King James Bible Dictionary - Reference List

Parents

Bible Usage:

parents used 21 times.

First Reference: Matthew 10:21
Last Reference: Hebrews 11:23

Dictionaries:

Included in Eastons: No
Included in Hitchcocks: No
Included in Naves: Yes
Included in Smiths: No
Included in Websters: Yes
Included in Strongs: Yes
Included in Thayers: Yes
Included in BDB: No

Strongs Concordance:

G1118 Used 19 times
G3962 Used 1 time
G4269 Used 1 time

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Parent

PA'RENT, noun [Latin parens, from pario, to produce or bring forth. The regular participle of pario is pariens, and parens is the regular participle of pareo, to appear.]

1. A father or mother; he or she that produces young. The duties of parents to their children are to maintain, protect and educate them.

When parents are wanting in authority, children are wanting in duty.

2. That which produces; cause; source.

Idleness is the parent of vice.

Regular industry is the parent of sobriety.

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Parentage

PAR'ENTAGE, noun Extraction; birth; condition with respect to the rank of parents; as a man of mean parentage; a gentleman of noble parentage

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Parental

PARENT'AL, adjective Pertaining to parents; as parental government.

1. Becoming parents; tender; affectionate; as parental care of solicitude.

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Parentation

PARENTA'TION, noun [from Latin parento.]

Something done or said in honor of the dead.

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Parenthesis

PAREN'THESIS, noun [Gr. to insert.] A sentence, or certain words inserted in a sentence, which interrupt the sense or natural connection of words, but serve to explain or qualify the sense of the principal sentence. The parenthesis is usually included in hooks or curved lines, thus.

These officers, whom they still call bishops, are to be elected to a provision comparatively mean, through the same arts, (that is, electioneering arts, ) by men of all religious tenets that are known or can be invented.

Do not suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis

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Parentheticical

PARENTHET'IC'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to a parenthesis; expressed in a parenthesis.

1. Using parenthesis.

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Parenticide

PARENT'ICIDE, noun [Latin parens and coedo.] One who kills a parent.

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Parentless

PA'RENTLESS, adjective Deprived of parents.

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