Bible Encyclopedia: Gang

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Greek

1044. gaggraina -- a gangrene, an eating sore
... a gangrene, an eating sore. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: gaggraina
Phonetic Spelling: (gang'-grahee-nah) Short Definition: gangrene ...
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Library

Preaching to a Press-Gang
... Chapter 10. Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions; A
Dream Preaching to a Press-gang. Monday, 23."I paid another ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/preaching to a press-gang.htm

Defeating the Press-Gang
... Chapter 11. "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Wesley's Advice to Travelers;
Wesley and the French Prisoners Defeating the Press-gang. ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/defeating the press-gang.htm

Press Gang and Methodists
... Chapter 6. First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs; Wesley's Protest
against Ungodliness Press Gang and Methodists. Wednesday ...
/.../wesley/the journal of john wesley/press gang and methodists.htm

Press-Gang Disturbs the Sermon
... Chapter 3. Field-Preaching; "All the World my Parish"; Whitefield; Wales;
Experience with Demons Press-gang Disturbs the Sermon. ...
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Full Power through Rhythm.
... Rhythm of action is power. I have often stood as a boy on the streets of old
Philadelphia, and watched a gang of foreign laborers at work. ...
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The Journal of John Wesley
... Talks with Whitefield. Press-gang Disturbs the Sermon. The New Name of Methodism. ...
Wesley's Effective Letter. Press Gang and Methodists. Reading the Riot Act. ...
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The Teen Boy and Missions
... and conduct only with his peers. His gang is as exclusive as the traditions
of Sons of the Revolution. The non-christians of other ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/xvi the teen boy and.htm

The Home and the Boy
... idea of what the right of private property really is, with the result that when
he reaches the adolescent years and is swayed by the gang spirit, whatever ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/i the home and the.htm

Method and Organization
... The semi-religious are built around religious and symbolic heroes, make a bid for
the heroic and the gang spirit, and seek to inculcate more or less of ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/vii method and organization.htm

Fundamental Principles in Sunday School Work with Boys
... 4. The fourth principle is Organisation. The law of the boy life in
adolescence is organization, or the gang. The church has its ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/vi fundamental principles in sunday.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To go; to walk.

2. (n.) A going; a course.

3. (n.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.

4. (n.) A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows.

5. (n.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays.

6. (n.) The mineral substance which encloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.

Thesaurus

Gang (1 Occurrence)
... in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular
purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors ...
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Driver (4 Occurrences)
... the movements of a locomotive. 3. (n.) An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang
of convicts at their work. 4. (n.) A part that transmits ...
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Company (287 Occurrences)
... 20:12; ro'sh, "head," "detachment"; Judges 7:16, 20: "three companies"; Judges
9:34, 37, 43: "four companies." (3) Band (chebher) or "gang," as rendered by ...
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Spell (2 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also,
a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another ...
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Gangrene (1 Occurrence)

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Overlook (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as,
to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one who is writing a letter. ...
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Gamul (2 Occurrences)

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Team (3 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially,
a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of ...
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Tribute (67 Occurrences)
... trib'-ut (mac, "tribute," really meaning "forced laborers," "labor gang" (1 Kings
4:6; 1 Kings 9:15, 21); also "forced service," "serfdom"; possibly "forced ...
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Bible Concordance

Gang (1 Occurrence)

Hosea 7:1 When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
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Subtopics

Gang

Related Terms

Driver (4 Occurrences)

Company (287 Occurrences)

Spell (2 Occurrences)

Gangrene (1 Occurrence)

Overlook (7 Occurrences)

Gamul (2 Occurrences)

Team (3 Occurrences)

Tribute (67 Occurrences)

Ravages (4 Occurrences)