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Gorge (19 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice
gorge in a river. ... Multi-Version Concordance Gorge (19 Occurrences). ...
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Michmash (10 Occurrences)
... From the main road which runs close to the watershed, a valley sloping eastward
sinks swiftly into the great gorge of Wady es-Suweinit. ...
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Geba (22 Occurrences)
... From 1 Samuel 14:5 we gather that Geba stood to the South of the great gorge,
Wady Suweinit, commanding the pass at Michmash. This ...
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Sela-hammahlekoth (1 Occurrence)
... Cliff of divisions the name of the great gorge which lies between Hachilah and Maon,
south-east of Hebron. This gorge is now called the Wady Malaky. ...
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Selahammahlekoth (1 Occurrence)
... Cliff of divisions the name of the great gorge which lies between Hachilah and Maon,
south-east of Hebron. This gorge is now called the Wady Malaky. ...
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Kishon (6 Occurrences)
... northeastern base of Carmel. Through the gorge between the mountain and the
hills of Galilee it reaches the plain of Acre. From Sa`adiyeh ...
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Gorged (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (imp. & pp) of Gorge. 2. (a.) Having a gorge
or throat. 3. (a.) Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck. ...
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Moabites (26 Occurrences)
... Deep chasms lead down from the tableland to the Dead Sea shore, the principal
one being the gorge of the river Arnon, which is about 1,700 ft. ...
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Bithron (1 Occurrence)
... bith'-ron (ha-bithron; holen ten parateinousan, literally "the entire (land) extending";
2 Samuel 2:29, "the Bithron," ie the gorge or groove): Does not seem ...
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Seneh (1 Occurrence)
... se'-ne (ceneh; Senna): This was the name attaching to the southern of the two great
cliffs between which ran the gorge of Michmash (1 Samuel 14:4). The name ...
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Bible Concordance

Gorge (19 Occurrences)

Luke 3:5 Every gorge shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and the crooked places shall become a straight path, and the rough places smooth ways,
(DBY)

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said,'I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the spoil. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.'
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Deuteronomy 2:24 "Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
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Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:
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Deuteronomy 3:8 We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon;
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Deuteronomy 3:12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead, and its cities, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
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Deuteronomy 3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of it, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
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Deuteronomy 4:48 from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, even to Mount Sion (the same is Hermon),
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Joshua 12:1 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
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Joshua 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon;
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Joshua 13:9 from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon;
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Joshua 13:16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
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Joshua 15:7 The border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and ended at En Rogel.
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2 Samuel 24:5 They passed over the Jordan, and encamped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad, and to Jazer:
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2 Kings 10:33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
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2 Chronicles 20:16 Tomorrow go down against them: behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and you shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
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Proverbs 23:20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
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Jeremiah 48:28 You inhabitants of Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that makes her nest over the mouth of the abyss.
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Ezekiel 32:4 I will leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

2. (n.) A narrow passage or entrance

3. (n.) A defile between mountains.

4. (n.) The entrance into a bastion or other outwork of a fort; -- usually synonymous with rear.

5. (n.) That which is gorged or swallowed, especially by a hawk or other fowl.

6. (n.) A filling or choking of a passage or channel by an obstruction; as, an ice gorge in a river.

7. (n.) A concave molding; a cavetto.

8. (n.) The groove of a pulley.

9. (n.) To swallow; especially, to swallow with greediness, or in large mouthfuls or quantities.

10. (n.) To glut; to fill up to the throat; to satiate.

11. (v. i.) To eat greedily and to satiety.

Greek

5526. chortazo -- to feed, fatten, fill, satisfy
... feed, fill, satisfy. From chortos; to fodder, ie (generally) to gorge (supply
food in abundance) -- feed, fill, satisfy. see GREEK chortos. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1516. gay -- a valley
... Or (shortened) gay {gah'-ee}; probably (by transmutation) from the same root as
gevah (abbreviated); a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a ...
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588. Anacharath -- a city in Issachar
... Anaharath. Probably from the same root as nachar; a gorge or narrow pass; Anacharath,
a place in Palestine -- Anaharath. see HEBREW nachar. 587, 588. ...
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Library

The Collar of Gold
... morning after his meeting with the golden-haired Israelite, Kenkenes came early
to the line of rocks that topped the north wall of the gorge and, ensconced ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter ix the collar of.htm

Athor, the Golden
... Depositing his burden, he set forth to reconnoiter. He descended again into the
Nile valley by the way he had come and wandered toward the mouth of the gorge. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter vii athor the golden.htm

The Valley of Achor
... And not only will the sorrows that He sends thus become sources of refreshment,
but the gloomy gorge through which they journey"the valley of Achor"will be ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the valley of achor.htm

To the Rev. Andrew Brandram
... I likewise heard the sound of water in a deep gorge, which I had hitherto not perceived,
and I soon saw that it would be worse than madness to proceed. ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev andrew brandram 2.htm

Chapter xi
... For though this word is also rendered "valley," it signifies a broad plain rather
than a narrow gorge, though both plain and gorge are bounded by mountains. ...
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The Tomb of the Pharaoh
... All along the walls of the gorge, nature had secured the sacred resting-place of
the sovereigns against trespass from the end and sides of the chasm, and Egypt ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter xxiii the tomb of.htm

The Nile and Egypt
... its structure, its canals"The valley of Egypt"The two arms of the river"The Eastern
Nile"The appearance of its hanks"The hills"The gorge of Gehel ...
/.../chapter i the nile and egypt.htm

The River of Life
... hill. In reality, opposite it rose the Mount of Olives, and between the
two there was the deep gorge of the Valley of the Kedron. ...
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'The Waters Saw Thee; they were Afraid'
... The mountains will part before us as we come near what looked their impassable wall;
and some narrow gorge or other, wide enough to run a track through, but ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/the waters saw thee they.htm

The Close of the Theban Empire --(Continued)
... of Isis, constructed by Amenothes, son of Hapu, formed a rallying-point for the
huts of the hamlet of Karka;* and in the far distance, in a wild gorge at the ...
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Subtopics

Gorge

Related Terms

Michmash (10 Occurrences)

Geba (22 Occurrences)

Sela-hammahlekoth (1 Occurrence)

Selahammahlekoth (1 Occurrence)

Kishon (6 Occurrences)

Gorged (2 Occurrences)

Moabites (26 Occurrences)

Bithron (1 Occurrence)

Seneh (1 Occurrence)