Abide - Abide ABI'DE, v. i. pert. and part. abode. abada, to be, or exist, to continue; W. bod, to be; to dwell, rest, continue, stand firm, or be stationary for anytime indefinitely. Class Bd. No 7.] 1. To rest, or dwell. Gen 29:19. 2. To tarry or stay for a short time. Gen 24:55. 3. To continue permanently or in the same state; to be firm and immovable. Psa 119:90. 4. To remain, to continue. Acts 27:31. Eccl 8:15. ABI'DE, v.t. 1. To wait for; to be prepared for; to await. Bonds and afflictions abide me. Acts 20:23. [For is here understood.] 2. To endure or sustain. To abide the indignation of the Lord. Joel 10. 3. To bear or endure; to bear patiently. "I cannot abide his impertinence." This verb when intransitive, is followed by in or at before the place, and with before the person. "Abide with me - at Jerusalem or in this land." Sometimes by on, the sword shall abide on his cities; and in the sense of wait, by far, abide for me. Hosea 3:3. Sometimes by by, abide by the crib. Job 39. In general, abide by signifies to adhere to, maintain defend, or stand to, as to abide by a promise, or by a friend; or to suffer the consequences, as to abide by the event, that is, to be fixed or permanent in a particular condition.
Abolish - ABOL'ISH, v.t. [L. abolco; from ab and oleo, olesco, to grow.] 1. To make void; to annul; to abrogate; applied chiefly and appropriately to established laws, contracts, rites, customs and institutions - as to abolish laws by a repeal, actual or virtual. 2. To destroy, or put an end to; as to abolish idols. Isa 2. To abolish death 2 Tim 1. This sense is not common. To abolish posterity, in the translation of Pausanias, Lib. 3. Song 6, is hardly allowable.
Abomination - ABOMINA'TION, n. 1. Extreme hatred; detestation. 2. The object of detestation, a common signification in scripture. The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. Prov 15. 3. Hence, defilement, pollution, in a physical sense, or evil doctrines and practices, which are moral defilements, idols and idolatry, are called abominations. The Jews were an abomination to the Egyptians; and the sacred animals of the Egyptians were an abomination to the Jews. The Roman army is called the abomination of desolation. Mat 24:13. In short, whatever is an object of extreme hatred, is called an abomination.
About - ABOUT', prep. [Gr. butan, without, [see but,] literally, around, on the outside.] 1. Around; on the exterior part or surface. Bind them about thy neck. Prov 3:3. Isa. l. Hence, 2. Near to in place, with the sense of circularity. Get you up from about the tabernacle. Num 16. 3. Near to in time. He went out about the third hour. Mat 21:3. 4. Near to, in action, or near to the performance of some act. Paul was about to open his mouth. They were about to flee out of the ship. Acts 28:14 - 28:30. 5. Near to the person; appended to the clothes. Every thing about him is in order. Is your snuff box about you? From nearness on all sides, the transition is easy to a concern with. Hence, 6. Concerned in, engaged in, relating to, respecting. I must be about my father's business. Luke 2:49. The painter is not to take so much pains about the drapery as about the face What is he about? 7. In compass or circumference; two yards about the trunk. ABOUT', adv. 1. Near to in number or quantity. There fell that day about three thousand men. Exo 32. 2. Near to in quality or degree; as about as high, or as cold. 3. Here and there; around; in one place and another. Wandering about from house to house. 1 Tim 5. 4. round, or the longest way, opposed to across, or the shortest way. A mile about, and half a mile across. To bring about, to bring to the end; to effect or accomplish a purpose. To come about, to change or turn; to come to the desired point. In a like sense, seamen say go about, when a ship changes her course and goes on the other tack. Ready about, about ship, are orders for tacking. To go about, signifies to enter upon; also to prepare; to seek the means. Why go ye about to kill me. John 7.
Abundance - ABUND'ANCE, n. Great plenty; an overflowing quantity; ample sufficiency; in strictness applicable to quantity only; but customarily used of number, as an abundance of peasants. In scripture, the abundance of the rich is great wealth. Eccl 5. Mark 7. Luke 21. The abundance of the seas is great plenty of fish. Deu 33. It denotes also fullness, overflowing, as the abundance of the heart. Mat 22. Luke 6.
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