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im -pōr´ta -b 'l ( δυσβάστακτος , dusbástaktos ): An obsolete word, meaning "unbearable" (Latin: im , "not," portabilis , "bearable") found in Pr Man, "Thine angry threatening (the Revised Version (British and American) "the anger of thy threatening") toward sinners is importable"; compare Rheims version, Matthew 23:4 , "heavy burdens and importable"; Chaucer ("Clerk's Tale" C.T.), "For it were importable though they wolde.»

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. Entry for 'Importable'. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/isb/i/importable.html. 1915.

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