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Thompson Chain Reference
• Sight, in God's
• In God's Sight
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
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King James Dictionary
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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Webster Dictionary
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• ܚܰܙܳܝܳܐ
• ܚܙܳܬ݂ܳܐ
• ܡܶܚܙܳܐ
• ἀναβλέπω
• ἀνάβλεψις
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• חֲזות
• חֵפֶץ
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SIGHT, n.

1. The act of seeing perception of objects by the eye view as, to gain sight of land to have a sight of a landscape to lose sight of a ship at sea. A cloud received him out of their sight. Acts 1 .

2. The faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes. It has been doubted whether moles have sight. Milton lost his sight. The sight usually fails at of before fifty years of age. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain.

3. Open view the state of admitting unobstructed vision a being within the limits of vision. The harbor is in sight of the town. The shore of Long Island is in sight of New Haven. The White mountain is in plain sight at Portland, in Maine a mountain is or is not within sight an engagement at sea is within sight of land.

4. Notice from seeing knowledge as a letter intended for the sight of one person only.

5. Eye the instrument of seeing. From the depth of hell they lift their sight.

6. An aperture through which objects are to be seen or something to direct the vision as the sight of a quadrant the sight of a fowling piece or a rifle.

7. That which is beheld a spectacle a show particularly, something wonderful. They never saw a sight so fair. Moses said, I will now turn aside and see the great sight, why the bush is not burned. Ex. 3. Fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. To take sight, to take aim to look for purpose of directing a piece of artillery, &c.