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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (superl.) Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a weighty body.

2. (superl.) Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.

3. (superl.) Rigorous; severe; afflictive.

Greek

926. barus -- heavy
... heavy. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: barus Phonetic Spelling:
(bar-ooce') Short Definition: heavy, weighty, burdensome Definition: heavy, weighty ...
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4586. semnos -- reverend, ie venerable, spec. serious
... 4586 (an adjective derived from 4576 , "to revere, be in awe") -- properly, what
is (dignified, has ""); weighty, deeply respected because viewed as majestic ...
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4587. semnotes -- seriousness
... 4587 ("dignity because weighty") refers to what is august (venerable, time-honored),
ie "solemnly respectable." 4587 () reflects what has been transformed by ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3513. kabad -- to be heavy, weighty, or burdensome
... kabad or kabed. 3514 . to be heavy, weighty, or burdensome. Transliteration: kabad
or kabed Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-bad') Short Definition: honored. ...
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3368. yaqar -- precious, rare, splendid, weighty
... 3367, 3368. yaqar. 3369 . precious, rare, splendid, weighty. Transliteration:
yaqar Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-kawr') Short Definition: precious. ...
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7336. razan -- to be weighty, judicious or commanding
... razan. 7337 . to be weighty, judicious or commanding. Transliteration: razan Phonetic
Spelling: (raw-zan') Short Definition: rulers. Word Origin a prim. ...
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5192. netel -- burden, weight
... netel. 5193 . burden, weight. Transliteration: netel Phonetic Spelling:
(nay'-tel) Short Definition: weighty. ... weighty. : from natal; a burden -- weighty. ...
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5619. saqal -- to stone, put to death by stoning
... A primitive root; properly, to be weighty; but used only in the sense of lapidation
or its contrary (as if a delapidation) -- (cast, gather out, throw) stone(-s ...
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Library

But I Saw not Yet, Whereon this Weighty Matter Turned in Thy ...
... Book IV Chapter XV But I saw not yet, whereon this weighty matter turned
in Thy wisdom� But I saw not yet, whereon this weighty ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter xv but i saw.htm

Of the Trinity and a Christian
... How a young or shaken Christian should demean himself under the weighty thoughts
of the Doctrine of the Trinity or Plurality of Persons in the eternal Godhead. ...
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Of the Trinity and a Christian, and of the Law and a Christian.
... How a young, or shaken Christian should demean himself under the weighty thoughts
of the doctrine of the Trinity, or plurality of persons in the eternal godhead ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/of the trinity and a.htm

Letter xvi to Rainald, Abbot of Foigny
... This caught up Paul, though with weighty and corruptible body, into the third
heaven. I seek in all things to find if possible something ...
/.../letter xvi to rainald abbot.htm

No Compromise
... church at large! I. Beginning our sermon, we will ask you, first, to THINK
OF THE SERVANT'S JOYFUL BUT WEIGHTY ERRAND. It was a ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 34 1888/no compromise.htm

The Weight of Sand
... THE PROVERBS THE WEIGHT OF SAND. 'The sand is weighty.'"PROVERBS, xxvii.3. ... 'Sand
is weighty.' The accumulation of light things is overwhelmingly ponderous. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture g/the weight of sand.htm

"This is his Commandment, That," &C.
... if you consider it aright, it hath more authority upon it than upon others, because
it is his last command, and so would be taken as most pungent and weighty. ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon ii this is his.htm

Church Union.
... present. No sooner, however, is a goodly company of believers gathered, but
problems, numerous and weighty, confront the missionary. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/fagg/forty years in south china/viii church union.htm

Foundation of Moral Obligation.
... or an arbitrary sovereignty, but is acting in conformity with the law of his infinite
intelligence, and of course has infinitely good and weighty reasons for ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture viii foundation of moral.htm

Chapter ix.
... 81] For this last sounds most weighty, and reminds us that certain stages were passed
over from lighter to more weighty, until the gehenna of fire was reached. ...
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Thesaurus

Weighty (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (superl.) Having weight; heavy; ponderous; as, a
weighty body. ... Multi-Version Concordance Weighty (7 Occurrences). ...
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Heavy (110 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Heaved or lifted with labor; not light; weighty; ponderous; as, a heavy
stone; hence, sometimes, large in extent, quantity, or effects; as, a ...
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Honorable (42 Occurrences)
... er-ab'-l (kabhedh; euschemon): In the Old Testament "honorable" is for the most
part the translation of kabhedh, properly, "to be heavy," "weighty" (Genesis 34 ...
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Weight (143 Occurrences)
... spiritual reference. "Weighty," "weightier" (Matthew 23:23 2 Corinthians
10:10, barus, baruteros), signify what is important. The ...
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Welcome (31 Occurrences)

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Vexation (36 Occurrences)
... (See JPS). Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool's
vexation is heavier than they both. (See JPS ASV DBY). ...
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Noble (61 Occurrences)
... ones" (Esther 1:3; Esther 6:9); atsilim, "those near," "nobles" (Exodus 24:11);
bariah, "fugitive" (Isaiah 43:14); kabhedh, "weighty," "honored" (Psalm 149:8 ...
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Naught (40 Occurrences)
... 2 Corinthians 10:10 because his letters, he says, are weighty and strong, but
his presence in the body weak, and his speech naught. (DBY). ...
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Nobleman (5 Occurrences)
... ones" (Esther 1:3; Esther 6:9); atsilim, "those near," "nobles" (Exodus 24:11);
bariah, "fugitive" (Isaiah 43:14); kabhedh, "weighty," "honored" (Psalm 149:8 ...
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Nobles (71 Occurrences)
... ones" (Esther 1:3; Esther 6:9); atsilim, "those near," "nobles" (Exodus 24:11);
bariah, "fugitive" (Isaiah 43:14); kabhedh, "weighty," "honored" (Psalm 149:8 ...
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Bible Concordance

Weighty (7 Occurrences)

Matthew 18:6 and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.
(YLT)

Luke 17:2 it is more profitable to him if a weighty millstone is put round about his neck, and he hath been cast into the sea, than that he may cause one of these little ones to stumble.
(YLT)

Acts 25:7 and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem -- many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,
(YLT)

2 Corinthians 10:10 For, "His letters," they say, "are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech is despised."
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 139:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!
(See JPS)

Proverbs 25:27 It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is itself a weight.
(DBY)

Proverbs 27:3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Subtopics

Weighty

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Honorable (42 Occurrences)

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