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Greek

3591. ogkos -- bulk, an encumbrance
... weight. Probably from the same as agkale; a mass (as bending or bulging by its load),
ie Burden (hindrance) -- weight. see GREEK agkale. (onkon) -- 1 Occurrence ...
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Strong's Hebrew

4742. mequtsah -- corner
... Word Origin from qatsa, qv. corner From qatsa' in the denominative sense of bending;
an angle -- corner. see HEBREW qatsa'. 4741, 4742. mequtsah. 4743 . ...
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7198. qesheth -- a bow
... From qashah in the original sense (of qowsh) of bending: a bow, for shooting (hence,
figuratively, strength) or the iris -- X arch(-er), + arrow, bow((-man ...
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4740. miqtsoa -- a corner buttress
... Or maqtsoa {mak-tso-ah}; or (feminine) maqtso-ah {mak-tso-aw'}; from qatsa' in the
denominative sense of bending; an angle or recess -- corner, turning. ...
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755. arkubah -- the knee
... knee (Aramaic) from an unused root corresponding to rakab (in the sense of bending
the knee); the knee -- knee. see HEBREW rakab. 754, 755. arkubah. 755a . ...
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343. ed -- distress, calamity
... calamity, destruction. From the same as 'uwd (in the sense of bending down); oppression;
by implication misfortune, ruin -- calamity, destruction. ...
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1869. darak -- to tread, march
... A primitive root; to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading
on it in bending) -- archer, bend, come, draw, go (over), guide, lead ...
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16. ebeh -- reed, papyrus
... swift. From 'abah (in the sense of bending toward); the papyrus -- swift.
see HEBREW 'abah. 15, 16. ebeh. 17 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Fragment vii. This Custom of not Bending the Knee Upon Sunday...
... Fragment VII. This custom of not bending the knee upon Sunday� This [4811]
[custom], of not bending the knee upon Sunday, is a ...
/.../fragments from the lost writings of irenaeus/fragment vii this custom of.htm

Spelling God.
... This is the master-key. Bending the will affects eyes and ears and mind. ... The bending
of knees to a sharp right angle affects the will. It is easier to bend it. ...
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Liturgy of St. Dionysius, Bishop of the Athenians .
... "Lift up your hearts." P. "We lift them to the Lord." Pr. "Let us give thanks to
the Lord." P. "It is meet and right." Priest (bending low), "For truly the ...
/.../letters of dionysius the areopagite/liturgy of st dionysius bishop.htm

Against Men who Embellish Themselves.
... But the using of pitch to pluck out hair (I shrink from even mentioning the
shamelessness connected with this process), and in the act of bending back and ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter iii against men who embellish.htm

Luther's Fourth Preface
... and liii.: "They call not on the Lord; there feared they where no fear was." That
is, they may have much show of humiliation and bowing and bending in worship ...
/.../bacon/the hymns of martin luther/luthers fourth preface.htm

Carol. CMD The Angels' Song.
... It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending
near the earth, To touch their harps of gold; "Peace to the earth, good-will to ...
/.../lorenz/the otterbein hymnal/94 carol c m d the angels.htm

It came Upon the Midnight Clear
... That glorious song of old,. From angels bending near the earth,. To touch their
harps of gold: ... O ye, beneath life's crushing load,. Whose forms are bending low,. ...
/.../christmas 79 it came upon.htm

The Water-Mark of John's Gospel.
... That warm-hearted brooding mother is the word wooing. Originally wooing means bending
towards, inclining forward or reaching out towards another. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/the water-mark of johns gospel.htm

The Disciples' Return.
... We may imagine them taking their last look upwards to heaven, and then bending a
tearful eye down upon Bethany"its hallowed remembrances all the more hallowed ...
/.../macduff/memories of bethany/xxiii the disciples return.htm

Some Other Memorable Places of the City.
... Thence bending to the south, he shut up the mountain round, to the rock called the
Dove-cote,"and the hill beyond, which lies over the valley of Siloam. ...
/.../lightfoot/from the talmud and hebraica/chapter 35 some other memorable.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bend.

2. (n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

Thesaurus

Bending (6 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Bending (6 Occurrences). Mark 15:19 And they struck his
head with a reed, and spat on him, and, bending the knee, did him homage. ...
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Bow (248 Occurrences)
... The Hebrew word commonly used for bow means properly to tread (1 Chronicles 5:18;
8:40), and hence it is concluded that the foot was employed in bending the bow ...
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Courtesy (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) An act of civility, respect, or reverence, made by women, consisting of
a slight depression or dropping of the body, with bending of the knees. ...
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Set (6715 Occurrences)
... 47. (n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from
compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring. 48. ...
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Bends (6 Occurrences)

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Knee (12 Occurrences)
... 5. (n.) A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy. 6. (vt) To supplicate
by kneeling. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. KNEE; KNEEL. ...
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Knees (47 Occurrences)
... is found in three places (one being a free quotation of another): Job 4:4, "Thou
hast made firm the feeble (kara`, "bending," "bowing") knees," and Hebrews 12 ...
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Kidron (11 Occurrences)
... From this point it narrows and deepens gradually, bending slightly West of South,
and, after receiving the Tyropoeon valley, joins a little farther Southwest ...
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Nod (2 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation. 6. (vt) To cause to bend. 7.
(n.) A dropping or bending forward of the upper part or top of anything. ...
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Warp (9 Occurrences)
... deviate; to swerve. 12. (vi) To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn
and wave, like a flock of birds or insects. 13. (vi) To ...
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Bible Concordance

Bending (6 Occurrences)

Mark 15:19 And they struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and, bending the knee, did him homage.
(DBY)

Luke 24:12 But Peter got up and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw the strips of linen lying by themselves, and he departed to his home, wondering what had happened.
(See RSV)

1 Kings 8:54 And it cometh to pass, at Solomon's finishing to pray unto Jehovah all this prayer and supplication, he hath risen from before the altar of Jehovah, from bending on his knees, and his hands spread out to the heavens,
(YLT)

Job 4:4 Thy words have upholden him that was stumbling, and thou hast braced up the bending knees:
(DBY)

Job 15:32 Not in his day is it completed, And his bending branch is not green.
(YLT)

Isaiah 60:14 The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending to you; and all those who despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you The city of Yahweh, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Subtopics

Bending

Related Terms

Bow (248 Occurrences)

Courtesy (1 Occurrence)

Set (6715 Occurrences)

Bends (6 Occurrences)

Knee (12 Occurrences)

Knees (47 Occurrences)

Kidron (11 Occurrences)

Nod (2 Occurrences)

Warp (9 Occurrences)