Swamp
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore.

2. (v. t.) To plunge or sink into a swamp.

3. (v. t.) To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

4. (v. t.) Fig.: To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

5. (v. i.) To sink or stick in a swamp; figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties.

6. (v. i.) To become filled with water, as a boat; to founder; to capsize or sink; figuratively, to be ruined; to be wrecked.

Greek
4845. sumpleroo -- to fill up completely, hence to fulfill
... From sun and pleroo; to implenish completely, ie (of space) to swamp (a boat), or
(of time) to accomplish (passive, be complete) -- (fully) come, fill up. ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/4845.htm - 6k
Strong's Hebrew
1207. bitstsah -- a swamp
... 1206, 1207. bitstsah. 1208 . a swamp. Transliteration: bitstsah Phonetic
Spelling: (bits-tsaw') Short Definition: marsh. ... swamp, mire. ...
/hebrew/1207.htm - 6k

6854. tsephardea -- frogs
... frog. From tsaphar and a word elsewhere unused meaning a swamp; a marsh-leaper,
ie Frog -- frog. see HEBREW tsaphar. 6853, 6854. tsephardea. 6855 . ...
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Library

The Real Thing of Light.
... The ground is a bit swampy in places, boggy. Low-lying land runs to bog and swamp. ...
And people are led astray by them deeper into swamp and bog. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/the real thing of light.htm

San Josef
... The road runs at first along a low cliff foot, with an ugly Mangrove swamp, looking
just like an alder-bed at home, between you and the sea; a swamp which it ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter ix san josef.htm

Genesis iii. 22
... But when the declaration has been made to us by God himself, that this dismal swamp
in which we are prisoners is but an infinitely small portion of his universe ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnold/the christian life/lecture i genesis iii 22.htm

Whence the Contentions of Philosophers have Sprung. Against those ...
... For they are like men caught in a swamp stretching over some wide impassable plain,
which, when they have once fallen into it, allows them neither to retrace ...
/.../argument xiv whence the contentions of.htm

The High Woods
... Let the mangrove foliage be as gay and green as it may"and it is gay and green"a
mangrove swamp is a sad, ugly, evil place; and so I felt that one to be ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter vii the high woods.htm

Letter iv. Personal Habits.
... of the dormer window were ornamented, the one with a long branch of dogwood blossoms,
the other with graceful groupings of poppies and swamp grass, painted ...
/.../letter iv personal habits.htm

Kumaon.
... Including the hill country of Gurhwal, and the belt of forest and swamp lying
immediately under it, of which only a small part has been reclaimed, Kumaon is ...
/.../kennedy/life and work in benares and kumaon 1839-1877/chapter xx kumaon.htm

The Bethlehem Fog.
... shape of a gray subtle pervasive mist, that blurs the outlook, and often gathers
and holds black smoke, and mean poisonous odors and gases from bog and swamp. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/gordon/quiet talks about jesus/the bethlehem fog.htm

The Present Distress of Nations.
... The waves of human passion are rising higher, and higher and threaten to swamp the
landmarks of the ancients and take possession of the whole earth. ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/pink/the redeemers return/6 the present distress of.htm

God's Sovereignty.
... Many a hill is climbed only through a swamp road. God cares more for a man than
for a plan. The plan is only for the sake of the man. You say, of course. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks with world winners/gods sovereignty.htm

Thesaurus
Swamp (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (vt) To plunge or sink into a swamp. ... 5. (vi) To sink or stick in a swamp;
figuratively, to become involved in insuperable difficulties. ...
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Babel (3 Occurrences)
... The place which was dug out she made into a swamp, the object being to retard
the course of the river. The many bends and the swamp...
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Quail (5 Occurrences)
... common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India,
the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus ...
/q/quail.htm - 13k

Upland (4 Occurrences)
... which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is
generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the ...
/u/upland.htm - 8k

Esarhaddon (3 Occurrences)
... king. His father had been so displeased with Babylon that he had attempted
to annihilate the city by making it a swamp. Esarhaddon ...
/e/esarhaddon.htm - 13k

Marsh (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered
partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. Int. ...
/m/marsh.htm - 9k

Maple (1 Occurrence)
... is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United
States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A ...
/m/maple.htm - 7k

Patara (1 Occurrence)
... of the Lycian Nation." Outside the city walls many sarcophagi may be seen, but the
harbor, long ago choked by sand, has been converted into a useless swamp. ...
/p/patara.htm - 9k

Bog (1 Occurrence)
... a marsh; a morass. 2. (n.) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots,
and grass, in a marsh or swamp. 3. (vt) To sink, as ...
/b/bog.htm - 7k

Swam (1 Occurrence)

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Swamp (1 Occurrence)

Isaiah 35:7
And the burning sand will become a pool, and the dry earth springs of waters: the fields where the sheep take their food will become wet land, and water-plants will take the place of grass.
(See RSV)

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Swamp

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