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5 terms and definitions for "Y"


Yarn

"Found only in 1 Kings 10:28, 2 Chr. 1:16. The Heb. word mikveh, "i.e., "a stringing together," so rendered, rather signifies a" "host, or company, or a string of horses. The Authorized Version" "has ...

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Year

"Heb. shanah, meaning "repetition" or "revolution" (Gen. 1:14;" 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve "months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a" complete ...

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Yeshebi

"The Hebrew word rendered "inhabitants" in Josh. 17:7, but" "probably rather the name of the village Yeshepheh, probably" "Yassuf, 8 miles south of Shechem." ...

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Yoke

(1.) Fitted on the neck of oxen for the purpose of binding to "them the traces by which they might draw the plough, etc. (Num." 19:2; Deut. 21:3). It was a curved piece of wood called 'ol. "(2.) In J ...

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Yokefellow

"(Phil. 4:3), one of the apostle's fellow-labourers. Some have" conjectured that Epaphroditus is meant. Wyckliffe renders the "phrase "the german felowe", i.e., "thee, germane [=genuine]" "comrade." ...

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