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Greek

3150. mataiologia -- idle or foolish talk
... vain jangling. From mataiologos; random talk, ie Babble -- vain jangling. see GREEK
mataiologos. (mataiologian) -- 1 Occurrence. 3149, 3150. ...
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3004. lego -- to say
... refer to an individual expression or speech respectively; while rheo is properly
to break silence merely, and laleo means an extended or random harangue)); by ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8537. tom -- completeness, integrity, also part of the high ...
... also part of the high priest's breastplate NASB Word Usage blameless (1), full
(1), full measure (1), innocently (1), integrity (16), random (2), upright (1). ...
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Library

1 Cor. Ix. 24
... where doing so. But what is, "not uncertainly?" "Looking to some mark,"
saith he, "not at random and in vain, as ye do. For what ...
/.../homilies on the epistles of paul to the corinthians/homily xxiii 1 cor ix.htm

Effects Require Causes
... God is a God of order. Everything is arranged upon definite principles, and never
at random. The world, even the religious world, is governed by law. ...
/.../the greatest thing in the world and other addresses/effects require causes.htm

The Wonderful Skill with which Origen Prepares Gregory and ...
... has been left unpruned and unwatered and waste, and which is thus choked by the
mass of superfluous shoots suffered to grow out of it at random, [207] yet ...
/.../argument vii the wonderful skill with.htm

Book V Here She Made an End and was for Turning the Course of Her ...
... If chance is defined as an outcome of random influence, produced by no sequence
of causes, I am sure that there is no such thing as chance, and I consider that ...
/.../boethius/the consolation of philosophy/book v here she made.htm

Names
... body, whether they be good or evil. But names are not given at random, without
cause or meaning. When Adam named all the beasts, we ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/sermons for the times/sermon iv names.htm

The Sovereignty of God in Operation
... in it? If God is governing the world then is He governing it according
to a definite purpose, or aimlessly and at random? If He ...
/.../pink/the sovereignty of god/chapter six the sovereignty of.htm

Matt. Iv. 1
... the Jews his partisans, in their demand of signs: invariably instructing us, whatever
we may have power to do, yet to do nothing vainly and at random; nor even ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily xiii matt iv 1.htm

Prevailing Prayer.
... 1. He must pray for a definite object. He need not expect to offer such prayer,
if he prays at random, without any distinct or definite object. ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture iv prevailing prayer.htm

Rom. xvi. 5
... 25:27.) And therefore though there be nobody that listens to it, let us do our part,
and show that there is nothing superfluous, nothing added at random in the ...
/.../chrysostom/homilies on acts and romans/homily xxxi rom xvi 5.htm

Trinity Sunday.
... I have taken the instance at random, and any other proposition might have
served my purpose as well. But men do not speak to one ...
/.../arnold/the christian life/lecture xxvii trinity sunday.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Force; violence.

2. (n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.

3. (n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.

4. (n.) The direction of a rake-vein.

5. (a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.

Thesaurus

Random (3 Occurrences)
... n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule,
or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is ...
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Slash (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To cut by striking violently and at random; to
cut in long slits. ... 4. (vi) To strike violently and at random, esp. ...
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Augury (5 Occurrences)
... 1. Belomancy: Belomancy was a method of divination by arrows, a number of which
were marked in certain ways, then mixed and drawn at random. ...
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Josiah (51 Occurrences)
... the plain of Esdraelon. Josiah went into the field in disguise, and was
fatally wounded by a random arrow. His attendants conveyed ...
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Joints (7 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). 1 Kings 22:34 A certain man drew his
bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. ...
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I've (7 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). 1 Kings 22:34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the
king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore ...
/i/i've.htm - 8k

Rang (4 Occurrences)

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Driver (4 Occurrences)
... Driver (4 Occurrences). 1 Kings 22:34 A certain man drew his bow at random,
and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. ...
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Drift (1 Occurrence)
... sentence or discourse; aim. 5. (n.) That which is driven, forced, or urged
along. 6. (n.) Anything driven at random. 7. (n.) A mass ...
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Manslayer (20 Occurrences)
... from the punishment imposed on willful killing were: (1) death by a blow in a sudden
quarrel (Numbers 35:22); (2) death by anything thrown at random (Numbers 35 ...
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Bible Concordance

Random (3 Occurrences)

1 Kings 22:34 A certain man drew his bow at random, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of his chariot, "Turn your hand, and carry me out of the battle; for I am severely wounded."
(WEB NAS NIV)

2 Chronicles 18:33 A certain man drew his bow at a venture, and struck the king of Israel between the joints of the armor. Therefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn your hand, and carry me out of the army; for I am sore wounded.
(See NAS NIV)

Proverbs 26:10 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

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Related Terms

Slash (1 Occurrence)

Augury (5 Occurrences)

Josiah (51 Occurrences)

Joints (7 Occurrences)

I've (7 Occurrences)

Rang (4 Occurrences)

Driver (4 Occurrences)

Drift (1 Occurrence)