English Bible words starting with C
835 meanings beginning with C, in alphabetical order. This is page 2 of 9. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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carrion1 word
carry8 words
- nasaנָשָׂאto carry or bear a load: to hold up what has been lifted and move it
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- to lift or raise something up: to take it from where it rests and hold it higher
- to bear guilt or its punishment: to carry the weight of a wrong
- to forgive: to lift guilt off a person so it no longer rests on them
- pherōφέρωto bear: to carry someone or something to where it is going, in any sense from lifting a load to producing fruit to enduring a burden
- bastazōβαστάζωto bear the weight of something: to carry, lift, or hold it up
- diapherōδιαφέρωto carry something through or across a place, or to be carried along by an outside force
+2 more meanings
- to differ from something else, to be unlike it
- to be worth more than something else, to surpass it in value or importance
- yavalיָבַלto lead, conduct, or carry someone or something to a destination, often in solemn or ceremonial procession
- nasaנָשָׂאto carry or bear a load: to hold up what has been lifted and move it
carry away3 words
- galahגָּלָהto uncover what was hidden, so that it is seen or known: to lay bare, expose, or reveal
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- to go away into exile, or to drive a people away into exile: to be deported from one's land
- ganavגָּנַבto take by stealth: to get hold of something, or someone, secretly and without the owner's knowledge
- nahagנָהַגto drive or lead: to set someone or something in motion and keep it moving toward where you want it to go
+1 more meaning
- to moan or wail: to make a low sound of grief, like a mourner
- galahגָּלָהto uncover what was hidden, so that it is seen or known: to lay bare, expose, or reveal
carry away captive1 word
carry in1 word
carry off1 word
carry out2 words
carry 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
Carshena1 word
cart1 word
carve1 word
- qalaקָלַעto carve: to cut figures into wood so that they stand out from the flat surface.
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- to sling: to send a stone flying from a sling, and so to fling a person away with that same force.
- qalaקָלַעto carve: to cut figures into wood so that they stand out from the flat surface.
carved1 word
carved image2 words
carving2 words
casement1 word
Casiphia1 word
casks1 word
Casluhim1 word
cassia2 words
cast10 words
- ballōβάλλωto send something to a place by throwing it or by setting it down: cast, throw, or put
- shalakhשָׁלַךְto throw, cast, or fling something or someone with a decisive, often forceful action
- rhiptōῥίπτωto let something go from your hands in one quick, decisive motion: to fling, cast, or set it down
- epiballōἐπιβάλλωto throw or lay something onto something; to lay hands on a person, that is, to seize or arrest
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- (without an object) to come upon or fall to: of waves, to beat over something; of a share, to fall to someone as their due
- yatsaqיָצַקto cast metal: to pour molten metal into a mold to form an object
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- to pour out a flowing substance, such as oil, water, or blood, onto or into something
- to set down firmly, or to be firm, hard, and immovable
cast a lot1 word
cast about1 word
cast away1 word
cast down5 words
- kathaireōκαθαιρέωto bring something down by force: to take it down from where it stands or hangs, tear it down, or remove someone from a place of power
- shaphelשָׁפֵלto be low or become low, and so to bring something low: to lay it flat, cast it down, or humble it
- tulטוּלto hurl or fling with force: to send something or someone flying, not merely to toss it or set it down.
- daḥahדָּחָהto shove hard: to push a person or thing over so that it goes down
- katakrēmnizōκατακρημνίζωto hurl someone off a cliff: to send a person over the edge of a height so that the fall kills them
cast down headlong1 word
cast far off1 word
cast lots1 word
cast off3 words
- apōtheōἀπωθέωto push something away from yourself: to shove a person off, and so to refuse or cast aside
- apotithēmiἀποτίθημιto take off and lay aside a garment: to remove what you are wearing and set it down
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- to put someone in custody: to place a person under guard, in prison
- to rid oneself of something: to strip off a vice, a sin, or a former way of life the way you strip off dirty clothes
- zanaḥזָנַחto reject: to cast off decisively, refusing to keep or accept
+1 more meaning
- to become foul: (of standing water) to grow stagnant and rancid
cast off restraint1 word
- paraפָּרַעto let loose or set free from restraint: to unbind, release, or let go of what was being held in check
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- to lead, to take the lead (a contested sense resting on a single verse)
- paraפָּרַעto let loose or set free from restraint: to unbind, release, or let go of what was being held in check
cast out3 words
- ekballōἐκβάλλωto drive, throw, or force out: removing someone or something from a place by power or compulsion
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- to send out or dispatch: commissioning someone to go forth for a purpose
- to bring out or produce: drawing something from within a container, source, or inner resource
- garashגָּרַשׁto drive out by force: to expel a person or group from a place they would otherwise stay
- tulטוּלto hurl or fling with force: to send something or someone flying, not merely to toss it or set it down.
- ekballōἐκβάλλωto drive, throw, or force out: removing someone or something from a place by power or compulsion
cast up2 words
- shaphakhשָׁפַךְto pour out: to make a liquid (or, by extension, earth) flow out of where it was held
+1 more meaning
- to shed blood: to kill, to take a human life unlawfully
- salalסָלַלto heap earth and stone up high: to build a raised road or ramp, or to pile something into a mound
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- to lift someone or something high: to prize it, or to set yourself up over another
- shaphakhשָׁפַךְto pour out: to make a liquid (or, by extension, earth) flow out of where it was held
castanets1 word
casting3 words
castle3 words
- parembolēπαρεμβολήa military encampment: the guarded quarters where an armed force is housed, and by extension the force camped there
- armonאַרְמוֹןa fortified great house: the citadel or palace of a king or the powerful, at once a grand residence and a defensible stronghold
- tirahטִירָהan encampment: the cluster of tents and animal pens a clan lives in, and by extension the area a clan settles in.
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- built stonework that runs around a structure: a course of masonry, or a turret raised on top of a wall.
castor-oil plant1 word
catch12 words
- lambanōλαμβάνωto take or receive: to get something into your hands or into your possession, whether by reaching for it or by accepting what someone gives you
- katalambanōκαταλαμβάνωto overtake and seize by force: to catch up with someone or something and take hold of it, often as an enemy or a disaster does.
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- to lay hold of and make your own: to reach and seize a goal you have been chasing.
- to grasp with the mind: to come to realize, perceive, or understand something.
- to catch someone in the act, especially of wrongdoing.
- epilambanōἐπιλαμβάνωto take hold of: to reach out and grasp a person or thing, usually by the hand, taking it into one's grip
- taphasתָּפַשׂto lay hold of: to grip something or someone firmly, often by force, so as to take, seize, or hold it fast
- thēreuōθηρεύωto hunt/catchnot studied yet
caterpillar3 words
cattle7 words
- bousβοῦςan ox: one head of cattle, the heavy farm animal that pulls a plow, treads out grain, or is sold for the altar
- behemahבְּהֵמָהlivestock: the land animals people keep and live among, and by extension the land animals as a whole
- baqarבָּקָרcattle: the herd of large livestock (oxen, cows, bulls, and calves), as opposed to the flock of sheep and goats
- shorשׁוֹרa single head of cattle: one ox, bull, or bullock
- miqnehמִקְנֶהlivestock: the herds and flocks a person owns, counted as movable wealth
Cauda1 word
caught up1 word
caul1 word
cause7 words
- rivרִיבa dispute: a clash between two sides, from a hot quarrel to a formal legal case
- aitiaαἰτίαa reason: the ground or cause that answers why something is so or is done
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- a charge: the stated ground on which someone is accused, found guilty, or condemned
- parechōπαρέχωto make something available to someone: to furnish, provide, offer, or bring it about
- dinדִּיןjudgment: the deciding of a legal case, whether the verdict handed down or the rightful cause brought for decision.
- aphormēἀφορμήan opening to work from: the occasion, foothold, or grounds that make a course of action possible
cause grief1 word
cause of sin1 word
cause shame1 word
- entrepōἐντρέπωto pull someone up short with the sting of being in the wrong, or to be pulled up short that way
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- to let another person's standing weigh on you enough to change what you do: to respect, to defer to
- entrepōἐντρέπωto pull someone up short with the sting of being in the wrong, or to be pulled up short that way
cause sores1 word
cause to grow1 word
cause to rain1 word
cause to sin1 word
cause to stumble1 word
cause trouble1 word
causer1 word
causeway1 word
cavalry1 word
- parashפָּרָשׁa war-horse: a horse bred and harnessed for battle, especially a chariot-team horse
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- a fighting man who works with horses: a chariot crewman in early times, a mounted soldier in later times
- parashפָּרָשׁa war-horse: a horse bred and harnessed for battle, especially a chariot-team horse
cave4 words
cavern1 word
cease10 words
- pauōπαύωto stop, cease: to bring or come to a halt, leaving off an action or letting something run out
- shavatשָׁבַתto stop: to leave off an activity, or to come to an end
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- to put a stop to: to remove, abolish, or do away with something
- ḥadalחָדַלto stop: to leave off doing something, or for something to come to an end or run out
- mushמוּשׁto depart or remove: to move away from a place or position, or to make something move away
- damahדָּמָהto be brought to an end and hushed: destroyed, cut off, or finished, and (of an activity) simply stopped.
cease to be1 word
cedar2 words
ceiling2 words
celebrate2 words
- euphrainōεὐφραίνωfestive gladness: to celebrate and make merry, or to fill another person with such joy
- ḥagagחָגַגto keep a pilgrimage festival; to celebrate an appointed sacred feast
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- to reel, stagger, or whirl about
celebration1 word
celestial1 word
cell1 word
cellar1 word
Cenchreae1 word
censer3 words
census1 word
cent1 word
centurion2 words
Cephas1 word
certain2 words
certainly2 words
certainty1 word
- asphaleiaἀσφάλειαcertainty: the firm, well-grounded reliability of a claim or teaching, such that a person can safely rest their confidence on it
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- security: the state of being safe and impossible to overthrow, whether shut up so firmly nothing can break in or simply out of harm's reach
- asphaleiaἀσφάλειαcertainty: the firm, well-grounded reliability of a claim or teaching, such that a person can safely rest their confidence on it
certificate1 word
certificate of divorce1 word
certify1 word
cessation3 words
chaff6 words
- achuronἄχυρονchaffnot studied yet
- tevenתֶּבֶןstraw: the dried, broken stalks left over after grain is threshed
- qashקַשׁstubble: the dry, worthless stalks left in a field after harvest, the classic picture of what fire burns up or wind blows away
- motsמוֹץchaff: the light husks and broken bits beaten off grain at threshing, so weightless that the wind carries them away
- ḥashashחֲשַׁשׁchaffnot studied yet
chain10 words
- desmosδεσμόςa bond or fetter: something that ties a person up, and by extension the imprisonment those bonds stand for.
- avotעֲבֹתa braided cord: a rope of several strands twisted together, used to bind, harness, or fasten
+1 more meaning
- interwoven foliage: the dense, tangled boughs at the crown of a great tree
- halusisἅλυσιςa chain of linked metal rings used to bind a person, and so the visible mark of being a prisoner
- sharsherahשַׁרְשְׁרָהchainnot studied yet
- seiraσειράchainnot studied yet
chains5 words
- desmosδεσμόςa bond or fetter: something that ties a person up, and by extension the imprisonment those bonds stand for.
- moserמוֹסֵרa bond: the strap, rope, or shackle that ties something down, and so any hold that keeps a person or a nation in servitude
- ziqahזֵקchains: the metal restraints put on a prisoner or a captive
+1 more meaning
- burning missiles: flaming shafts or brands that a person shoots or carries
- ḥaḥחַחa metal hook or ring put through something to hold it: the ring set in a captive's nose or jaws to lead him, and the small gold ring worn as an ornament
- aziqqimאֲזֵקchainsnot studied yet
chains of gold1 word
chalcedony1 word
Chaldea1 word
Chaldean1 word
chalk1 word
chamber6 words
- lishkahלִשְׁכָּהa chamber: a room built into or alongside a larger building, almost always the temple
- tselaצֵלָעside: the lateral part, flank, or side-extension of a thing
- ḥederחֶדֶרan inner room: the private, enclosed chamber set deep inside a house or building, away from its public parts
- aliyyahעֲלִיָּהan upper room: a chamber built on top of a house or as the upper story of a larger building
- taתָּאa small guard chamber: a recessed cell along a gateway, or the room where a royal escort was stationed
chamberlain3 words
- sarisסָרִיסa court official: a trusted royal attendant or high officer in a king's service.
+1 more meaning
- a eunuch: a man who has been castrated.
- oikonomosοἰκονόμοςa manager put in charge of another person's household, property or funds, with real authority to act and a reckoning to face
- koitōnκοιτώνbedroom/chamberlainnot studied yet
- sarisסָרִיסa court official: a trusted royal attendant or high officer in a king's service.
chameleon1 word
champion1 word
chance2 words
change12 words
- savavסָבַבto turn: change the direction one is facing or moving, or send something a roundabout way
+3 more meanings
- to go around: move in a circuit or circle around something, or run around a thing as a rim does
- to surround: close in around someone or something on every side
- to turn something over: hand it on, transfer it, or change it into something else
- haphakhהָפַךְto change one thing into its opposite, turning a state, condition, or substance into something else
+3 more meanings
- to turn something over, around, or back, so a new side or heading faces out
- to overthrow and destroy, tearing a place down so completely that it is left upended in ruin
- to pervert or twist, turning what is straight and right into something crooked
- allassōἀλλάσσωto make something other than it was: to change it, exchange it for something else, or transform it
- metastrephōμεταστρέφωto changenot studied yet
- ḥalaphחָלַףto change: to exchange one thing for another, or put a substitute in its place
+2 more meanings
- to pass: to move on past, sweep through a place, come to an end, or drive clean through
- to renew: to come up fresh again, or to gain new strength
- savavסָבַבto turn: change the direction one is facing or moving, or send something a roundabout way
change mind1 word
change of mind1 word
change one's mind1 word
- naḥamנָחַםto comfort: to ease another's grief and settle a troubled heart back into peace
+2 more meanings
- to regret or relent: to reverse one's inner stance toward something already done or announced
- to ease oneself: to settle one's own stirred-up heart, often by resolving to act in revenge
- naḥamנָחַםto comfort: to ease another's grief and settle a troubled heart back into peace
changed2 words
changed his mind1 word
changes of clothing1 word
channel3 words
- aphiqאָפִיקa watercourse: the bed or channel a stream runs in, from a seasonal desert ravine to the deep channels of the sea
+1 more meaning
- strong ones: mighty or powerful people
- te'alahתְּעָלָהa water channel made by cutting or digging: a conduit, a trench, or a watercourse
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- healing: a wound closing over and mending
- pelegפֶּלֶגa channel of flowing liquid: a branch of water split off from a larger river to carry and distribute it.
- aphiqאָפִיקa watercourse: the bed or channel a stream runs in, from a seasonal desert ravine to the deep channels of the sea
chant1 word