English Bible words starting with D
616 meanings beginning with D, in alphabetical order. This is page 5 of 7. Under each one are the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words the Bible actually uses for it.
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disquietings1 word
disregard3 words
- epilanthanōἐπιλανθάνωto forget: to let someone or something drop out of mind and care, ranging from a simple lapse of memory to deliberate disregard
- kataphroneōκαταφρονέωto look down on: to judge that someone or something counts for little, and to act on that judgment
- alamעָלַםto hide or conceal something, or for something to slip out of sight and awareness
dissension3 words
- stasisστάσιςa public break into opposing camps: people who belonged together now standing against each other, anywhere from a furious argument to an armed revolt.
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- a standing: the state of being set up and still in place.
- madonמָדוֹןquarreling: open conflict between people, the kind that gets started, spreads, and has to be shut down.
- dichostasiaδιχοστασίαdissension: a community's open split into rival factions, the point where quarreling breaks out into two camps facing off.
- stasisστάσιςa public break into opposing camps: people who belonged together now standing against each other, anywhere from a furious argument to an armed revolt.
dissimulation1 word
dissipation1 word
dissolve2 words
distaff1 word
distance2 words
distant2 words
distil2 words
- nataphנָטַףto drip, drop: to fall or flow slowly in drops, as water, dew, myrrh, honey, or wine
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- to prophesy, preach: to pour out a stream of inspired words
- nazalנָזַלto flow: for water or liquid to run, stream, or trickle along
- nataphנָטַףto drip, drop: to fall or flow slowly in drops, as water, dew, myrrh, honey, or wine
distilled1 word
distinction1 word
distinctly1 word
- parashפָּרַשׁto make plain: to separate a thing out from the blur around it so that it stands clear and settled.
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- to sting: to strike and pierce, as a poisonous snake does.
- parashפָּרַשׁto make plain: to separate a thing out from the blur around it so that it stands clear and settled.
distinguish1 word
- palahפָּלָהto set apart: God marking off one person, place, or people from all the rest and treating them differently
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- to be or to make wondrous: to stand out, or to make something stand out, as awe-inspiring and far past the ordinary
- palahפָּלָהto set apart: God marking off one person, place, or people from all the rest and treating them differently
distinguish oneself1 word
distinguished1 word
distinguished one1 word
- nazirנָזִירa distinguished one: a person singled out and set above his fellows, a prince or elect one
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- a Nazirite: a person consecrated to God by a vow of abstinence, marked by uncut hair and by staying away from wine and from the dead
- an unpruned vine: a grapevine left untended and uncut during the fallow year
- nazirנָזִירa distinguished one: a person singled out and set above his fellows, a prince or elect one
distinguishing1 word
- diakrisisδιάκρισιςdiscernment: the trained ability to tell things apart and judge their true character
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- quarreling: wrangling that breaks out over differing opinions
- diakrisisδιάκρισιςdiscernment: the trained ability to tell things apart and judge their true character
distort2 words
distortion1 word
distract2 words
distracted1 word
distress12 words
- thlipsisθλῖψιςaffliction: the crushing pressure of trouble, distress, or suffering bearing down on a person
- tsarצַרnarrow and tight, and so the pressure of being hemmed in: distress, trouble, straits
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- an enemy: one who acts with hostility, an opponent or foe
- tsarahצָרָהdistress: the experience of being in a tight, threatening place, whether outward danger or inner anguish
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- a rival wife: a second wife who is felt as an adversary, the one who brings grief to the first
- anagkēἀνάγκηdistress: the pressure of hard and painful circumstances; a tight, threatening situation that hems a person in
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- necessity: something that must be so or must be done, whether it follows by reason, is owed as a duty, or presses on a person as a compulsion
- tsararצָרַרto bind tight, or to be pressed tight: to wrap something up, to be too narrow, or to be squeezed into hardship
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- to treat as an enemy: to be hostile toward someone, to oppose them as a foe or rival
distressed6 words
- paroxunōπαροξύνωto be provoked: stirred, stung to a sharp feeling of anger or indignation
- basanizōβασανίζωto torment or be tormented; to inflict or undergo severe suffering in body, mind, or under judgment
- yatsarיָצַרto be too tight: of a space, too small for what must fit in it; of a person, squeezed into a corner and so hard pressed
- stenochōreōστενοχωρέωto be squeezed into a space too narrow to move in: hemmed in, with no room left
- ekthambeōἐκθαμβέωto be utterly overwhelmed: struck by a shock of awe fused with dread, far stronger than ordinary amazement
distribute6 words
- ḥalaqחָלַקto divide something into shares and hand them out: to apportion, allot, or distribute
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- to be smooth, or to make speech smooth: to flatter
- merizōμερίζωto divide a whole into parts: to deal them out as shares, or to be left split against itself
- diaireōδιαιρέωto apportion or distribute: to parcel out shares of something valuable and hand them to specific recipients, by the authority of the one doing the dividing.
- diamerizōδιαμερίζωto break a whole into parts that go separate ways: to share something out among several people, or to leave a group split into opposing sides
- diadidōmiδιαδίδωμιto distributenot studied yet
- ḥalaqחָלַקto divide something into shares and hand them out: to apportion, allot, or distribute
distribute freely1 word
district4 words
- horionὅριονthe territory belonging to a town or a people: its district, the land lying inside its recognized limits
- medinahמְדִינָהdistrict: a region or jurisdiction within a single kingdom, not an imperial province
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- province: an administrative region of an empire, governed for a distant king
- perichōrosπερίχωροςthe surrounding country: the open land, farms, and villages lying around a town, lake, or river.
- pelekhפֶּלֶךְa district: an administrative division of the land with an official set over it
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- a spindle: the weighted hand tool used to twist loose wool or flax into thread
disturb3 words
- akharעָכַרto bring ruin on a person or community by fouling their shared life, the way stirred mud clouds clear water until nothing is left safe or usable
- ragaרָגַעto stir water up: to set the sea heaving so that its waves roar
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- to bring to a settled stop: to grant rest and relief, or to come to rest oneself
- in an instant: to happen in a flash, or to last no longer than a moment
- of diseased skin: to close over and harden into a crust
- ochleōὀχλέωto disturbnot studied yet
disturb greatly1 word
disturbance4 words
- tarachēταραχήdisturbancenot studied yet
- thorubosθόρυβοςan uproar: the loud, disorderly noise of a crowd that has lost its order
- mehumahמְהוּמָהthe collapse of order into chaos: panic that shatters an army, unrest that makes a country unsafe, turmoil that unsettles a life
- tarachosτάραχοςdisturbancenot studied yet
disunite1 word
diverse3 words
- poikilosποικίλοςof many kinds: describing something that comes not in a single form but in an assortment of different sorts.
- shanahשָׁנָהto do a second time: to repeat an act or a word, or to do it again
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- to change: to make or become different, or to stand apart from others as unlike them
- shenaשְׁנָאto become or be other than before: to change, be altered, or be different in kind
diversion1 word
diversions1 word
divide19 words
- ḥalaqחָלַקto divide something into shares and hand them out: to apportion, allot, or distribute
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- to be smooth, or to make speech smooth: to flatter
- baqaבָּקַעto split something open by force: to cleave, breach, or burst it apart
- merizōμερίζωto divide a whole into parts: to deal them out as shares, or to be left split against itself
- diaireōδιαιρέωto apportion or distribute: to parcel out shares of something valuable and hand them to specific recipients, by the authority of the one doing the dividing.
- badalבָּדַלto draw a dividing line between two things: to part them, to tell them apart, or to set one of them aside for a purpose
- ḥalaqחָלַקto divide something into shares and hand them out: to apportion, allot, or distribute
divide into three parts1 word
divided2 words
- peresפְּרֵסa half-measure weight: the half-mina, a standard unit of silver weight in the ancient eastern world
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- to divide, to break in two: split apart, and so broken up or parceled out
- se'ephסֵעֵףdividednot studied yet
- peresפְּרֵסa half-measure weight: the half-mina, a standard unit of silver weight in the ancient eastern world
divination3 words
divinations1 word
divine5 words
- theiosθεῖοςdivinenot studied yet
- qasamקָסַםto practice divination: to seek out or hand on hidden and future knowledge through mantic technique, rather than through a genuine word from God
- manteuomaiμαντεύομαιto divinenot studied yet
- naḥashנָחַשׁto practice divination: to look for a sign, or take something as a sign, that tells what is hidden or what is coming
- ananעָנַןto practice soothsaying: to work as one particular kind of banned diviner, whose technique the Bible never describes
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- to bring clouds over the earth: to gather cloud cover across the sky
divine service1 word
divinely instructed1 word
diviner3 words
- qasamקָסַםto practice divination: to seek out or hand on hidden and future knowledge through mantic technique, rather than through a genuine word from God
- ḥartomחַרְטֹםa learned priestly expert in sacred and hidden arts, skilled at interpreting dreams, working ritual magic, and divining; the specialist a pagan king keeps on staff.
- ananעָנַןto practice soothsaying: to work as one particular kind of banned diviner, whose technique the Bible never describes
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- to bring clouds over the earth: to gather cloud cover across the sky
diviners1 word
divining spirit1 word
divinity1 word
division14 words
- tsavaצָבָאan army: a body of fighting men called up, counted, and drawn up under a commander
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- the host of heaven: the ordered array above, whether the stars or the heavenly beings around God
- service: an assigned term of duty, from being liable for war to a stretch of imposed hardship with a set end
- the plural in the divine title "the LORD of hosts": God named as the one every marshaled force answers to
- maḥaloqetמַחֲלֹקֶתa division: a distinct section marked off from a larger organized body
- gedudגְּדוּדa band of armed men who move and act together, most often to raid or plunder, though it can also mean a formal unit within a standing army, or the raid itself.
- ephēmeriaἐφημερίαdivisionnot studied yet
- degelדֶּגֶלa military standard: the raised emblem a body of people rally around, camp under, and march behind, and by extension the division mustered beneath it
- tsavaצָבָאan army: a body of fighting men called up, counted, and drawn up under a commander
divorce4 words
- apoluōἀπολύωto let someone go: to set a person loose from a hold, a duty, or a relationship and send them on their way
- apostasionἀποστάσιονa certificate of divorce: the written legal document a husband gave his wife to end the marriage and release her to remarry
- lusisλύσιςdivorcenot studied yet
- keritutכְּרִיתוּתdivorcenot studied yet
Dizahab1 word
do8 words
- poieōποιέωto bring something about: to make a thing or to do a deed, so that something now exists or has happened that did not before.
- asahעָשָׂהto do or make: to bring something about by acting, whether shaping a thing or carrying out a deed
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- to press or squeeze: a separate, rare word that happens to share this spelling
- ergazomaiἐργάζομαιto work: to put out sustained effort that produces a result, whether earning a living, doing a deed, or carrying on a trade
- prassōπράσσωto do, carry out, or practice something: to perform an action or keep up a pattern of conduct.
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- to exact, collect, or demand money owed: taxes, interest, or a debt.
- to fare, to be in a certain condition: how things stand or go for someone.
- pa'alפָּעַלto do, make, or accomplish: to bring something about by deliberate action
do away with2 words
- aphaireōἀφαιρέωto take away or remove something, whether by cutting it off, stripping it from someone, or doing away with it entirely
- katargeōκαταργέωto make something inactive or ineffective: to strip it of its force so it no longer works, whether by nullifying it, abolishing it, or setting it aside
do beforehand1 word
do credit to1 word
do evil1 word
do foolishly1 word
- navelנָבֵלto wither and fade: to lose freshness and droop, the way a leaf or flower dries up, sinks down, and falls.
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- to be a disgraceful fool, or to treat someone as one: to act senselessly, and to shame, dishonor, or hold in contempt.
- navelנָבֵלto wither and fade: to lose freshness and droop, the way a leaf or flower dries up, sinks down, and falls.
do good6 words
- yatavיָטַבto do good, treat well: to act kindly toward someone or to bring about good for them
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- to go well, be pleasing: for something to turn out good or to seem good to someone
- ya'alיָעַלto be of use: to bring real benefit or advantage, to actually do someone good
- agathopoieōἀγαθοποιέωto do good: to behave well and act for the good of others, the opposite of doing harm
- euergeteōεὐεργετέωto do goodnot studied yet
- agathoergeōἀγαθοεργέωto do goodnot studied yet
- yatavיָטַבto do good, treat well: to act kindly toward someone or to bring about good for them
do good to1 word
do great things1 word
- gadalגָּדַלto grow up: to increase in size or to pass from childhood toward adulthood
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- to become great: to grow in wealth, power, or standing until one is important
- to make great: to raise a child, promote a person, or exalt and praise God
- to magnify oneself: to boast or act arrogantly, often defiantly against God or others
- gadalגָּדַלto grow up: to increase in size or to pass from childhood toward adulthood
do homage1 word
do not believe1 word
- apisteōἀπιστέωto refuse to believe: to reject a report or message as untrue and withhold trust from it
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- to be unfaithful: to break faith and prove false to a commitment or to God
- apisteōἀπιστέωto refuse to believe: to reject a report or message as untrue and withhold trust from it
Do not destroy1 word
do obeisance1 word
do secretly1 word
do three1 word
do violence1 word
do well2 words
do what is right1 word
do wickedly1 word
- rasahרָשַׁעto be guilty, or to do wrong: to stand in the wrong before God or a just standard, and to act that way
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- to condemn, to declare guilty: to hand down or pronounce a verdict that someone is in the wrong
- rasahרָשַׁעto be guilty, or to do wrong: to stand in the wrong before God or a just standard, and to act that way
do wrong2 words
- hamartanōἁμαρτάνωto sin: to do what is morally wrong, failing the standard God or another person has a right to expect
- avahעָוָהto do wrong, commit iniquity, act perversely: to do what is morally crooked
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- to bend, twist, or be bent over: to make something crooked or to be doubled over in the body
do your best1 word
doctor1 word
doctrine4 words
- didachēδιδαχήteaching: both the act of instructing others and the body of instruction that results.
- shemu'ahשְׁמוּעָהa report: news that is heard and carried from one person to another
- didaskaliaδιδασκαλίαteaching: both the act of instructing and the body of instruction that results
- leqaḥלֶקַחteaching thought of from the receiving end: the content a teacher hands over, and the store of understanding a hearer takes in and adds to
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- persuasive power in speech: the quality that makes words go down easily and win a hearer over
document3 words
Dodai1 word
Dodanim1 word
Dodavahu1 word
Dodo1 word
doe2 words
Doeg1 word
doer1 word
dog2 words
dogs1 word
doing1 word
doing good3 words
doings2 words
dole out1 word
domineer4 words
- katakurieuōκατακυριεύωto take or hold complete mastery over someone or something: to bring fully under one's control, rule, or possession
- shalatשָׁלַטto have the upper hand: to hold real power over a person or a thing, or to hand that power to someone
- katexousiazōκατεξουσιάζωto exercise authority over people: to rule others, in both its uses picturing the heavy-handed, top-down way worldly rulers throw their weight around
- authenteōαὐθεντέωto exercise authority over another person, acting on one's own authority as their master
domineering1 word
dominion9 words
- mamlakhahמַמְלָכָהa kingdom: either the concrete realm of a king (territory, nation, political domain) or the authority and institution of royal rule itself
- kratosκράτοςdominion: sovereign rule held and exercised, the right and power to reign
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- prevailing might: strength as it actually wins out and shows itself in force
- memshalahמֶמְשָׁלָהrule or dominion: the authority to govern, and the realm over which it is exercised
- sholtanשׇׁלְטָןsovereign power to rule: the authority a king or God holds over a realm and its people.
- mamlakhutמַמְלָכוּתthe rule of one named king or royal house: the realm he governed, the royal power he held, or the years he reigned
done foolishly1 word
donkey4 words
doom1 word
door6 words
- sha'arשַׁעַרthe gate of a walled town or building: the controlled opening in the wall, and the public space there where the community's life was conducted
- thuraθύραa door: the entrance to a house, room, or enclosure, and the panel that swings to open or close it
- petaḥפֶּתַחthe opening into a structure: the doorway or entrance of a tent, house, gate, or city, the place where you go in or come out.
- deletדֶּלֶתthe swinging leaf of a door or gate, the panel that opens and shuts
- saphסַףa threshold: the sill of a doorway, and by extension the guarded point of entry to a building.
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- a basin or bowl: a wide, shallow open vessel for holding liquid.
doorkeeper2 words
doorpost1 word
doorway1 word
Dophkah1 word
Dor1 word
Dorcas1 word
dote on1 word