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RANGE

ranj: "Range" and "rank" have the same derivation, and in the sense of a "row" (of men, etc.) they were formerly interchangeable. "Range" with this meaning is found in 2 Kings 11:8, 15 the King James Version parallel 2 Chronicles 23:14 (the Revised Version (British and American) "rank"; sedherah, "row"). Hence, "to range" is "to set in a line" (Judith 2:16; 2 Maccabees 12:20, diatasso) or "to move in a line" or, simply, "to roam," whence "a ranging bear" (Proverbs 28:15; shaqaq, "run to and fro"). A cooking "range" is a stove on which pots, etc., can be set in a row, but the kirayim of Leviticus 11:35 is a much more primitive affair, composed, probably, of two plates (kirayim is a dual). In Job 39:8 "range of the mountains" is good modern use, but ythr, should be pointed yathur (not yethur as in Massoretic Text) and connected with tur, "search." So translate. "He searcheth out the mountains as his pasture."

Burton Scott Easton

Greek

498. antitasso -- to range in battle against, to set oneself ...
... to range in battle against, to set oneself against. Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: antitasso Phonetic Spelling: (an-tee-tas'-som-ahee) Short Definition ...
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4748. stoicheo -- to be in rows, fig. to walk by rule
... From a derivative of steicho (to range in regular line); to march in (military)
rank (keep step), ie (figuratively) to conform to virtue and piety -- walk ...
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2791. Kilikia -- Cilicia, a province of Asia Minor
... Kilikia Phonetic Spelling: (kil-ik-ee'-ah) Short Definition: Cilicia Definition:
Cilicia, a Roman province between the Taurus range of mountains and the coast ...
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2048. eremos -- solitary, desolate
... vegetation"). This root () does "not suggest absolute barrenness but territory
affording free range for shepherds and their flocks. ...
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4151. pneuma -- wind, spirit
... of 4151 (). The Hebrew counterpart () has the same range of meaning as 4151 (),
ie it likewise can refer to , , or .]. Word Origin ...
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Strong's Hebrew

3491. yethur -- range
... yethur. 3492 . range. Transliteration: yethur Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-thoor')
Short Definition: range. Word Origin another reading for tur, qv. range ...
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3844. Lebanon -- a wooded mountain range on the N. border of Isr.
... Lebanon. 3845 . a wooded mountain range on the N. border of Isr. ... Word Origin from
laben Definition a wooded mountain range on the N. border of Isr. ...
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8165. Seir -- a mountain range in Edom, also its inhab., also a ...
... Seir. 8166 . a mountain range in Edom, also its inhab., also a mountain in Judah.
Transliteration: Seir Phonetic Spelling: (say-eer') Short Definition: Seir. ...
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4278. mechqar -- a range (an area to explore)
... 4277, 4278. mechqar. 4279 . a range (an area to explore). Transliteration:
mechqar Phonetic Spelling: (mekh-kawr') Short Definition: depths. ...
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3600. kir -- cooking furnace
... a cooking range. A form for kuwr (only in the dual); a cooking range (consisting
of two parallel stones, across which the boiler is set): see HEBREW kuwr. ...
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7713. sederah -- row, rank (of soldiers)
... board, range. From an unused root meaning to regulate; a row, ie Rank (of soldiers),
story (of rooms) -- board, range. 7712, 7713. sederah. 7714 . ...
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8264. shaqaq -- to run, run about, rush
... have appetite, long, range, run to and fro. A primitive root; to course
(like a beast of prey); by implication, to seek greedily ...
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7751a. shut -- to go or rove about
... to go or rove about NASB Word Usage go to and fro (1), go about (2), go back (1),
go back and forth (1), gone about (1), move to and fro (1), range to and fro ...
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2022. har -- mountain, hill, hill country
... A shortened form of harar; a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively) --
hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion. see HEBREW harar. ...
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2905. tur -- a row
... row. From an unused root meaning to range in a regular manner; a row; hence,
a wall -- row. 2904, 2905. tur. 2906 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Wide Range of God's Grace
... EPHESIANS THE WIDE RANGE OF GOD'S GRACE. 'Grace be with all them that
love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.'"Ephesians 6:24. ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/the wide range of gods.htm

Curiosity Ought not Range Beyond the Rule of Faith Restless ...
... The Prescription Against Heretics. Chapter XIV."Curiosity Ought Not Range Beyond
the Rule of Faith Restless Curiosity, the Feature of Heresy. ...
/.../the prescription against heretics/chapter xiv curiosity ought not range.htm

Synopsis. --A Clearer Conception of Miracle Approached. --Works of ...
... of miracle approached."Works of Jesus once reputed miraculous not so reputed now,
since not now transcending, as once, the existing range of knowledge and ...
/.../miracles and supernatural religion/iv synopsis a clearer conception of.htm

Wider Wooing.
... The peak is the range at its highest reach. The peak grows out of the
range and rests upon it and upon the earth under all. The ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/wider wooing.htm

Be Diligent
... The turn of a button determines its range. ... Which is it to be? The shorter range
shows you possibilities; the longer will show you certainties. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/be diligent.htm

Kumaon.
... Kumaon is a sub-Himalayan region, with Nepal to the east, the snowy range, separating
it from Tibet, to the north, Gurhwal and Dehra Doon to the west, and ...
/.../kennedy/life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter xx kumaon.htm

The Burning of Athens.
... Parnassus was the name of a short mountainous range rather than of a single peak,
though the loftiest summit of the range was called Parnassus too. ...
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Now Let us Shew Briefly, if You Will, that These Things were ...
... the Prophets. You will yourself, since you are so minded, gather together
more from the ample range of the Scriptures. The Prophet ...
/.../34 now let us shew.htm

Arguments of the Psychics, Drawn from the Law, the Gospel, the ...
... similarly of Stations either, which (they think) have withal days of their own
(the fourth and sixth days of the week), but yet take a wide range according to ...
/.../chapter ii arguments of the psychics.htm

The Big Road
... Turning to the east he faces the magnificent range of the Ho Mountains, in winter
covered with snow, and in warmer seasons touched with the beauty of ever ...
/.../cable/the fulfilment of a dream of pastor hsis/chapter ii the big road.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

2. (n.) To place (as a single individual) among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; -- usually, reflexively and figuratively, (in the sense) to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.

3. (n.) To separate into parts; to sift.

4. (n.) To dispose in a classified or in systematic order; to arrange regularly; as, to range plants and animals in genera and species.

5. (n.) To rove over or through; as, to range the fields.

6. (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast.

7. (n.) To be native to, or to live in; to frequent.

8. (v. i.) To rove at large; to wander without restraint or direction; to roam.

9. (v. i.) To have range; to change or differ within limits; to be capable of projecting, or to admit of being projected, especially as to horizontal distance; as, the temperature ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.

10. (v. i.) To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.

11. (v. i.) To have a certain direction; to correspond in direction; to be or keep in a corresponding line; to trend or run; -- often followed by with; as, the front of a house ranges with the street; to range along the coast.

12. (v. i.) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region; as, the peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.

13. (n.) A series of things in a line; a row; a rank; as, a range of buildings; a range of mountains.

14. (n.) An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.

15. (n.) The step of a ladder; a rung.

16. (n.) A kitchen grate.

17. (n.) An extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways of cooking; also, a kind of cooking stove.

18. (n.) A bolting sieve to sift meal.

19. (n.) A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.

20. (v.) That which may be ranged over; place or room for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.

21. (v.) Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope; discursive power; as, the range of one's voice, or authority.

22. (n.) The region within which a plant or animal naturally lives.

23. (n.) The horizontal distance to which a shot or other projectile is carried.

24. (v.) Sometimes, less properly, the trajectory of a shot or projectile.

25. (n.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.

26. (v.) In the public land system of the United States, a row or line of townships lying between two successive meridian lines six miles apart.

27. (v.) See Range of cable, below.

Thesaurus

Range (9 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in
ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line. ...
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Lebanon (66 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary White, "the white mountain of Syria," is the
loftiest and most celebrated mountain range in Syria. It ...
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Graecia
... Structure: The northern boundary of Greece is formed by an irregular series of mountain
chains, beginning on the West with the Acroceraunian range and ending ...
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Edomites (22 Occurrences)
... The mountain range East of the `Arabah is generally higher in the South
than in the North. Jebel Harun beside Petra, is 4,780 ft. ...
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Edom (108 Occurrences)
... The mountain range East of the `Arabah is generally higher in the South
than in the North. Jebel Harun beside Petra, is 4,780 ft. ...
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Gilboa (8 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Boiling spring, a mountain range, now Jebel Fukua', memorable
as the scene of Saul's disastrous defeat by the Philistines. ...
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Shephelah (2 Occurrences)
... That is, the low hills west of Samaria are (to use the Hebrew phrase) 'ashedhoth,
or slopes of the central range, and not a separate group. ...
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Seir (38 Occurrences)
... 25:8). (3.) A mountain range (not the Edomite range, Genesis 32:3) lying between
the Wady Aly and the Wady Ghurab (Joshua 15:10). Int. ...
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Hauran (2 Occurrences)
... clearly distinguished in local speech: 3. En-Nuqrah: (1) En-Nuqrah, "the cavity."
This district touches the desert in the Southeast, the low range of ez Zumleh ...
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Ranges (5 Occurrences)
... the LORD. (KJV WBS). Job 39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture,
and he searcheth after every green thing. (See RSV NIV). ...
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Bible Concordance

Range (9 Occurrences)

Leviticus 11:35 Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Numbers 27:12 Yahweh said to Moses, "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, and see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 32:49 "Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;
(See NIV)

1 Kings 4:29 And God gave Solomon a great store of wisdom and good sense, and a mind of wide range, as wide as the sand by the seaside.
(BBE)

Job 16:10 They gape upon me with their mouth; they smite my cheeks reproachfully; they range themselves together against me.
(DBY)

Job 39:8 The range of the mountains is his pasture, He searches after every green thing.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV NIV)

Isaiah 32:20 Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.
(See RSV NIV)

Zephaniah 2:14 Herds will lie down in the midst of her, all the animals of the nations. Both the pelican and the porcupine will lodge in its capitals. Their calls will echo through the windows. Desolation will be in the thresholds, for he has laid bare the cedar beams.
(See NAS)

Zechariah 4:10 Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through the whole earth."
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Subtopics

Range

Related Terms

Lebanon (66 Occurrences)

Graecia

Edomites (22 Occurrences)

Edom (108 Occurrences)

Gilboa (8 Occurrences)

Shephelah (2 Occurrences)

Seir (38 Occurrences)

Hauran (2 Occurrences)

Ranges (5 Occurrences)