Bible Encyclopedia: Ragged

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Strong's Hebrew

5553. sela -- a crag, cliff
... ragged rock, stony, strong hold. From an unused root meaning to be lofty; a
craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress) -- (ragged ...
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Library

For Ragged Schools.
... ORIGINAL HYMNS HYMN CCCXLVI. For Ragged Schools. 8.8.8.8 James Montgomery.
For Ragged Schools. The poorest of the poor are we,. ...
/.../montgomery/sacred poems and hymns/hymn cccxlvi for ragged schools.htm

Human Soot
... Preached for the Kirkdale Ragged Schools, Liverpool, 1870. ... I am here to plead for
the Kirkdale Industrial Ragged School, and Free School-room Church. ...
/.../kingsley/all saints day and other sermons/sermon xxxiii human soot.htm

Chapter ix.
... Now, some have wished to derive the interpretation of this expression from the Greek,
supposing that a ragged person is called "Raca," because a rag is called ...
//christianbookshelf.org/augustine/our lords sermon on the mount/chapter ix.htm

(And Last): Homeward Bound
... It was too dark to see houses, palm-trees, aught but the ragged outline of the hills
against the northern sky, and beneath, sparks of light in sheltered coves ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xvii and last homeward.htm

The Dying News Boy
... THE DYING NEWS BOY. In a dark alley in the great city of New York, a small,
ragged boy might be seen. He appeared to be about twelve ...
/.../shaw/touching incidents and remarkable answers to prayer/the dying news boy.htm

Of the Affectionate Languishing of the Heart Wounded with Love.
... this love, the soul seems to abandon all other care, all other exercises, yea and
herself too, whence Plato said that love was poor, ragged, naked, barefoot ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xv of the affectionate.htm

Look on Him whom they Pierced, and Mourn.
... 2 O the sharp pangs of smarting pain My dear Redeemer bore, When knotty
whips and ragged thorns His sacred body tore! 3 But knotty ...
/.../watts/hymns and spiritual songs/hymn 0 149305556 look on him.htm

Look on Him whom they Pierced, and Mourn.
... My dear Redeemer bore,. When knotty whips and ragged thorns. His sacred body
tore! But knotty whips and ragged thorns. In vain do I accuse; ...
/.../watts/the psalms and hymns of isaac watts/hymn 95 look on him.htm

Instability
... Then there is a Ragged-school. ... Hear them talk about Ragged-schools a month afterwards:
they shake their heads and say it is a very arduous enterprise. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 3 1857/instability.htm

Chapter twenty-seven
... with the pistol made a significant gesture with it and, with his companion, pulled
and pushed the Bishop down the alley and through a ragged, broken opening in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter twenty-seven.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Rag.

2. (n.) Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.

3. (n.) Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough; jagged; as, ragged rocks.

4. (n.) Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant.

5. (n.) Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.

6. (n.) Rough; shaggy; rugged.

Thesaurus

Ragged (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat;
a ragged sail. ... 5. (n.) Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow. ...
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Shabby (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged.
2. (n.) Clothed with ragged, much worn, or soiled garments. ...
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Raging (26 Occurrences)

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Valley (187 Occurrences)
... No language can picture correctly the Jordan valley, the winding stream, the jungles
on its banks, the strange Ghor with its white, ragged sides, the vast ...
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Fray (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Fight, or (v.) To become ragged at the
ends. 2. (vt) To frighten; to terrify; to alarm. 3. (vt ...
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Terribly (9 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 2:21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged
rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth ...
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Tight (9 Occurrences)
... 5. (superl.) Fitting close, or too close, to the body; as, a tight coat or
other garment. 6. (superl.) Not ragged; whole; neat; tidy. ...
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Rough (24 Occurrences)
... water. 5. (n.) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said
of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat. 6. (n ...
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Rag
... 5. (n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture. 6. (n.) A ragged edge.
7. (n.) A sail, or any piece of canvas. 8. (vi) To become tattered. ...
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Bible Concordance

Ragged (1 Occurrence)

Isaiah 2:21 To go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
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Subtopics

Ragged

Related Terms

Shabby (1 Occurrence)

Raging (26 Occurrences)

Valley (187 Occurrences)

Fray (4 Occurrences)

Terribly (9 Occurrences)

Tight (9 Occurrences)

Rough (24 Occurrences)

Rag

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