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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• Pre-Existence of Christ
Dictionaries
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Self-Existence of God
• Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ
• Existence of God
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Pre-Existence
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Pre-Existence of Souls
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Pre-Existence of Christ
• Pre-Existence
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Existence
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Exist
Webster Dictionary
• Self-Existent
• Self-Existence
• Existing
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Doctrine of Pre-Existence
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Existence of God
• Pre-Existence of Jesus Christ
• Pre-Existents
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Essence and Existence
• The Existence of God
Lexicons
• ܟ݁ܰܘܶܢ
• γίνομαι
• εἰμί
• ὑπάρχω
• אֶפֶס , אֹפֶס
• אֶהְיֶה , הָיָה

primarily, "to make a beginning" (hupo, "under," arche, "a beginning"), denotes "to be, to be in existence," involving an "existence" or condition both previous to the circumstances mentioned and continuing after it. This is important in Philippians 2:6 , concerning the deity of Christ. The phrase "being (existing) in the form (morphe, the essential and specific form and character) of God," carries with it the two facts of the antecedent Godhood of Christ, previous to His incarnation, and the continuance of His Godhood at and after the event of His Birth (see Gifford, on the Incarnation, pp. 11, sqq.). It is translated "exist" in 1 Corinthians 11:18 , RV, for AV, "there be." Cp. Luke 16:14; 23:50; Acts 2:30; 3:2; 17:24; 22:3 etc. See BEING , GOODS , LIVE , POSSESS , SUBSTANCE.