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Thompson Chain Reference
• Trenches
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American Tract Society
• Trench
King James Dictionary
• Trench
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Trench
Webster Dictionary
• Trenching
• Trenched
• Trench-Plow
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Frederick Herbert Trench
• Richard Chenevix Trench
• Trench Fever
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Trench
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• Trench
• Trench (2)
• Trench, Hon. Power Le Poer, D.D.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Trench, Richard Chevenix
Lexicons
• χάραξ
• גֵּב , גֵּב
• חֵיל
• מַעְגָּל , מַעְגָּל
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A passage of approach to the walls of a besieged city, like a deep ditch; the earth thrown up constituting a wall. The Redeemer, weeping over Jerusalem a few days before he was crucified under its walls, said, "The days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side," Luke 19:43 . The Romans fulfilled this prediction by enclosing the entire city of Jerusalem by a wall, that the Jews might neither escape nor be relieved from without. In 1 Samuel 26:5 , "trench" appears to mean the circle formed by camp equipage. See CAMP, ENCAMPMENTS.