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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• Priority of God's Claims
• First Claims
• Claim's, God's
Dictionaries
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Claims (of Christ)
• Claim
King James Dictionary
• Claim
Webster Dictionary
• Claiming
• Claimed
• Claim
Lexicons
• ἐπαγγέλλομαι
• λέγω , εἴρω
• φημί
• גְּאולִּים , גָּאַל
• דָּבָר
• הֲדורִּים , הָדַר
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CLAIM,

1. To call for to ask or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right or supposed right to challenge as a right to demand as due as, to claim a debt to claim obedience, or respect.

2. To assert, or maintain as a right as, he claims to be the best poet of the age.

3. To have a right or title to as, the heir claims the estate by descent he claims a promise.

4. To proclaim.

5. To call or name.

CLAIM, n.

1. A demand of a right or supposed right a calling on another for something due, or supposed to be due as a claim of wages for services. A claim implies a right or supposed right in the claimant to something which is in anothers possession or power. A claim may be made in words, by suit, and by other means. The word is usually preceded by make or lay to make claim to lay claim.

2. A right to claim or demand a title to any debt, privilege or other thing in possession of another as, a prince has a claim to the throne.

Homers claims to the first rank among Epic poets have rarely been disputed.

3. The thing claimed, or demanded.

4. A loud call.