Revelation 21:21-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And the twelveequivalent to the product of three and four; two more than ten; 12."he walked twelve miles: the books of the Minor Prophets in the Jewish Scriptures"
gates A large door which gives entrance into a walled city, a castle, a temple, palace or other large edifice. It differs from door chiefly in being larger. Gate signifies both the opening or passage, and the frame of boards, planks or timber which closes the passage.A frame of timber which opens or closes a passage into any court, garden or other inclosed ground; also, the passage.The frame which shuts or stops the passage of water through a dam into a flume.An avenue; an opening; a way.
In scripture, figuratively, power, dominion. "Thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;" that is, towns and fortresses. Gen.22.The gates of hell, are the power and dominion of the devil and his instruments. Matt.16.The gates of death, are the brink of the grave. Ps.9.were second person singular past, plural past, and past subjunctive of be.twelve
pearlsA white, hard, smooth, shining body, usually roundish, found in a testaceous fish of the oyster kind. The pearl-shell is called matrix perlarum, mother of pearl, and the pearl is found only in the softer part of the animal. It is found in the Persian seas and in many parts of the ocean which washes the shores of Arabia and the continent and isles of Asia, and is taken by divers. Pearls are of different sizes and colors; the larger ones approach to the figure of a pear; some have been found more than an inch in length. They are valued according to their size, their roundness, and their luster or purity, which appears in a silvery brightness.Poetically, something round and clear, as a drop of water or dew.A white speck of film growing on the eye.. To set or adorn with pearls. perl. To resemble pearls.
each used to refer to every one of two or more people or things, regarded and identified separately.of the gates
made made or formed in a particular place or by a particular process.
of a single Separate; one; only; individual; consisting of one only; as a single star; a single city; a single act.Particular; individual. No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest.Uncompounded. Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound.Alone; having no companion or assistant. Who single hast maintain'd against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.Unmarried; as a single man; a single woman.Not double; not complicated; as a single thread; a single strand of a rope.Performed with one person or antagonist on a side, or with one person only opposed to another; as a single fight; a single combat.Pure; simple; incorrupt; unbiased; having clear vision of divine truth. Matt. 6.Small; weak; sillyIn botany, a single flower is when there is only one on a stem, and in common usage, one not double.pearl, and the street a public
road An open way or public passage; ground appropriated for travel, forming a communication between one city, town or place and another. The word is generally applied to highways, and as a generic term it includes highway, street and lane. The military roads of the Romans were paved with stone, or formed of gravel or pebbles, and some of them remain to this day entire. A place where ships may ride at anchor at some distance from the shore; sometimes called roadstead, that is, a place for riding, meaning at anchor.A journey. Not used, but we still use ride as a noun; as a long ride; a short ride; the same word differently written.An inroad; incursion of an enemy. Not in use.On the road, passing; traveling.in a
city a large town one of Italy's most beautiful cities"
or townOriginally, a walled or fortified place; a collection of houses inclosed with walls, hedges or pickets for safety. Rahab's house was on the town wall. Josh. A town that hath gates and bars. 1 Sam. 23.Any collection of houses, larger than a village. In this use the word is very indefinite, and a town may consist of twenty houses, or of twenty thousand.In England, any number of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.A town, in modern times, is generally without walls, which is the circumstance that usually distinguishes it from a city.In the United States, the circumstance that distinguishes a town from a city, is generally that a city is incorporated with special privileges, and a town is not. But a city is often called a town.The inhabitants of a town. The town voted to send two representatives to the legislature, or they voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.In popular usage, in America, a township; the whole territory within certain limits.In England,the court end of London.The inhabitants of the metropolis.The metropolis. The gentleman lives in town in winter; in summer he lives in the country. The same form of expression is used in regard to other populous towns.
typicallyin most cases; usually.the quality of work is typically very high"with the distinctive qualities of a particular type of person or thing.adverb: typically"typically masculine social roles"in a way that is characteristic of a particular person or thing."David lit up many gatherings with his typically forthright comments"
with accompanied by (another person or thing).a nice steak with a bottle of red wine"
houses 1. In a general sense, a building or shed intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but appropriately, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, mansion or abode for any of the human species. It may be of any size and composed of any materials whatever, wood, stone, brick,An edifice or building appropriated to the worship of God; a temple; a church; as the house of God. A monastery; a college; as a religious house.The manner of living; the table.He keeps a good house, or a miserable house.In astrology, the station of a planet in the heavens, or the twelfth part of the heavensfamily of ancestors; descendants and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe. It particularly denotes a noble family or an illustrious race; as the house of Austria; the house of Hanover. So in Scripture, the house of Israel,or of Judah.Two of a house few ages can afford.One of the estates of a kingdom assembled in parliament or legislature; a body of men united in their legislative capacity, and holding their place by right or by election. Thus we say, the house of lords or peers of Great Britain; the house of commons; the house of representatives. In most of the United States, the legislatures consist of two houses, the senate, and the house of representatives or delegates. The quorum of a legislative body; the number of representatives assembled who are constitutionally empowered to enact laws. Hence we say, there is a sufficient number of representatives present to form a house.In Scripture, those who dwell in a house and compose a family; a household.Cornelius was a devout man, and feared God with all his house. Acts.10.Wealth; estate.Ye devour widows' houses. Matt.23.The grave; as the house appointed for all living. Job.30.Household affairs; domestic concerns.Set thy house in order. 2 Kings.20.The body; the residence of the soul in this world; as our earthly house. 2 Cor.5.The church among the Jews.Moses was faithful in all his house. Heb.3.place of residence. Egypt is called the house of bondage. Ex.13.square, or division on a chess board.HOUSE, v.t. houz. To cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to shelter; to protect by covering; as, to house wood; to house farming utensils; to house cattle.To admit to residence; to harbor.Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.To deposit and cover, as in the grave.To drive to a shelter.HOUSE, v.i. houz. To take shelter or lodgings; to keep abode; to reside.To house with darkness and with death.To have an astrological station in the heavens.
and buildings BUILD'ING, ppr. bild'ing. Framing and erecting; resting on.BUILD'ING, n. bild'ing. A fabric or edifice constructed for use or convenience, as a house,a church structure with a roof and walls, such as a house, school, store, or factory.
on 1. physically in contact with and supported by (a surface).on the table was a water jug"forming a distinctive or marked part of (the surface of something)."a scratch on her arm"
one the lowest cardinal number; half of two; 1.there's only room for one person"
or used to link alternatives.a cup of tea or coffee"introducing a synonym or explanation of a preceding word or phrase.the espionage novel, or, as it is known in the trade, the thriller"
both used to refer to two people or things, regarded and identified together.both his parents indulged him"
sides.a position to the left or right of an object, place, or central point.town on the other side of the river"an upright or sloping surface of a structure or object that is not the top or bottom and generally not the front or back. a car crashed into the side of the house"
NARROW, a. I suspect this word and near to be contracted by the loss of g, nig, narrow, strait; nigiaw, to narrow; for the D. has naauw, narrow, close, G. with a prefix. In this case, the word belongs to the root of nigh; to approach.Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow sea; a narrow hem or border. It is only or chiefly applied to the surface of flat or level bodies. Of little extent; very limited; as a narrow space or compass.Covetous; not liberal or bountiful; as a narrow heart.Contracted; of confined views or sentiments; very limited The greatest understanding is narrow.In this sense and the former, it is often prefixed to mind or soul, & c. ; as narrow-minded; narrow-souled; narrow-hearted.Near; within a small distance.Close; near; accurate; scrutinizing; as a narrow search; narrow inspection. Near; barely sufficient to avoid evil; as a narrow escape.
NARROW, n. A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound. It is usually in the plural, but sometimes in the singular.
winding 1a twisting movement or course.the windings of the stream"material (such as wire) wound or coiled about an object (such as an armature single turn of the wound material the act of one that windsthe manner of winding something a curved or sinuous course, line, or progress streets of
Greenwich borough in SE London, England: located on the prime meridian from which geographic longitude is measured; formerly the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. ... I meet Osment at a coffee shop in Greenwich Village for lunch. ... The prime meridian, which is the meridian designated zero ...Greenwich Mean Time is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, reckoned from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a consequence, it cannot be used to specify a precise time unless a context is given. Wikipedia: the mean time of the meridian of Greenwich used historically as the prime basis of standard time throughout the world
Village"VIL'LAGE, n. A small assemblage of houses, less than a town or city, and inhabited chiefly by farmers and other laboring people. In England, it is said that a village is distinguished from a town by the want of a market.In the United States, no such distinction exists, and any small assemblage of houses in the country is called a village.
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pure Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; clear; free from mixture; as pure water; pure clay; pure sand; pure air; pure silver of gold. Pure wine is very scare.Free from moral defilement; without spot; not sullied or tarnished; incorrupt; undebased by moral turpitude; holy.Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil. Hab.1. Prov.20.Genuine; real; true; incorrupt; unadulterated; as pure religion. James 1.Unmixed; separate from any other subject or from every thing foreign; as pure mathematics.Free from guilt; guiltless; innocent.No hand of strife is pure, but that which wins.Not vitiated with improper or corrupt words or phrases; as a pure style of discourse or composition.Disinterested; as pure benevolence.Chaste; as a pure virgin.Free from vice or moral turpitude. Tit.1.Ceremonially clean; unpolluted. Ezra 6.Free from any thing improper; as, his motives are pure.Mere; absolute; that and that only; unconnected with any thing else; as a pure villain. He did that from pure compassion, or pure good nature.
PURE, v.t. To purify; to cleanse. Not in use.
gold, A precious metal of a bright yellow color, and the most ductile and malleable of all the metals. It is the heaviest metal except platina; and being a very dense, fixed substance, and not liable to be injured by air, it is well fitted to be used as coin, or a representative of commodities in commerce. Its ductility and malleability render it the most suitable metal for gilding. It is often found native in solid masses, as in Hungary and Peru; though generally in combination with silver, copper or iron.Money.For me, the gold of France did not seduce--Something pleasing or valuable; as a heart of gold. A bright yellow color; as a flower edged with gold.Riches; wealth.Gold of pleasure, a plant of the genus Myagrum.GOLD, a. Made of gold; consisting of gold; as a gold chain.
transparent TRANSPA'RENCY, n. See Transparent. That state or property of a body by which it suffers rays of light to pass through it, so that objects can be distinctly seen through it; diaphaneity. This is a property of glass, water and air, which when clear, admit the free passage of light. Transparency is opposed to opakeness.transparentTRANSPARENT, a. L. trans and pareo, to appear.Having the property of transmitting rays of light so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as transparent glass; a transparent diamond; opposed to opake.Admitting the passage of light; open porous; as a transparent vail.(of a material or article) allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen.(of a material or article) allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen.
as glass. hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda, lime, and sometimes other ingredients and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles.a glass door"; glesid, blueness. Greenness is usually named from vegetation or growing, as L. viridis, from vireo.A hard, brittle, transparent, factitious substance, formed by fusing sand with fixed alkalies.In chimistry, a substance or mixture, earthy, saline or metallic, brought by fusion to the state of a hard, brittle, transparent mass, whose fracture is conchoidal.A glass vessel of any kind; as a drinking glass.A mirror; a looking-glass.A vessel to be filled with sand for measuring time; as an hour-glass.The destined time of man's life. His glass is run.The quantity of liquor that a glass vessel contains. Drink a glass of wine with me.A vessel that shows the weight of the air. A perspective glass; as an optic glass.The time which a glass runs, or in which it is exhausted of sand. The seamen's watch-glass is half an hour. We say, a ship fought three glasses.Glasses, in the plural, spectacles.Made of glass; vitreous; as a glass bottle.To see as in a glass. Not used.To case in glass. Little used.To cover with glass; to glaze.In the latter sense, glaze is generally used.
And I saw hand tool for cutting wood or other materials, typically with a long, thin serrated steel blade and operated using a backward and forward movement.
No 1. used to give a negative response.Is anything wrong?” “No.”"
temple building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence.either of two successive religious buildings of the Jews in Jerusalem. The first (957–586 BC) was built by Solomon and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar; it contained the Ark of the Covenant. The second (515 BC–AD 70) was enlarged by Herod the Great from 20 BC and destroyed by the Romans during a Jewish revolt; all that remains is the Western Wall: Temple; noun: the Templegroup of buildings in Fleet Street in London that stand on land formerly occupied by the headquarters of the Knights Templar. Located there are the Inner and Outer Temple, two of the Inns of Court.A public edifice erected in honor of some deity. Among pagans, a building erected to some pretended deity, and in which the people assembled to worship. Originally, temples were open places, as the Stonehenge in England. In Rome, some of the temples were open, and called sacella; others were roofed, and called oedes. The most celebrated of the ancient pagan temples were that of Belus in Babylon, that of Vulcan at Memphis, that of Jupiter at Thebes, that of Diana at Ephesus, that of Apollo in Miletus,that of Jupiter Olympius in Athens, and that of Apollo at Delphi. The most celebrated and magnificent temple erected to the true God, was that built by Solomon in Jerusalem.In Scripture, the tabernacle is sometimes called by this name. 1 Sam. 1-3.A church; an edifice erected among christians as a place of public worship.Can he whose life is a perpetual insult to the authority of God, enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer?A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a collective body. Eph.2.In England,the Temples are two inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwellings of the knights Templars. They are called the Inner and the Middle Temple.
TEM'PLE, n. L. tempus, tempora. The primary sense of the root of this word is to fall. See Time.Literally, the fall of the head; the part where the head slopes from the top.In anatomy, the anterior and lateral part of the head, where the skull is covered by the temporal muscles.
TEM'PLE, v.t. To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to. Little used.the city,large town.one of Italy's most beautiful cities" its temple is the Lord . A master; a person possessing supreme power and authority; a ruler; a governor.Man over man he made not lord.But now I was the lord of this fair mansion.A tyrant; an oppressive ruler. A husband.oft in bitterness of soul deplores my absent daughter, and my dearer lord.My lord also being old. Gen. 18. A baron; the proprietor of a manor; as the lord of the manor.A nobleman; a title of honor in Great Britain given to those who are noble by birth or creation; a peer of the realm, including dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts and barons. Archbishops and bishops also, as members of the house of lords, are lords of parliament. Thus we say, lords temporal and spiritual. By courtesy also the title is given to the sons of dukes and marquises, and to the eldest sons of earls.An honorary title bestowed on certain official characters; as lord advocate, lord chamberlain, lord chancellor, lord chief justice, &c. In scripture, the Supreme Being; Jehovah. When Lord, in the Old Testament, is prints in capitals, it is the translation of JEHOVAH, and so might, with more propriety, be rendered. The word is applied to Christ, Ps. 110. Col. 3. and to the Holy Spirit, 2Thess. 3. As a title of respect, it is applied to kings, Gen. 40. 2Sam. 19. to princes and nobles, Gen 42. Dan. 4. to a husband, Gen. 18. to a prophet, 1Kings 18. 2Kings 2. and to a respectable person, Gen. 24. Christ is called the Lord of glory, 1Cor. 2. and Lord of lords, Rev. 19.LORD, v.t. To invest with the dignity and privileges of a lord.LORD, v.i. To domineer; to rule with arbitrary or despotic sway; sometimes followed by over, and sometimes by it, in the manner of a transitive verb.The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss.I see them lording it in London streets.They lorded over them whom now they serve.
God(in Christianity and other monotheistic religions) the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being.in certain other religions) a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity.moon god"The Supreme Being; Jehovah; the eternal and infinite spirit, the creator,and the sovereign of the universe.God is a spirit; and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4. A false god; a heathen deity; an idol.Fear not the gods of the Amorites. Judges 6. A prince; a ruler; a magistrate or judge; an angel. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy people.Ex. 22. Ps.97.Gods here is a bad translation.Any person or thing exalted too much in estimation, or deified and honored as the chief good.Whose god is their belly. Phil.3.GOD, Definition of god. (Entry 1 of 2) 1 capitalized : the supreme or ultimate reality: such as. a : the Being perfect in power, wisdom, and goodness who is worshipped as creator and ruler of the universe. b Christian Science : the incorporeal divine Principle ruling over all as eternal Spirit : infinite Mind.
the Almighty having complete power; omnipotent.
all-powerful, omnipotent, supreme, most high, preeminent;More
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and the Lamb. 1. The young of the sheep kind.The Lamb of God, in Scripture, the Savior Jesus Christ, who was typified by the paschal lamb.Behold the lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world. John 1.
LAMB, v.t. To bring forth young, as sheep.
And the city a large town.has possess, own, or hold
no need require (something) because it is essential or very important.
of sun1. the star around which the earth orbits.
the light or warmth received from the earth's sun. The splendid orb or luminary which, being in or near the center of our system of worlds, gives light and heat to all the planets. The light of the sun constitutes the day, and the darkness which proceeds form its absence, or the shade of the earth, constitutes the night. Ps.136. In popular usage, a sunny place; a place where the beams of the sun fall; as, to stand in the sun, that is, to stand where the direct rays of the sun fall.Any thing eminently splendid or luminous; that which is the chief source of light or honor. The natives of America complain that the sun of their glory is set.I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignty to posterity.In Scripture, Christ is called the sun of righteousness, as the source of light, animation and comfort to his disciples.The luminary or orb which constitutes the center of any system of worlds. The fixed stars are supposed to be suns in their respective systems.
Under the sun, in the world; on earth; a proverbial expression.There is no new thing under the sun. Eccles.1.SUN, v.t. To expose to the sun's rays; to warm or dry in the light of the sun; to insolate; as, to sun cloth; to sun grain.
moon The heavenly orb which revolves round the earth; a secondary planet or satellite of the earth, whose borrowed light is reflected to the earth and serves to dispel the darkness of night. Its mean distance from the earth is 60 1/2 semidiameters of the earth, or 240,000 miles. Its revolution round the earth in 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, constitutes the lunar month.A month. This is the sense in which rude nations use the name of the moon; as seven moons.Half-moon, in fortification, a figure resembling a crescent.
to shineSHINE, v.i. If s is a prefix, this word accords with the root of L. canus, caneo.To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit lightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. Shining differs from sparkling, glistening, glittering, as it usually implies a steady radiation or emission of light, whereas the latter words usually imply irregular or interrupted radiation. This distinction is not always not always observed, and we may say, the fixed stars shine, as well as they sparkle. But we never say the sun or the moon sparkles.To be bright; to be lively and animated; to be brilliant.Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster. Denham.To be unclouded; as, the moon shines.
on it, for the glory GLO'RIED, a. See Glory. Illustrious; honorable. Not used. GLO'RY, n. L. gloria; planus; hence, bright, shining. Glory, then, is brightness, splendor. The L. floreo, to blossom, to flower, to flourish, is probably of the same family.Brightness; luster; splendor.The moon, serene in glory, mounts the sky.For he received from God the Father honor and glory,when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory. 2 Pet.1.In this passage of Peter, the latter word glory refers to the visible splendor or bright cloud that overshadowed Christ at his transfiguration. The former word glory, though the same in the original, is to be understood in a figurative sense.2. Splendor; magnificence.Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like oneof these. Matt.vi.3. The circle of rays surrounding the head of a figure in painting.4. Praise ascribed in adoration; honor.Glory to God in the highest. Luke 2.Honor; praise; fame; renown; celebrity. The hero pants for glory in the field. It was the glory of Howard to relieve the wretched.The felicity of heaven prepared for the children of God; celestial bliss.Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,and afterwards receive me to glory. Ps.73.In scripture, the divine presence; or the ark, the manifestation of it.The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam.4.The divine perfections or excellence.The heavens declare the glory of God. Ps.19.Honorable representation of God. 1 Cor. 11.8.10. Distinguished honor or ornament; that which honors or makes renowned; that of which one may boast.Babylon, the glory of kingdoms. Is.13.11. Pride; boastfulness; arrogance; as vain glory.12. Generous pride.GLO'RY, v.i. L. glorior, from gloria.To exult with joy; to rejoice.Glory ye in his holy name. Ps.105. 1Chron. 16.To boast; to be proud of.No one should glory in his prosperity.
God in Christianity and other monotheistic religions) the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority; the supreme being.(in certain other religions) a superhuman being or spirit worshiped as having power over nature or human fortunes; a deity.a moon god"
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it light, and its lamp is the Lamb. By its light will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it, and its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there.
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