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Persistent (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off
or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx ...
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Persistently (16 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (adv.) In a persistent manner. Multi-Version
Concordance Persistently (16 Occurrences). Matthew 14:4 because ...
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Persistency (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (n.) The quality or state of being persistent; staying or continuing quality;
hence, in an unfavorable sense, doggedness; obstinacy. ...
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Assiduous
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Diligent; attentive; persistent; constant in
application or attention; as, assiduous hard work; devoted; unremitting. ...
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Unwearied (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (a.) Not wearied; not fatigued or tired; hence, persistent;
not tiring or wearying; indefatigable. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Unwavering (4 Occurrences)
... 1 Thessalonians 1:3 For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours
of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in ...
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Joyful (83 Occurrences)
... you persecuted. (WEY). Romans 12:12 full of joyful hope, patient under
persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer. (WEY NIV). 2 ...
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Labours (19 Occurrences)
... 1 Thessalonians 1:3 For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours
of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in ...
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Goodness (83 Occurrences)
... In man is not a mere passive quality, but the deliberate preference of right to
wrong, the firm and persistent resistance of all moral evil, and the choosing ...
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Wranglings (1 Occurrence)
... 1 Timothy 6:5 and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are
disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who ...
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Bible Concordance

Persistent (5 Occurrences)

Romans 2:7 to those on the one hand who, by lives of persistent right-doing, are striving for glory, honour and immortality, the Life of the Ages;
(WEY)

Romans 12:12 full of joyful hope, patient under persecution, earnest and persistent in prayer.
(WEY)

1 Thessalonians 1:3 For we never fail to remember your works of faith and labours of love and your persistent and unwavering hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the presence of our God and Father;
(WEY)

1 Timothy 6:5 and persistent wranglings on the part of people whose intellects are disordered and they themselves blinded to all knowledge of the truth; who imagine that godliness means gain.
(WEY)

Deuteronomy 28:59 then Jehovah will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, great and persistent plagues and evil and persistent sicknesses;
(DBY)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious of position or purpose.

2. (a.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

Greek

88. adialeiptos -- incessant
... or ".". [88 () occurs in the meaning ", " -- like a persistent cough (see
Moulton-Milligan).]. Word Origin from alpha (as a neg. prefix ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5464. sagrir -- steady or persistent rain
... 5463, 5464. sagrir. 5465 . steady or persistent rain. Transliteration:
sagrir Phonetic Spelling: (sag-reed') Short Definition: rain. ...
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Library

Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life.
... X. GEOLOGICAL CONTEMPORANEITY AND PERSISTENT TYPES OF LIFE. Merchants
occasionally go through a wholesome, though troublesome and ...
/.../x geological contemporaneity and persistent.htm

Prayer and Importunity (Continued)
... deeply-earnest. Energy, courage, and persistent perseverance must back the
prayers which heaven respects, and God hears. All these ...
/.../bounds/the necessity of prayer/vii prayer and importunity continued.htm

Impressive Phrases
... assemble, amass, accumulate, and acquire. assiduity, tenderness, industry,
and vigilance [assiduity = persistent application]. assurance ...
/.../kleiser/fifteen thousand useful phrases/section iv impressive phrases.htm

You Say that There are Good Men in the Human Race...
... are striving with their passions every day, and struggling to drive out, to expel
deeply-rooted passions from their minds by the persistent [3752] opposition ...
/.../the seven books of arnobius against the heathen/50 you say that there.htm

The Waters of Meribah
... There is such a thing as national character persistent through generations, each
unit of which adds something to the force of the tendencies which he receives ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture k/the waters of meribah.htm

Whether Irregularity Attaches to Bigamy?
... is most incompatible with spirituality, inasmuch as it makes a man to be wholly
carnal, they should give no sign of persistent concupiscence, which does indeed ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether irregularity attaches to bigamy.htm

Whether Pain or Sorrow is Assuaged by Every Pleasure?
... Objection 3: When there are two causes inclining to contrary movements, each hinders
the other; yet the one which is stronger and more persistent, prevails in ...
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The Outbreak of the Arian Controversy. The Attitude of Eusebius.
... Lucian and his disciples were the creation of the Son, the denial of his co-eternity
with the Father, and his immutability acquired by persistent progress and ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/pamphilius/church history/section 5 the outbreak of.htm

The Christian Prayer
... It is difficult to deny a persistent man who, when thwarted in one way, begins to
plan and act for the object which he seeks in another way and who will not be ...
/.../sell/studies in the life of the christian/study vii the christian prayer.htm

Our Strong City
... Convulsions come, every Babylon falls, all human institutions change and pass.
'The kingdoms old' are 'cast into another mould.' But persistent through them all ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/our strong city.htm

Subtopics

Persistent

Related Terms

Persistently (16 Occurrences)

Persistency (1 Occurrence)

Assiduous

Unwearied (5 Occurrences)

Unwavering (4 Occurrences)

Joyful (83 Occurrences)

Labours (19 Occurrences)

Goodness (83 Occurrences)

Wranglings (1 Occurrence)