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Nave Topical Bible
• Wedding
Thompson Chain Reference
• Weddings
• Wedding Feasts
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Wedding Ring
American Tract Society
• Wedding-Garment
• Wedding
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Wedding
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Wedding Garment
King James Dictionary
• Wedding
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Wedding
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Wedding Guests, Bridegroom and the
• Bridegroom and the Wedding Guests
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Wedding Garment
People's Bible Dictionary
• Wedding
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Wedding
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Wedding
Whyte's Bible Characters
• The Wedding Guest Who Sat Down in the Lowest Room
• The Man Who Had Not On a Wedding Arment
Wilson's Bible Types
• Wedding
Webster Dictionary
• Wed
• Wedded
• Wedding
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Wedding
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Wedding
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Wedding
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Penny Weddings
• Wedding
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Penny Wedding
The Jewish Encyclopedia
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Lexicons
• ܚܠܽܘܠܳܐ
• γάμος
• νυμφών
• הָלַל הָלַל, הָלַל, , הַלְלויָּהּ
• חֲתֻנָּה

the common term for the marriage ceremony. The verb "to wed" is properly to engage by a pledge (0. Eng. wed, a pledge, wager; cf. Lat. vas, vadis; M. Dutch wedde, pledge, pawn; Swed. vad, bet, &c.). The term "wedlock" (0. Eng. wedldc; from ldc, a gift), used of the state of marriage, or the vows and sacrament of marriage, properly means a gift given as a pledge; cf. Ger. Mor gengabe, the gift to the bride on the morning after the marriage.

See Marriage and Family.