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Monday, August 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Bible Dictionaries

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

Search Results: "bereaved

Title Matches: 3
Bereaved, Bereft
(apo, "from," with the thought of separation, and orphanos, "an orphan"), is used metaphorically in 1 Thessalonians 2:17 (AV, "taken from;" RV, "bereaved"), in the sense of being "bereft" of the company of the saints through being compelled to leave them (cp. the similes in 7 and 11). The word has
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