English Bible words starting with C
835 meanings beginning with C, in alphabetical order. This is page 1 of 9. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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Cabbon1 word
Cabul1 word
Caesar1 word
Caesarea1 word
cage2 words
- phulakēφυλακήprison: a place where people are held under guard
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- a watch of the night: one of the set stretches into which the night was divided
- the act of keeping watch: standing guard over something
- sugarסוּגַרcagenot studied yet
- phulakēφυλακήprison: a place where people are held under guard
Caiaphas1 word
cain2 words
- KainΚάϊνCainnot studied yet
- qayinקַיִןCain: the firstborn son of Adam and Eve, the farmer who murdered his brother Abel and was sent out to wander under a curse.
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- Cain as the name of the Kenites: the same word used for a roaming desert clan, spoken of as though Cain were the ancestor whose name they bear.
- Kain: a town in the hill country of Judah.
cainan2 words
cake4 words
- ḥallahחַלָּהa round loaf of baked bread shaped by hand, in the Bible almost always one of the flour cakes brought as an offering
- uggahעֻגָהa round, flat bread cake cooked straight on hot stones or in the embers of a fire: the quick bread of a household with no oven
- lavivahלְבִבָהcakenot studied yet
- pannagפַּנַּגcakenot studied yet
cakes of raisins1 word
Calah1 word
calamities1 word
calamity5 words
- raרַעcalamity: disaster, ruin, or affliction that falls on a person or nation, the trouble that is the opposite of well-being
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- bad: failing the standard of what it should be, whether defective, harmful, or unpleasant, with no question of sin
- morally evil: conduct, intent, or persons that are wrong in the sight of God, the opposite of what is good
- edאֵידdisaster: a sudden, crushing catastrophe that overtakes a person or a nation, often the appointed day of their downfall
- havvahהַוָּהgreedy craving: a grasping, self-serving desire, almost always the wicked's
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- destruction: engulfing ruin, whether a disaster that swallows a victim or the deadly harm people scheme against one another
- sho'ahשׁוֹאָהsudden, sweeping ruin: catastrophe that overwhelms a person or a place without warning, and the emptied waste it leaves behind.
- massahמַסָּהa testing, a trial: an ordeal that forces out into the open what someone or something is really made of
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- despair: hope draining away until a person has no courage left
- raרַעcalamity: disaster, ruin, or affliction that falls on a person or nation, the trouble that is the opposite of well-being
calamus1 word
- qanehקָנֶהa reed or stalk: the tall, hollow, jointed plant that grows in water, and any single cane-like stem.
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- a measuring rod: a fixed-length reed used as a surveyor's measuring tool, and the length itself as a unit.
- the shaft and branches of the golden lampstand in the tabernacle.
- the upper arm bone, the long bone running from shoulder to elbow.
- qanehקָנֶהa reed or stalk: the tall, hollow, jointed plant that grows in water, and any single cane-like stem.
Calcol1 word
calculate3 words
caldron3 words
- sirסִירa pot: a large open vessel for cooking, temple service, or washing
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- a thorn or thornbush; also a thorn-shaped hook
- dudדּוּדa wide, round, open container: a pot boiled over a fire, or a basket carried by hand
- qallaḥatקַלַּחַתcaldronnot studied yet
- sirסִירa pot: a large open vessel for cooking, temple service, or washing
Caleb2 words
calf4 words
- moschosμόσχοςcalfnot studied yet
- baqarבָּקָרcattle: the herd of large livestock (oxen, cows, bulls, and calves), as opposed to the flock of sheep and goats
- egelעֵגֶלa calf: a young bull, not yet full-grown.
- eglahעֶגְלָהa heifer: a young cow, grown past calfhood but not yet bred and usually never put to work
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- Eglath: the opening word of the Moabite place name Eglath-shelishiyah
call13 words
- qaraקָרָאto raise the voice toward someone: to call, summon, invoke, name, proclaim, or read aloud
- kaleōκαλέωGod's call: the act by which God summons a person into salvation, into belonging to him, and into a way of life
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- to give someone or something a name, or to address them by a name or title
- to summon someone to come, or to invite them as a guest
- erōἐρῶto say or speak: to put something into words, whether words still to come or words already spoken and standing on record
- epikaleōἐπικαλέωto call upon: to address someone directly, above all to invoke God or the Lord by name in prayer and worship
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- to name or nickname: to give someone an added name, or (in the passive) to be known by that name
- to appeal: to formally invoke the judgment of a higher authority, above all a Roman citizen's appeal to Caesar
- krazōκράζωto cry out: to raise a loud, urgent voice that forces itself on those who hear it.
call attention to1 word
call common1 word
call for2 words
call happy1 word
- asharאָשַׁרto go straight ahead on a path, or to lead and direct others along one
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- to call someone happy, to publicly declare a person fortunate or blessed
- asharאָשַׁרto go straight ahead on a path, or to lead and direct others along one
call on1 word
call out1 word
call out to1 word
call over1 word
call to3 words
- qaraקָרָאto raise the voice toward someone: to call, summon, invoke, name, proclaim, or read aloud
- proskaleōπροσκαλέωto call someone to yourself: to summon a person to come into your presence
- prosphōneōπροσφωνέωto lift your voice toward someone: to call out to a person or a crowd, or to call someone over
call to mind1 word
call to witness1 word
- udעוּדto bear solemn witness: to warn, testify, or call witnesses so a matter is put firmly on record
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- to hold up and restore: to sustain those who cannot hold themselves up, or to set the fallen back on their feet
- udעוּדto bear solemn witness: to warn, testify, or call witnesses so a matter is put firmly on record
call together1 word
call upon1 word
- epikaleōἐπικαλέωto call upon: to address someone directly, above all to invoke God or the Lord by name in prayer and worship
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- to name or nickname: to give someone an added name, or (in the passive) to be known by that name
- to appeal: to formally invoke the judgment of a higher authority, above all a Roman citizen's appeal to Caesar
- epikaleōἐπικαλέωto call upon: to address someone directly, above all to invoke God or the Lord by name in prayer and worship
called3 words
- legōλέγωto be called or named: to bear a name, title, or label that others apply to a person, place, or thing
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- to say: to put something into words, whether spoken aloud or set down in writing
- klētosκλητόςcalled: marked out as the one to whom a call has gone out, whether an invitation offered or God's effective summons
- chrēmatizōχρηματίζωto go by a name in public: to be called or known as something
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- to hand a message down from God, or to be given one: to be warned, instructed, or told something by God
- legōλέγωto be called or named: to bear a name, title, or label that others apply to a person, place, or thing
calling1 word
calm2 words
Calneh1 word
calyx1 word
came2 words
came forward1 word
came near1 word
came to1 word
came to pass1 word
came up1 word
came upon1 word
camel2 words
camels1 word
camp4 words
- parembolēπαρεμβολήa military encampment: the guarded quarters where an armed force is housed, and by extension the force camped there
- maḥanehמַחֲנֶהan encampment: a body of people gathered in one place, whether an army in the field or a traveling community at rest
- ḥanahחָנָהto set up camp: to stop and settle a group in a place, whether for rest, military positioning, or protective encircling
- malonמָלוֹןa place to stop for the night on a journey: the spot where travelers halt, whether or not anything is built there
can2 words
Cana1 word
canaan2 words
- ChanaanΧαναάνCanaannot studied yet
- kena'anכְּנַעַןCanaan: the country west of the Jordan, and the ancestor whose name it carries
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- a merchant: a dealer in goods, called by the name of the coast whose traders dominated the business
Canaanite1 word
canal1 word
cancel1 word
Candace1 word
candle2 words
candlestick2 words
cankerworm1 word
Canneh1 word
canopy1 word
capacity1 word
caperberry1 word
Capernaum1 word
Caphtor1 word
capital5 words
- koteretכֹּתֶרֶתthe capital of a pillar: the ornamented crown that finishes off the top of a column.
- kaphtorכַּפְתּוֹרa rounded knob on something upright: the bulb-like ornaments of the tabernacle lampstand, and the shaped top of a pillar
- birahבִּירָהa fortified citadel or palace-complex: the walled royal and administrative stronghold at the center of a capital
- mētropolisμητρόπολιςcapitalnot studied yet
- tsephetצֶפֶתcapitalnot studied yet
Cappadocia1 word
caprice1 word
capstone1 word
captain12 words
- ravרַבchief, captain: a high officer ranking over others
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- many, numerous: large in number or amount
- great, abundant: large in degree, strength, or extent
- sarשַׂרa person placed in command over others: an official, commander, chief, or ruler acting under a higher authority
- stratēgosστρατηγόςcaptain of the temple: the chief officer of the temple guard in Jerusalem, and the subordinate officers under him
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- magistrate: one of the ruling chief magistrates of a Roman colonial city
- nagidנָגִידa leader: the one placed out front and at the head of others, with the authority to direct them
- archēgosἀρχηγόςthe founding leader: the one who begins something and then leads others into it as its head, having gone the way first himself
- ravרַבchief, captain: a high officer ranking over others
captain of the guard1 word
captive4 words
- aichmalōtosαἰχμάλωτοςcaptivenot studied yet
- desmiosδέσμιοςprisoner: a person held in custody, bound or under guard.
- asirאָסִירa prisoner: someone held in confinement, whether locked in a jail or a pit or carried off and kept by a conquering power
- shivyahשִׁבְיָהa captured population seen as one body: the prisoners an army carries off, and the captivity they are carried into
captives4 words
- sheviשְׁבִיthe taking of people prisoner in war, and what it produces: both the condition of captivity and the people held captive
- galutגָּלוּתexile: the forced removal of a people from their homeland, and by extension the deportees themselves
- shivyahשִׁבְיָהa captured population seen as one body: the prisoners an army carries off, and the captivity they are carried into
- malqo'aḥמַלְקוֹחַcaptured living plunder: the people and animals a victor takes alive and keeps
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- the jaws: the inside of the mouth, named as the part that takes food in
captivity9 words
- aichmalōsiaαἰχμαλωσίαcaptivitynot studied yet
- sheviשְׁבִיthe taking of people prisoner in war, and what it produces: both the condition of captivity and the people held captive
- golahגּוֹלָהexile: being carried off to a foreign land, and the community of those carried off
- shevutשְׁבִיתcaptivity: the state of being carried off as a prisoner
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- the restoration of fortunes: God turning a ruined situation back to well-being
- galutגָּלוּתexile: the forced removal of a people from their homeland, and by extension the deportees themselves
capture8 words
- lakhadלָכַדto seize and take control of someone or something, by force or as if caught in a trap
- taphasתָּפַשׂto lay hold of: to grip something or someone firmly, often by force, so as to take, seize, or hold it fast
- aichmalōtizōαἰχμαλωτίζωto capturenot studied yet
- piazōπιάζωto get hold of someone or something so it cannot get away: to grip, seize, or catch
- lavavלָבַבto act on the heart: to seize hold of someone's inner self, or to gain such an inner self where there was none
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- to make heart cakes: to prepare by hand the small dish of dough, named after the word for heart, that was fed to a man on his sickbed
capture alive1 word
caravan2 words
carbuncle1 word
carcass5 words
- nevelahנְבֵלָהa dead body: the lifeless corpse of an animal or person, treated as unclean
- ptōmaπτῶμαa corpse: the body of someone struck down, spoken of as a fallen thing rather than as a person
- pegerפֶּגֶרa corpse: a dead body left lying, whether of a person, an animal, or a lifeless idol
- geviyyahגְּוִיָּהa body: the physical frame of a person or creature, whether still living or lying dead
- mappeletמַפֶּלֶתa fall and its wreckage: the crash of something tall or powerful coming down, and the fallen body or trunk left lying where it dropped
Carchemish1 word
care6 words
- spoudēσπουδήhaste: quick movement that wastes no time getting where it is going
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- eager effort: energy poured promptly and wholeheartedly into something a person takes seriously
- melōμέλωto be a care or concern to someone: for a matter to matter to a person
- epimeleiaἐπιμέλειαcarenot studied yet
- ḥaradahחֲרָדָהtrembling brought on by fear: the shudder of terror that grips a body, a crowd, or the heart, and by extension the anxious trouble taken on another's behalf
- epimeleomaiἐπιμελέομαιto carenot studied yet
- spoudēσπουδήhaste: quick movement that wastes no time getting where it is going
care for8 words
- episkeptomaiἐπισκέπτομαιto come to someone and take a close look, meaning to act on what is found: to visit and help, to look after, to pick out
- darashדָּרַשׁto seek something out with care and effort, going after it deliberately until it is found, answered, or settled
- diakoneōδιακονέωto serve someone by meeting their needs: to wait on them, look after them, or carry out a task on their behalf.
- merimnaōμεριμνάωto care for, attend to: to give focused, active concern to someone or something, devoting attention to their interests
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- to worry, be anxious: to be gripped by fretful, distrustful concern about one's needs or circumstances
- pronoeōπρονοέωto care fornot studied yet
carefree2 words
carefully1 word
careless1 word
- argosἀργόςnot working: either having no work to do, or avoiding the work that is yours
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- producing nothing: doing no good and yielding no result
- argosἀργόςnot working: either having no work to do, or avoiding the work that is yours
carelessly1 word
cares1 word
cargo2 words
Carite1 word
Carkas1 word
carmel2 words
- karmelכַּרְמֶלMount Carmel: the high wooded ridge that runs down to the sea on Israel's northern coast, proverbial for how thickly things grow on it
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- Carmel: a small town in the dry hill country of Judah, south of Hebron, where Nabal kept his flocks
- karmelכַּרְמֶלfertile country: land whose defining quality is that it grows things richly, as against forest or desert
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- fresh grain: newly ripened kernels still in the ear, the earliest edible stage of a harvest
- karmelכַּרְמֶלMount Carmel: the high wooded ridge that runs down to the sea on Israel's northern coast, proverbial for how thickly things grow on it
Carmi1 word
carnal1 word
carnally2 words
- shekhavahשְׁכָבָהa man's emission of semen, and the act of intercourse that releases it, named in the fixed legal phrase "emission of seed"
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- a layer of what has settled on the ground, used of the coating of dew around the camp
- shekhovetשְׁכֹבֶתa man's sexual emission, spoken of as a deposit placed into another body
- shekhavahשְׁכָבָהa man's emission of semen, and the act of intercourse that releases it, named in the fixed legal phrase "emission of seed"
carousing2 words
carpenter2 words
carpet1 word
- madמַדa garment: a piece of clothing cut to fit the body, from a fitted tunic to a soldier's outfit
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- a measure: an extent or a measured-out portion
- madמַדa garment: a piece of clothing cut to fit the body, from a fitted tunic to a soldier's outfit
Carpus1 word
carriage2 words
carried away3 words
- apagōἀπάγωto lead or take away: to conduct a person or thing from one place to another, often under compulsion
- gelahגְּלָאto take the cover off something hidden, so that it is now known: to reveal
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- to carry a conquered people away from their homeland and resettle them elsewhere: to deport
- parapherōπαραφέρωto carry something past, aside, or off its proper course; hence, depending on how it is used, to take away or to be swept off course
carried up1 word
- anapherōἀναφέρωto carry or lead someone or something up to a higher place
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- to offer something up to God as a sacrifice
- to take the weight of other people's sins onto oneself and carry it
- anapherōἀναφέρωto carry or lead someone or something up to a higher place