we are like to burst if we vent not, and ...
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"For as Many as are Led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of ...
... not directly sinful. Whatsoever we apprehend, that we must vent and speak
it out, though to little or no edification. Like that ...
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But Suffer it to be So, I Beg You, as You are Lovers of Christ ...
... I say too little in saying that he attacks me; for indeed, in order to vent his
rage against me, he does not even spare his old teacher: he thinks that in the ...
/.../8 but suffer it to.htm

We Shall not be Curious in the Ranking of the Duties in which ...
... to declaim upon, but it were better that such kept always silent, that either they
had no ears to hear of them or know them, or had no tongues to vent them. ...
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The Tongue.
... There are two ways in which the spiritual energy of a man's soul may find its vent:
it may express itself in action, silently; or in words, noisily: but just ...
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Of Removing Tithes.
... of husbandry, whereby the cattle consume the tithes; but his remedy is either to
bring an action, or to distrain the tithes, as doing damage.2 Vent.48.1 Sid.283 ...
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Thesaurus

Vent (8 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape;
as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent. ...
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Discharge (30 Occurrences)
... 13. (vi) To throw off or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or
give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely. ...
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Belch (1 Occurrence)
... with violence; to eruct. 2. (vi) To eject violently from within; to cast
forth; to emit; to give vent to; to vent. 3. (vi) To eject ...
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Venomous (4 Occurrences)

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Vented (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Vent. Multi-Version Concordance
Vented (1 Occurrence). Psalms 78:62 He also gave his people ...
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Unvented (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Unvented (1 Occurrence). Job 32:19 Behold, my breast is
as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst. (See NAS). ...
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Outlet (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The place or opening by which anything is let
out; a passage out; an exit; a vent. 2. (vt) To let out; to emit. ...
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Gutter (3 Occurrences)
... surface water. 3. (n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed
by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing. 4. (vt ...
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Gulf (3 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A large deposit of ore in a lode. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. GULF.
(chasma, "a chasm," "vent," "a gaping opening"-a great interval; from chaino ...
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Wine-skins (7 Occurrences)
... (See JPS ASV BBE). Job 32:19 Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent;
Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst. (See JPS ASV). ...
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Bible Concordance

Vent (8 Occurrences)

Job 10:1 "My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
(See NAS)

Job 20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.
(See NIV)

Job 32:19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Proverbs 29:11 A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
(Root in WEB RSV NIV)

Isaiah 1:24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I will ease Me of Mine adversaries, and avenge Me of Mine enemies;
(See RSV)

Lamentations 4:11 The Lord has given full effect to his passion, he has let loose his burning wrath; he has made a fire in Zion, causing the destruction of its bases.
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 5:13 So my wrath will be complete and my passion will come to rest on them; and they will be certain that I the Lord have given the word of decision, when my wrath against them is complete.
(See RSV)

Daniel 11:30 And ships of Chittim have come in against him, and he hath been pained, and hath turned back, and hath been insolent toward the holy covenant, and hath wrought, and turned back, and he understandeth concerning those forsaking the holy covenant.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Vent

Related Terms

Discharge (30 Occurrences)

Belch (1 Occurrence)

Venomous (4 Occurrences)

Vented (1 Occurrence)

Unvented (1 Occurrence)

Outlet (3 Occurrences)

Gutter (3 Occurrences)

Gulf (3 Occurrences)

Wine-skins (7 Occurrences)