Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. i.) To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin.
2. (n.) A large number or mass of small animals or insects, especially when in motion.
3. (n.) Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
4. (n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes of inanimate objects; as, a swarm of meteorites.
5. (v. i.) To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
6. (v. i.) To appear or collect in a crowd; to throng together; to congregate in a multitude.
7. (v. i.) To be crowded; to be thronged with a multitude of beings in motion.
8. (v. i.) To abound; to be filled (with).
9. (v. i.) To breed multitudes.
10. (v. t.) To crowd or throng.
Strong's Hebrew
6157. arob -- probably a swarm... 6156, 6157. arob. 6158 . probably a
swarm. Transliteration: arob Phonetic Spelling:
(aw-robe') Short Definition: swarms.
... divers sorts of flies,
swarm.
... /hebrew/6157.htm - 6k 8317. sharats -- to swarm, teem
... 8316, 8317. sharats. 8318 . to swarm, teem. Transliteration: sharats Phonetic
Spelling: (shaw-rats') Short Definition: swarms. Word Origin a prim. ...
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3654. ken -- gnat, gnats, a gnat swarm
... 3653b, 3654. ken. 3655 . gnat, gnats, a gnat swarm. Transliteration:
ken Phonetic Spelling: (kane) Short Definition: gnats. Word ...
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5712. edah -- congregation
... Word Origin from yaad Definition congregation NASB Word Usage assembly (5), band
(2), company (13), congregation (126), congregation's (1), herd (1), swarm (1 ...
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1373b. gobay -- locusts
... locusts. Transliteration: gobay or gobay Short Definition: locust-swarm. Word Origin
from the same as gebeh Definition locusts NASB Word Usage locust-swarm (1). ...
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7430. ramas -- to creep, move lightly, move about
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to creep, move lightly, move about NASB Word
Usage creep (1), creeps (7), moved (1), moves (6), prowl about (1), swarm (1). ...
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8318. sherets -- swarmers, swarming things
... creeping thing, moving creature. From sharats; a swarm, ie Active mass of minute
animals -- creep(-ing thing), move(-ing creature). see HEBREW sharats. ...
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Library
Evil Thoughts.
... They came upon his servants, and the houses of the Egyptians were full of swarms
of flies, "and the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies." The ...
/.../the village pulpit volume ii trinity to advent/lvi evil thoughts.htm
The Cost of Being Cruel and Stubborn
... If you refuse to let them go, then I will afflict all your land with frogs; and
the Nile shall swarm with frogs which shall go up and come into your house ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/sherman/the childrens bible/the cost of being cruel.htm
The Acceptance of the Christian Conception of Life Will Emancipate ...
... proof of its truth. Men in their present condition are like a swarm of
bees hanging in a cluster to a branch. The position of the ...
/.../tolstoy/the kingdom of god is within you/chapter ix the acceptance of.htm
Christ Teaching by Parables
... This is a point worth dwelling on, and so I will introduce to your notice here:
A SWARM OF BEES WORTH HIVING. ... Here is a swarm of between forty and fifty bees. ...
/.../newton/the life of jesus christ for the young/christ teaching by parables.htm
Discipline
... 'How goodly,' he cries, 'are thy tents, oh Jacob, and thy camp, oh Israel.' He likens
them, not to the locust swarm, the sea flood, nor the forest fire, but to ...
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Cautions against False Doctrine.
... beings who are in a little while to perish. A swarm of such evils has burst
in upon us. [1183] But ye have not "given place by subjection ...
/.../chapter ii cautions against false doctrine.htm
Book iv. --Of Marcion's Antitheses.
... These gifts of theirs, and says they are to Him. Unwelcome, while He chides a People
prest. With swarm of sin? [1563] Does He, the truthful, bid,. ...
/.../book iv of marcions antitheses.htm
Thoughts for the Clergy on the Amusement Question.
... loves. They throw off the shackles which youth hates. Our cities and villages
swarm with traps set expressly for them. Thousands ...
/.../vincent/amusement a force in christian training/thoughts for the clergy on.htm
Book Seven the Conversion to Neoplatonism. ...
... My heart cried out violently against all fantasms, [177] and with this one clear
certainty I endeavored to brush away the swarm of unclean flies that swarmed ...
/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book seven the conversion to.htm
'the Angel Adjutant'
... But more than by anything concerning the men and women of this neighbourhood, one
is impressed by the swarm of dreggy children playing their poor little ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/x the angel adjutant.htm
Thesaurus
Swarm (26 Occurrences)... 4. (n.) Hence, any great number or multitude, as of people in motion, or sometimes
of inanimate objects; as, a
swarm of meteorites.
...Swarm (26 Occurrences).
.../s/swarm.htm - 15kLocust-swarm (1 Occurrence)
Locust-swarm. Locust's, Locust-swarm. Lod . Multi-Version Concordance
Locust-swarm (1 Occurrence). Amos 7:1 Thus hath ...
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Bee (1 Occurrence)
... Samson found a "swarm of bees" in the carcass of a lion he had slain (Judges
14:8). Wild bees are described as laying up honey in woods and in clefts of rocks ...
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Swarming (19 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swarm. Multi-Version Concordance
Swarming (19 Occurrences). Genesis 7:21 And all flesh ...
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Pontus (3 Occurrences)
... Miletus, "greatest of the Ionic towns," sent out its colonists, swarm after swarm,
up through the Bosphorus, and along the southern shore of the Black Sea. ...
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Swarms (18 Occurrences)
... Genesis 1:20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and
let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky." (WEB JPS ASV DBY ...
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Creatures (83 Occurrences)
... Genesis 1:20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and
let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky." (WEB JPS ASV NAS ...
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Lod (4 Occurrences)
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Fly (33 Occurrences)
... like "d" or "z" or like th in "the"): The references in Psalms as well as in Exodus
are to the plague of flies, and the word `arobh is rendered "swarm of flies ...
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Creature (73 Occurrences)
... Genesis 1:20 God said, "Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and
let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of sky." (Root in WEB KJV ...
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Resources
Why did God use a locust swarm to punish Israel (Joel 1:4)? | GotQuestions.orgIs Joel 1:4 referring to literal locusts? When was this prophecy fulfilled? | GotQuestions.orgWere fish and sea creatures also destroyed during the Flood (Genesis 6-8)? | GotQuestions.orgSwarm: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.comBible Concordance •
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