English Bible words starting with C
835 meanings beginning with C, in alphabetical order. This is page 9 of 9. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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cursing3 words
- kataraκατάραa curse: a pronouncement calling down ruin on someone, and the doomed condition that pronouncement creates
- qelalahקְלָלָהa curse: words that call down harm, the doom they bring, and the disgrace of becoming a byword
- me'erahמְאֵרָהa curse that takes effect: the blight that settles on someone's work, land, or household and drains it of any increase
curtain6 words
- yeri'ahיְרִיעָהa tent-cloth: a single woven panel of fabric joined with others to roof or wall a tent
- katapetasmaκαταπέτασμαthe curtain hung inside the tabernacle or the temple to shut off a sanctuary room, above all the innermost room where God's presence dwelt.
- masakhמָסָךְa screen or covering: a woven cloth hung across an entrance, or a cover spread over something to shield or conceal it
- porekhetפָּרֹכֶתthe veil: the heavy, richly woven curtain hung across the sanctuary that sealed off the innermost room where God's presence dwelt.
- qelaקֶלַעa sling: the leather-strap weapon that whirls a stone and hurls it at a target.
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- the hangings: lengths of woven linen hung between posts to fence in the tabernacle courtyard.
curtains1 word
- qelaקֶלַעa sling: the leather-strap weapon that whirls a stone and hurls it at a target.
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- the hangings: lengths of woven linen hung between posts to fence in the tabernacle courtyard.
- qelaקֶלַעa sling: the leather-strap weapon that whirls a stone and hurls it at a target.
curve1 word
cush1 word
- kushכּוּשׁCush: the land along the Nile beyond Egypt's southern border, the kingdom and people who lived there, and the forefather whose name they carry
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- Cush, an Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin named in the heading of a psalm and otherwise unknown
- kushכּוּשׁCush: the land along the Nile beyond Egypt's southern border, the kingdom and people who lived there, and the forefather whose name they carry
Cushan1 word
Cushan-rishathaim1 word
Cushi1 word
cushion1 word
custody2 words
- mishmarמִשְׁמָרa keeping: guarding given concrete shape, whether as custody, a watch, or an observed charge
- matsodמָצוֹדa hunting net: the gear that closes on a catch, and so a picture of being taken with no way out.
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- a fortification: the works an army raises around a city it is besieging, or the fortified place people are kept safe in or shut up in.
custom8 words
- derekhדֶּרֶךְa way: the road you travel, and by extension the path your whole life takes
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- possibly, dominion or power: rule or might, in a few disputed poetic lines
- mishpatמִשְׁפָּטthe rightful exercise of authority that sets and keeps things in order: the act of judging a case, the verdict that settles it, the work of governing justly, the standing laws that flow from it, and the justice all of this is meant to embody.
- telosτέλοςa tax or customs duty: a payment owed to a governing authority
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- the point a thing arrives at: where it stops, what it comes to, or the goal it was aiming for
- ḥuqqahחֻקָּהa statute: a fixed, prescribed regulation laid down to be kept, whether a binding law, a permanent religious observance, an inherited custom, or one of the set orders of nature
- datדָּתan authoritative rule handed down by a ruler: a royal decree, or the settled law of a kingdom
- derekhדֶּרֶךְa way: the road you travel, and by extension the path your whole life takes
customs1 word
cut12 words
- karatכָּרַתto cut: to physically sever something with a blade or tool
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- to cut off: to remove, exterminate, or exclude someone from the community or from the land
- to make a covenant: to ratify a binding agreement by the cutting of a sacrificial animal
- koptōκόπτωto cut off: to chop something free with a blow of a blade, as branches are cut from a tree
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- to mourn openly: to beat the breast and wail so that grief is seen and heard
- katakoptōκατακόπτωto cutnot studied yet
- qatsatsקָצַץto cut off: to sever or chop a physical thing clean away, whether a limb, a piece of metal, or a cord
- gazarגָּזַרto cut, divide, or cut off: to sever something by a decisive stroke, and so to separate or remove it
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- to decree, decide: to settle a matter firmly by an authoritative word
- karatכָּרַתto cut: to physically sever something with a blade or tool
cut asunder1 word
cut down4 words
- naphalנָפַלto fall: to go down from standing or from above, a picture Hebrew stretches to cover being killed, bowing to the ground, being overthrown, deserting to an enemy, and a share falling to someone by lot
- ekkoptōἐκκόπτωto cut off or cut down: to sever something from what it grew on or belonged to, and be rid of it
- gadaגָּדַעto hew or chop something down by force: to fell it, break it off, or shatter it so it topples or is destroyed
- naqaphנָקַףto strike down: to cut down or hack away, as an axe fells standing timber
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- to go around: to encircle something completely, close a ring around it, or bring a cycle full circle
cut in pieces2 words
cut in two1 word
cut off18 words
- karatכָּרַתto cut off: to remove, exterminate, or exclude someone from the community or from the land
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- to cut: to physically sever something with a blade or tool
- to make a covenant: to ratify a binding agreement by the cutting of a sacrificial animal
- aphaireōἀφαιρέωto take away or remove something, whether by cutting it off, stripping it from someone, or doing away with it entirely
- ekkoptōἐκκόπτωto cut off or cut down: to sever something from what it grew on or belonged to, and be rid of it
- batsarבָּצַרto cut off, curb: to bring a proud spirit low
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- made inaccessible: fortified, walled off, or otherwise put beyond reach
- to gather grapes: to cut the ripe clusters from the vine at the vintage
- mulמוּלto cut off, beat back, or waste away: a separate poetic word for destroying or fending off, unrelated to the covenant rite
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- to circumcise: to cut away the foreskin as the bodily sign of belonging to God's covenant
- karatכָּרַתto cut off: to remove, exterminate, or exclude someone from the community or from the land
cut off the tail1 word
cut oneself1 word
- gadadגָּדַדto slash one's own skin on purpose as a religious act: in grief for someone who has died, or to force a god to answer
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- to mass together in a body, the way a band of armed men does: to close in on someone, or to crowd to a place
- gadadגָּדַדto slash one's own skin on purpose as a religious act: in grief for someone who has died, or to force a god to answer
cut out1 word
cut short1 word
cut stone1 word
cut straight1 word
cut up3 words
cut wood1 word
Cuthah1 word
cutting3 words
- gazitגָּזִיתdressed building stone: squared blocks cut to measure with iron tools for fine, close-fitting masonry
- gizrahגִּזְרָהthe open ground marked off around Ezekiel's temple: a strip deliberately kept clear and off limits.
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- the shape of a person's body as the eye takes it in: their figure or build.
- seretשֶׂרֶטa cut slashed into the skin: the gash a mourner opened in his own flesh for someone who had died
cutting locust1 word
cymbal2 words
cymbals2 words
- metseletמְצִלְתַּיִםcymbals: a matched pair of bronze plates clashed together, the instrument the temple singers sounded to lead Israel's praise
- tseltselimצֶלְצְלִיםcymbals: the clashing metal plates sounded in worship, named after the ringing noise they make
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- whirring, buzzing: the sound of beating wings, or the winged pest known by that sound
- a barbed spear for taking fish: a harpoon
cypress4 words
- beroshבְּרוֹשׁcypress: a tall evergreen conifer of Lebanon, prized with the cedar for its fragrant, durable timber.
- berotבְּרוֹתcypressnot studied yet
- gopherגֹּפֶרa kind of timber, no longer identifiable, that Noah is told to build the ark from; most likely cypress or some other resin-yielding evergreen
- tirzahתִּרְזָהcypressnot studied yet
Cyprus3 words
Cyrene2 words
Cyrus2 words