Bible Thesaurus: Encroach

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Encroach (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To advance beyond proper limits; to trespass; to intrude; as, to encroach
on a neighbor's land; to encroach on the highway. ...Encroach (2 Occurrences). ...
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Invade (15 Occurrences)
... Great Britain. 3. (vt) To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate;
as, the king invaded the rights of the people. 4. (vt ...
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Intrude (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vi) To enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass;
as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the ...
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Trench (8 Occurrences)
... 5. (vi) To encroach; to entrench. 6. (vi) To have direction; to aim or tend. 7.
(n.) A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. ...
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Encroached (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Encroach. Multi-Version Concordance
Encroached (1 Occurrence). Ezekiel 42:5 And the upper ...
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Encouragingly (2 Occurrences)

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Press (57 Occurrences)
... 14. (vi) To move on with urging and crowding; to make one's way with violence or
effort; to bear onward forcibly; to crowd; to throng; to encroach. 15. ...
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Asa (54 Occurrences)
... Judah (1 Kings 15:32). Baasha continued to encroach and finally fortified
Ramah as a frontier fortress. Asa, faint-hearted, instead ...
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Moabites (26 Occurrences)
... from the passage in Genesis 36:35, but the conquest was not permanent, for Moab
recovered its lost territory and became strong enough to encroach upon Israel ...
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Fatherless (44 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 23:10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields
of the fatherless: (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Bible Concordance

Encroach (2 Occurrences)

Deuteronomy 2:37 only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 23:10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
(WEB NIV)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To advance beyond proper limits; to trespass; to intrude; as, to encroach on a neighbor's land; to encroach on the highway.

2. (n.) Encroachment.

Library

Letter xvi. Charity.
... worm? Consider also how liable you are to encroach upon the rights of
others, and to try their patience by your infirmities. Do ...
/.../a practical directory for young christian females/letter xvi charity.htm

Modern Movements in Presbyterian Churches Respecting Public ...
... Such a purpose the Society emphatically disavowed, and insisted that there was no
desire on the part of its members to encroach upon the simplicity of ...
/.../johnston/presbyterian worship/chapter ix modern movements in.htm

Conversational Phrases
... Don't be so dismal, please. Don't delude yourself. Don't let me encroach on your
good nature. Don't think I am unappreciative of your kindness. ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section ix conversational phrases.htm

God Hides his People
... To welcome all that he allots,. And suffer shame with joy. No longer, then, thou
wilt encroach. On his eternal right; And he shall smile at thy approach,. ...
/.../god hides his people.htm

Concerning the Power of the Civil Magistrate in Matters Purely ...
... that are under the same persuasion, as to meet together and worship God in that
way which they judge is most acceptable unto him, and not to encroach upon, or ...
/.../proposition xiv concerning the power.htm

Mother's Love
... Let no man encroach on or defraud his brother in the matter, says St Paul; by which
he means, Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife. And why? ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon viii mothers love.htm

Particular Election
... Although the business of the week will very naturally struggle with us to encroach
upon the Sabbath, it is our business to guard the Sabbath from the intrusion ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/particular election.htm

God's Barriers against Man's Sin
... tempestuous, is entirely submissive to the behests of God; that when he saith,
"Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further," it dares not encroach""the pride ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 4 1858/gods barriers against mans sin.htm

Whom to Obey, --Annas or Angel?
... zeal,' but it here means, as the Revised Version has it, nothing nobler than 'jealousy.'
'Who are those ignorant Galileans that they should encroach on the ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/whom to obeyannas or angel.htm

Faustus Insists that Jesus Might have Died Though not Born, by the ...
... Could a mortal encroach upon the limits of immortality, and could not Christ add
to His immortality whatever experience of death was required? ...
/.../faustus insists that jesus might.htm

Subtopics

Encroach

Related Terms

Invade (15 Occurrences)

Intrude (1 Occurrence)

Trench (8 Occurrences)

Encroached (1 Occurrence)

Encouragingly (2 Occurrences)

Press (57 Occurrences)

Asa (54 Occurrences)

Moabites (26 Occurrences)

Fatherless (44 Occurrences)