Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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n.) The quality of being costly; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
COSTLINESSkost'-li-nes (timiotes, "preciousness," "an abundance of costly things"): Found only in Revelation 18:19, "made rich by reason of her costliness."
Greek
5094. timiotes -- preciousness, worth ... Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: timiotes Phonetic Spelling:
(tim-ee-ot'-ace) Short Definition: preciousness,
costliness Definition: preciousness
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3366. yeqar -- preciousness, price, honor... honor, precious things, price. From yaqar; value, ie (concretely) wealth; abstractly,
costliness, dignity -- honour, precious (things), price. see HEBREW yaqar.
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The Costliness of Prayer
... PART III. SOME ASPECTS OF THE WAY OF PRAYER XVI. THE COSTLINESS OF PRAYER.
"Lord, teach us to pray.""Luke 11:1. "And ye shall seek ...
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Tertullian Refers Again to the Question of the Origin of all These ...
... means of the sinful angels, who were the revealers withal of the material substances
themselves, joined with their rarity, excited their costliness, and hence ...
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On the Road
... He was dressed as became a noble of the time, and in apparel of unusual splendor
and costliness; plumed bonnet, slashed velvet doublet, tight silken hose ...
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Uncorrupt Preservation of the Gospel Narratives.
... From about the eleventh century, paper made from cotton or linen came into common
use. The costliness of writing materials gave rise to a peculiar usage. ...
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Matt. vi. 28, 29
... His words. Hereby He teaches us not only to take no thought, but not even
to be dazzled at the costliness of men's apparel. Why, such ...
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Letter ii.
... For delicacy of food was disregarded, and costliness of raiment was despised, all
manner of parade was put down, and all the zeal for the wisdom of this world ...
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Treatise on the Priesthood. Book vi.
... elegance of movement, an affected gait and lisping voice, pencilled eyebrows and
enamelled cheeks, elaborate braiding and dyeing of hair, costliness of dress ...
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The Jews Fight a Great Battle with Sabinus's Soldiers, and a Great ...
... sorely afflicted by both these circumstances, they set fire to the cloisters, which
were works to be admired, both on account of their magnitude and costliness ...
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Hebrews ix. 24-26
... of the Lord, The temple of the Lord." ( Jeremiah 7:4.) For nowhere else in the earth
was such a temple constructed as this, either for costliness, or beauty ...
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Cost of Discipleship must be Counted.
... The costliness of discipleship is illustrated in the two brief parables which follow.]
28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down ...
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Thesaurus
Costliness (1 Occurrence)...COSTLINESS. kost'-li-nes (timiotes, "preciousness," "an abundance of costly things"):
Found only in Revelation 18:19, "made rich by reason of her
costliness.".
.../c/costliness.htm - 7kCostly (26 Occurrences)
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Grieving (12 Occurrences)
... upon their heads, and cried, weeping and grieving, saying, Woe, woe, the great city,
in which all that had ships in the sea were enriched through her costliness...
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Wailing (44 Occurrences)
... heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein
were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! ...
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Enriched (13 Occurrences)
... upon their heads, and cried, weeping and grieving, saying, Woe, woe, the great city,
in which all that had ships in the sea were enriched through her costliness...
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Preciousness (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The quality or state of being precious; costliness;
dearness. Multi-Version Concordance Preciousness (2 Occurrences). ...
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Costless (1 Occurrence)
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Spikenard (4 Occurrences)
... It grows in the Himalayas. The extracted perfume is an oil, which was used by the
Romans for anointing the head. Its great costliness is mentioned by Pliny. ...
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Alas (62 Occurrences)
... heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein
were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! ...
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Grew (133 Occurrences)
... city! in which were made rich all having ships in the sea, out of her
costliness -- for in one hour was she made waste. (See RSV). ...
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