Sheer
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Sheer (2 Occurrences)

Mark 15:10 For he could see that it was out of sheer spite that the High Priests had handed Him over. (WEY)

Isaiah 28:19 As often as it passeth though, it shall take you; for morning by morning shall it pass through, by day and by night: and it shall be nought but terror to understand the message. (See JPS NAS RSV NIV)

Thesaurus
Sheer (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin. ... 11. (n.)
Shears See Shear. Multi-Version Concordance Sheer (2 Occurrences). ...
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Quicken (16 Occurrences)
... 3. (v.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to
quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced. ...
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Ladder (1 Occurrence)
... of armies, or even caravans, since the approach is precipitous on either side, and
at Ras el-`Abyadh the road skirts the edge of a sheer precipice, where a ...
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Gossamer (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A fine, flimsy, sheer fabric or substance, like
cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. ...
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Drift (1 Occurrence)
... 19. (n.) The place in a deep-waisted vessel where the sheer is raised and the rail
is cut off, and usually terminated with a scroll, or driftpiece. 20. ...
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Main (17 Occurrences)
... 12. (a.) Vast; huge. 13. (a.) Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer. 14. (a.)
Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc. 15. ...
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Bethulia
... The rock on the summit of which it stands rises sheer from the edge of Merj
el-Ghariq, on the main highway, some 7 miles South of Jenin. ...
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Bearing (150 Occurrences)
... 14. (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. 15. (n.) The line of
flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. ...
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Creator (19 Occurrences)
... But the creative process is not a case of sheer almightiness, creating something
out of nothing, but an expression of God, as the Absolute Reason, under the ...
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Architecture
... The engineering skill displayed in the construction of aqueducts and other water
systems was forced out of them by sheer necessity, and proved the existence of ...
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (a.) Utter; complete; steep; thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics.

2. (v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.

3. (v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.

4. (v. i.) Straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular.

5. (adv.) Clean; quite; at once.

6. (v. t.) To shear.

7. (v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.

8. (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.

9. (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

10. (n.) A turn or change in a course.

11. (n.) Shears See Shear.

Strong's Hebrew
7607. sheer -- flesh
... << 7606, 7607. sheer. 7608 >>. flesh. Transliteration: sheer Phonetic Spelling:
(sheh-ayr') Short Definition: relative. ... << 7606, 7607. sheer. 7608 >>. Strong's Numbers
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7892. shiyr -- song
... << 7891, 7892. shiyr. 7892a >>. song. Transliteration: shiyr Phonetic Spelling:
(sheer) Short Definition: musical. musicalick, singer song ...
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7534. raq -- thin, only, altogether, surely
... 4), except* (1), gaunt* (1), however (6), lean (2), moreover (1), never be anything
(1), nevertheless (5), nothing (2), only (64), only* (1), sheer (1), still ...
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6223. ashir -- rich
... << 6222, 6223. ashir. 6224 >>. rich. Transliteration: ashir Phonetic Spelling:
(aw-sheer') Short Definition: rich. Word Origin from ashar ...
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7891. shir -- to sing
... << 7890, 7891. shir. 7892 >>. to sing. Transliteration: shir Phonetic Spelling:
(sheer) Short Definition: singers. Word Origin denominative ...
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7608. shaarah -- near kinswomen
... near kinswomen. Transliteration: shaarah Phonetic Spelling: (shah-ar-aw') Short
Definition: kinswomen. Word Origin fem. of sheer, qv. near kinswomen ...
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7609. Sheerah -- an Ephraimite woman
... Word Origin from the same as sheer Definition an Ephraimite woman NASB Word Usage
Sheerah (1). Sherah. The same as sha'arah; Sheerah, an Israelitess -- Sherah. ...
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