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Roar, Roaring
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properly of oxen, an onomatopeic word, "to low, bellow," is used of a lion, Revelation 10:3 .
"to howl" or "roar," onomatopoeic, of animals or men, is used of a lion, 1 Peter 5:8 , as a simile of Satan.
"a noise" or "sound" (Eng., "echo"), is used of the "roaring" of the sea in Luke 21:25 , in the best mss., "for the roaring (of the sea and the billows)," RV; some mss. have the present participle of echeo, "to sound," AV, "(the sea and the waves) roaring. See RUMOR , SOUND.
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Roar, Roaring'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/r/roar-roaring.html. 1940.
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Roar, Roaring'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/r/roar-roaring.html. 1940.
