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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• Adjuration
Dictionaries
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Adjuration
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Adjuration
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Adjure
King James Dictionary
• Adjured
• Adjure
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Adjuration
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Adjuration
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Adjure
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Adjure
Webster Dictionary
• Adjuring
• Adjurer
• Adjured
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Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Adjuration
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Adjuration
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Adjuration, Talmudical Mode of
Lexicons
• Deasis; or Adjuration
• ἐξορκίζω
• ἐνορκίζω , ὁρκίζω
• אָלָה
• אָלָה
• שָׁבַע

A solemn charge by one in authority to another to speak the truth under the obligation of an oath, as when Ahab adjured Micaiah, 1 Kings 22:16 , and when the high priest adjured our Lord. Matthew 26:63 . Also binding a person under a curse to do or not to do the thing enjoined, as in Joshua 6:26; 1 Samuel 14:24 : cf. also Mark 5:7; Acts 19:13 . Also a 'solemn charge,' as in 1 Thessalonians 5:27 , in the margin.