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Easton's Bible Dictionary

In Hebrews 13:7, is the rendering of the unusual Greek word ekbasin, meaning "outcome", i.e., death. It occurs only elsewhere in 1 Corinthians 10:13, where it is rendered "escape."

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language




4. (n.) The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; purpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.


6. (n.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.



9. (v. t.) To destroy; to put to death.


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