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Strong's Hebrew

6948. qedeshah -- harlot, whore
... Word Origin fem. of qadesh, qv. harlot, whore Feminine of qadesh; a female devotee
(ie Prostitute) -- harlot, whore. see HEBREW qadesh. 6947, 6948. ...
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6945. qadesh -- a temple prostitute
... sodomite, unclean. From qadash; a (quasi) sacred person, ie (technically) a (male)
devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry -- sodomite, unclean. ...
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Library

Correspondences
... looked at her as I look at her now, stripped of all God meant her to have when He
made her, deep in the mire of the lowest form of idolatry, a devotee of Siva. ...
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Opposition to Jesus.
... and several of those of the Talmud, may, besides, relate to an epoch posterior to
Jesus, an epoch in which "Pharisee" had become synonymous with "devotee."]. ...
/.../renan/the life of jesus/chapter xx opposition to jesus.htm

Life of Bunyan
... as Southey's and Montgomery's; after the elaborate biography of Mr Philip, whose
researches have left few desiderata for any subsequent devotee; indeed, after ...
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Scenes in the Lives of the Patriarchs.
... forest alone breaking the stillness, it would not be strange, as they gazed on flaming
Orion and the Pleiades, if they had bowed with the Devotee of Light ...
/.../headley/half hours in bible lands volume 2/scenes in the lives of.htm

The Church and Rural Public Thought
... The devotee is driven to the position of finding his sole religious duty that of
getting himself and those in whom he is interested ready to enter the new ...
/.../vogt/church cooperation in community life/chapter vi the church and.htm

On the Negative Spirit
... I am not at this moment claiming for the devotee anything more than this primary
advantage, that though he may be making himself personally weak and miserable ...
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Bound to the Altar
... for Salvation.'. There are not many who are prepared to do what that poor
Indian devotee did. They are a long way off that. But unless ...
/.../howard/standards of life and service/ix bound to the altar.htm

Christian Names.
... ie "the treasurer of the god Bel;" Hannaniah he called Shadrach, ie "the messenger
of the king;" Mishael he called Meshach, ie "the devotee of the goddess ...
/.../philips/the christian home/chapter xii christian names.htm

Illustrations
... AN OLD BRAHMAN Frontispiece BANDY CROSSING A POOL Facing page 5 A YOUNG TAMIL GIRL
11 A POTTER AT HIS WHEEL 24 A DEVOTEE OF SIVA 26 THE RED LAKE VILLAGE 28 ...
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Partakers of the Divine Nature
... There is no god that men have bowed before, so unlike the devotee; and there is
no system which recognises that, as is the Maker so are the made, in such ...
/.../partakers of the divine nature.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(n.) One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.

Thesaurus

Devotee (1 Occurrence)
... a bigot. Multi-Version Concordance Devotee (1 Occurrence). Acts 19:35 And
the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, 'Men ...
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Nazirite (10 Occurrences)
... Peoples The root-meaning of the word in Hebrew as well as the various Greek
translations indicates the Nazirite as "a consecrated one" or "a devotee." In the ...
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Male (303 Occurrences)
... The Greek expression for the devotee of this vice is a compound noun, arsenokoites,
literally, "he who lies with man," the abuser of himself with mankind, the ...
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Quieting (4 Occurrences)
... public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, 'Men, Ephesians, why, who is the
man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the ...
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Devout (13 Occurrences)
... devout posture. 3. (vt) Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest; as, devout
wishes for one's welfare. 4. (n.) A devotee. 5. (n.) A ...
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Devotes (1 Occurrence)

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Dionysus
... One Dionysus after another has been substituted, but from the first there has been
a desire on the part of the devotee to realize his god vividly with ...
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Devotedness (2 Occurrences)

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Devote (36 Occurrences)
... to piety, etc. 4. (a.) Devoted; addicted; devout. 5. (n.) A devotee.
Multi-Version Concordance Devote (36 Occurrences). Acts 6:4 ...
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Paarai (1 Occurrence)
... PAARAI. pa'-a-ri (pa`aray, "devotee of Peor"): One of David's 37 valiant men
(2 Samuel 23:35). Doubtless the "Naarai" of 1 Chronicles 11:37. ...
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Bible Concordance

Devotee (1 Occurrence)

Acts 19:35 And the public clerk having quieted the multitude, saith, 'Men, Ephesians, why, who is the man that doth not know that the city of the Ephesians is a devotee of the great goddess Artemis, and of that which fell down from Zeus?
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Subtopics

Devotee

Related Terms

Nazirite (10 Occurrences)

Male (303 Occurrences)

Quieting (4 Occurrences)

Devout (13 Occurrences)

Devotes (1 Occurrence)

Dionysus

Devotedness (2 Occurrences)

Devote (36 Occurrences)

Paarai (1 Occurrence)