English Bible words starting with C
835 meanings beginning with C, in alphabetical order. This is page 7 of 9. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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contempt5 words
- bazahבָּזָהto despise: to treat someone or something as worthless and beneath respect.
- buzבּוּזcontempt: the verdict that a person or thing is worth nothing, and the disgrace of being treated that way
- ne'atsahנֶאָצָהcontemptnot studied yet
- buzahבּוּזָהcontemptnot studied yet
- bizzavonבִּזָּיוֹןcontemptnot studied yet
contend9 words
- rivרִיבto press a contention against another: to quarrel, take someone to task, or argue a case against them
- dinדִּיןto take up a cause and rule on it: to render and carry out a verdict, most often by securing justice for the wronged
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- to remain, abide: a contested reading found only at Genesis 6:3, and probably a different word from the verb to judge above
- garahגָּרָהto provoke conflict: to kindle strife or throw oneself into a quarrel or war against another
- natsahנָצָהto fight: to be locked against another party in an open struggle, most often two people coming to blows
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- to be left in ruins: of a city or a countryside, knocked into heaps of rubble and emptied of people
- sunathleōσυναθλέωto contendnot studied yet
contend against1 word
contend sharply1 word
content1 word
contention5 words
- rivרִיבa dispute: a clash between two sides, from a hot quarrel to a formal legal case
- erisἔριςstrife: the open, competitive quarreling that fractures a community
- madonמָדוֹןquarreling: open conflict between people, the kind that gets started, spreads, and has to be shut down.
- midyanמִדְיָןquarrels, always in the plural: bickering that keeps going, and so the settled habit of a person who is always fighting.
- paradiatribēπαραδιατριβήcontentionnot studied yet
contents1 word
contingents1 word
continually1 word
- tamidתָּמִידwithout a break: going on and on, all the time, as a settled and unbroken practice
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- the regular offering: the fixed daily sacrifice (and the standing rites that go with it) in Israel's worship
- tamidתָּמִידwithout a break: going on and on, all the time, as a settled and unbroken practice
continuance1 word
continue6 words
- yasaphיָסַףto add: to join more onto what is already there, and so to increase it or do it once again
- menōμένωto remain: to keep on being where, what, or as one is, rather than leaving, ending, or changing
- epimenōἐπιμένωto stay on: to remain in a place, or keep on in an action or condition, without stopping
- paramenōπαραμένωto continuenot studied yet
- diateleōδιατελέωto continuenot studied yet
continue in2 words
continue steadfastly1 word
continue with1 word
continued1 word
continuous1 word
contradict3 words
contradiction1 word
contrariness1 word
contrary2 words
- enantiosἐναντίοςset on the other side and facing you: a wind coming head-on, a person standing across from you, or someone whose stance is against you.
- qeriקְרִיhostile defiance: the crosswise stance of opposition that one party in a binding agreement takes toward the other, and that the other can take right back
contribute1 word
contribution3 words
- terumahתְּרוּמָהa portion set apart from a larger whole and handed over to God, whether a gift, a sacred share of a sacrifice, a levy, or a reserved tract of land
- koinōniaκοινωνίαa joint sharing in something held in common: having a real stake in the same thing, and the bond that creates
- terumiyyahתְּרוּמִיָּהcontributionnot studied yet
contrite2 words
controlled himself1 word
controversy2 words
convenient1 word
conversation1 word
converse1 word
conversion1 word
convict1 word
conviction1 word
convince1 word
convocation1 word
- miqraמִקְרָאa sacred convocation: an appointed day on which God summons his people to gather and rest, especially a festival
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- a reading: the public reading aloud of a sacred text
- miqraמִקְרָאa sacred convocation: an appointed day on which God summons his people to gather and rest, especially a festival
convulse2 words
cook3 words
- tabbaḥטַבָּחa slaughterer: one whose work is killing, whether butchering animals for the table or putting prisoners to death for the king
- bashalבָּשַׁלto boil food in liquid until it is cooked; to seethe or stew, especially meat
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- to ripen: for grapes or a grain harvest to come to full maturity
- tabbaḥahטַבָּחָהcooknot studied yet
cooked1 word
cool4 words
copper4 words
- neḥoshetנְחֹשֶׁתcopper or bronze: the metal itself, its products, and what its hardness symbolizes
- chalkosχαλκόςcopper/bronze/coinnot studied yet
- neḥushahנְחוּשָׁהbronze or copper: the hard metal, named almost always in poetry, both for real bronze things and for whatever refuses to give way
- neḥashנְחָשׁbronze: the hard reddish metal, copper or the copper and tin mixture cast from it
coppersmith1 word
copulation1 word
copy4 words
- mishnehמִשְׁנֶהa copy: a written duplicate of a document
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- double: twice as much of something, a doubled amount
- second: the one ranking next after the first, in position, birth, office, or grade
- the Second Quarter: a district of Jerusalem
- hupodeigmaὑπόδειγμαan example: a particular case put on display so that others copy it or take warning from it
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- a copy: something built to stand in for a greater original it represents
- patshegenפַּתְשֶׁגֶןcopynot studied yet
- parshegenפַּרְשֶׁגֶןcopynot studied yet
- mishnehמִשְׁנֶהa copy: a written duplicate of a document
copy out1 word
cor2 words
coral2 words
corban1 word
cord8 words
- ḥevelחֶבֶלa cord or rope: a length of twisted fiber used to bind, lift, hold, or measure
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- a measured portion of land: an allotted territory or region, marked off as if by a measuring line
- a band or company: a group of people bound together as a unit
- pangs: the sharp, gripping pains of childbirth, used as an image of sudden anguish
- tiqvahתִּקְוָהcord: a length of rope or line.
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- hope: the expectation of a future good, and the thing hoped for itself.
- avotעֲבֹתa braided cord: a rope of several strands twisted together, used to bind, harness, or fasten
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- interwoven foliage: the dense, tangled boughs at the crown of a great tree
- qavקַוa measuring line: the taut cord a builder or surveyor stretches to mark out, size up, or apportion something
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- mocking nonsense syllables ("qav"): the babble drunken leaders throw at the prophet, which God then throws back as the sound of judgment
- a disputed word in Psalm 19:4: possibly the sound the heavens send out across the earth, though the text may instead mean "line" or be a copying slip for "voice"
- patilפָּתִילa twisted cord: a thin strand of spun or braided fiber, used to tie, carry, mark, or measure
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- fastened tight: said of a covering sealed down onto a jar so that nothing can pass in or out
- ḥevelחֶבֶלa cord or rope: a length of twisted fiber used to bind, lift, hold, or measure
cords1 word
coriander1 word
Corinth1 word
Corinthian1 word
cormorant1 word
corn6 words
- sitosσῖτοςwheat: the cereal grain harvested for bread, and by extension grain as a stored or traded food staple
- daganדָּגָןgrain: the harvested cereal crop, chiefly wheat and barley, that a land yields for food
- ḥittahחִטָּהwheat: the main bread grain of ancient Israel, prized above barley
- stachusστάχυςthe seed-bearing head of a grain plant: the ear of wheat or barley that stands at the top of the stalk
- barבַּרgrain: the threshed kernel of a cereal harvest, the clean part that is heaped up, measured, stored, and sold
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- the open country: unfenced, untilled land where wild animals live
Cornelius1 word
corner10 words
- archēἀρχήcorner or end: the outermost edge of a physical object
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- beginning: the point in time where something starts
- origin: the source from which something comes, the one in whom it starts
- ruler or realm of authority: those who hold power, or the office and sphere they hold
- kanaphכָּנָףthe outermost spread edge of something: a wing, or the corner, hem, or far edge of a garment, the land, or the earth.
- pe'ahפֵּאָהa side, edge, or corner: the outer face or boundary of something, whether a direction, a margin, or a far extremity
- gōniaγωνίαcorner: the angle where two lines, walls, streets, or edges meet
- pinnahפִּנָּהcorner: the angle where two sides of a structure meet, and by extension the cornerstone set there and a leader who holds a people together like one
- archēἀρχήcorner or end: the outermost edge of a physical object
corner buttress1 word
corners1 word
cornerstone4 words
- lithosλίθοςa stone: a discrete piece of rock, from one small enough to throw to a shaped building block or a cut gem, as opposed to solid bedrock
- gōniaγωνίαcorner: the angle where two lines, walls, streets, or edges meet
- pinnahפִּנָּהcorner: the angle where two sides of a structure meet, and by extension the cornerstone set there and a leader who holds a people together like one
- akrogōniaiosἀκρογωνιαῖοςcornerstonenot studied yet
cornet2 words
- shopharשֹׁפָרthe ram's-horn trumpet: a curved animal horn sounded to give a loud, carrying signal
- qerenקֶרֶןhorn: the hard, pointed horn on an animal's head, which in Daniel's visions stands for a king and his power
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- horn: a wind instrument made from an animal's horn, blown as a public signal
corpse6 words
- sōmaσῶμαthe body: a living creature's whole physical self, a frame of many parts working as one, and by extension the person or the community that frame stands for.
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- slaves: human beings counted and traded as property.
- the solid reality that casts a shadow: the thing itself, as against a mere outline of it.
- nekrosνεκρόςdead: having died, no longer alive; used as a noun for dead persons, and above all in the phrase "from the dead" as the fixed idiom for resurrection.
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- dead in a figurative sense: spiritually lifeless or cut off from God, or lacking any active power to produce results.
- 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
- sōmaσῶμαthe body: a living creature's whole physical self, a frame of many parts working as one, and by extension the person or the community that frame stands for.
correct2 words
correcting1 word
correction2 words
- musarמוּסָרdiscipline: the corrective training, by teaching or by hardship, that shapes a person toward wisdom and right living
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- a bond or fetter: a physical restraint, in the few places where the word is read from a separate root meaning to bind
- tokhaḥatתּוֹכַחַתa corrective rebuke: words (or the discipline behind them) meant to confront a person and set them right
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- an argument: the reasoned case a person lays out to defend a position in a dispute
- musarמוּסָרdiscipline: the corrective training, by teaching or by hardship, that shapes a person toward wisdom and right living
correctly1 word
correctly handling1 word
correspond to1 word
corresponding1 word
- qavalקָבַלto receive: to take into your hands, or onto yourself, what is handed over or set before you
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- to be set facing and matching each other, so that the two line up and can be joined
- qavalקָבַלto receive: to take into your hands, or onto yourself, what is handed over or set before you
corresponding to1 word
corrode1 word
corrupt7 words
- shaḥatשָׁחַתto ruin: to wreck something so it no longer works as it should, whether a thing, a people, or a person's own moral character
- diastrephōδιαστρέφωto twist something out of true: to bend a straight path, a message, or a person away from where it ought to run
- phtheirōφθείρωto ruin something: to bring what was whole or pure into a spoiled, corrupted, or destroyed state, so that human corruption and the destruction it invites can be named by one word
- ḥanephחָנֵףto defile, or to be defiled: to spoil a land by bloodshed and unfaithfulness until it can no longer hold God's presence, and to turn a person godless
- saprosσαπρόςbad in the sense of failing at its purpose: worthless, unsound, no good for what it is meant to do
corruption4 words
- diaphthoraδιαφθοράdecay: the breaking down of a dead body in the grave
- shaḥatשַׁחַתa pit: a deep hole dug in the ground, and by extension the grave, or the ruin that swallows the dying
- phthoraφθοράdecay: the breaking down and wearing out that makes physical things spoil, wither, and die
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- ruin: being destroyed and finished off
- moral rot: the spoiling of a person from the inside that spreads through runaway desire and takes them captive
- mashḥitמַשְׁחִיתdeliberate wrecking: the ruin one party brings down on another, and the destroying power that brings it
Cos1 word
Cosam1 word
cosmetic1 word
cost3 words
costly3 words
- timiosτίμιοςof great worth: costly and highly valued when it is a thing, honored and esteemed when it is a person
- yaqarיָקָרprecious: worth a great deal, and so costly, rare, or highly prized.
- yaqarיָקַרto be worth a great deal: to count as valuable, whether treasured by someone who will not give it up or expensive because the price is high
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- to make something scarce: to thin it out, or to hold it back so that it comes only rarely
couch7 words
- klinēκλίνηa bed or couch: the low, liftable frame a person stretches out on, whether to sleep, to lie ill, or to recline at a meal
- mishkavמִשְׁכָּבa bed or couch: the place where a person lies down to sleep, rest, or recover
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- a polite way of naming sexual relations: going to bed with someone
- ravatsרָבַץto lie down: to settle the body low against the ground, the way an animal drops to rest or a predator couches over its lair
- mittahמִטָּהa bed or couch: the framed piece of furniture a body is stretched out on, whether to sleep, recline at a meal, lie ill, be carried, or be laid out in death
- eresעֶרֶשׂa bed or couch, named with the poetic word for it rather than the everyday one
could2 words
council3 words
- sunedrionσυνέδριονcouncil: a formally seated body of leaders gathered to deliberate and judge, above all the ruling court in Jerusalem
- sodסוֹדan intimate inner circle and the confidential exchange within it: the trusted company, its private counsel, and the secret or friendship that binds it together
- sumboulionσυμβούλιονcouncil: the circle of advisers a Roman official had beside him when he ruled on a case
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- a plan settled on together: what a group decides to do after conferring, and then goes and does
council of elders2 words
counsel9 words
- boulēβουλήa settled purpose reached by deliberation: a considered plan, counsel, or decision, whether God's or a person's
- etsahעֵצָהcounsel: the considered advice, plan, or purpose that comes out of thinking a matter through.
- ya'atsיָעַץto work out a course of action by counsel: to advise, to consult together, or to settle on a plan
- sodסוֹדan intimate inner circle and the confidential exchange within it: the trusted company, its private counsel, and the secret or friendship that binds it together
- sumboulionσυμβούλιονa plan settled on together: what a group decides to do after conferring, and then goes and does
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- council: the circle of advisers a Roman official had beside him when he ruled on a case
counsellor2 words
counselor4 words
- ya'atsיָעַץto work out a course of action by counsel: to advise, to consult together, or to settle on a plan
- sumboulosσύμβουλοςcounselornot studied yet
- paraklētosπαράκλητοςsomeone called to a person's side to help, support, and speak for them before a higher authority
- haddavarהַדָּבָרcounselornot studied yet
counsels2 words
- mo'etsahמוֹעֵצָהsettled plans that are actually being followed: the course of action a person or a nation has fixed on, and in nearly every use one chosen instead of what God said.
- mekherahמְכֵרָהan unidentified word for whatever Simeon and Levi turned to violence, most likely a cutting weapon such as a blade or sword
count5 words
- hēgeomaiἡγέομαιto lead a community: to go in front of others as their guide and head
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- to consider: to reach a deliberate, weighed verdict about the worth or truth of something
- arithmosἀριθμόςa number: the total reached by counting, whether the size of a group or a specific figure that stands for something.
- logizomaiλογίζομαιto credit to an account: to enter something on a person's ledger, so that it officially counts for or against them.
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- to consider: to weigh something in the mind and arrive at a settled judgment about it.
- sapharסָפַרto count, and so to recount: to take a tally of things, or to tell them over one by one as a story
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- a scribe: a trained official who keeps records, writes documents, and manages affairs of state or temple
- manahמָנָהto count or number, and by extension to weigh out, allot, and appoint
- hēgeomaiἡγέομαιto lead a community: to go in front of others as their guide and head
count as nothing1 word
count worthy1 word
countenance1 word
countless2 words
country5 words
- eretsאֶרֶץthe ground at any scale: the dirt underfoot, a country with borders, or the whole earth beneath the sky
- sadehשָׂדֶהa field: the land outside the settlement, from a plowed plot somebody owns to the untamed open country.
- agrosἀγρόςa piece of land outside the town: a field, the open country, or the land a person owns there.
- chōraχώραa bounded stretch of land: a region, the countryside, or a field, with the scale set by context
- adamahאֲדָמָהthe cultivable ground: the living, reddish soil people are made from, work, belong to, and answer to
countryman1 word
countryside1 word
couple2 words
- ḥavarחָבַרto join two things into one: to fasten objects together, or to bind oneself to others in alliance or company
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- to bind by spells: to work enchantment by tying magical knots, the practice of a charmer
- tsemedצֶמֶדa matched pair: two animals or riders taken together, especially a team of oxen joined at a single yoke
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- an acre: a measure of farmland, as much ground as a yoke of oxen could plow in a day
- ḥavarחָבַרto join two things into one: to fasten objects together, or to bind oneself to others in alliance or company
coupling1 word
courage2 words
course6 words
- trochosτροχόςcourse/wheelnot studied yet
- maḥaloqetמַחֲלֹקֶתa division: a distinct section marked off from a larger organized body
- taxisτάξιςgood order: things done in their proper arrangement and sequence rather than in confusion
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- an assigned turn of service: one's appointed place in a fixed rotation of duty
- a kind or character: the particular sort of thing something is; in Hebrews, the distinct type of priesthood Christ shares with Melchizedek
- mesillahמְסִלָּהa highway: a built-up, raised public road for travel
- turטוּרa row: a line of matching things set side by side in a fixed, repeating order
courses2 words
- ḥaliphahחֲלִיפָהa change: something fresh that takes the place of what was there before, whether clothing, a work shift, or a turn in someone's situation
- talpiyyahתַּלְפִּיָּוֹתsomething about the way the tower of David was built, said in praise of a woman's neck: the exact sense is lost, and rows of stone, an armory for weapons, and sheer height are the leading guesses
court7 words
- aulēαὐλήan enclosed open-air space: the walled yard of a house, the court around a temple, or a pen that holds sheep.
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- a large walled residence taken as a whole: a great house, a palace, or an official's headquarters, and not merely its yard.
- ḥatserחָצֵרan enclosed open yard belonging to a larger building, especially the walled space around the tabernacle, temple, or a palace
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- an unwalled rural settlement: a cluster of dwellings out in the open country, smaller and less defended than a walled town
- zēloōζηλόωto burn with intense feeling for someone or something: to be zealous or jealously devoted, to set your heart eagerly on it, or, on its dark side, to envy.
- sunedrionσυνέδριονcouncil: a formally seated body of leaders gathered to deliberate and judge, above all the ruling court in Jerusalem
- kritērionκριτήριονcourt/lawsuitnot studied yet
- aulēαὐλήan enclosed open-air space: the walled yard of a house, the court around a temple, or a pen that holds sheep.
courtyard2 words
- aulēαὐλήan enclosed open-air space: the walled yard of a house, the court around a temple, or a pen that holds sheep.
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- a large walled residence taken as a whole: a great house, a palace, or an official's headquarters, and not merely its yard.
- ḥatserחָצֵרan enclosed open yard belonging to a larger building, especially the walled space around the tabernacle, temple, or a palace
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- an unwalled rural settlement: a cluster of dwellings out in the open country, smaller and less defended than a walled town
- aulēαὐλήan enclosed open-air space: the walled yard of a house, the court around a temple, or a pen that holds sheep.
cousin1 word
covenant3 words
- diathēkēδιαθήκηcovenant: a solemn, God-initiated bond that ties God and his people to one another with sworn promises and commitments
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- will: the legal arrangement a person makes for their estate, which takes effect only when they die
- beritבְּרִיתcovenant: a solemn, binding agreement that ties two parties together with obligations, sealed by an oath and meant to hold.
- kibōtosκιβωτόςa large wooden box built to God's instructions: either Noah's vessel or the gold covered chest that held the covenant
- diathēkēδιαθήκηcovenant: a solemn, God-initiated bond that ties God and his people to one another with sworn promises and commitments