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HOME, n. Gr. a house, a close place, or place or rest.
1. A dwelling house the house or place in which one resides. He was not at home.
Then the disciples went away again to their own home. John 20 .
Home is the sacred refuge of our life.
2. One's own country. Let affairs at home be well managed by the administration.
3. The place of constant residence the seat.
Flandria, by plenty, made the home of war.
4. The grave death or a future state.
Man goeth to his long home. Ecclesiastes 12
5. The present state of existence.
Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. 2 Corinthians 5
HOME, a. Close severe poignant as a home thrust.
HOME, adv. This is merely elliptical to being omitted.
1. To one's own habitation as in the phrases, go home, come home, bring home, carry home.
2. To one's own country. Home is opposed to abroad, or in a foreign country. My brother will return home in the first ship from India.
3. Close closely to the point as, this consideration comes home to our interest, that is, it nearly affects it. Drive the nail home, that is, drive it close.
To haul home the top-sail sheets, in seamen's language, is to draw the bottom of the top-sail close to the yard-arm by means of the sheets.
An anchor is said to come home, when it loosens from the ground by the violence of the wind or current, &c.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Home'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/home.html.
Entry for 'Home'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/home.html.
