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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Obligation
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Obligation, Days of
• Days of Obligation
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Obligation
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Obligation
• Holy Days of Obligation
Webster Dictionary
• Obliging
• Obliger
• Obligement
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Moral Obligation
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Obligation
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Moral Obligation
• Obligation
• Obligation (2)
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Obligation
Lexicons
• ἀνάγκη
• ἔχω
• ὀφειλέτης
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• אִסָּר
• דָּבָר
• מִצְוָה
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(1):

(v. t.) To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.

(2):

(v. t.) To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.

(3):

(v. t.) To attach, as by a bond.