Bible Dictionary: Widen

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.

2. (v. i.) To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend.

Greek

4115. platuno -- to make broad
... make broad, enlarge. From platus; to widen (literally or figuratively) -- make
broad, enlarge. see GREEK platus. (peplatuntai) -- 1 Occurrence. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

7368. rachaq -- to be or become far or distant
... A primitive root; to widen (in any direction), ie (intransitively) recede or
(transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation) -- (a-, ...
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Library

The Breaking Out of Discord
... as the 'murmuring' about the unfair neglect of the Hellenist widows in the distribution
of relief, and the whole drift of things since had been to widen the gap ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/the breaking out of discord.htm

Love Makes Suns
... Let us widen them by other words which use the same metaphor, and say, 'they that
be wise'"that is a shallower word than 'them that love Thee'"'they that ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/love makes suns.htm

'Many Mansions'
... brethren, if we could only widen our measurement of the walls of the New Jerusalem
to the measurement of that 'golden rod which the man, that is the angel,' as ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture i/many mansions.htm

Filled with the Spirit
... The vessel is elastic, the walls of the cup of our spirit, into which the new wine
of the divine Spirit is poured, widen out as the draught is poured into them ...
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Preface
... At that period all the efforts of religious philosophy were directed to widen theology,
and to effect a reconciliation between reason and faith. ...
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Good Earnests of Great Success
... to disagree. A breach once made has a tendency to widen, and a rent, unless
speedily repaired, may tear a church to pieces. But ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 14 1868/good earnests of great success.htm

Introduction.
... the musical incapacity of a family in which all the rest could sing well), the
missionary stations he planted, the life he lived, will widen out, and deepen ...
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The Influence of the King James Version on English Literature
... No great orator of the day would fail us of material, and the great political
papers and orations of the past would only widen the field. ...
/.../mcafee/study of the king james bible/lecture iv the influence of.htm

Christ, the Great Teacher
... Once divided men begin to develop a class feeling and pride which tend to deepen
and widen the gulfs which separate them from each other. ...
/.../sell/studies in the life of the christian/study i christ the great.htm

The Road to Rome
... He saw the mountain torrents leap and flash, and grow always bigger and stronger.
He saw them slack their speed and widen their beds in the upland valleys. ...
/.../chapter xii the road to.htm

Thesaurus

Widen (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of;
as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking. ...
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Widely (11 Occurrences)

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Observed (84 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:5 And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men;
for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large, (WEY). ...
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Wideness (1 Occurrence)

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Wide (206 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:5 And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men;
for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large, (Root in WEY ...
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Tassels (3 Occurrences)
... Matthew 23:5 And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men;
for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large, (WEY NAS NIV). ...
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Extend (35 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities,
the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to ...
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Broad (113 Occurrences)
... Broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction" (Matthew 7:13); the ostentatious
piety of the Pharisees: "They make broad (platuno, "widen") their phylacteries ...
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Antioch (21 Occurrences)
... The large and flourishing Jewish colony offered an immediate field for Christian
teaching, and the cosmopolitanism of the city tended to widen the outlook of ...
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Syria (73 Occurrences)
... The large and flourishing Jewish colony offered an immediate field for Christian
teaching, and the cosmopolitanism of the city tended to widen the outlook of ...
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Bible Concordance

Widen (2 Occurrences)

Matthew 23:5 And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large,
(WEY)

2 Corinthians 6:13 Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.
(See RSV)

Subtopics

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Widely (11 Occurrences)

Observed (84 Occurrences)

Wideness (1 Occurrence)

Wide (206 Occurrences)

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