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Thompson Chain Reference
• Profit and Loss
• Loss, Spiritual
• Loss
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Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Means of Grace: Their Disuse a Sad Loss
Holman Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Loss
• Lose, Loss, Lost
Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
• Lossing
• Lossful
• Lossed
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Benson John Lossing
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Loss, Lewis Homri
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• ܐܰܒ݂ܕ݁ܳܢܳܐ
• ܚܽܘܣܪܳܢܳܐ
• ἀποβολή
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• חָטָא חֶטְאָה, , חָטָא
• יוצֵאת יָצָא, , צֵא
• נְזַק
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LOSS, n.

1. privation, as the loss of property loss of money by gaming loss of health or reputation. every loss is not a detriment. we cannot regret the loss of bad company or of evil habits.

2. Destruction ruin as the loss of a ship at sea the loss of an army.

3. Defeat as the loss of a battle.

4. Waste useless application as a loss of time or labor.

5. Waste by leakage or escape as a loss of liquors in transportation.

To bear a loss, to make good also, to sustain a loss without sinking under it.

To be at a loss, to be puzzled to be unable to determine to be in a state of uncertainty.