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== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_63252" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_63252" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> [[Story]] n. L., Gr. </p> 1. A verbal narration or recital of a series of facts or incidents. WE observe in children a strong passion for hearing stories. 2. A written narrative of a series of facts or events. There is probably on record no story more interesting than that of [[Joseph]] in Genesis. 3. History a written narrative or account of past transactions, whether relating to nations or individuals. <p> The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story. </p> 4. Petty tale relation of a single incident or of trifling incidents. 5. A trifling tale a fiction a fable as the story of a fairy. In popular usage, story is sometimes a softer term for a lie. 6. A loft a floor or a set of rooms on the same floor or level. A story comprehends the distance from one floor to another as a story of nine or ten feet elevation. Hence each floor terminating the space is called a story as a house of one story, of two stories, of five stories. The farm houses in New [[England]] have usually two stories the houses in [[Paris]] have usually five stories a few have more those in London four. But in the United States the floor next the ground is the first story in [[France]] and England, the first floor or story, is the second from the ground. <p> STORY, </p> 1. To tell in historical relation to narrate. <p> How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing. </p> <p> It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. </p> <p> This verb is chiefly used in the passive participle. </p> 2. To range one under another. Little used. | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_179825" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_179825" /> == | ||
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== Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79249" /> == | == Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words <ref name="term_79249" /> == | ||
<div> '''1: | <div> '''1: '''''Τρίστεγον''''' ''' (Strong'S #5152 — Adjective — tristegos — tris'-teg-on ) </div> <p> an adjective denoting "of three stories" (treis, "three," stege, "a roof"), occurs in Acts 20:9 (with oikema, "a dwelling," understood), RV, "the third story" (AV, "the third loft"). </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_54204" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_54204" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> STORY </strong> (EV [Note: English Version.] for ‘storey’). See House, § <strong> 5 </strong> . </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_62367" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_62367" /> == | ||
<p> appears in the A.V. at 2 Chronicles 13:22; 2 Chronicles 24:27, as a rendering of מַדְרָשׁ, [[Midrash]] (q.v.), a ''Commentary,'' or historical statement (comp. "Caesar's [[Commentaries]] ")''.'' (See [[History]]); (See [[Tale]]). In Amos 9:6 it is the translation of מִעֲלָה, ''Maalah, A Step,'' as often rendered. (See [[Degree]]); (See [[Stair]]). In [[Genesis]] 6:46; Ezekiel 41:16; Ezekiel 42:3, the word has been supplied by the translators in the sense of the successive ''Floors'' of a building. (See [[Ark]]); (See [[Temple]]). </p> | <p> appears in the A.V. at 2 Chronicles 13:22; 2 Chronicles 24:27, as a rendering of '''''מַדְרָשׁ''''' , [[Midrash]] (q.v.), a ''Commentary,'' or historical statement (comp. "Caesar's [[Commentaries]] ") ''.'' (See [[History]]); (See [[Tale]]). In Amos 9:6 it is the translation of '''''מִעֲלָה''''' , ''Maalah, A Step,'' as often rendered. (See [[Degree]]); (See [[Stair]]). In [[Genesis]] 6:46; Ezekiel 41:16; Ezekiel 42:3, the word has been supplied by the translators in the sense of the successive ''Floors'' of a building. (See [[Ark]]); (See [[Temple]]). </p> | ||
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