Bible Encyclopedia: Sloping

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Strong's Hebrew

6202. araph -- to break the neck
... A primitive root (identical with araph through the idea of sloping); properly, to
bend downward; but used only as a denominative from oreph, to break the neck ...
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Library

Appendix 1 Massecheth Middoth
... And there was a sloping ascent to the south of the altar, 32 cubits long by 16 broad,
and it had a pit at its west side, into which they put sin-offerings of ...
/.../edersheim/sketches of jewish social life/appendix 1 massecheth middoth.htm

Letter iv. Personal Habits.
... The carpet and papering of the room were of light neutral tints, and the broad sloping
walls which made the sides of the dormer window were ornamented, the one ...
/.../letter iv personal habits.htm

The Annunciation
... kitchen. Three steps, not level but sloping, led up to it, for the floor
of this part of the house rested on a raised ledge of rock. ...
/.../emmerich/the life of the blessed virgin mary/viii the annunciation.htm

Village Washerman.
... his purifying operations. Close to the water's edge there is placed a sloping
piece of wood, or a large flat stone. The washerman ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/hodson/old daniel/chapter fourteen village washerman.htm

The Sower.
... From the water's edge, stretching away upward on the natural gallery formed by the
sloping bank, the great congregation, with every face fixed in an attitude ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/i the sower.htm

The Constellations and the Genii Very Indifferent Gods the Roman ...
... [1067] I say nothing about Ascensus, who gets his name for his climbing propensity,
and Clivicola, from her sloping (haunts); I pass silently by the deities ...
/.../tertullian/ad nationes/chapter xv the constellations and the.htm

Argument: Octavius, Displeased at the Act of this Superstitious ...
... rubbed and made smooth by the tossing of the waves; to take hold of the shell in
a horizontal position with the fingers; to whirl it along sloping and as low ...
/.../the octavius of minucius felix/chapter iii argument octavius displeased at.htm

The Last Days of Augusta, 1560-1572.
... slowly dawned upon Augusta that his Brethren were ceasing to trust him, and that
the sun of his power, which had shone so brightly, was now sloping slowly to ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter xl the last days.htm

Argument: Then Cæcilius Exclaims that He is Vanquished by ...
... remain in my mind, not as resisting the truth, but as necessary to a perfect training
[1840] of which on the morrow, as the sun is already sloping to his ...
/.../the octavius of minucius felix/chapter xl argument then caecilius exclaims.htm

The Heir to the Throne
... There were the same narrow temples with the sloping brow, the same hawked nose,
the same full lips, the same heavy eye with the smoldering ember in its dusky ...
//christianbookshelf.org/miller/the yoke/chapter v the heir to.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slope.

2. (a.) Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous; slanting.

Thesaurus

Sloping (2 Occurrences)
... declivous; slanting. Multi-Version Concordance Sloping (2 Occurrences).
Ezekiel 40:16 And the rooms and their uprights had sloping...
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Slant (1 Occurrence)
... obliquely; to slope. 2. (vt) To turn from a direct line; to give an oblique
or sloping direction to; as, to slant a line. 3. (n.) A ...
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Slope (29 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
3. (a.) Sloping. 4. (adv.) In a sloping manner. 5 ...
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Architecture
... Fergusson's restoration shows a sloping roof, following the precedent of the
sloping roof of the Tabernacle (Temples of the Jews, 26). ...
/a/architecture.htm - 28k

Slopes (15 Occurrences)

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Rooms (69 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 40:16 And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway
all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on ...
/r/rooms.htm - 28k

Zedad (3 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Side; sloping place, a town in the north of
Palestine, near Hamath (Numbers 34:8; Ezek. 47:15). It has ...
/z/zedad.htm - 8k

Uprights (20 Occurrences)
... Ezekiel 40:16 And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway
all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on ...
/u/uprights.htm - 12k

Overhangs (1 Occurrence)
... Ezekiel 41:26 And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the
other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and ...
/o/overhangs.htm - 6k

Lime (4 Occurrences)
... It is usually built on the side of a hill which is slightly excavated for it, so
that the sloping, external wall of the kiln rises much higher from the ground ...
/l/lime.htm - 11k

Bible Concordance

Sloping (2 Occurrences)

Ezekiel 40:16 And the rooms and their uprights had sloping windows inside the doorway all round, and in the same way the covered way had windows all round on the inside: and on every upright there were palm-trees.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 41:26 And there were sloping windows and palm-trees on one side and on the other, on the sides of the covered way: and the side-rooms of the house and the ...
(BBE)

Subtopics

Sloping

Related Terms

Slant (1 Occurrence)

Slope (29 Occurrences)

Architecture

Slopes (15 Occurrences)

Rooms (69 Occurrences)

Zedad (3 Occurrences)

Uprights (20 Occurrences)

Overhangs (1 Occurrence)

Lime (4 Occurrences)