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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

2. (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed.

3. (superl.) Wanting relief; destitute of variety; without points of prominence and striking interest.

4. (superl.) Tasteless; stale; vapid; insipid; dead; as, fruit or drink flat to the taste.

5. (superl.) Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition.

6. (superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings; depressed; dull; as, the market is flat.

7. (superl.) Clear; unmistakable; peremptory; absolute; positive; downright.

8. (superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat.

9. (superl.) Not sharp or shrill; not acute; as, a flat sound.

10. (superl.) Sonant; vocal; -- applied to any one of the sonant or vocal consonants, as distinguished from a nonsonant (or sharp) consonant.

11. (adv.) In a flat manner; directly; flatly.

12. (adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest.

13. (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats.

14. (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand.

15. (n.) Something broad and flat in form

16. (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.

17. (n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.

18. (n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.

19. (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions.

20. (n.) The flat part, or side, of anything; as, the broad side of a blade, as distinguished from its edge.

21. (n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.

22. (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.

23. (n.) A dull fellow; a simpleton; a numskull.

24. (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower.

25. (n.) A homaloid space or extension.

26. (v. t.) To make flat; to flatten; to level.

27. (v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless; to depress.

28. (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.

29. (v. i.) To become flat, or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.

30. (v. i.) To fall form the pitch.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
FLAT NOSE

(charum; Septuagint koloborin):

Used only in Leviticus 21:18 as the name of a deformity which disqualified a member of a priestly family for serving the altar.

The root of the word signifies "to cut off" or "to cut flat," and in the Revised Version, margin "slit nose" is substituted. The condition indicated is most probably the depressed, flattened nose which so often accompanies harelip, especially in its double form.

A mere snub-nose can scarcely be regarded as a blemish of sufficient importance to unfit a priest for the service of "offering the bread of God"; but harelip, like blindness or the other congenital malformations or deformities enumerated in this passage, might well render a son of Aaron unfit or unsuitable for public religious duty.

Alexander Macalister

Greek
4109. plax -- anything flat and broad, hence a flat stone
... anything flat and broad, hence a flat stone. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: plax Phonetic Spelling: (plax) Short Definition: a tablet, flat ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4109.htm - 6k

3474. moros -- dull, stupid, foolish
... 3474 (the root of the English terms, "moron, moronic") -- properly, (insipid), flat
("without an edge"); (figuratively) "mentally inert"; dull in understanding ...
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358. analos -- saltless
... saltless. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: analos Phonetic Spelling:
(an'-al-os) Short Definition: saltless, tasteless, flat Definition: saltless ...
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5357. phiale -- a (shallow) bowl
... a (shallow) bowl. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: phiale Phonetic
Spelling: (fee-al'-ay) Short Definition: a shallow and flat bowl Definition: a ...
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4721. stege -- a roof
... a roof. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: stege Phonetic Spelling:
(steg'-ay) Short Definition: a flat roof of a house Definition: a flat roof of ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4721.htm - 6k

4746. stoibas -- branch.
... From a primary steibo (to "step" or "stamp"); a spread (as if tramped flat) of loose
materials for a couch, ie (by implication) a bough of a tree so employed ...
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5019. Tarsos -- Tarsus, a city of Cilicia
... Tarsus. Perhaps the same as tarsos (a flat basket); Tarsus, a place in Asia Minor --
Tarsus. (tarson) -- 2 Occurrences. (tarso) -- 1 Occurrence. 5018, 5019. ...
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4116. platus -- broad, subst. a street
... a street NASB Word Usage street (4), streets (5), wide (1). wide. From plasso;
spread out "flat" ("plot"), ie Broad -- wide. see GREEK plasso. ...
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3977. pedinos -- level, plain
... level, plain. Part of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: pedinos Phonetic Spelling:
(ped-ee-nos') Short Definition: level Definition: level, low-lying, flat. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/3977.htm - 6k

Strong's Hebrew
6838. tsappichith -- a flat cake, wafer
... 6837, 6838. tsappichith. 6839 . a flat cake, wafer. Transliteration: tsappichith
Phonetic Spelling: (tsap-pee-kheeth') Short Definition: wafers. ...
/hebrew/6838.htm - 6k

2281. chabittim -- flat cakes, bread wafers
... 2280, 2281. chabittim. 2282 . flat cakes, bread wafers. Transliteration: chabittim
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-bayth') Short Definition: pans. ...
/hebrew/2281.htm - 6k

6446. pas -- flat (of the hand or foot)
... 6445, 6446. pas. 6447 . flat (of the hand or foot). Transliteration:
pas Phonetic Spelling: (pas) Short Definition: varicolored. ...
/hebrew/6446.htm - 6k

4227. machabath -- a flat plate, pan, griddle
... 4226, 4227. machabath. 4228 . a flat plate, pan, griddle. Transliteration:
machabath Phonetic Spelling: (makh-ab-ath') Short Definition: griddle. ...
/hebrew/4227.htm - 6k

8479. tachath -- in lieu of, as, beneath, flat, instead, same ...
... tachath. 8480 . in lieu of, as, beneath, flat, instead, same place where.
Transliteration: tachath Phonetic Spelling: (takh'-ath) Short Definition: as. ...
/hebrew/8479.htm - 6k

3330b. yatsia -- flat surface
... flat surface. Transliteration: yatsia Short Definition: stories. Word Origin from
yatsa Definition flat surface NASB Word Usage stories (2), story (1). ...
/hebrew/3330b.htm - 5k

3709. kaph -- hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot) ...
... 3708b, 3709. kaph. 3710 . hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot),
a pan. Transliteration: kaph Phonetic Spelling: (kaf) Short Definition: hands ...
/hebrew/3709.htm - 6k

2763. charam -- to ban, devote, exterminate
... make accursed, consecrate, utterly destroy, devote, forfeit, have a flat nose,
utterly slay A primitive root; to seclude; specifically ...
/hebrew/2763.htm - 5k

7812. shachah -- to bow down
... bow self down, crouch, fall down flat, humbly beseech, do reverence, worship.
A primitive root; to depress, ie Prostrate (especially ...
/hebrew/7812.htm - 6k

8478. tachath -- underneath, below, instead of
... 4), allegiance* (1), Amid (1), among (2), because (1), because* (12), below (1),
below* (10), beneath (13), beneath* (7), exchange (3), flat (2), foot (8 ...
/hebrew/8478.htm - 6k

Library

Voyage to Benares.
... on in this way. I accordingly embarked for Benares on a flat, tugged by
a steamer, in the first week of March. After going down ...
/.../life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter ii voyage to benares.htm

Tire-Trouble
... The result of these things is what is known as a flat tire with all the
air gone out, and the automobile bumps on the hard rim. ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/tire-trouble.htm

The Central Sun
... tell you. The ancient way of explaining this text was this. People believed
in old times that the earth was flat. Then, they held ...
/.../kingsley/town and country sermons/sermon xxx the central sun.htm

In the Course of this Crude Study we Shall have to Touch on what ...
... Again, he does not desire a flat. He can eat and sleep and praise God in a
flat; he can eat and sleep and praise God in a railway train. ...
/.../chesterton/whats wrong with the world/chapter 8 in the course.htm

Book vi
... Dickinson and Allegheny Colleges; Genesee Conference Academy; death and character
of JM Smith; numbers; general improvement; Liberia mission; Flat head, or ...
/.../bangs/a history of the methodist episcopal church volume iv/book vi.htm

Prayer and Importunity (Continued)
... His plea was pressing: of a truth, he could not go back empty-handed. The flat refusal
chagrined and surprised him. Here even friendship failed! ...
/.../bounds/the necessity of prayer/vii prayer and importunity continued.htm

Arrival at Benares.
... Word of the approach of our steamer and flat had reached Secrole, the European suburb
of Benares, three miles inland, and no sooner had we come to anchor than ...
/.../chapter iii arrival at benares.htm

Lamps and Bushels
... each of the nouns has the definite article attached to it, and so suggests that
in the house there was but one of each article; one lamp, a flat saucer with a ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/lamps and bushels.htm

The Ark among the Philistines
... When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day and came to the temple of Dagon,
there was Dagon on the ground flat on his face before the ark of Jehovah. ...
/.../sherman/the childrens bible/the ark among the philistines.htm

The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth (Preached at the Chapel ...
... contain. It was simple enough, their theory of the universe. The earth
was a flat plain; for did not the earth look flat? Or if ...
/.../kingsley/the water of life and other sermons/sermon vi the shaking of.htm

Thesaurus
Flat (33 Occurrences)
... 2. (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the
ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen ...
/f/flat.htm - 21k

Table (125 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side
of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab. ...
/t/table.htm - 62k

Tablet (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) A small table or flat surface. ... TABLET. tab'-let:
A rigid flat sheet (plate, pad or slab) used to receive writing. ...
/t/tablet.htm - 15k

Disgusting (149 Occurrences)
... you. (BBE). Leviticus 11:41 Everything which goes flat on its body on the
earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food. (BBE). ...
/d/disgusting.htm - 38k

Plate (34 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small
in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel ...
/p/plate.htm - 20k

Nose (23 Occurrences)
...FLAT NOSE. ... The root of the word signifies "to cut off" or "to cut flat," and
in the Revised Version, margin "slit nose" is substituted. ...
/n/nose.htm - 19k

Level (31 Occurrences)
... 9. (a.) Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to,
the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's ...
/l/level.htm - 19k

Flatter (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One who, or that which, makes flat or
flattens. 2. (n.) A flat-faced fulling hammer. 3. (n.) A ...
/f/flatter.htm - 8k

Plat (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) A small piece or plot of ground laid out with some design, or for a special
use; usually, a portion of flat, even ground. ... 5. (n.) Plain; flat; level. ...
/p/plat.htm - 7k

Cooked (35 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Leviticus 2:5 And if you give a meal offering cooked on a flat plate, let
it be of the best meal, unleavened and mixed with oil. (BBE). ...
/c/cooked.htm - 17k

Resources
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Flat (33 Occurrences)

Luke 14:34
Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?
(WEB)

Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
(BBE)

Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:
(BBE)

Genesis 11:2
And it came about that in their wandering from the east, they came to a stretch of flat country in the land of Shinar, and there they made their living-place.
(BBE)

Leviticus 2:5
And if you give a meal offering cooked on a flat plate, let it be of the best meal, unleavened and mixed with oil.
(BBE)

Leviticus 5:2
If anyone becomes unclean through touching unconsciously some unclean thing, such as the dead body of an unclean beast or of unclean cattle or of any unclean animal which goes flat on the earth, he will be responsible:
(BBE)

Leviticus 6:21
Let it be made with oil on a flat plate; when it is well mixed and cooked, let it be broken and taken in as a meal offering, for a sweet smell to the Lord.
(BBE)

Leviticus 7:9
And every meal offering which is cooked in the oven and everything made in a cooking pot or on a flat plate, is for the priest by whom it is offered.
(BBE)

Leviticus 11:41
Everything which goes flat on its body on the earth is disgusting, and is not to be used for food.
(BBE)

Leviticus 11:42
Whatever goes on its stomach or on four feet or has a great number of feet, even all those going flat on the earth, may not be used for food, for they are disgusting.
(BBE)

Leviticus 11:43
You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me.
(BBE)

Leviticus 11:44
For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.
(BBE)

Leviticus 11:46
This is the law about beasts and birds and every living thing moving in the waters, and every living thing which goes flat on the earth:
(BBE)

Leviticus 20:25
So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.
(BBE)

Leviticus 21:18
For whatever man he is that has a blemish, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Leviticus 22:5
Or anyone touching any unclean thing which goes flat on the earth, or someone by whom he may be made unclean in any way whatever;
(BBE)

Numbers 22:31
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
(KJV WBS)

Deuteronomy 4:18
Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth.
(BBE)

Deuteronomy 14:19
Every winged thing which goes flat on the earth is unclean to you and may not be used as food.
(BBE)

Joshua 6:5
It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Joshua 6:20
So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS NAS RSV)

Judges 7:13
When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS RSV)

1 Samuel 28:20
Then Saul went down flat on the earth, and was full of fear because of Samuel's words: and there was no strength in him, for he had taken no food all that day or all that night.
(BBE)

1 Kings 7:36
In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round.
(BBE)

1 Kings 8:9
There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.
(BBE)

1 Chronicles 9:31
And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, the oldest son of Shallum the Korahite, was responsible for cooking the flat cakes.
(BBE RSV)

2 Chronicles 2:16
And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.
(BBE)

2 Chronicles 5:10
Nothing was in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.
(BBE)

Job 12:8
Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 4:3
And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.
(BBE)

Ezekiel 8:10
So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living thing which goes flat on the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the images of the children of Israel, were pictured round about on the wall.
(BBE)

Hosea 7:8
Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over.
(See NIV)

Micah 7:17
They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.
(BBE)

Subtopics

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Related Terms

Table (125 Occurrences)

Tablet (7 Occurrences)

Disgusting (149 Occurrences)

Plate (34 Occurrences)

Nose (23 Occurrences)

Level (31 Occurrences)

Flatter (5 Occurrences)

Plat (1 Occurrence)

Cooked (35 Occurrences)

Champaign (1 Occurrence)

Face (780 Occurrences)

Natural (49 Occurrences)

Warp (9 Occurrences)

Fillet (1 Occurrence)

Flag (30 Occurrences)

Tasteless (4 Occurrences)

Reed (41 Occurrences)

Malchiel (3 Occurrences)

Plane (5 Occurrences)

Pan (26 Occurrences)

Bed (142 Occurrences)

Cooking (14 Occurrences)

Charger (17 Occurrences)

Collapsed (8 Occurrences)

Weaving (4 Occurrences)

Shelf (5 Occurrences)

Shout (114 Occurrences)

Cake (25 Occurrences)

Nebo (13 Occurrences)

Barley (35 Occurrences)

Wanderings (7 Occurrences)

Becomes (138 Occurrences)

Trumpet (74 Occurrences)

Snake (43 Occurrences)

Ark (212 Occurrences)

Ahead (98 Occurrences)

Tabernacle (333 Occurrences)

Horns (104 Occurrences)

Touching (121 Occurrences)

Wall (227 Occurrences)

Horn (108 Occurrences)

Sea (4178 Occurrences)

Dead (580 Occurrences)

Valley (187 Occurrences)

Vice (2 Occurrences)

Vial (12 Occurrences)

Key (8 Occurrences)

Nostrils (22 Occurrences)

Upright (392 Occurrences)

Unconsciously (4 Occurrences)

Oven (22 Occurrences)

Overturning (14 Occurrences)

Ornamented (14 Occurrences)

Lattice (6 Occurrences)

Loses (17 Occurrences)

Leaf (20 Occurrences)

Living-place (83 Occurrences)

Loaf (14 Occurrences)

Limb (5 Occurrences)

Gong (1 Occurrence)

Galilee (73 Occurrences)

Ground (538 Occurrences)

Grass (92 Occurrences)

Goad (2 Occurrences)

Well-mixed (2 Occurrences)

Insipid (3 Occurrences)

Flasks (3 Occurrences)

Flats (1 Occurrence)

Floor (69 Occurrences)

Fuller (5 Occurrences)

Foot (193 Occurrences)

Flashing (12 Occurrences)

Flax (11 Occurrences)

Wandering (120 Occurrences)

Top (880 Occurrences)

Tile (1 Occurrence)

Tablets (31 Occurrences)

Tester (5 Occurrences)

Flasks
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