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Concordances
Scofield Reference Index
• Dispensation
Thompson Chain Reference
• Superiority of the New Dispensation
• Dispensation, New
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Dispensation
American Tract Society
• Dispensation
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Mosiac Dispensation
• Legal or Mosaick Dispensation
• Dispensation
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Dispensation, Dispensationalism
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Dispensation
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Dispensations
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Dispensation
King James Dictionary
• Dispense
• Dispensation
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Dispensation
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Dispensation
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Dispensation
Webster Dictionary
• Dispensing
• Dispenser
• Dispensed
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Dispensations
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Dispensation
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Dispensation
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Dispensation
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Dispensation
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• οἰκονομία
• שָׁפַט

(1):

(n.) The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.

(2):

(n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed

(3):

(n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.

(4):

(n.) The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).