Shore
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): of Shear
(2): ( v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
(3): imp. of Shear.
(4): ( n.) A sewer.
(5): ( n.) A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging.
(6): ( v. t.) To set on shore.
(7): ( v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; - usually with up; as, to shore up a building.
King James Dictionary [2]
Shore the old. pret. of shear. Obs.
SHORE, n. The coast or land adjacent to the sea, or to a large lake or river. This word is applied primarily to land contiguous to water but it extends to the ground near the border of the sea or of a lake, which is covered with water. We also use the word to express the land near the border of the sea or of a great lake, to an indefinite extent as when we say, a town stands on the shore. We do not apply the word to land contiguous to a small stream. This we call a bank.
SHORE, n. The popular but corrupt pronunciation of sewer a pronunciation that should be carefully avoided.
SHORE, n. A prop a butress something that supports a building or other thing.
SHORE,
1. To prop to support by a post or butress usually withsup as, to shore up a building. 2. To set on shore. Not in use.
Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament [3]
SHORE. —See Beach.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
shōr : (1) חוף , ḥōph , always of the Mediterranean, variously translated "haven," "beach," "shore," "sea-shore," "coast," "sea coast" ( Genesis 49:13; Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 9:1; Judges 5:17; Jeremiah 47:7; Ezekiel 25:16 ). (2) שׂפה , sāphāh , literally, "lip"; compare Arabic shafat , "lip"; of the sand upon the seashore, a figure of multitude ( Genesis 22:17; Exodus 14:30; Joshua 11:4; Judges 7:12; 1 Samuel 13:5; 1 Kings 4:29 ); the shore of the Red Sea or Gulf of ‛Aḳabah by Ezion-geber ( 1 Kings 9:26; 2 Chronicles 8:17 ); the brink of the River Nile ( Genesis 41:3 , Genesis 41:17 ); the edge (the King James Version "brink") of the valley of Arnon ( Deuteronomy 2:36 ). (3) קצה , ḳāceh , literally, "end," "extremity," the uttermost part (the King James Version "shore") of the Salt Sea ( Joshua 15:2 ); הארץ קצה , ḳecēh hā - 'ārec , "the end of the earth" ( Psalm 46:9 ); compare Arabic 'aḳâṣı̂ - l - 'arḍ , "the uttermost parts of the earth." (4) χεῖλος , cheı́los , literally, "lip," "as the sand which is by the seashore" ( Hebrews 11:12 ). (5) αἰγιαλός , aigialós , the beach (the King James Version "shore") of the Sea of Galilee ( Matthew 13:2 , Matthew 13:48; John 21:4 ); of the Mediterranean ( Acts 21:5; Acts 27:39 , Acts 27:40 ). (6) ἆσσον παρελέγοντο τὴν Κρήτην , ásson parelégonto tḗn Krḗtēn , doubtful reading, "sailed along Crete, close in shore" (the King James Version "sailed along by Crete") ( Acts 27:13 ). See Coast; Haven; Sand .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [5]
is the rendering in the A.V. of three Heb. and two Greek words.
1. חוֹ , Choph (so called from being Chafed by the waves [Gesen.], or Enclosed [Furst]; comp. Engl. Cove, and the modern town Chaifa ) , a Roadstead ( Judges 5:17; Jeremiah 47:7; "coast" in Joshua 9:1; Ezekiel 25:10; "haven" in Genesis 49:13; "side" in Deuteronomy 1:7); Αἰγιαλός , a Beach ( Matthew 13:2; Matthew 13:48; John 21:4; Acts 21:5; Acts 27:39-40).
2. קָצֶה , Katseh, the Extremity Of the land ( Joshua 15:2; elsewhere "brim," "brink," etc.).
3. שָׂפָה , Saphah, a Lip (as often, sometimes "brink," "bank," etc.); Χεῖλος , the Lip (as usually, "shore" only in Hebrews 11:12). (See Sea).
