Operative
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (a.) Being in effect; acting; most important; surgical; exerting force, physical or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive.

2. (a.) Producing the appropriate or designed effect; efficacious; as, an operative dose, rule, or penalty.

3. (a.) Based upon, or consisting of, an operation or operations; as, operative surgery.

4. (n.) A skilled worker; an artisan; esp., one who operates a machine in a mill or manufactory.

Greek
1753b. energeia -- operative power
... 1753a, 1753b. energeia. 1754 . operative power. Transliteration: energeia
Short Definition: working. Word Origin from energes Definition ...
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1756. energes -- at work, active
... Cognate: 1756 (an adjective) -- properly, , full-of-energy (operative). See 1754 (). ...
From en and ergon; active, operative -- effectual, powerful. see GREEK en. ...
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1754. energeo -- to be at work, to work, to do
... to work, to do. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: energeo Phonetic Spelling:
(en-erg-eh'-o) Short Definition: I work, accomplish, am operative Definition: I ...
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Strong's Hebrew
4640. Maasay -- "work of Yah," an Israelite
... NASB Word Usage Maasai (1). Maasiai. From asah; operative; Maasai, an Israelite --
Maasiai. see HEBREW asah. 4639, 4640. Maasay. 4641 . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

Whether Human virtue is an Operative Habit?
... ON HABITS IN PARTICULAR (QQ -89) GOOD HABITS, ie VIRTUES (QQ -70)OF THE VIRTUES,
AS TO THEIR ESSENCE (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether human virtue is an operative habit ...
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Whether Grace is Appropriately Divided into Operative and Co ...
... Article Two Whether Grace is appropriately divided into Operative and
Co-operative Grace. Whether Grace is appropriately divided ...
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Question one Hundred and Fourteen Concerning Merit, which is the ...
... Question One Hundred and Fourteen CONCERNING MERIT, WHICH IS THE EFFECT OF CO-OPERATIVE
GRACE. CONCERNING MERIT, WHICH IS THE EFFECT OF CO-OPERATIVE GRACE ...
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Whether the Name "Word" Imports Relation to Creatures?
... qu.63), that "the name Word signifies not only relation to the Father, but also
relation to those beings which are made through the Word, by His operative power ...
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Whether the Habits of the Speculative Intellect are virtues?
... For virtue is an operative habit, as we have said above ([1518]Q[55], A[2]). But
speculative habits are not operative: for speculative matter is distinct from ...
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Nature and Grace
... Grace and Free Grace. Article Two Whether Grace is appropriately divided
into Operative and Co-operative Grace. Article Three Whether ...
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Of the Power of Prayer.
... not (then) received its form from Christ. But how far more amply operative
is Christian prayer! It does not station the angel of ...
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Question one Hundred and Eleven the Divisions of Grace
... five questions, i. Whether grace is appropriately divided into free grace and
sanctifying grace.2. Of the division of sanctifying grace into operative and co ...
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Question one Hundred and Thirteen the Effects of Grace
... We shall inquire first into the justification of the ungodly, which is the effect
of operative grace, and second into merit, which is the effect of co ...
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Whether Grace is Appropriately Divided into Prevenient and ...
... I:answer: just as grace is divided into operative and cooperative grace on account
of its different effects, so is it divided into prevenient and subsequent ...
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Thesaurus
Operative (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Being in effect; acting; most important; surgical; exerting force, physical
or moral; active in the production of effects; as, an operative motive. ...
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Ophel (6 Occurrences)

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Virtuous (5 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave. 3. (a.)
Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent. ...
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Operations (4 Occurrences)

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Effective (4 Occurrences)
... to produce an effect or result; fit for a purpose; as, an effective tool; producing
a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an ...
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Effectual (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. (a.) Adequate; sufficient to produce a desired effect;
as, an effectual writing method; efficient; operative; decisive. Int. ...
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Evolution
... his vital impetus (elan vital); the former in his concept of duration.) As an orderly
change of the form of things, evolution may be viewed as operative in the ...
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Midwife (4 Occurrences)
... mouth. The midwives must have had considerable skill, as a case like that
of Tamar required some amount of operative manipulation. ...
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Penetrating (2 Occurrences)
... Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any
two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of ...
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Active (4 Occurrences)
... 6. (a.) Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative; -- opposed
to speculative or theoretical; as, an active rather than a speculative ...
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Resources
I am a Hindu, why should I consider becoming a Christian? | GotQuestions.org

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Concordance
Operative (2 Occurrences)

Philemon 1:6
in such sort that thy participation in the faith should become operative in the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in us towards Christ Jesus.
(DBY)

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
(DBY)

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