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Marah; Or, the Bitter Waters Sweetened
... of Shur, but found no water; and on the third day, when they did arrive at a fountain,
they found worse than no water, for it was so brackish, so altogether ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/marah or the bitter waters.htm

The Desire of the Soul in Spiritual Darkness
... glorious sky is clouded: instead of "green pastures," they have to tread the sandy
desert; in the place of "still waters," they find streams brackish to their ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the desire of the soul.htm

The Pilgrimage
... Where lay my hope,. Where lay my heart; and climbing still,. When I had gain'd the
brow and top,. A lake of brackish waters on the ground. Was all I found. ...
/.../palgrave/the treasury of sacred song/lvi the pilgrimage.htm

Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BC )
... tidal waters of the sea, and all that was left of the ancient gulf was a vast lagoon,
or, as the dwellers on the banks called it, a kind of brackish river, Nar ...
/.../chapter iiisargon of assyria 722-705.htm

The Talking Book
... good matters, it is an eternal Geyser, a spiritual Niagara of grace, for ever falling,
flashing, and flowing on; it is never stagnant, never brackish or defiled ...
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The Talking Book
... good matters, it is an eternal Geyser, a spiritual Niagara of grace, for ever falling,
flashing, and flowing on; it is never stagnant, never brackish or defiled ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/the talking book.htm

Naparima and Montserrat
... What vast, though probably slow, processes changed that sea-bottom from one salt
enough to carry corals and limestones, to one brackish enough to carry ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter x naparima and montserrat.htm

Gentleness Succeeding Strength
... Salt is an emblem of purification, and its emblematic meaning prevails here over
its natural properties; for the last thing to cure a brackish spring was to ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/gentleness succeeding strength.htm

A Harp of Ten Strings
... I have been to a great many wells to draw water; but when I have drawn it, and tasted
thereof, it has been brackish as the waters of Marah; but whenever I have ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 37 1891/a harp of ten strings.htm

Christ among the Common Things of Life
... of the names of great and famous people who have toiled through a long life, and
as the last gray hour came over their dim sea of life, "brackish with the salt ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons volume 10/dawson christ among the.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

Thesaurus

Brackish (1 Occurrence)
... Multi-Version Concordance Brackish (1 Occurrence). James 3:11 Does a spring send
out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? (See RSV). ...
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Brag (6 Occurrences)

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Wanderings (7 Occurrences)
... basin some 6 ft. deep. The water is brackish, but supplies as many as 200
camel loads at once for Suez. At `Ayyun Musa ("the springs ...
/w/wanderings.htm - 40k

Gihon (6 Occurrences)
... the temple area. See JERUSALEM. The water in the present day is brackish
and impregnated with sewage. The spring is intermittent ...
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Fresh (41 Occurrences)
... 7. (superl) Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the
sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or ...
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Taste (46 Occurrences)
... sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a
particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes ...
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Enrogel (4 Occurrences)
... The water is brackish and is impregnated with sewage, which is not extraordinary
when we remember that a large part of the rock strata from which the water ...
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En-rogel (4 Occurrences)
... The water is brackish and is impregnated with sewage, which is not extraordinary
when we remember that a large part of the rock strata from which the water ...
/e/en-rogel.htm - 15k

Marah (4 Occurrences)
... The first camp of the Israelites after the passage of the Red Sea (Exodus 15:23
Numbers 33:8 f). The name is derived from the bitterness of the brackish water. ...
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Brackets (1 Occurrence)

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Bible Concordance

Brackish (1 Occurrence)

James 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
(See RSV)

Subtopics

Brackish

Related Terms

Brag (6 Occurrences)

Wanderings (7 Occurrences)

Gihon (6 Occurrences)

Fresh (41 Occurrences)

Taste (46 Occurrences)