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Abject (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (a.) Utterly hopeless; miserable; sunk to a low condition; as, abject poverty;
down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject...
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Underfoot (14 Occurrences)
... 1. (adv.) Under the feet; underneath; below. See under Foot. 2. (a.) Low; base;
abject; trodden down. Multi-Version Concordance Underfoot (14 Occurrences). ...
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Tiglathpileser (3 Occurrences)
... It is a significant comment which is made by the Chronicler (2 Chronicles 28:21)
upon the abject submission of Ahaz to the Assyrian king: "It helped him not ...
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Tiglath-pileser (6 Occurrences)
... It is a significant comment which is made by the Chronicler (2 Chronicles 28:21)
upon the abject submission of Ahaz to the Assyrian king: "It helped him not ...
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Exorcism
... In the case of Josephus we are amazed to see how even in the case of an educated
man the most abject superstition controls his views of such subjects. ...
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Exorcist (1 Occurrence)
... In the case of Josephus we are amazed to see how even in the case of an educated
man the most abject superstition controls his views of such subjects. ...
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Dust (182 Occurrences)
... To "lick the dust" is a sign of abject submission (Psalm 72:9); and to throw dust
at one is a sign of abhorrence (2 Samuel 16:13; Comp. Acts 22:23). ...
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Poverty (25 Occurrences)
... as 2 Corinthians 6:10: "As poor, yet making many rich," and Luke 6:20: "Blessed
are ye poor" (ptochoi, a condition is indicated of abject beggary, pauperism ...
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Barter (5 Occurrences)
... 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things
for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject. ...
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Creator (19 Occurrences)
... felicity of the Absolute's own perfection" is to misconceive the infinite plenitude
of His existence, and to place Him in a position of abject and unworthy ...
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Bible Concordance

Abject (1 Occurrence)

Lamentations 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.
(WEB JPS ASV)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Utterly hopeless; miserable; sunk to a low condition; as, abject poverty; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.

2. (v.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

3. (n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ABJECT

ab'-jekt: Only as a noun, and but once (Psalm 35:15) for nekheh, literally, "smitten ones," i.e. "men of the lowest grade" (Hengstenberg, Delitzsch), "the rabble," defined by the succeeding clause as those of such inferior station that they were unknown.

Greek

2615. katadouloo -- to enslave
... 2615 (from 2596 , " to a point," intensifying 1402 , "enslave, bring into
bondage") -- properly, ; to impose abject bondage. Word ...
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4027. perikatharma -- that which is cleaned off, refuse
... 4027 ("rubbish") describes someone as "the filth of the world, representing 'the
most abject and despicable men' (Grimm-Thayer) -- the scum or rubbish of ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5222. nekeh -- smitten, stricken
... abject. From nakah; a smiter, ie (figuratively) traducer -- abject. see HEBREW
nakah. 5221, 5222. nekeh. 5223 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

But those who are Despised for their Ignorance, and Set Down as ...
... Chapter XLVIII. But those who are despised for their ignorance, and set
down as fools and abject� But those who are despised for ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xlviii but those who.htm

The Triumphal Procession
... Think of these men, dragged at the conqueror's chariot-wheels, abject, with their
weapons broken, with their resistance quelled, chained, yoked, haled away ...
/.../romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/the triumphal procession.htm

Impressive Phrases
... barbarous, brutal, inhuman, and cruel. base, cowardly, abject, and hideous. battle,
defeat, frustrate, and ruin. ... despicable, abject, servile, and worthless. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iv impressive phrases.htm

Of the Affectionate Languishing of the Heart Wounded with Love.
... True it is, Theotimus, that Plato spoke thus of the abject, vile and miserable love
of worldlings; yet the same properties fail not to be found in heavenly and ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xv of the affectionate.htm

Matt. xxvii. 27-29.
... And they divide His garments amongst them, which sort of thing is done in the case
of very vile and abject criminals, and such as have no one belonging to them ...
/.../homilies on the gospel of saint matthew/homily lxxxvii matt xxvii 27-29.htm

Partakers of the Divine Nature
... But that kindred, belonging to every soul of man, abject as well as loftiest, is
not the 'partaking' of which my text speaks; though it is the basis and ...
/.../partakers of the divine nature.htm

A Book of Modern Social Inquiry Has a Shape that is Somewhat ...
... I maintain, therefore, that the common sociological method is quite useless: that
of first dissecting abject poverty or cataloguing prostitution. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 1 a book of.htm

The Swift Destroyer
... clearly marked stages in the story: the lingering of Lot in the doomed city, and
the friendly force which dragged him from it; the prayer of abject fear, and ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the swift destroyer.htm

I am Thine, oh save me.
... Oh save me. And if any should ask"as has been asked ere now"But is there not in
this tone of mind something undignified, something even abject? ...
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Simeon's Swan-Song
... is what logicians call the correlative of this word 'despot,' and as the latter
asserts absolute ownership and authority, the former declares abject submission ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/simeons swan-song.htm

Subtopics

Abject

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