Bible Encyclopedia: Swoon

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Strong's Hebrew

5848. ataph -- to turn aside
... to turn aside. Transliteration: ataph Phonetic Spelling: (aw-taf') Short Definition:
turn. cover over, fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be overwhelmed, swoon ...
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Library

How a Soul in Charity Makes Progress in It.
... Alas! he was extremely disturbed at this, and it well nigh put him also
into a swoon; for she was dearer to him than his own life. ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter iii how a soul.htm

Swooning and Reviving Christ's Feet.
... awe. While yet in the body, even John must swoon if he be indulged with
a premature vision of the Well-beloved in His majesty. If ...
/.../spurgeon/till he come/swooning and reviving christs feet.htm

Number one Thousand; Or, "Bread Enough and to Spare"
... with hunger!""Luke 15:17. HE came to himself." The word may be applied
to one waking out of a deep swoon. He had been unconscious ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/number one thousand or bread.htm

Of the Zeal or Jealousy which we have for Our Lord.
... He does not simply hate iniquity but abhors it; upon the sight of it he pines away,
he falls into a swoon and a failing of heart, he persecutes it, overthrows ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter xiv of the zeal.htm

Gregory the Patriarch and the Society at Kunwald, 1457-1473.
... His wrists cracked; he swooned, and was thought to be dead, and in his swoon he
dreamed a dream which seemed to him like the dreams of the prophets of old. ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter v gregory the patriarch.htm

The Glorious Master and the Swooning Disciple
... There is no doubt, too, that a part of the fear which caused John to swoon
arose from a partial ignorance or forgetfulness of his Lord. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 18 1872/the glorious master and the.htm

Conclusion.
... And among all that unnamed multitude how few were there but had some distracted
mother to mourn for him, some agonized mother to swoon at the news of his death ...
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Instructions to Converts.
... Persons may have them to such a degree as actually to swoon away with ecstacy,
even on the subject of religion, without having any religion. ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture xx instructions to converts.htm

Chapter twenty-four
... was being lifted upon the couch by the servants, and then ran screaming into her
mother's room, where she flung herself down at the foot of the bed in a swoon. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/sheldon/in his steps/chapter twenty-four.htm

How to Make Use of Christ as the Life, when the Believer is So ...
... the root abideth fast in the ground; there is life still at the heart, though the
man make no motion, like one in a deep sleep, or in a swoon, yet life is not ...
/.../brown/christ the way the truth and the life/chapter xxi how to make.htm

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.

2. (n.) A fainting fit; syncope.

Thesaurus

Swoon (3 Occurrences)
...Swoon (3 Occurrences). ... When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom. ...
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Faint (76 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (superl.) Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined
to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. ...
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Swollen (7 Occurrences)

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Streets (83 Occurrences)
... is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the
daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the ...
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Infant (14 Occurrences)
... is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the
daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the ...
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Fail (130 Occurrences)
... Whether prophecies, they shall fail"); hustereo, "to be behind," "to lack" (Hebrews
12:15 the King James Version); apopsucho, "to swoon away," "failing" (Luke ...
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Fetch (45 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. 3. (vt) To recall from
a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. ...
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Ebb (1 Occurrence)
... wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their
soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom. (See NIV). ...
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Swooned (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Swoon. Multi-Version Concordance
Swooned (3 Occurrences). Judges 4:21 Then Jael Heber's ...
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Sucklings (18 Occurrences)
... bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the
daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the ...
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Bible Concordance

Swoon (3 Occurrences)

Jeremiah 51:39 When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says Yahweh.
(See RSV)

Lamentations 2:12 They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS)

Nahum 3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
(See JPS)

Subtopics

Swoon

Related Terms

Faint (76 Occurrences)

Swollen (7 Occurrences)

Streets (83 Occurrences)

Infant (14 Occurrences)

Fail (130 Occurrences)

Fetch (45 Occurrences)

Ebb (1 Occurrence)

Swooned (3 Occurrences)