Bible Encyclopedia: Writ

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Greek

1124. graphe -- a writing, scripture
... scripture. A document, ie Holy Writ (or its contents or a statement in it) -- scripture.
(graphai) -- 3 Occurrences. (graphais) -- 4 Occurrences. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5612. sepher -- a missive, document, writing, book
... 3), deed (6), deeds (3), illiterate* (1), indictment (1), letter (14), letters
(15), literate* (1), literature (2), read* (1), scroll (6), scroll* (3), writ (1 ...
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Library

Whether Knowledge of all Holy Writ is Required?
... OF THE QUALITIES REQUIRED OF THOSE WHO RECEIVE THIS SACRAMENT (FIVE ARTICLES)
Whether knowledge of all Holy Writ is required? Objection ...
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Whether in Holy Scripture a Word May have Several Senses?
... Objection 1: It seems that in Holy Writ a word cannot have several senses, historical
or literal, allegorical, tropological or moral, and anagogical. ...
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Whether it is Suitable for the Articles of Faith to be Embodied in ...
... Because Holy Writ is the rule of faith, to which no addition or subtraction can
lawfully be made, since it is written (Dt.4:2): "You shall not add to the word ...
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Whether Every Lie is a Sin?
... Therefore a lie is not a sin. Objection 3: Further, the deeds of holy men are
related in Sacred Writ that they may be a model of human life. ...
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Whether Holy Scripture Should Use Metaphors?
... I answer that, It is befitting Holy Writ to put forward divine and spiritual
truths by means of comparisons with material things. ...
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Whether it must be Said that the Three Persons are of one Essence?
... Objection 2: Further, nothing is to be affirmed of God except what can be confirmed
by the authority of Holy Writ, as appears from Dionysius (Div. Nom. ...
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Whether to Swear is to Call God to Witness?
... Whoever invokes the authority of Holy Writ calls God to witness, since
it is His word that Holy Writ contains. Therefore, if to ...
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Whether the Object of Faith is the First Truth?
... Now unbelief can be about all things contained in Holy Writ, for whichever
one of them a man denies, he is considered an unbeliever. ...
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Whether the Order of Charity is Included in the Precept?
... in the precept. Objection 2: Further, whatever is a matter of precept is
sufficiently delivered to us in Holy Writ. Now the order ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the order of charity 2.htm

Whether this Sacrament Has a Form?
... Reply to Objection 1: Holy Writ is proposed to all alike: and so, the form of Baptism,
which can be conferred by all, should be expressed in Holy Writ, as also ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (obs.) 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.

2. (v.) imp. & p. p. of Write.

3. (n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ.

4. (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like.

5. (Archaic imp. & p. p.) of Write

Thesaurus

Writ (3 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the
Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ. ...
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Return (499 Occurrences)
... 14. (vt) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a
certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ. 15. ...
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Injunction (8 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, income cases, under
statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain ...
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Extend (35 Occurrences)
... 7. (vt) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt;
to assign by writ of extent. Multi-Version Concordance Extend (35 Occurrences). ...
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Brief (7 Occurrences)
... This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law
argument. 9. (n.) A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2. 10. ...
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Abate (2 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To reduce in estimation; to deprive. 6. (vt) To bring entirely down or put
an end to; to do away with; as, to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. ...
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Attach (12 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court,
as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the ...
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Write (865 Occurrences)

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Wrists (5 Occurrences)

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Variance (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) A disagreement or difference between two parts of the same legal proceeding,
which, to be effectual, ought to agree, -- as between the writ and the ...
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Bible Concordance

Writ (3 Occurrences)

Romans 1:2 which God had already promised through His Prophets in Holy Writ, concerning His Son,
(WEY BBE DBY YLT)

Romans 2:24 For "the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you," just as it is written.
(Root in WEB KJV WEY ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 3:8 And though she saw that, because Israel, turning away from me, had been untrue to me, I had put her away and given her a statement in writing ending the relation between us, still Judah, her false sister, had no fear, but went and did the same.
(Root in BBE NAS)

Subtopics

Writ

Related Terms

Return (499 Occurrences)

Injunction (8 Occurrences)

Extend (35 Occurrences)

Brief (7 Occurrences)

Abate (2 Occurrences)

Attach (12 Occurrences)

Write (865 Occurrences)

Wrists (5 Occurrences)

Variance (1 Occurrence)