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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Severity & Mercy
Dictionaries
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Severities
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Several House
King James Dictionary
• Severity
• Severally
• Several
•   (only first 3 shown)
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Severity
• Severally
• Several
•   (only first 3 shown)
Webster Dictionary
• Severity
• Severities
• Severing
•   (only first 3 shown)
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Severing Fabriani
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Sever
• Several; Severally
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Daniel de Saint-Sever
• Dositheiis (Ãſâ”ãſâ¿ãâƓãſâ¯ãſâ¸ãſâµãſâ¿ãâ‚), the Name of Several Men in the Apocrypha.
• SEVERALLY.
Lexicons
• ܩܰܫܝܳܐܝܺܬ݂
• ܩܰܫܝܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
• ἀνά
• ἀποτομία
• ἀποτόμως
•   (only first 3 shown)
• בָּדַל
• גָּבוֹל גָּדוֹל, , הַגְּדוֹלִים
• חָזַק
•   (only first 3 shown)

(1):

(n.) The quality or state of being severe.

(2):

(n.) Gravity or austerity; extreme strictness; rigor; harshness; as, the severity of a reprimand or a reproof; severity of discipline or government; severity of penalties.

(3):

(n.) The quality or power of distressing or paining; extreme degree; extremity; intensity; inclemency; as, the severity of pain or anguish; the severity of cold or heat; the severity of the winter.

(4):

(n.) Exactness; rigorousness; strictness; as, the severity of a test.

(5):

(n.) Harshness; cruel treatment; sharpness of punishment; as, severity practiced on prisoners of war.