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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_174279" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_174279" /> == | ||
<p> '''(1):''' ''' of Shear''' </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' imp. of Shear.''' </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) | <p> '''(1):''' ''' of Shear''' </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' imp. of Shear.''' </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' n.) A sewer. </p> <p> '''(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. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To set on shore. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To support by a shore or shores; to prop; - usually with up; as, to shore up a building. </p> | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_62869" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_62869" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> SHORE, the old. pret. of shear. Obs. </p> <p> 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. </p> <p> SHORE, n. The popular but corrupt pronunciation of sewer a pronunciation that should be carefully avoided. </p> <p> SHORE, n. A prop a butress something that supports a building or other thing. </p> <p> SHORE, </p> 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 <ref name="term_57242" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament <ref name="term_57242" /> == | ||
<p> <b> | <p> <b> SHORE. </b> —See Beach. </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_8460" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_8460" /> == | ||
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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_60835" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_60835" /> == | ||
<p> is the rendering in the | <p> is the rendering in the A.V. of three Heb. and two Greek words. </p> <p> '''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). </p> <p> '''2.''' קָצֶה, ''Katseh,'' the ''Extremity Of'' the land ( Joshua 15:2; elsewhere "brim," "brink," etc.). </p> <p> '''3.''' שָׂפָה, ''Saphah,'' a [[Lip]] (as often, sometimes "brink," "bank," etc.); χεῖλος, the [[Lip]] (as usually, "shore" only in Hebrews 11:12). (See [[Sea]]). </p> | ||
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