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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
abide .
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Examples
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All flesh is as grass, but his word abideth for ever, Isa. xl.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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You consider not and meditate not on them, and though you know the truth of the word, yet the word abideth not nor dwelleth in you.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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That is, just as I said, the word abideth unshaken and steadfast. "
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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The Hebrew for "He that abideth," is He that sitteth on a throne); otherwise, "I have brought down (as captives into
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But love alone in every sense "abideth"; it is therefore
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Even hereafter faith in the sense of trust in God "abideth"; also "hope," in relation to ever new joys in prospect, and at the anticipation of ever increasing blessedness, sure never to be disappointed.
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"abideth," it has been denied that the fall of Satan from a former holy state is here expressed [Locke, &c.], and some superior interpreters think it only implied [Olshausen, &c.].
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But his tragedy is assuaged by the beauty of the natural landscape, which "abideth forever," and by the hope of a new and more promising generation.
Hemingway's Achievement Jeffrey Meyers 2011
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But his tragedy is assuaged by the beauty of the natural landscape, which "abideth forever," and by the hope of a new and more promising generation.
Hemingway's Achievement Jeffrey Meyers 2011
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One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “[I]n These Days, … The Intemperance and Malice of Men Increase” 2010
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