Overflow
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (v. t.) To flow over; to cover with, or as with, water or other fluid; to spread over; to inundate; to overwhelm.

2. (v. t.) To flow over the brim of; to fill more than full.

3. (v. i.) To run over the bounds.

4. (v. i.) To be superabundant; to abound.

5. (n.) A flowing over, as of water or other fluid; an inundation.

6. (n.) That which flows over; a superfluous portion; a superabundance.

7. (n.) An outlet for the escape of surplus liquid.

Greek
5240. huperekchunno -- to pour out over, to overflow
... to pour out over, to overflow. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: huperekchunno
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-ek-khoo'-no) Short Definition: I pour out so that ...
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401. anachusis -- a pouring out, overflow
... a pouring out, overflow. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: anachusis
Phonetic Spelling: (an-akh'-oo-sis) Short Definition: outpouring, excess ...
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2626. katakluzo -- to inundate
... overflow, flood, inundate. From kata and the base of kludon; to dash (wash) down,
ie (by implication) to deluge -- overflow. see GREEK kata. see GREEK kludon. ...
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5248. huperperisseuo -- to abound more exceedingly
... Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: huperperisseuo Phonetic Spelling:
(hoop-er-per-is-syoo'-o) Short Definition: I abound exceedingly, overflow Definition: ( ...
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4482. rheo -- to flow
... rheo. 4483 . to flow. Part of Speech: Verb Transliteration: rheo Phonetic Spelling:
(hreh'-o) Short Definition: I flow Definition: I flow, overflow with. ...
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4051. perisseuma -- superfluity
... Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: perisseuma Phonetic Spelling:
(per-is'-syoo-mah) Short Definition: abundance Definition: abundance, overflow. ...
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4052. perisseuo -- to be over and above, to abound
... Spelling: (per-is-syoo'-o) Short Definition: I exceed, am left over Definition:
(a) intrans: I exceed the ordinary (the necessary), abound, overflow; am left ...
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5250. huperpleonazo -- to abound exceedingly
... overflow. From huper and pleonazo; to superabound -- be exceeding abundant. see
GREEK huper. see GREEK pleonazo. (uperepleonasen) -- 1 Occurrence. 5249, 5250 ...
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3632. oinophlugia -- drunkenness, debauchery
... drunkenness. From oinos and a form of the base of phluaros; an overflow (or surplus)
of wine, ie Vinolency (drunkenness) -- excess of wine. see GREEK oinos. ...
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Strong's Hebrew
7857. shataph -- to overflow, rinse or wash off
... shataph. 7858 . to overflow, rinse or wash off. Transliteration: shataph Phonetic
Spelling: (shaw-taf') Short Definition: overflow. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6327b. puts -- to flow, overflow
... puts. 6328 . to flow, overflow. Transliteration: puts Short Definition: overflow. ...
root Definition to flow, overflow NASB Word Usage overflow (1). 6327a, 6327b ...
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6687. tsuph -- to flow, overflow
... tsuph. 6688 . to flow, overflow. Transliteration: tsuph Phonetic Spelling: (tsoof)
Short Definition: engulf. Word Origin a prim. ... make to overflow, swim. ...
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5678. ebrah -- overflow, arrogance, fury
... 5677, 5678. ebrah. 5679 . overflow, arrogance, fury. Transliteration: ebrah
Phonetic Spelling: (eb-raw') Short Definition: wrath. Word Origin fem. ...
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7783. shuq -- probably to be abundant
... shuq. 7784 . probably to be abundant. Transliteration: shuq Phonetic Spelling:
(shook) Short Definition: overflow. Word Origin a prim. ... overflow, water. ...
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3332. yatsaq -- to pour, cast, flow
... cast, cleave fast, be as firm, grow, be hard, lay out, molten, overflow,.
A primitive root; properly, to pour out (transitive or ...
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1101. balal -- to mingle, mix, confuse, confound
... A primitive root; to overflow (specifically with oil.); by implication, to mix;
also (denominatively from bliyl) to fodder -- anoint, confound, X fade, mingle ...
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5674a. abar -- to pass over, through, or by, pass on
... led across (1), led through (3), left (1), liquid (2), made (1), mates (1), means
cross over (1), offer (1), over (4), overcome (1), overflow (1), overflowing ...
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6231. ashaq -- to oppress, wrong, extort
... A primitive root (compare asaq); to press upon, ie Oppress, defraud, violate, overflow
-- get deceitfully, deceive, defraud, drink up, (use) oppress((-ion ...
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6555. parats -- to break through
... 1), employ violence (1), everywhere (1), increase (1), increased (3), infrequent*
(1), made (1), made an outburst (1), outburst* (2), overflow (1), sinks (1 ...
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Library

Something Different from the New Birth.
... "Egypt always has the Nile," as some one has said, "but Egypt waits every year for
its overflow;" having the Nile is one thing, but having the Nile overflowing ...
/.../macneil/the spirit-filled life/chapter iv something different from.htm

Preaching (iii. ).
... Eternal Fulness, overflow to me Till I, Thy vessel, overflow for Thee; For sure
the streams that make Thy garden grow Are never fed but by an overflow: Not ...
/.../moule/to my younger brethren/chapter xii preaching iii.htm

Submission.
... Then sighs of sorrow in my soul would rise,. Then silent tears would overflow
my eyes! ... Then rushing tears would overflow my eyes! ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/borthwick/hymns from the land of luther/submission 2.htm

Whether this Clarity was the Clarity of Glory?
... That the glory of His soul did not overflow into His body from the first moment
of Christ's conception was due to a certain Divine dispensation, that, as ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether this clarity was the.htm

Whether Clarity is Becoming to the Glorified Body?
... Since, however, this is absurd, as we have often remarked ([5098]Q[84], A[1]), it
is better to say that this clarity will result from the overflow of the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether clarity is becoming to.htm

Whether the Four Cardinal virtues Differ from one Another?
... It may also be said that these four virtues qualify one another by a kind
of overflow. For the qualities of prudence overflow on ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the four cardinal virtues.htm

How Does it Come?
... This too is the explanation of the "overflow," the flowing "Rivers" of John
7:38. It is the overflow, and only the overflow, that blesses. ...
/.../macneil/the spirit-filled life/chapter xiv how does it.htm

Cups Running Over
... His life, too, will overflow through us to lost souls in a real concern for their
salvation, and to our fellow Christians in a deep desire for their blessing. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/hession/the calvary road/chapter 2 cups running over.htm

A Changed Life
... But it is all the more interesting to us because it presents a picture of what may
be called the overflow ministry of Jesus, of which there are many instances ...
//christianbookshelf.org/chapman/and judas iscariot/a changed life.htm

The Third Theological Oration.
... For we shall not venture to speak of "an overflow of goodness," as one of the Greek
Philosophers dared to say, as if it were a bowl overflowing, and this in ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xxix the third theological.htm

Thesaurus
Overflow (43 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Overflow (43 Occurrences). Matthew ... evil? For it is from
the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks. (WEY NIV). ...
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Vats (5 Occurrences)
... Proverbs 3:10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will
overflow with new wine. (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Overwhelm (18 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath;
to engulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; to ...
/o/overwhelm.htm - 11k

Sweep (34 Occurrences)
... It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching
out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel. ...
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Overflowing (54 Occurrences)
... 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overflow. 2. (n.) An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance;
copiousness. Multi-Version Concordance Overflowing (54 Occurrences). ...
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Rush (35 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Job 40:23 Behold, if a river overflow, he trembleth not; He is confident,
though a Jordan swell even to his mouth. (See JPS BBE NAS RSV). ...
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Overflowed (14 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Overflow. Multi-Version Concordance
Overflowed (14 Occurrences). Romans 1:29 Their hearts ...
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Redound (2 Occurrences)
... to conduce; to contribute. 2. (vi) To be in excess; to remain over and above;
to be redundant; to overflow. 3. (n.) The coming back ...
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Engulf (5 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 11:4 and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their
chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they ...
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Drip (12 Occurrences)
... (See NAS). Psalms 65:11 You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow
with abundance. (See NAS RSV). Psalms 65:12 The wilderness grasslands overflow. ...
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Resources
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Concordance
Overflow (43 Occurrences)

Matthew 12:34
O vipers' brood, how can you speak what is good when you are evil? For it is from the overflow of the heart that the mouth speaks.
(WEY NIV)

Luke 6:45
A good man from the good stored up in his heart brings out what is good; and an evil man from the evil stored up brings out what is evil; for from the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks.
(WEY NIV)

Romans 5:15
But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
(See NIV)

Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
(See NIV)

2 Corinthians 4:15
For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.
(See NIV)

2 Corinthians 7:4
Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
(WEB WEY ASV NAS)

Philippians 1:26
that your rejoicing may abound in Christ Jesus in me through my presence with you again.
(See NIV)

1 Thessalonians 3:12
and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 11:4
and what he did to the army of Egypt, to their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how Yahweh has destroyed them to this day;
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)

Job 6:15
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;
(See JPS NIV)

Job 40:23
Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.
(Root in WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY)

Psalms 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE YLT)

Psalms 65:9
You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
(See NAS)

Psalms 65:11
You crown the year with your bounty. Your carts overflow with abundance.
(WEB NIV)

Psalms 65:12
The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.
(WEB NIV)

Psalms 69:2
I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
(WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Psalms 69:15
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Psalms 73:7
Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.
(See RSV)

Psalms 78:20
Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 119:171
Let my lips be flowing with praise, because you have given me knowledge of your rules.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 3:10
so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS NIV)

Proverbs 5:16
Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?
(WEB NIV)

Song of Songs 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it; if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, he would utterly be contemned.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 8:7
For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:
(Root in BBE NIV)

Isaiah 8:8
It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 10:22
For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 23:10
Pass through thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no restraint any more.
(See JPS DBY NAS RSV)

Isaiah 28:17
I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line. The hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters will overflow the hiding place.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)

Isaiah 43:2
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Isaiah 54:9
For this is as the waters of Noah to me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more overflow the earth; so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
(WBS)

Jeremiah 9:18
and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 14:17
You shall say this word to them, Let my eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease; for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous wound.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 47:2
Thus says Yahweh: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing stream, and shall overflow the land and all that is therein, the city and those who dwell therein; and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.
(Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.
(See NIV)

Daniel 9:26
And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.
(Root in BBE DBY)

Daniel 11:10
His sons shall war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall come on, and overflow, and pass through; and they shall return and war, even to his fortress.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Daniel 11:26
Yes, they who eat of his dainties shall destroy him, and his army shall overflow; and many shall fall down slain.
(WEB KJV ASV WBS YLT NAS)

Daniel 11:40
At the time of the end shall the king of the south contend with him; and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass through.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Joel 2:24
The threshing floors will be full of wheat, and the vats will overflow with new wine and oil.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Joel 3:13
Put in the sickle; for the harvest is ripe. Come, tread, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great."
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Zephaniah 2:9
For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.
(BBE)

Zechariah 1:17
"Proclaim further, saying,'Thus says Yahweh of Armies: "My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem."'"
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Zechariah 14:18
And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, neither'shall it be upon them; there shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
(See JPS)

Subtopics

Overflow

Related Terms

Vats (5 Occurrences)

Overwhelm (18 Occurrences)

Sweep (34 Occurrences)

Overflowing (54 Occurrences)

Rush (35 Occurrences)

Overflowed (14 Occurrences)

Redound (2 Occurrences)

Engulf (5 Occurrences)

Drip (12 Occurrences)

Floods (37 Occurrences)

Flow (85 Occurrences)

Flood (70 Occurrences)

Aqueduct (4 Occurrences)

Reach (63 Occurrences)

Cistern (21 Occurrences)

Passes (74 Occurrences)

Well (2882 Occurrences)

Pool (25 Occurrences)

King's (375 Occurrences)

Kidron (11 Occurrences)

Kindle (25 Occurrences)

Overwhelmed (33 Occurrences)

Overwhelmeth (1 Occurrence)

Onward (25 Occurrences)

Overpass (1 Occurrence)

Overfed (1 Occurrence)

Overcome (300 Occurrences)

Grasslands (1 Occurrence)

Water (4571 Occurrences)

Wasteland (19 Occurrences)

Walkest (11 Occurrences)

Winter (22 Occurrences)

Wash (105 Occurrences)

Waterflood (2 Occurrences)

Water-flood (1 Occurrence)

Invade (15 Occurrences)

Irresistible (1 Occurrence)

Inundation (6 Occurrences)

Fade (16 Occurrences)

Foothold (3 Occurrences)

Flooding (4 Occurrences)

Float (4 Occurrences)

Floors (12 Occurrences)

Fats (1 Occurrence)

Fleet (7 Occurrences)

Tigris (2 Occurrences)

Tikvath (1 Occurrence)

Tracks (6 Occurrences)

Tikvah (2 Occurrences)

Trembleth (21 Occurrences)

Rushes (13 Occurrences)

Extension (2 Occurrences)

Egypt's (13 Occurrences)

Decreed (33 Occurrences)

Dainties (14 Occurrences)

Mobilize (2 Occurrences)

Mire (21 Occurrences)

Pursued (75 Occurrences)

Plummet (4 Occurrences)

Passest (5 Occurrences)

Plumb (6 Occurrences)

Bounty (14 Occurrences)

Blemish (71 Occurrences)

Boldness (25 Occurrences)

Boasting (42 Occurrences)

Brimful (1 Occurrence)

Brood (19 Occurrences)

Barns (7 Occurrences)

Collide (1 Occurrence)

Carts (13 Occurrences)

Cavalry (11 Occurrences)

Abundant (124 Occurrences)

Abound (36 Occurrences)

Abundance (194 Occurrences)

Abundantly (73 Occurrences)

Store (134 Occurrences)

Sunk (20 Occurrences)

Smites (10 Occurrences)

Overfed
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