Bible Dictionaries
Wave

King James Dictionary

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Watering

Next Entry
Waved

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Concordances
Scofield Reference Index
• Wave-Loaves
Thompson Chain Reference
• Waves
• Wave-Offerings
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Wave-Offering
Dictionaries
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Wave Offering
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Wave Offerings
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Wave Offering
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Wave-Breast, Wave-Offering
King James Dictionary
• Waving
• Waved
• Wave
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Wave-Offering
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Wave Offering
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Wave
Wilson's Bible Types
• Waves
Webster Dictionary
• Cold Wave
• Wave
• Waved
•   (only first 3 shown)
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Electric Waves
• Wave
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Wave Offering
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Wave-Breast
• Wave-Loaf
• Wave-Offering
•   (only first 3 shown)
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Wave-Offering
Lexicons
• ܓ݁ܰܠܳܐ
• ܢܦ
Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Wave-Offering, Heave-Offering
• κλύδων
• κλυδωνίζομαι
• κῦμα
•   (only first 3 shown)
• בָּמָה
• גַּל , גַּל
• דֳּכִי
•   (only first 3 shown)

WAVE, n. G.

1. A moving swell or volume of water usually, a swell raised and driven by wind. A pebble thrown into still water produces waves, which form concentric circles, receding from the point where the pebble fell. But waves are generally raised and driven by wind, and the word comprehends any moving swell on the surface of water, from the smallest ripple to the billows of a tempest.

The wave behind impels the wave before.

2. Unevenness inequality of surface.

3. The line or streak of luster on cloth watered and calendered.

WAVE,

1. To play loosely to move like a wave, one way and the other to float to undulate.

His purple robes wavd careless to the wind.

2. To be moved, as a signal.

3. To fluctuate to waver to be in an unsettled state.

WAVE, See Waver.

1. To raise into inequalities of surface.

2. To move one way and the other to brandish as, to wave the hand to wave a sword.

3. To waft to remove any thing floating.

4. To beckon to direct by a waft or waving motion.

WAVE,

1. To put off to cast off to cast away to reject as, to wave good stolen usually written waive.

2. To quit to depart from.

He resolved not to wave his way.

3. To put off to put aside for the present, or to omit to pursue as, to wave a motion. He offered to wave the subject. This is the usual sense.