Deferred
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 34:19
- Last Reference: Acts 24:22
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
DEFER, verb transitive [Latin To bear.]
1. To delay; to put off; to postpone to a future time; as, to defer the execution of a design.
When thou vowest a vow, defer not to pay it. Ecclesiastes 5:4.
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Proverbs 13:12.
2. To refer; to leave to anothers judgment and determination.
[In this sense, refer is now used.]
DEFERENCE, noun
1. A yielding in opinion; submission of judgment to the opinion or judgment of another. Hence, regard; respect. We often decline acting in opposition to those for whose wisdom we have a great deference
2. Complaisance; condescension.
3. Submission.
DEFERENT, adjective Bearing; carrying; conveying.
DEFERENT, noun
1. That which carries or conveys. The deferent of a planet, is an imaginary circle or orb in the Ptolemaic system, that is supposed to carry about the body of the planet.
2. A vessel in the human body for the conveyance of fluids.
DEFERENTIAL, , adjective Expressing deference.
DEFERMENT, noun Delay.
DEFERRER, noun One who delays or puts off.
DEFERRING, participle present tense Delaying; postponing.
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 34:19
- Last Reference: Acts 24:22
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: