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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Marvels

The Bible

Bible Usage:

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: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Marvel

M'ARVEL, noun [Latin mirabilis, wonderful, from miror; demiror, mora, delay, and perhaps morior; Eng. demur, etc.]

1. A wonder; that which arrests the attention and causes a person to stand or gaze, or to pause. [This word is nearly obsolete, or at least little used in elegant writings.]

2. Wonder; admiration.

Marvel of Peru, a plant of the genus Mirabilis.

M'ARVEL, verb intransitive To wonder. It expresses less than astonish or amaze. [Nearly obsolete.]


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Marveling

M'ARVELING, participle present tense Wondering.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Marvelous

M'ARVELOUS, adjective

1. Wonderful; strange; exciting wonder or some degree of surprise.

This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Psalms 118:1.

2. Surpassing credit; incredible.

3. The marvelous in writings, is that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; opposed to probable.

4. Formerly used adverbially for wonderfully, exceedingly.


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Marvelously

M'ARVELOUSLY, adverb Wonderfully; strangely; in a manner to excite wonder or surprise.


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Marvelousness

M'ARVELOUSNESS, noun Wonderfulness; strangeness.