Redound

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( v. i.) To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.

(2): ( n.) The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.

(3): ( v. i.) To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.

(4): ( n.) Rebound; reverberation.

King James Dictionary [2]

Redound, L redundo red, re, and undo, to rise or swell, as waves.

1. To be sent, rolled or driven back.

The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.

2. To conduce in the consequence to contribute to result.

The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God the author of it.

3. To proceed in the consequence or effect to result.

There will no small use redound from them to that manufactures.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]

 2—Corinthians 4:15Abundance

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]

rḗ - dound ´ (from re -, "back," and undare , "to surge as a wave"): To be sent back as a reaction, to overflow; occurs only as the translation of περισσεύω , perisseúō , "to be over and above," "to superabound" (frequent in the New Testament); in   2 Corinthians 4:15 , "might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God," the Revised Version (British and American) "may cause the thanksgiving to abound."

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