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Whether Whatever in the Body Belonged to the Truth of Human Nature ...
... is indifferent to this, whereas it remains always as regards what belongs to the
species in it, albeit as regards what is material therein it may ebb and flow. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether whatever in the body.htm

Whether Whatever was Materially in a Man's Members Will all Rise ...
... inadmissible. On the contrary, The parts of matter are not permanent in the
body but ebb and flow, as stated in De Gener. i. If, therefore ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether whatever was materially in.htm

Youth and Age, and the Command for Both
... to you, and if you grow up to be old men, which it is probable that many of you
will do, you will have to sit and watch the tide of your life ebb, ebb, ebbing ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture st john chaps xv to xxi/youth and age and the.htm

All the Day Long
... Ours must never be a religion that is periodic in its flow, like certain intermittent
springs which flow and ebb, and flow only to ebb again. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/all the day long.htm

None but Jesus --Second Part
... heart. Yea, more; not only may our faith be exercised, but our faith may
come to a very low ebb, and still we may not be condemned. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 7 1861/none but jesussecond part.htm

Light at Evening Time
... and to conquer. Before long, however, if you read history, you find it
always has happened that there came an ebb-tide. Again the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/light at evening time.htm

A Willing People and an Immutable Leader
... fear about the people. Religion may be at a low ebb, but it never was
at such a low ebb that God's ship was stranded. It may be ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/a willing people and an.htm

Satan Considering the Saints
... His prosperity wanted nothing for its consolidation. It had come to its
flood-tide: where was the cause which could make it ebb? ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 11 1865/satan considering the saints.htm

The Nile and Egypt
... The tears of Isis"The rise of the Nile"The Green Nile and the Bed Nile"The opening
of the dykes"-The fall of the Nile"The river at its lowest ebb. ...
/.../chapter i the nile and egypt.htm

Preface
... history of the Church. Yet I wonder if there was ever a time when true
spiritual worship was at a lower ebb. To great sections of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/tozer/the pursuit of god/preface.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The European bunting.

2. (n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb.

3. (n.) The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.

4. (v. i.) To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.

5. (v. i.) To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.

6. (v. t.) To cause to flow back.

7. (a.) Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.

Thesaurus

Ebb (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward
the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb. ...
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Flow (85 Occurrences)
... 8. (vi) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice
in twenty-four hours. ... See Ebb and flow, under Ebb. 16. ...
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Turn (963 Occurrences)
... 20. (vi) To become inclined in the other direction; -- said of scales. 21. (vi)
To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide. 22. ...
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Ebal (8 Occurrences)

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Low (216 Occurrences)
... winter, and six in summer. 10. (superl.) Sunk to the farthest ebb of the
tide; as, low tide. 11. (superl.) Beneath the usual or ...
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Flood (70 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The flowing in of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water
in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. ...
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Flux (26 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the
reflux. 3. (n.) The state of being liquid through heat; fusion. ...
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Ebbed (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Ebb. Multi-Version Concordance Ebbed (1
Occurrence). Psalms 107:5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. ...
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Alternate (2 Occurrences)
... 8. (vi) To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or
time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other ...
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Bible Concordance

Ebb (1 Occurrence)

Lamentations 2:12 They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Ebb

Related Terms

Flow (85 Occurrences)

Turn (963 Occurrences)

Ebal (8 Occurrences)

Low (216 Occurrences)

Flood (70 Occurrences)

Flux (26 Occurrences)

Ebbed (1 Occurrence)

Alternate (2 Occurrences)

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