Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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adv.) Without sympathy or desire to associate with others.
Greek
4724. stello -- to arrange, prepare, gather up, hence to restrain ... stel'-lo) Short Definition: I arrange, take care, withdraw from Definition: I set,
arrange; mid: I provide for, take care, withdraw from, hold
aloof, avoid.
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4724.htm - 6k873. aphorizo -- to mark off by boundaries from, ie set apart
... Word Origin from apo and horizo Definition to mark off by boundaries from, ie set
apart NASB Word Usage hold...aloof (1), ostracize (1), separate (2 ...
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817. ater -- without
... in the absence of, without. A particle probably akin to aneu; aloof, ie Apart from
(literally or figuratively) -- in the absence of, without. see GREEK aneu. ...
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4026. periistemi -- to stand around, turn around (to avoid)
... From peri and histemi; to stand all around, ie (near) to be a bystander, or (aloof)
to keep away from -- avoid, shun, stand by (round about). see GREEK peri. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
5048. neged -- in front of, in sight of, opposite to... Word Origin from nagad Definition in front of, in sight of, opposite to NASB Word
Usage against (3),
aloof* (3), away (1), before (60), broad (1), demoralized
... /hebrew/5048.htm - 6k 5144. nazar -- to dedicate, consecrate
... A primitive root; to hold aloof, ie (intransitivey) abstain (from food and drink,
from impurity, and even from divine worship (ie Apostatize)); specifically ...
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7368. rachaq -- to be or become far or distant
... 1), remove you far (1), remove...far (1), removed and far (1), removed my far (2),
removed them far (1), removed...far (1), shun (1), stand aloof (1), went far ...
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4480. min -- from
... 2), across* (3), addition* (1), after (16), after* (5), against (13), against*
(7), all (1), all alone* (1), all* (4), alone (2), alone* (2), aloof* (3), among ...
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Library
Let us Stand Aloof from Such Heretics.
... Chapter VII."Let us stand aloof from such heretics. They abstain from the
Eucharist and from prayer, [1016] because they confess ...
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Recreant Reuben
... II. The reason for standing aloof. Reuben 'abode in the sheepfolds to hear the pipings
to the flocks.' For Dan his ships, for Asher his havens held them apart. ...
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War! War! War!
... Not that this nation of England should touch it; God forbid. If tyrants fight,
let them fight; let free men stand aloof. ... We stand aloof. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/war war war.htm
Fifth Tractate. On Love.
... neither desirous nor capable of descending to this sphere, never having developed
the downward tendency, a divine Hypostasis essentially aloof, so unreservedly ...
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Epistle xii. --To the Alexandrians.
... training and probation. For it by no means kept aloof from us, although
it spread with greatest violence among the heathen. 4. To ...
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On Admonition and Repentance.
... 2. Thou canst not hear His words, while thou dost not know thyself; and if thou
keepest His judgments while thy understanding is aloof from Him, who will give ...
/.../hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/on admonition and repentance.htm
St. Chrysostom as a Homilist.
... Even when severely rebuking, when blazing with indignation, he never seems alien,
never stands aloof, but throws himself among them, in a very transport of ...
/.../st chrysostom as a homilist.htm
Rom. I. 8
... For even when I was hindered he means, I did not stand aloof from the attempt, but
I kept attempting always yet was always hindered, yet never did I stand ...
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Toleration
... to visit that man's soul, and cherish it, and teach it, and shape it (be it ever
so little) into His own likeness: and shall we dare to stand aloof from him ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/sermons for the times/sermon xxi toleration.htm
Guelf and Ghibelline. (ii)
... Thus when Frederick reached Palestine the Templars and Hospitallers held aloof,
while the Mendicant Orders preached against him; and when, in accordance with ...
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Thesaurus
Aloof (15 Occurrences)... Multi-Version Concordance
Aloof (15 Occurrences).
... (See NAS). 1 Thessalonians
5:22 Hold yourselves
aloof from every form of evil. (WEY DBY).
.../a/aloof.htm - 10kRefrain (33 Occurrences)
... govern. 2. (vt) To abstain from. 3. (vi) To keep one's self from action
or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain. 4 ...
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Alongside (10 Occurrences)
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Quarreling (17 Occurrences)
... end. (See RSV). Proverbs 20:3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife;
but every fool will be quarreling. (WEB RSV). Proverbs ...
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Quarrelling (5 Occurrences)
... is quarrelling. (ASV). Proverbs 20:3 It is an honor for a man to keep aloof
from strife; But every fool will be quarrelling. (ASV). ...
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Origin (25 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Acts 5:38 And now I tell you to hold aloof from these men and leave them
alone--for if this scheme or work is of human origin, it will come to nothing. ...
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Justus (3 Occurrences)
... there had lost its first warmth, and when in consequence, probably, of their fear
of persecution, most of them had proved untrue and were holding aloof from him ...
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Lovers (57 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Psalms 38:11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague.
My kinsmen stand far away. (WEB KJV ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Greedy (24 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 5:10 not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such
as they, any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain, or ...
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Wholly (67 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 5:10 not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such
as they, any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain, or ...
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