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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_81727" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_81727" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' (a.) [[Cast]] down; low-lying. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (a.) [[Sunk]] to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (n.) | <p> '''(1):''' (a.) [[Cast]] down; low-lying. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (a.) [[Sunk]] to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway. </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49253" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_49253" /> == | ||
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== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_57982" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_57982" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> ABJECT', To throw away to cast out. Obs. </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_365" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_365" /> == | ||
<p> '''''ab´jekt''''' : Only as a noun, and but once ( Psalm 35:15 ) for נכה , <i> '''''nēkheh''''' </i> , literally, "smitten ones," i.e. "men of the lowest grade" (Hengstenberg, Delitzsch), "the rabble," defined by the succeeding clause as those of such inferior station that they were unknown. </p> | <p> ''''' ab´jekt ''''' : Only as a noun, and but once ( Psalm 35:15 ) for נכה , <i> ''''' nēkheh ''''' </i> , literally, "smitten ones," i.e. "men of the lowest grade" (Hengstenberg, Delitzsch), "the rabble," defined by the succeeding clause as those of such inferior station that they were unknown. </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
Latest revision as of 14:44, 16 October 2021
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (a.) Cast down; low-lying.
(2): (a.) Sunk to a law condition; down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts.
(3): (a.) To cast off or down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.
(4): (n.) A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [2]
Abject . In Psalms 35:15 ‘abject’ occurs as a noun, as in Herbert’s Temple ‘Servants and abjects flout me.’
King James Dictionary [3]
ABJECT', To throw away to cast out. Obs.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
ab´jekt : Only as a noun, and but once ( Psalm 35:15 ) for נכה , nēkheh , literally, "smitten ones," i.e. "men of the lowest grade" (Hengstenberg, Delitzsch), "the rabble," defined by the succeeding clause as those of such inferior station that they were unknown.
