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Concordances
Thompson Chain Reference
• Purposes, Divine
• Purposes
• Purpose
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Torrey Topical Textbook
• Counsels and Purposes of God, the
Dictionaries
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Purpose
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Purpose of God
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Purpose: Unity of Purpose
• Purpose: Unity of
King James Dictionary
• Purposed
• Purpose
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Purpose of God
• To Desire, Will, Purpose
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Purpose
Webster Dictionary
• Purposive
• Purposing
• Purposer
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Encyclopedias
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Purpose of God
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Purpose of God
• Society, a Combination of Persons Uniting in a Fellowship for Any Purpose Whatever, and Having Commo
Lexicons
• βουλεύω
• βουλή
• βούλημα
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• דָּבָר
• דִּבְרָה
• זֶה
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(1):

(n.) Proposal to another; discourse.

(2):

(n.) Instance; example.

(3):

(v. t.) To set forth; to bring forward.

(4):

(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention; to discourse.

(5):

(n.) That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan.

(6):

(v. t.) To propose, as an aim, to one's self; to determine upon, as some end or object to be accomplished; to intend; to design; to resolve; - often followed by an infinitive or dependent clause.