Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) A region near a border or beyond settled lands; that part of a country which fronts or faces another country or an unsettled region; the marches; the border, confine, or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled and cultivated part of a country; as, the frontier of civilization.
2. (n.) An outwork.
3. (a.) Lying on the exterior part; bordering; conterminous; as, a frontier town.
4. (a.) of or relating to a frontier.
5. (v. i.) To constitute or form a frontier; to have a frontier; -- with on.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
FRONTIERfron'-ter, frun'ter (katseh): The word occurs once in plural in Ezekiel 25:9. the Revised Version, margin has "in every quarter."
Greek
3181. methorion -- border. ... border. From meta and horion; bounded alongside, ie Contiguous (neuter plural as
noun,
frontier) -- border. see GREEK meta. see GREEK horion. 3180, 3181.
... //strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3181.htm - 6k3725. horion -- a boundary
... Neuter of a derivative of an apparently primary horos (a bound or limit); a
boundary-line, ie (by implication) a frontier (region) -- border, coast. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
5512a. Sin -- E. frontier city of Egypt... Sin. 5512b . E.
frontier city of Egypt. Transliteration: Sin Short Definition:
Sin. Word Origin of foreign origin Definition E.
frontier city of Eg.
... /hebrew/5512a.htm - 5k 5512. Ciyn -- E. frontier city of Egypt
... 5511, 5512. Ciyn. 5512a . E. frontier city of Egypt. Transliteration:
Ciyn Phonetic Spelling: (seen) Short Definition: Sin. Sin ...
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7097. qatseh -- end, extremity
... end, extremity. Transliteration: qatseh Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-tseh') Short Definition:
after. after, border, brim, brink, edge, end, infinite, frontier, ...
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4136. mul -- front, in front of
... root Definition front, in front of NASB Word Usage before (1), front (7), frontier
(1), left (1), opposite (8), opposite* (2), over against (1), toward* (2). ...
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Library
Letter Xlvi. (AD 398. )
... customary, as I have heard, for the barbarians to take an oath, swearing by their
false gods, in the presence of the decurion stationed on the frontier or of ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/letter xlvi a d 398.htm
The Youth of Count Zinzendorf, 1700-1722.
... will take the trouble to consult a map of Europe he will see that that part of the
Kingdom of Saxony known as Upper Lusatia runs down to the Bohemian frontier. ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter i the youth of.htm
To the Rev. A. Brandram
... I am now returned principally on account of a rather unfortunate accident which
occurred on the frontier of La Mancha, the particulars of which I shall give ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/to the rev a brandram 51.htm
The Sun Rising Upon a Dark World
... The northern part of it, the inheritance of Naphtali, was the boundary or frontier
towards Syria, and had been frequently vexed and afflicted, when the sins if ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 1/sermon viii the sun rising.htm
Close of the Colonial Era --The German Churches --The Beginnings ...
... Two successive "French and Indian" wars kept the long frontier, at a time when there
was little besides frontier to the British colonies, in continual peril of ...
/.../bacon/a history of american christianity/chapter xii close of the.htm
The Life, as Amplified by Mediaeval Biographers.
... a central city of that region; his father belonged to the older and more famous
City of Nisibis, not far from Amid but near the Persian frontier, where he was ...
/.../hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/iii the life as amplified by.htm
From the Close of the General Conference of 1812 to the Death of ...
... reference to our intercourse with our Canadian brethren, "there is no mercy in war,
and hence we must expect much suffering on our frontier settlements," and ...
/.../chapter 2 from the close.htm
Sojourners of the Dispersion
... The Russian Government sends out what are called military colonies, studded along
the frontier, with the one mission of extending the empire. ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/sojourners of the dispersion.htm
The Charm
... respecting the opinion of their neighbours and acquaintances on this point, and
they assured me that in their part of the Spanish frontier all were of the same ...
//christianbookshelf.org/borrow/letters of george borrow/the charm.htm
The Nations of the South-East
... Gilead. Southward it extended towards the frontier of Moab, if indeed the
borders of the two nations did not at one time coincide. ...
/.../sayce/early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter iii the nations of.htm
Thesaurus
Frontier (6 Occurrences)... or extreme part of a country, bordering on another country; the border of the settled
and cultivated part of a country; as, the
frontier of civilization.
.../f/frontier.htm - 9kTerritory (140 Occurrences)
... the Mediterranean, to the East the Dead Sea, and the Jordan, and to the South 60
miles, North to South, of practically trackless desert, a frontier as secure ...
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Derbe (4 Occurrences)
... Southeast, and for a time Laranda was the frontier city looking toward
Cappadocia and Cilicia and Syria via the Cilician Gates. ...
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Border (233 Occurrences)
... margin; verge; brink. 2. (n.) A boundary; a frontier of a state or of the
settled part of a country; a frontier district. 3. (n.) A ...
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Illyricum (1 Occurrence)
... In other words, Paul may mean that he has preached throughout Macedonia as far as
the Illyrian frontier, or his words may involve a journey within Illyricum ...
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Berothah (1 Occurrence)
... the same name. Ezekiel 47:16 places it on the ideal northern frontier of
Israel, between Damascus and Hamath. According to 2 Samuel ...
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Berothai (1 Occurrence)
... the same name. Ezekiel 47:16 places it on the ideal northern frontier of
Israel, between Damascus and Hamath. According to 2 Samuel ...
/b/berothai.htm - 8k
Azekah (7 Occurrences)
... which belongeth to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammin."
In 2 Chronicles 11:9 it is mentioned as one of the frontier cities which ...
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Zerah (22 Occurrences)
... for (a) after the defeat it fled toward Egypt, not eastward toward Arabia; (b) the
cities around Gerar (probably Egyptian towns on the frontier of Palestine ...
/z/zerah.htm - 19k
Amorites (82 Occurrences)
... still extended eastward to the borders of Babylonia, while its southern limits
coincided approximately with what was afterward the northern frontier of Naphtali ...
/a/amorites.htm - 50k
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