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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_157557" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_157557" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) One who flies, or is qualified to fly, a balloon, an airship, or a flying machine. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' n.) One who flies, or is qualified to fly, a balloon, an airship, or a flying machine. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' n.) A short plug at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool. Pilots are sometimes made interchangeable. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To fly, or act as pilot of (an aircraft). </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' n.) The cowcatcher of a locomotive. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' n.) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' n.) One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' n.) Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' n.) Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' n.) An instrument for detecting the compass error. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' v. t.) Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties. </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42910" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_42910" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_55791" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_55791" /> == | ||
<p> (חֹבֵל, '' | <p> (חֹבֵל, ''Chobel,'' Ezekiel 27:8; Ezekiel 27:27-29), literally a ''Steersman,'' a mariner, is also rendered in our version ( Jonah 1:6) "ship-master;" but in the passage in Ezekiel it is used in a figurative sense for the chief rulers or counsellors of the Tyrians. (See [[Ship]]). </p> | ||
==References == | ==References == | ||
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.
(2): ( n.) One who flies, or is qualified to fly, a balloon, an airship, or a flying machine.
(3): ( n.) A short plug at the end of a counterbore to guide the tool. Pilots are sometimes made interchangeable.
(4): ( v. t.) To fly, or act as pilot of (an aircraft).
(5): ( n.) The cowcatcher of a locomotive.
(6): ( n.) The heading or excavation of relatively small dimensions, first made in the driving of a larger tunnel.
(7): ( n.) One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
(8): ( n.) Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees.
(9): ( n.) Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
(10): ( n.) An instrument for detecting the compass error.
(11): ( v. t.) Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.
Holman Bible Dictionary [2]
James 3:4 Ezekiel 27:8 27:27-29
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(חֹבֵל, Chobel, Ezekiel 27:8; Ezekiel 27:27-29), literally a Steersman, a mariner, is also rendered in our version ( Jonah 1:6) "ship-master;" but in the passage in Ezekiel it is used in a figurative sense for the chief rulers or counsellors of the Tyrians. (See Ship).
