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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Personal Call
• Call
Thompson Chain Reference
• Wisdom's Call
• Imperative Call
• Christian Calling
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The Topic Concordance
• Calling
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Called, Elect, Active or Passive
• Called Into His Presence
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Call of God, the
Dictionaries
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Call
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Call, Calling
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Ministerial Call
• Gospel Call
• General Call
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Effectual Call
• Calling
• Call
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Call, Calling
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Symeon ( Simeon) Called Niger
• Call, Calling
• Call, Called, Calling
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Timotheus, Called Aelurus
• Tarachus, Also Called Victor
• Peregrinus, Called Proteus
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King James Dictionary
• Calling
• Called
• Call
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Calling
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Hark, a Herald Voice Is Calling
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Call, Called, Calling
• Call
Wilson's Bible Types
• Calling
Webster Dictionary
• So-Called
• Calling
• Called
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Call
• Calling
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Call
• La Calle
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Calling
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Joseph Called Barsabas
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Begha (Also Called Bez and Begagh), St.
• Bernardin (of Carpentras), Henri Andre (Called the Father)
• Bray, William (or Billy Bray As He Was Familiarly Called)
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• "Calling Up"
• Alonzo de La Calle
Lexicons
• ܓ݁ܥܳܐ
• ܩܪܳܐ
• ܩܰܪܝܳܐ
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• αἰτέω
• ἀνακρίνω
• ἀναμιμνῄσκω
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• אָמַר , אָמַר
• אָשַׁר , אָשַׁר
• דַּרְיושׁ , דָּרַשׁ
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In biblical usage, the word ‘call’ has a similarly wide range of meanings as it has in everyday usage. This wide range of meanings applies even when the Bible speaks of God’s call to individual people, though certain usages stand out as being of greater theological significance.

God may call people in the sense simply of commanding them or inviting them; yet rebellious people often ignore his call (Isaiah 65:12; Jeremiah 7:13; Matthew 9:13; Matthew 22:3-6; Matthew 22:14). More specifically, he may call people in the sense of choosing them or directing them according to specific purposes he has for them (Isaiah 43:1; Isaiah 46:11; Hosea 11:1; Matthew 4:21; Acts 16:10; Hebrews 11:8). In an even higher sense, he calls people by giving them his salvation and making them his own (Romans 1:6; Romans 8:30; 1 Corinthians 1:24).

Christians are those who have responded to the call of God that they heard through the gospel. Their existence as God’s people is the work of the sovereign God who, in his grace and mercy, has called them and saved them (1 Corinthians 1:2; 1 Corinthians 1:26; Colossians 3:15; 2 Thessalonians 2:14; 2 Timothy 1:9). This aspect of the call of God is sometimes referred to as election (Romans 9:11; see ELECTION).

God’s calling involves more than merely saving his people from the penalty of sin. He has called them to enjoy freedom (Galatians 5:1; Galatians 5:13), to practise holiness (1 Thessalonians 4:7; 1 Peter 1:15), to be changed into Christ’s likeness (Romans 8:29-30), to share in Christ’s kingdom (1 Thessalonians 2:12) and to proclaim Christ’s message (1 Peter 2:9). He has also called them to share Christ’s glory; though if they are to experience this fully, they must also share Christ’s suffering (1 Peter 2:21; 1 Peter 5:10).