Bible Encyclopedia: Ribbon

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Strong's Hebrew

6616. pathil -- cord, thread
... bound, bracelet, lace, line, ribbon, thread, wire. From pathal; twine -- bound,
bracelet, lace, line, ribband, thread, wire. see HEBREW pathal. 6615, 6616. ...
/hebrew/6616.htm - 6k

Library

All the Bells were Ringing the Angelus. ...
... silver windings of the Seine which, turning crimson in the light, looped and garlanded
the time-honoured old city as with festal knots of rosy ribbon, up to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/corelli/the master-christian/i all the bells were.htm

Egypt and Greece.
... The shape and proportions of Egypt would be represented by a green ribbon an inch
wide and a yard long, lying upon the ground in a serpentine form; and to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/abbott/xerxes/chapter ii egypt and greece.htm

"Pan, Pan is Dead"
... How can they enjoy it so? What can be the pleasure in it? We find our
way back to that ribbon of shade. It is a narrower ribbon ...
/.../wilson-carmichael/things as they are/chapter xxiii pan pan is.htm

The True Nonconformist.
... They said bitter and unchristian things against the man who should carry a gold
watch or the woman who should wear a feather or a ribbon. ...
/.../vincent/amusement a force in christian training/the true nonconformist.htm

Spurgeon -- Songs in the Night
... degree, and an English style that has been described as "a long bright river of
silver speech which unwound, evenly and endlessly, like a ribbon from a ...
/.../kleiser/the worlds great sermons volume 8/spurgeon songs in the.htm

An Appeal to the Outsider; Or, the Claims of Christianity
... 1,800 to 2,000 students, and which is our largest faculty in Edinburgh University,
at the end of the four years' course we have the "Blue Ribbon Medical Course ...
/.../stones rolled away and other addresses to young men/iv an appeal to the.htm

Choosing Her Course
... to and from the meetings. In the matter of uniform, she had to content
herself with a badge of Army ribbon. This she wore on her ...
/.../carpenter/the angel adjutant of twice born men/ii choosing her course.htm

Hymns of Christian Devotion and Experience.
... of his father, and as his mother's means were limited, he was put to work as an
apprentice when very young, at Muhlheim on the Ruhr, and became a ribbon weaver ...
/.../brown/the story of the hymns and tunes/chapter iii hymns of christian.htm

Toilet.
... It seems incredible that a ribbon-knot, the color of a robe, or the form of a
head-dress, could become a capital matter for an intelligent creature destined to ...
/.../sainte-foi/serious hours of a young lady/chapter xv toilet.htm

The Image of Jealousy
... sitting in her exedra, her slim white arms crossed back of her head, her
tiring-woman, summoned for a casual attention, busy with a parted ribbon on the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the city of delight/chapter xv the image of.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

2. (n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

3. (n.) Same as Rib-band.

4. (n.) Driving reins.

5. (n.) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.

6. (n.) A silver.

7. (v. t.) To adorn with, or as with, ribbons; to mark with stripes resembling ribbons.

Thesaurus

Ribbon (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn
to ribbons. 3. (n.) Same as Rib-band. ...Ribbon (7 Occurrences). ...
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Ribband (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A ribbon. 2. (n.) A long, narrow strip
of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of ...
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Line (131 Occurrences)
... 24. (n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with
subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline. 25. ...
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Winding (4 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) A line- or ribbon-shaped material (as wire, string, or bandaging) wound
around an object; as, the windings (conducting wires) wound around the armature ...
/w/winding.htm - 8k

Fillet (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) A thin strip or ribbon; esp.: (a) A strip of metal from which coins are
punched. (b) A strip of card clothing. (c) A thin projecting band or strip. ...
/f/fillet.htm - 9k

Tassel (5 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent. 5. (n.) A narrow silk
ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves. ...
/t/tassel.htm - 9k

Taste (46 Occurrences)
... 17. (n.) A small portion given as a specimen; a little piece tastted of eaten;
a bit. 18. (n.) A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon. Int. ...
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Tongue (160 Occurrences)
... 7. (n.) A people having a distinct language. 8. (n.) The lingual ribbon, or odontophore,
of a mollusk. 9. (n.) The proboscis of a moth or a butterfly. 10. ...
/t/tongue.htm - 42k

Ribbons (1 Occurrence)

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Rose (279 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one
worn on a shoe. 5. (n.) A rose window. See Rose window, below. ...
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Bible Concordance

Ribbon (7 Occurrences)

Genesis 38:18 and he saith, 'What 'is' the pledge that I give to thee?' and she saith, 'Thy seal, and thy ribbon, and thy staff which 'is' in thy hand;' and he giveth to her, and goeth in unto her, and she conceiveth to him;
(YLT)

Exodus 28:28 and they bind the breastplate by its rings unto the rings of the ephod with a ribbon of blue, to be above the girdle of the ephod, and the breastplate is not loosed from the ephod.
(YLT)

Exodus 28:37 and thou hast put it on a blue ribbon, and it hath been on the mitre -- over-against the front of the mitre it is;
(YLT)

Exodus 39:21 and they bind the breastplate by its rings unto the rings of the ephod, with a ribbon of blue, to be above the girdle of the ephod, and the breastplate is not loosed from off the ephod, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
(YLT)

Exodus 39:31 and they put on it a ribbon of blue, to put 'it' on the mitre above, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
(YLT)

Numbers 15:38 Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, and they have made for themselves fringes on the skirts of their garments, to their generations, and they have put on the fringe of the skirt a ribbon of blue,
(YLT)

Song of Songs 4:3 Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Ribbon

Related Terms

Ribband (1 Occurrence)

Line (131 Occurrences)

Winding (4 Occurrences)

Fillet (1 Occurrence)

Tassel (5 Occurrences)

Taste (46 Occurrences)

Tongue (160 Occurrences)

Ribbons (1 Occurrence)

Rose (279 Occurrences)